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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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DAWSON, GA, AUGUST 30 1921.
And here come women Wwearing their wm
ter lids.
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A man who can get the money together to
meet them all is what might be called a tax
expert.
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1t is well that a great grain Crop is m sight;
another view shows z great longing for bread
the world over.
Being told that they must make a better
showing the dear girls go home and slash two
or three inches off their skirts.
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The statement that the south is in the grip
of a famine and that 5,000 persons will die
from disease caused by starvation is just 3
plain lie.
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Dan Cupid still has a job, but the mar
riage records in Judge Hoyl's office at the
court house show he also is suffering from
business depression.
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With cotton at 12 to 14 cents a pound the
average farmer is not expected to wear dia
monds or a big smile. Advice, however, to
hold for a higher price will fall on deaf ears
this season.
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If liquor is what is reported, a white ele
phant on Uncle Sam’s hands, there are thous
ands of obliging persons perfectly willing to
relieve him of the responsibility of taking
care of it.
The Thomaston Times remarks that “your
home town deserves a boost occasionally,”
and adds that “you owe it one if you are go
ing to continue to live in it.” Have you given
Dawson a good word recently?
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At the summer resorts the hotels and the
cottages are all full, and pleasure seekers
are arriving and going daily. If times are hard
and money scarce there are thousands of
people who do not know it.
T S I R S e
The old songs are coming back, winning
the popularity they had before the entrance
of jazz, which is said to be dying. “Mollic
Darling” may find that she is quite welcome
“In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree.”
Overshadowed by Noisemakers.
We do not remember a session of the |
legislature that was so poorly reported in |
newspapers as the ome just closed. There |
was a great deal published about the legis- |
fature, but it had to do with politics, seraps, |
aitempts to do things, etc. As to the meas- |
ures that were actually passed they receiv- |
ed scant notice, and it has required close |
reading to learn anything about what was |
actually accomplished by the legislature. E
~Moultric Observer. ’
The general assembly as a whole is a body |
of good men who have the welfare of thei
‘state at heart, and notwithstanding their han- |
dicap succeeded in putting through some need- |
ed and meritorious legislation. Many talk art- |
jsts and a few others with imaginary griev-!
ance against some department and a dcsirl:]
for notoriety made so much noise and kept
themselves in the limelight to such an cxtcnt*
that the public was not properly informed as
to the meritorious work that was being done,
A great majority, of the legislators are among
Georgia’s best citizens? and desire to further
the best mterests of the state.
P e e
Control or Relief.
It is not surprising that the soviet govern
ment of Russia demands the greater part of
the control of any American relief extended
to the suffering Russians, as has developed in
conversations between members of the Amer
ican relief adntinistration and Maxim Litvi
noff, acting for the soviet famine relief com
mittee. The bolsheviki may be depended up
on to safeguard their own food supplies and
to replenish them from relief stocks sent to
Russia for the suffering masses. Sovietism, as
Maximilian Harden, the German editor, ob
served, is not dead. It is not likely that it pro
poses to go out of cxistence without every
possible effort being made to survive. That is
amply demonstrated by the misery and ruin
the soviets were willing to precipitate in Rus
sia that they might stay in power,
It has been reported from Riga, where the
discussions regardinjy the administration
of the American relief took place, that a
‘deadlock was on. The Americans did not like
the idea of the bolsheviki having the greater
control, which meant distribution of food and
supplies and medicines. Plainly, the Ameri
cans indicated that they did not trust the so
viets; otherwise, their objections would not
have been so pronounced. As a matter of fact,
‘the conduct of the soviet government has
been such that it was impossible to have con
fidence in it. It would have been ridiculous
if the Americans had accepted on faith their
‘offer of proper distribution.
The Tax Reduction.
The country welcomes the announcement
from Washington that congress has found a
way to reduce the tax bill by about one mil
lion dollars, for taxation is a thing that reach
es practically everybody. When the individ
ual realizes that the average reduction is
something like $7 per capita, or a saving of
about $35 a year to the average family, every
one will appreciate what the president has been
able to do in the face of a very difficult situa
tion. The times have been extravagant, the
condition Dbeing aggravated by untoward
economic dislocations, and tne fact that the
government is pulling out of the difficulty
brings a feeling of relief.
| Happiness.
. “Don’t wait for your happiness until oth
‘ers hand it to you on a silver platter,” runs
an obscure newspaper paragraph tucked away
among others on an inside page. That is the
trouble with a 2 good many folks who have
not succeeded in finding happiness: they are
waiting for some one to bring it to them
‘But happiness seldom is reached by that
‘method. It is a lesson difficult to learn that
‘happiness must be achieved. He who sits
‘down with folded hands and waits for happi
‘ness to come his way will have 2 long and
weary wait. Happiness is like every other
good thing, every other thing worth while
in this world. It is not attained apart from
effort: it must be earned. Happiness is won
by doing.
