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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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DAWSON, GA. MAY 16, 1922. i
Gossip spreads more contagion than the
germs of disease.
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People who really desire to save daylight
are not in need of any law to regulate their
hours.
The government of the Philippines is re
ported to be up to date and in style; it is
broke and is enjoying a deficit.
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Somehow the interest in baseball is not so
quick as it was when Babe Ruth’s home run
record was a feature of every sports page.
Margot Asquith is reported to have cleared
$lOO,OOO on her lecture tour in this country.
Which again shows how easily Americans
are separated from their money.
Summer furs are to be worn more or less
extensively this year because some women
just will be uncomfortable no matter how
much they might otherwise enjoy life.
Editor Camp, of the Metter Advertiser,
wants to abolish the legislature. A better
plan would be to abolish the yearly sessions
and let them legislate "every two or four
years.
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Strange to say the Russians attending the
Genoa conference are most fashionably dress
ed, wearing high silk hats and other bour
geois garb while insisting that they are first
and last, body and soul, with the proletariat
element.
The railroad companies are offering bar
gains in passenger fares for the summer
months, recognizing the principle that bar
gains stimulate buying, create new business.
Why do they not apply the principle to
freight rates? It ought to work in the one
case as well as in the other.
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The discretion of that Oklahoma pastor
who performed a marriage ceremony m a
public bathing pool, the groom and bride
being arrayed in bathing suits, is question
able, but there is no warrant for the employ
ment of mob methods of discipline. The
devil frequently gets in, church differences.
Some bought farms at the high tide, some
bought goods, some bought automobiles, and
some few stuck the money away and waited
awhile. Some folks had to ‘take a falling in
ventory, but the fellow who hid away the
mazuma marked his up. His 50-cent dollar
is current for 75 cents’ worth of almost any
thing anybody has to sell.
The way to secure lower taxes is to quit
buying new things and quit making exten
sions for the present. The ability of taxpay
ers to meet new expenditures has not im
proved over a year ago. Confidence is com
ing back, but not in a way to produce dol
lars and cents. Lower taxes must be pre
scribed by tightening purse strings.
What is there about a day in early May
to encourage “spring fever?” Rather should
it stimulate effort and increase joy in health
ful labor. The crystal atmosphere and bril
liant sunlight of a May day are tonic-like in
their effect and not enervating. Anyhow,
spring fever is but a state of mind. Neither
the weather nor the season has anything to
do with it. People find ready excuse for the
loafing spirit at other seasons as well as in
the springtime.
STICKING TO COTTON.
There is a great deal of .cofton planted
in southwest Georgia this spring. The
News is not prepared to question the
wisdom of this procedure. We only join
in the hope that what is left by the boll
weevil will command a good price when
harvested.—Early County Mews.
The cotton acreage has been largely in
creased throughout this entire section. Farm
ers generally have defied the boll weevil, and
large numbers of them have planted as much
as they did before the appearance of the pest.
We have heard of one farmer in a neighbor
ing county who has 2,000 acres in cotton,
and in another county a farmer who operates
on a large scale has 1,600 acres in cotton. It
has been demonstrated that, with proper cul
tivation and attention, considerable cotton
can be grown in this section under boll wee
vil conditions; in fact, the crop has never
been an entire failure here, but the heavy
acreage this year may prove to be disas
trous, especially if the seasons are unfavor
able.
The young cotton is now in a vigorous con
dition, and growing nicely. It was never
more promising at this time of the year, and
it is to be hoped that nothing will occur to
blast expectations of a good yield.
UNAPPRECIATIVE.
In spite of all that the newspapers have
done for Mr. Bryan he is not overly friendly
to them. It was at Mr. Bryan’s instance that
the newspapers were required to make those
absurd and useless semi-annual statements of
ownership and circulation. Mr. Bryan should
be grateful to the newspapers, even those
with which he cannot agree, for it was the
newspapers, aided and abetted by the chautau
’quas, that made him. Mr. Bryan ought to be
able to recognize that a newspaper can even
publish anti-prohibition editorials and be
honest. It would be singular, however, if a
man who does so much talking as does Mr.
Bryan did not on occasions talk foosely and
unwisely. Even Mr. Bryan speaks foclishly
FALSE IMPRISONMENT.
' Members of the Ohio legislature have
~ started a movement to make reparation
~ to a man, who, innocent of a crime, serv
ed six years of a life sentence before the
truth was known and he was liberated
from the penitentiary.—News item.
