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BY E. L. RAINEY
CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
B o T s
DAWSON, GA, SEPTEMBER 5, 1922.
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If some people worked half as hard as they
work to dodge work they would get some
where.
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The country seems to have a pretty safe
pilot in the handling of the strike situation.
Mr. Harding easily could have been more
spectacular, but less wise.
PR Lo ASR B
North Georgia towns are just announcing
receipt of the first bale. Down here a large
per cent of the crop has been gathered, and
the farmers have greatly reduced their debts
and have some money in their jeans.
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The latest tabulation in the Literary Di
gest's poll shows a vote pf 236,329 to 128,500
in favor of retention and enforcement of the
18th amendment, but 253,009 votes are count
ed in favor of light wines and beer. The
result is rather surprising. Is it 4. wet of
a dry verdict? Perhaps it is about 50-50.
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With this issue The News begins its 41st
volume, but birthdays have gotten so common
with it that there is no desire to celebrate.
In fact, the age has been reached when it
would be a pleasure to induce Father Time to
take a vacation and forget to chalk up the
fast disappearing years. |
Another Age “Cure.”
The world is full of men like Ponce de
Leon. who desired to find the fountain of
youth, and upon these victims of age, who
are credulous indeed, “discoverers” of wonder
ful secrets are preying. Age ‘“cures” of all
kinds are reported to have been developed,
and amazing results have been claimed.
Most of these famous ‘“‘cures” have come
from Europe, which needs as much rejuven
ating as any other section of the world, but
the reports regarding them are so vague
as to be unsatisfactory, so ridiculous as to
lose all semblance of truth.
Another socalled cure for age has been
reported as discovered in Vienna. Yes, it has
something to do with a gland operation,
only in this a duct is tied up with a string
so youth cannot escape! Dr. Steinach is
the discoverer of this remarkable thing, and
is reported to have said it were easy for
a man to live to be 160 years of age. Even
if onme is old the duct—whatever it is—
can be tied with a string after a slight oper
ation requiring only a local anaesthetic, and,
o and behold, one becomes a boy again.
The duct may be tied once and the hair
ceases to be gray or white. Once more the
pigments that fled with departing youth re
turn and dye the locks raven or gold or red
or brown according to the color chart by
which the individual lived when a boy. Then
when the patient begins to age again—prob
ably when the string breaks or becomes un
tied—the duct may be half hitched as be
fore and the third childhood comes, and so
on up to 160. That is what Dr. Steinach is
claiming.
The News does not believe it to be true.
Nature is a sterner mistress than to havel
her law controverted in this way. Righti
living, which induces good health, results |
in youth being longer retained, but whenl
age contmences it finishes the job. Life
may be prolonged by sanitation, by obedi
ence to the laws of health, by avoidance
of ills and watchful care of the physical
body, but so far only the mind has that
power to turn time backward and make
man a boy ‘again. |
“Georgia’s Costly Gullies.” ‘
The state geologist, Mr. S. W. McCallie,
imparts the information that Georgia is ini
danger of being washed out to sea through
the medium of its rivers unless something
is done to bring about reforestation in the
state. In an article in American Foresty Mr.
McCallie tells us that the Savannah river
alome carries annually to the Atlantic ocean
2,500,000,000 tons of Georgia soil, which is
135 carloads a day. It is reasonable to sup
pose that if the Savannah river is taking
that much toll the Chattahoochee, the Flint
the Altamaha and others are exacting their
share, and the land loss in Georgia each
day must be immense.
Mr. Mic Callie illustrates his story with a
picture of what was once a fertile and flour
ishing cotton field in Stewart county. Now,
as the Savannah Press says, “the picture
looks as if it might represent the steppes of
Russia or some arid plain cracked by the
sun.”
“What is the remedy?” our Savannah con
temporary asks, and answers its query as
follows: “Terracing, deep plowing and the
protection of the forests. Georgia must be
saved from its gullies, which have their be
ginnings in small washes that make their
appearance soon after the forests are re
moved from the hill slopes. From year to
year the gully increases its length and depth.
The downward cutting continues until it ap
proximates the base level of the valley be
low. Here the water ceases to deepen the
gully, but spends its energies in widening
its lower end. At this stage of its life his
tory vegetation in the form of old ficld pines,
blackberries, etc., begin to grow in the lower
reaches of the gully. Erosion now ceases and
a soil is formed.”