The framers of the declaration of independ
ence included among the certain inalienable
rights “with which men are endowed by the
creator” the “pursuit of happiness,” giving rec
ognition to the truth that happiness is to bz
pursued and is not the pursuer. Happiness
pursues no one. If we have desire that hap
piness shall take up her abode with us it will
be necessary for us to do more than make
the place attractive and hang out the wel
come sign, hoping that by chance she may
pass that way and discover the invitation.
Happiness does not go around looking for peo
ple in that fashion. Happiness is more or less
exacting, and has many counterfeits. Often
we are deceived and misled by the counter
feits, mistaking what is ephemeral for the
reality. Happiness requires that we woo her
diligently and assiduously, When happiness
comes to dwell with us she gives no notice
of her approach, neither does she announce
hef presence. The story of the angels who
came to Abraham and to Lot in the guise of
men and were not recognized is familiar to
us, and the angel of happiness often appears
to us so disguised. Therefore, we should b=
careful to extend hospitality to any stranger
who may chance to knock at our door, for
thereby we may be privileged to entertain
the angel of happiness unaware.
Not only is happiness not brought to us on
a silver platter, neither is it something that
we put on from the outside, like a garment.
Enjoym&t is something that we derive from
that which is outside of and not of us, while
happiness, on the other hand, arises from
within us and has its birth in the spiritual
fiber. Humanity long ago learned the lesson
that it is more blessed to give than to receive;
and so it has realized that the truest and most
lasting happiness is to be gained in the larg
est giving of self in an effort to make other
lives sweeter and brighter..
Most of the unhappiness that we suffer is
chargeable to no one but ourselves. Unhappi
ness for the most part is merely egotism, an
intense concentration of the thought upon self.
It is the easiest thing in the world, if we
choose to think hard enough, to convince our
selves that we are misused, that destiny has
been unkind to us, that we have been given
hut meager gifts, and that the choicest prizes
of life have been awarded to others. Pursued
‘with the zest that we devote to this kind of
thinking on occasions we are made of all men
the most wretched. This is pure, unadulterat
ed selfishness, as foolish as it is useless.
Selfishness and happiness cannot be yoked
together and made to do team work. They
are hostile elements that will not mix. Na
selfish person ever was really happy. The
selfish enjoy a kind of counterfeit happiness,
but it is the shadow and not the substance.
Elusive as happiness seems, and difficult as
it some times is to find it, it is forever within
reach. Our mental attitude toward happiness
oiten is like that of the man in the story who
\sought for wealth in many far off lands with
out success and returned to discover it in his
own batk yard. So do we think of happiness
as something afar off, failing to see the op
portunities for achieving happiness that beck
on to us daily as we go about. It is not nec
essary that we should do some great deed
to achieve happiness. Happiness is as easily
|‘:whivwd in simple ways, such as courtesy and
kidness prompt. We can invest our money in
'\\'ays to produce happiness, such as buying
food for hungry children, and likewise we can
,r«-ap rich returns in happiness without expendi
ture of money. Indeed, it is so easy to be
happy, and opportunity for happiness is so
abundant that one is left to wonder why so
many people fail to discover it.
“And now abideth faith, hope, love, these
three; but the greatest of these is love.” And
where love is not happiness is not.
It now appears that any relief work in Rus
sia to whitch the United States government
may give sanction or which it may undertake
officially will be carried on separate and apart
from that done by other countries and other
'(:h:lrital)le- organizations. President Harding is
reported to be opposed to any pooling of in
terests in the work of saving Russia from
famine and disease. Secretary of Commerce
Hoover already has cabled to former Presi
dent Ador, of Switzerland, that the respon
sibility of fighting the famine in Russia will
not be delegated to a mixed board of differ
ent nations.
- “Some Floridians are not particularly pleas
ed to get W. J. B. as a citizen even if he has
a Bible <class of seven thousand,” says the
Thomasville Times-Enterprise. In all proba
bility our Thomasville contemporary did not
get its information from a reliable source.
One does not have to endorse all that Mr.
Bryan says or does to concede that he is one
of the world’s foremost citizens and outstand
ing publicists, a leader in all that is best
in religion and morals, and we do not believe
there is any community, not even Florida, that
would not be glad to have him as a citizen.
The Early County News, one of the land
marks of Southwest Georgia, has just cele
brated its sixty-second anniversary. Despite
its old age and the many trials and hardships
of the weekly newspaper it is sprightly and
cheerful. We wish Brother Fleming and our
Blakely contemporary many more years of
usefulness and the prosperity they so richly
deserve.