That kind of legislation is morally manda
tory, and should be enacted in every state;
but it should be permanent instead of tem
porary. The act should provide for repara
tions to be paid to all persons falsely im
prisoned, and justice would demand that it
be universal.
‘ Court are not infallible, because all wit
nesses are not truthful. Penalties for perjury
fail to prevent false swearing just as the
biblical commandment f{ails to prevent the
bearing of false witness. Circumstantial evi
dence, although recognized in law, may be in
jerror, and it is a foregone conclusion that
|many an innocent man has yielded his liberty
or his life because of it. A preponderance of
evidence, although it may be false, is suffi
cient to convict. The court may be powerless
to determine what is true of testimony. Many
‘conditions may aad do contribute to unjust
convictions, and while some persons become
innocent victims of circumstances a close ap
proach to justice might be impossible with
greater latitude al'owed in court procedure.
Because of the apparent necessity of tight
ly drawn lines in the procuring of justice in
behalf of society thz state should make pro
visions for the innocents who suffer penal
ties for crimes they never committed. It is
quite impossible to make full reparation to a
person wrongfully imprisoned. The stigma
cannot be erased, nor can memory be made
to forget the loss of liberty. Neither can the
time be restored to one’s life, and who can
say just what one’s opportunities might have
been had one been free? No greater boon
than ‘freedom has ever been enjoyed by a hu
man being, and once it is taken away resti
tution for its loss cannot be fully made. So
ciety’s apology is not enough. The state
ought to go as far as possible to repair the
damage wrought,
JUDGE AND JURY.
Editor Thomas W. Loyless, of the Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun, seems to be of the
opinion that Judge Munro made a mis
take when he declined to permit the grand
jury, at a recent term of Muscogee su
perior court, to return and have read be
fore him presentments that reflected on
the court and officials. The judge is real
ly to be commended for his refusal to be
intimidated. He would have been fully
justified if he had allowed the present
ments to be read, and then sentenced all
members subscribing to them for con
tempt, because that was certainly the at
titude of the jury.—Sparta Tribune.
The News knows nothing of the merits
of the controversy between Judge Munro
and the Muscogee county grand jury. From
what we have read and heard of the matter it
seems to have been much ado about nothing,
a kind of tempest in a teapot affair. Judge
Munro’s action, however, is not altogether
without precedent. It is recalled that years
ago a somewhat similar occurrence happen
‘ed in the superior court of Terrell county.
The circuit was presided over at that time
by onc of the ablest jurists and best men who
ever graced the bench in Georgia. Moreover,
he was a minister of the gospel, and was
called on during a session of the court here
to return to his home town and perform a
Imarriage ceremony for two of his young
friends. To do this he adjourned court for
a day, and the grand jury undertook to criti
cise him in their presentments on the
ground that he did not have due regard for
the interest of the taxpayers in suspchding
the business of the court and going away
on a social mission. The judge, who was
even tempered, gentle of disposition and of
elegant personality, informed the grand jury
that he was not answerable to them for his
acts as judge, ordered the objectionable lan
guage stricken from the presentments and
told his craics that they could be sent to
jail for contempt of court. The grand jury
was glad to let the matter drop, and nothing
more was heard of it. This judge, who was
distinguished in his time and day, remained
on the bench until his death, honored and
beloved by all who knew him.
It is reported from Moscow that the typhus
germ has been isolated by the scientists of
the Moscow biological institute, after a two
years’ search. The discoverer is Dr. N.
Kritch, a woman. The germ is found in the
brain tissue. The isolation of the germ is
confirmed by Dr. Walter P. Davenport, act
ing head of the medical department of the
American relief administration in Russia. Dr.
Kritch is the first person to grow the typhus
germ outside the human body. The discovery
is important to medical science, and it illus
trates the constant advance that is being
made by that science. The development of
a vaccine or curative serum undoubtedly will
follow in course of time.
Representative Mondel! affirms that there
are a great many men in the house of repre
sentatives “who could earn many times the
salary they receive there in private life.” The
sentence is not admirably constructed, but
Mr. Mondell's meaning is clear. Mr. Mondell
may be right about it, but he could affirm
with equal truth that there are a great many
men in the house who are not worth the sal
ary they receive from the government and
who are incapable of earning in private life
as much as $7,500 per year. A few of the
members of the house may be underpaid, but
a larger number are not.