As the Press says, we must prevent the
reation of gullies, the washing away of the
P soil and the destruction of the land that pro
duces crops. And the way to do it is to
not cuf away all our forests and to replenish
the forests htat we do cut away.
| The News’ Anniversary.
' With this issue The Dawson News enters
{upon its 41st year. It is a pleasure to report
that it is in good health, that it is enjoying
life to the fullest, and that its hope is lively. As
the years come and go it finds increased op
| portunity for service, from which it derives
only satisfaction.
| Through all these years The News has had
'a well defined purpose and a definite objec
|tive. It has been the paper's desire to be of
|service to the people of the community of
| which” it is a part, to be helpful in all good
i'things in such ways as a newspaper is able to
[be helpful. It has been its desire and pur
|pose to be “a real newspaper.” Such are its
| desire and purpose teday. R 1
! Looking back over the years that havel
i passed the time does not seem long. Thoughi
'its years are accumulating, The News does
not expect that it will ever grow old. It is
lpleased to say that it never felt better or’
’more vigorous than it does today on its 41st
'anniversary: that never has it felt more hope
’iul. more confident of the future; never has
’its faith been greater. It is not unbecoming
to say that it entertains the hope that its |
41st vear, now begun, will be the most use- |
ful and serviceable year in its history. }
* The News has been a witness of many
marvelous things during the 40 years of its
life, but it is not in the heart of man to fore
tell what it shall witness in the 40 years that
lie just ahead. Of all that has been it has
been a part, and it cherishes the lively hope
that of all that is to be it also will be a
partaker. -
A Bill to Raise H—L.
Speaking of a bill that was introduced
during the recdnt session of the Georgia!
legisiature, to prevent the planting of cot-‘
ton in che state only every other year, the
Thomasville Times-Enterprise said: 1
“It might be considered quite as worth
while to stop pecan trees from bearing
every other year so that they would be
rid of pests that eat and destroy the nuts.
Or there might be other things that
could be improved by holding them out
for a year or so. Speaking of such a
movement, what would be the result?
Dynamiting vats wouldn’t be a circum
stance. * There would be more cain rais
ed than ever before heard of in the his
tory of the country, and Georgia would
be right in the midst of the most pro
lific crop of it. Cotton can be grown
scientifically if the raiser has sense
enought to work hard and use the most
approved methods. That's as far as Geor
gia will go in protecting the industry
| against the weevil.
‘ It might properly be termed “a bill to
raise hell in Georgia,” as the late lamented
Joe Hall characterized a measure that was
once before the general assembly to require
the appointment of state arresting officers
who would be on constant duty in every mili
tia district. As our Thomasville contempory
says, such radical legislation is not to be
seriously considered as long as Georgians re
tain their inherent right to use their land for
legitimate purposes and processes.
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One of our present day needs, it has been
| said, is courage to obey the law. Perhaps
iit has not occurred to everyone that it re
'quircs courage to be lawabiding: it may seem
llike getting the cart before the horse. Much
is said about the fear of the law; the inclina
|t\on to regard defiance of the law as courage
ious is only too general. In truth, however,
!does not respect for and obedience to the law,
all law, at all times, call for the highest sort
‘of courage? Is it not a test of courage to
dare to do always only that which is lawful?
"I‘hc law is an ideal, and it is courageous al:
l\\'ays to~stand for ideals.
~ Josephus Daniel, former secretary of thel
navy, while in Omaha the other day referr
ed to the present day tendency to “pass the
buck” which prevails in domestic, social,
business and political life. The Omaha Bee'
in this connection speaks of the practice asl
a “gentle art”” Whether it is an art or not,l
it is something that everybody is doing to
side-step responsibility, to pass it along to
the other fellow, to shift the blame for our
mistakes upon others, to evade and procras
tinate—it is a habit more general than ever
before. “Let us face our responsibilities,”
urges Mr. Daniels, and that is sound counsel
}for everyone.