It is finally beginning to dawn on a kot of
people that “the government” is not some
thing apart from themselves, which can wave
a magic wand and do miracles, but that it is
[thc people themselves, and that when “the
government” spends money the taxpayers
'must dig up. This i 4 true of both the nationa:
and the state governments.
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. Considerable interest has been manifested
iin an unverified report that a morning glory
seed found in the hand of 2 mummy buried
5,000 years ago had been germinated and
'successfully grown; but it is the opimion of
ileading botanists that a new Barnum is try
;’ing to fool the public.
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! Massachusetts will have to be careful in
the future in what it says of lynching in the
Esouth. That mob at Barnstable was perfect
}v willing to string up its victim if it had
liound him.
£ physician says that twenty-one pairs of
muscles are used to make a smile. And spome
people act as though it might cost them a
lot of money besides.
| “Any Cats in Your Back Yard?” |
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From the Bullock Way.
You've heard the story oi the little boy
who came running ‘o his mother and in 2
burst of excitement cried: “Our back yard is
full of cats!”
“I wouldn’t think therc could be so many,
dearie,” said the mother.
“Anvway, there’s more than a hundred out
there,” announced the boy.
“That’s a whole lot. Don't you think you
still have too many cats?”
“Well, T know there’s our cat and another
one, anyway,” he replied.
We fee!l sorry for the individual who is
always magnifying troubles. One can feel
regret over an error without turning his men
tal laboratory over to Old Man Worry.
What has worry ever done for you? Noth
ing except to befog your mind and sidetrack
your efforts. You are master of your thoughts,
or vour thoughts are master of you. What
vou think—you are?
You have other uses for your brain than to
worry and fret over your work. Worry never
paid a debt or iifted a burden. You can’t
think two things at one time. Is it going to be
a worry thought or a self-confidence thought:
One is a destroyer, the other a builder.
Next time you have a little trouble don’t
pack your baggage and start for Old Man
Worry’s camp. Your back yard isn’t full of
cats—indeed not. There are roses there—an
abundance of them.
Its a glorious old world, isn’t it?
Why the State Is Bankrupt.
From the Moultrie Observer.
It is all wrong to discount the earnings
of the state railroad for any number of
vears 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 poli
cy—just as poor for the state as it would be
for a farmer to mortgage his prospective
earnings on his farm for 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 &
that the sensible thing to do would be to re
duce expenditures. It is the poorest kind of
judgment to continue appropriating year 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 mon
ey than it has income and not become bank
rupt, and the same is just as true of the
state. A little retrenchment and less ‘‘tax
reform” would help wonderfully.—Dawson
News.
There is no way to stop heavy appropria
tions. There is a type of legislator that may
be designated as an “‘appropriation politician.”
He thinks to make himseli strong by introduc
ing a bill to increase the pensions or to in
crease the public school fund, He is not con
cerned about where the money shall come
from, or whether it comes at all or not. His
part is to introduce the bill and pose as a
friend of the school children and the veterans.
After the bill is introduced other representa
tives dare not vote against it. It would not
do to oppose pensions for veterans or appro
priations for public schools. All fall in line
and the biil passes. The governor dare not
veto the bill. He would be criticised for op
posing the old vets, or for objecting to pub
lic schools. The bill is signed and becomes a
law, and it is found that there is no money
to pay. Then we have to borrow, discount, or
do something. There are institutions in the
state needing more money, but they cannot
get it because all the money goes to schools
and pensions.
| The Hog and the Hen. |
From the Vidalia Advance.
The' hog has proven himself to be a mighty
good mortgage lifter the last few years in
Georgia in the absence of big cotton crops.
And along this line the hen should not be over
looked when we go to counting up the import
ant part in life she plays in these days of boll
weevils and scarcity of the long green.
In fact, the industrious hen should be given
a large share of the credit for saving the day
in Georgia this year, when money from field
crops was not to be had and run-bills were
almost impossible to negotiate. With her
steady stream of white and yellow eggs flow
ing into market she has kept many a farm
table supplied with flour, sugar, coffee and
other things and even provided new dresses
for the children. She sings as she works and
never loses her temper. She works for twelve
months in the year except the few weeks in the
late summer when she is making her new win
ter dress. All she asks is a patch of green rye
or rape, a little dry corn or oats, a dark nest
and a place to scratch for worms. Speaking
of this very wonderful bird the Quitman Ad
vertiser says:
A few months ago a certain farmer in middle
Georgia sold a hog weighing 400 pounds to
the stock yards for 5 cents per pound or $2O
in all. He had bought the hog nearly a year
ago as a pig and paid $5 for same. Counting
feed and labor his total cost of producing the
hog was approximately $l5, so that his profit
was virtually nothing.