Lady Astor, speaking ecloquently and per
suasively of her wish that America were at
Genoa, predicted that “America will have to
go to Europe yet.” Whereupon the Chicago
Tribune remarks that ‘“she seems to have
overlooked the fact that America has been
to Europe once.” Lady Astor talks about the
world looking to America for moral leader
ship, but it isn’t moral leadership that Eu
rope wants as much as it wants Uncle Sam’s
money. Europe would be willing to take our
gold without the moral leadership, if it could
get its hands in our pockets.
] Increase in crime has made it necessary
| for congress to create many new federal
| judgeships, one of which will be given to
| Georgia. The reason may be found in a cur
lrent news itemi, which states that 217 per
tsous charged with violation of the mational
| prohibition act, including a number of wo
{ men, will be tried in the United States court
|at Savannah when the criminal calendar is
imkcn up during the present month.
A “The Dawson News says a Terrell county
hen laid an egg with a handle to it. Now we
| know prohibition doesn’t prohibit,” says the
:Dalton Citizen. It certainly doesn’t prohibit
[ Terrell county hens from performing some
| startling feats. These enterprising fowls, how
fcvcr, are perfectly temperate and attend strict
(ly to business.
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| | MAN NEEDS 'EM STILL. I
! The hired men between their chews had
fst(mpcd and spat and aired their views where
listening cows could hear the mews. So Jer
sey Jane nudged Guernsey Ann, shifted her
‘cud and thus began: “I hear that Henry Ford
allows that he can make some flivver cows.
and since he never works by halves, no doubt
some motorcycle calves. Do you believe, good
sister Ann, that we shall lose our use to man?
Is our long history complete, and will they
make us into meat?” Said Guernsey Ann to
Jersey Jane, “'I share your fears, I share your
ipain." To hold his peace no longer able, thus
'spake old Dobin from his stable: “O pray ex
cuse this horse laugh grinny, but wouldn’t
Lizzie's milk be tinny? It makes me smile, it
‘makes‘ me snicker, it makes me whinny, neigh
and nicker. Your dams have known the herds
man’s care since Eve was young and Eden
fair. You topped with cream man’s coffee cup
ere 'good old Hector was a pup, and folks
won'’t risk their lights and livers by drinking
milk that comes from flivvers. So Jane and
Ann pray cease to weep, swallow your cuds
and go to sleep. You still shall serve your hu
man lords in spite of fifty Henry Fords.”
—BOB ADAMS.
The Georgia Press.
Nashville* Herald: Last week Sale City
shipped a carload of lettuce, Dawson shipped
a carload of strawberries, Fitzgerald shipped
a carload of calves, Tep‘nille shipped several
carloads of hogs, Sylvester is putting on a
poultry sale and other towns made like ship
ments. Nashville will soon be shipping Irish
potatoes and tobacco. All such shipments are
just making a beginning in south Georgia.
This is a source of income that we have not
‘been accustomed to, but which is profitable
and will in a few years be our biggest money
crops. Cotton has seen its last days as king
in this section. Give us just a few years and
yvou will see one of the most prosperous sec
tions in the south right here in south Geor
gia. We have the soil, the climate, and will
soon have the experience in raising crops
that are in demand always and that will make
it worth while for the farmer to grow.
WE CAN'T EXPLAIN IT.
Telfair Enterprise: We have often. wonder
ed why it is that a smooth-talking stranger
with a flashy front can come into a town and
sell a lot of stuff that usually can be had at
)our own stores, pocket the money and -get
out of town with good grace, while if a fellow
|rcsiding here tried the same thing he would
lstarve to death the first week.
We've noticed, too, that not only are many
of our people more inclined to trade with a
stranger than with, a neighbor, but our mer
chants, as a rule, are just as easy. A stranger
can come through with an advertising scheme
that is almost wholly without merit and yet
by his smooth talk and fancy figures can
unload his advertising novelty on the very
merchants who hestitate and hem and haw
for hours when the matter of space in their
home newspaper is mentioned. Yet they
know that the home paper goes right into
the hands of the very people they must sell
their goods to.
We confess that we’ve never been able to
figure it out. We've wondered why some peo
ple can’t refuse a stranger’s plea for an or-
Idcr, yet turn right around and tell some one
|who lives here and is also trying to make a
‘living that they don’t care to buy.
Agents come and agents go, and always
‘thcy take more out of a town than they leave
in lit. Yet there always seems to be a wel
|comc for them at the homes of a good many
people, well-meaning people, too, who haven’t
learned to say “No” to a stranger, but who
can flatly refuse to encourage a neighbor who
is a thousand times more entitled to their
trade.
} We can’t understand it, much less explain it.
SPEAKING OF THE DROUGHT.
Donalsonville News: A chautauqua lectur
er over in Colquitt the other day forgot that
he wasn’t talking to a bunch of citified high
skirts, and claimed that more hooch was
i being hidden by folks nowadays than hefore
prohibition. It may seem that way to a fel
low whose think tank is filled with gas, but
it looks quite different when scrutinized
through lenses that are not colored with the
}stain of sordid cash, nor. subsidized by a
| selfish sentiment. Old booze is on the bum,
land you will find no more accurate proof
%ot: this statement than the hearts and homes
!or so many men whom prohibition has en-
Ial)lcd to rise from the same category. The
| same influence that overcame the world, the
iflcsh and the devil will finally overcome this
evil, for the ramparts of hell cannot with
'st;md His attacks.
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|| Dirty and Low Down. I
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i From an Exchange.
; The difference between a gossip and a rat
|tlesnake is very apparent, but the advantage
}m‘ the snake over the gossip is a big one
land lies in the fact that you do not listen to
%thc rattle of the snake. The snake's bite is
{ generally fatal, but the gossip’s sting never
| kills.
! The lips that touch liquor are not nearly
{so dangerous as the lips that tattle. The bib
| ble-babble, gll)l)le-gql)!)lc woman, the tongue
lrunning, character-killing man, the highly de
veloped jaw-jabber is a greater menace than
’thc tobacco habit. .
Sweetening your tea with scandal or cream
|ing vour coffee with gossip is more dangerous
and harmful than blowing cigarette smoke in
the face of a baby. Repeating scandals is just
as bad as starting it. Loaning your ear 1o gos
sip is sufficient proof you want to spread it.
Gossip is a dirty, low business—an ontward
evidence that you are inwardly mean and
vile. Gossip is a chronic disease that takes
best in the brain of the malicious.
The fawning dog will waggle his tail to win
‘vou, coaxing—the foolish gossip hopes to win
by wagging his tongue.
Gossip destroys business, demoralizes so
ciety and will stall the success of a store.
Gossip wears a mask to hide its dirtv face.
It would be infinitely better for the gossip
to wear 4 gag. 1
THE DAWSON NEWS
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Farmers of South Want Tariff on
Vegetable Oils and Peanuts.
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From Newnan Herald and Advertiser.
Do vou want io compete with Japanese and
Chmese labor, which is paid 10 cents to lal
cents per day? That is what you will have to |
do if the tariff on cotton oil, sojo bean .oil, |
cocoanut oil, etc., is taken off imports of thesei
and other oils and. oil-bearing materials com- |
ing in competition with cotton oil and peanuti
oil of souhern production. i
There are about 300 pounds of oil in a top!
of cotton seed, and about 500 pounds of oil |
in a ton of white Spanish peanuts. The pro-l
tection proposed is 3 cents a pound on cotgon;
oil and 4 cents a pound on peanut oil, which !
would result in the farmer getting about $9
per ton more for his cotton seed and about |
$24 per ton or more for his peanuts. !
[f you want the farmers to have this pro- |
tection write your senators and congressmen, |
asking them to- support the tariff proposed on
vegetable oils, etc., and also request that they
sce that no rebate of duties is allowed on oils |
imported for soap or other inedible uses. Al
provision in the proposed tariff is made fori
rebate of duties if oils are used in soap or
for other inedible uses, but this will preventl
the needed protection, and the rebate should
be eliminated. The facts are briefly as follows:
A little more than a year ago cotton oil was
selling for 4 cents a pound, because of largel
stocks of higher priced oils in the hands of |
the refiners, packers and soap-makers, accu- |
mulated during the period before deflation had |
been completed. At that time these interests |
were willing for a tariff to be put on import- |
ed oils in order to help them get a higherl
price for the oils they had on hand. They, with |
others, advocated a duty on oils in the emer- |
gency tariff, thinking it would only be in ef-'
fect for a six-months’ period. Later on con-l
gress voted to continue the emergency tariff
until the permanent tariff now before the sen-l
ate goes into effect. Now, these interests, hav
ing disposed of their high-priced oils, have'
changed front and are trying to get oils on the |
free list in the permanent tariff, so'as to en
able them to buy imported oils in competition
with domestic oils. By propaganda they suc
ceeded in getting a resolution passed by the
Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association |
calling on congress to put oils on the freel
list, and are now making the claim that the |
cotton oil people do not want protection. The|
association referred to is largely made up of|
the refining interests, and their influence is|
dominant in the association meetings. Know-|
ing this to be the case some of the crude oil |
mills did not attend the meeting at which'
the resolution was passed. i
Some of the crude oil mills and the South- !