This same farmer’s wife had among a flock
of chickens, a common hen that was not only
a good layer, but also a good mother. During
the vear she laid 204 cggs, of which 12 dozen
were sold at 30 cents per dozen, bringing
$3.60; 15 were eaten, making 35 cents more,
and besides she reared three broods of chicks,
totaling 39 in all. Thirty of these were sold as
broilers and friers, bringing a total of $24. The
remaining nine are now laying eggs sufficient
to supply the needs of the family. Thus the
total produced by the hen came to $27.95. It
is doubtful if the cost of producing her and
the chicks would approximate as much as $5.
THE DAWSON NEWS
Trade at Home, Boost the Town
And Watch It Grow.
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It has been said that a nation progresses
when its people make progress, and so it is
with a town, city, county or state. Just as the
people of a city progress so that city grows
and prospers. Surely the people of Dawson
and Terrell county will not stand idle whilz
other towns and counties are so rapidly pro
gressing and prospering. We have the greates:
section in the world, and should any citizen
of the county be told that the above is not
true he or she would resent it. Why? Simply
because all have pride enough to talk and
defend their county when it is criticised on
account of its slow progress. Be a booster,
and boost not only Dawson but our entire
county of Terrell. It is going to be just what
its people make it and nothing more, but
probably less if the people do not boost and
support it. Trade at home and support home
enterprises, which have been established here
to supply the people. Ii the merchant does
not always have just what you want ask him
to get it for you. Do not run off to some near
by town and do your shopping when your
merchants here are just as willing to get for
vou what yvou desire. Trade at home and
build up the town. It needs a boost, and this
is one very important step toward aiding in
the building of a great city.
Treat our visitors with all the courtesy pos
sible, and insist that they come again. Every
business man who comes in contact with the
tourists en route to and from the state of
Florida should ask their names and addresses
and insist that they visit our city again. Therz
is a ceriain time when most of the tourists
leave for the “Land of Palms,” and each mer
chant, automobile accessory house and all
business men who come in contagt with them
shouid at the beginning of each season mail
them a postal card of welcome. It would be
an easy matter for the automobile service sta--i
tions to get such a list, and if they did not
want to send a card of welcome they might
place the list in the hands of the secretary
of the Dawson board of trade or Kiwanis
club. He then could formally welcome thoss |
to our city who once before had visited us.]
Why not get some method of welcome, where
by we could reach the tourists at little ex-!
pense and let them know that Dawson is on
the map. Money is scarce, ’'tis true, but we
must make some move toward progress if
we ever expect our city to amount to any
thing. We have a wonderful town and county
now, but why not let the world know about
them, and let it know that we are wide awake
all the time?
We should boost the peach and strawberry.
assoaations and any organization that is for
the good and upbuilding of our city and coun
tv. Why not advertise in some suitable north
'rn magazine for manufactories, stating in
the ads that our city and county offer the
best opportunities in the world for manufac
turers of any kind? Invite capital to come
and look the situation over. Just a suggestion,
but probably a good one if put in force.
Many good steps can be suggested that will
not take a great amount of capital to adver
tise our city and county. In the first place
buy at home and boost your town, for united
we stand and divided we fall. Talk your town
to every visitor or stranger, and show him
that we have the best city of its size in the
world. Make him see it that way. Everyone
can have the “We Build” spirit whether a
Kiwanian or not.
Let’s all pull together for a better and big
ger Dawson. When you meet a f{riend or
stranger boost the town. A good slogan
might be: “Dawson’s coming; come to Daw
son and watch the city grow.” Those who
cannot boost the town should not knock it.
‘We want every visitor to come into our city
without knocking and go out the same way.
Then he will speak well of us and be a boost
er. Trade at home; welcome visitogs to our
city and make their visit enjoyable, and last,
but by no means least, be a booster and boost
‘Dawson and Terrell for all you are worth.
| A CITIZEN WHO IS A BOOSTER.
~ Dawson, Ga.
\ NOTHING BUT TAXES.
| From the Springfield Herald.
. One Georgia editor has this to say: “We
are taxed for making money, for having mon
ey, for borrowing money, for lending money,
'for inheriting money, for matriffiony, for ali
mony and parsimony. It is only the man
|that steals money that gets off without the
btax.” :
CONVALESCE RAPIDLY.
From the Dalton Citizen.
The announcement from Washington that
there will be beer for the sick in a few days
is likely to make a number of persons quite
ill.—Dawson News.
And the later announcement that there will
be no beer for the sick will doubtless effect
a cure.
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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.
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