ern Tariff Association and the “agricultural |
bloc” have succeeded in congress—in spite of |
active opposition of the refining interests, and{
the lethargy, if not active opposition, of |
southern senators and congressmen—in get
ting the senate finance committee to recom
mend fair protective rates on imported oils; |
but with a proviso, at the insistence of the‘
soap-makers, that a rebate of tariff duties be
allowed on oils imported and used for otherl
than edible purposes. This proviso should be |
eliminated to insure adequate protection, and
the whole matter is of such vital importance
to the farmer that all the south should insist
on our senators and congressmen doing ev-|
erything in their power to give the southern |
farmers this needed protection. Other sec- |
tions will be protected—why not the south? |
1| Exchange Talk. ”
‘Our Waste Basket Always Fat. |
Pearson Tribune: “Our idea of nothing to]
| be worried about,” says The Dawson l\'ews.l
“is the vast quantities of stuff sent by th'ei
| various government departments to the edg-,
[toria] rooms of the newspapers.” Wonder 'lfl
Brother Rainey has been worrying about it,
land feeling he is under obligation to use it
in his columns?
{ One Way to Look at It.
’ Worth County Local: A story comes from
a southwest Georgia county that the leading
land owners were in a meeting to discuss the
’matter of colonizing Belgians in that section.‘
Several colored fariners were in the mcct-!
ing and when their turn came to speak their |
leader arose from his seat and said: “\/\"ell.l
boss, we niggers is agin it. We bin talking(
it over and thinking about it, and we is de- |
cided that deys jest as many white folks in’
the county now as we kin take keer of.”” |
South Georgia Prosperity Producers. !
Coffee County Progress: A news story from !
Sparks states that 122 cars of cows and hogs |
have been shipped from that place since Jan
uary first. That’s not bad. In fact, that is
mighty good. But better still is the fact that
we can raise cows, hogs, goats, sheep and all!
sorts of fruits, vegetables and other foodi
crops. In other words, we can raise almost
anything to eat.
Make Filling Stations of Towns.
Lexington Echo: Editor Paul Harber, of]
the Commerce Observer, sees that the I)uil(L’
ing of standard highways over the state will
make but filling stations out of many towns.
He may be more than half right in his sooth
"essing. It remains for the towns themselves
to determine whether or not they shall be
}demotcd. |
. MAY TELL TOO MUCH. l
From the Sparta Tribune.
The Dawson News is evidently not greatly
in sympathy with the radiophone business.
In the current issue of that well-edited paper
is found the following: “We think this ra-|
diophone business is likely to become a men
ace. It is related that the delicate instrument
which made the wireless telephone possible
and practical can be made to amplify soundl
in such a manner that even plants can be |
heard to grow. If the dingbatus is ca[)able‘
of being attached to dictographs a person will
have no use for eyes at all—and walls will |
afford little protection.” I
YET THIS IS AGE OF EDUCATION. {
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From the Commerce Observer, [
Most every newspgper editor will tell you|
that education has been a failure. Ninety-nine |
persons out of a hundred who send in mat
ter for publication in a newspaper write it in
such a miserable manner it can scarcely be
deciphered. Words are misspelled, grammatical |
errors are numerous, punctuation is impos-|
sible, and omissions are fearful. It shows that“
thinking is a lost art. If newspapers were|
to tell on some people in the community they |
would make a lot of enemies. i
SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED. i
From the Chicago News. |
Flivverous Mr. Ford, in replying to Secre- |
tary Mellon’s inquiry as to the whereabouts |
of the $29,000,000 in war profits that Mr.‘
Ford, according to one of his eulogists, re
turned to the federal treasury, denies respon-l
sibility for the story. The mystery is solved. !
Mr. Ford is not as wonderful as the Ford|
publicity agents paint him. That, by the way,
is what a lot of persons have suspected ‘fo;J
a long time, !
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