. For many years Albany had less factional
'politics and fewer political contests, perhaps,
| than any city in the state. In the last two
!or three years, however, that peaceful record
has been blasted, and Albany is torn by!
strife and rancor that has seldom been equaled |
in bitterness. Just now a contest for repre
sentative and the referendum of some local
legislation are the causes of the row. Politics |
such as our neighbor is experiencing does
4 town or community much harm. Daw
son knows from experience some time in
the past. |
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! The primaries are no longer arousing an
| exciting interest; attention turns to the elec
! tions. First in Maine, to be held September
'llth. A congressional delegation, including
!a senator, is to be elected. Both major par-|
ltics recognize the importance of winning the
| first battle in a campaign, and therefore are
| exerting particular effort to carry this elec
;tion. Whether it is always true that “as
| Maine goes so goes the country,” the psycho
llogical effect of a victory in the first election
iof the vear is a prize worth striving for.
| When there is dissatisiaction it is human
Inature to turn hopeful eyes to the lawmak
ling machinery for relief, because mankind is
ever ready to place faith in quackery whether
it be political, medical or spiritual. The
con man, fake stock promoters and wire
tappers are bleeding the come-on boys as
inever - before in history. The demagogue
‘and gold brick salesman always thrive dur
ing economic disturbances.
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’ There is just one more week of the state
campaign, but at that there is ample time
li’or the numerous aspirants to “sweep the
'state” several times more. |
i Friends and necighbors of Editor Josephus
[Camp, of the Metter Advertiser, gave him a
;?»irtlwla_\- party the other night. They took
sumptuous viands to the editor’s own home
{.nd there the good things were spread and
everyone feasted and made merry. We sur
mise that it was one of the proudest and hap
| piest occasions of Brother Camp’s life. Its
great to live in a town where the people treat
;thvir editor like that.
} The cost of living is increasing rather than
decreasing, contrary to general hope and de
sire. The figures of the United States de
partment of labor show a 10 per cent in
crease in the wholesale prices of food and
other commodities during the last year, to
gether with a 36% per cent increase in the
price of fuel and lighting materials.
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The current issue of the Cordele Dispatch
advertises 171 city marshal sales for taxes.
In the spring a number of our contempo
rories printed a page or more of sheriff sales
for state and country taxes. Yet, there are
some who would increase the tax burden
and still further oppress the people with big
bond issues. .
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No one can justly quarrel with Governor
Hardwick for vetoing approprations for the
payment of which no provision was made.
On the contrary, he is to be commended for
his efforts to put the state on a cash basis.
Had that policy been pursued in the past the
public finances would not now be in the mess
they are.
The one fact that is growing clear to the
public in this railroad labor mess is that the
vailroad labor board should possess authority
ta enforce its decrees. The present intoler
able situation has come about from lack of
such authority, and apparently it is not going
tc be cured until congress provides the au
thoriy.
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The No Tobacco league is demanding a
law restricting the use of tobacco in public
places, and prohibiting the advertising of to
bacco products. May providence spare us
from more prohibitory legislatton!
} President Wilson's attitude .was that of
“watchtul waiting,” that of President Hard
-ling is described as “watchful worrying.” It
‘will have to be admitted there is plenty to
worry about.
| RUDE RURAL REYMES |
l YOUR EDITOR SPEAKS. l
We love this town, there’s nothing like it,
however far and wide we hike it. We're
glad we came, we gladly linger and sling the
type with skillful finger. Our feet and heart
are oversize; with weal or woe we sympa
thize. We're tickled as that budding Beech
er when church folks raise the local preacher.
From Jimmy Smith’s first wailing breath to
when his eyes are closed in death there's
scarce a word or work or caper but inter
ests the local paper. The member of the
Ladies’ Aid by whom the first prize pie is
made we're good and glad to celebrate her,
and, if unwed, thus help to date her. Each
doubting Themas to convince we give her
recipe for mince, and say our teeth have never
sunk in a pie so pleasing as her punkin. |
When Minnie finds her latest pet as good as
she will likely get, we print kind words about
the wedding, e’en though we fear they’ll huvei
hard sledding, felicitate the bride and groom
and hope to see the birthrate boom. \\'e‘
want the news, but want the best; we (‘vnsor!
some and print the rest. Send in the facts
and keep them coming, we like them fresh
and hot and humming. Send in the news
but search your heart; be sure it holds no%
poisoned dart. In all the land there is no
cuss so mean as old Anonymous. We go
each night in peace to roost if we have done
our daily boost; but nightmares come to
fright and shock for every mean and measly
knock. —BOB .ADAMS. ‘
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‘ Saturday Evening. l
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} From the Waycross Journal.
“At the close of a busy week the mind
and heart turns to thoughts of Peace. The
morrow will bring from every pulpit in the
city some part of the lesson to be learned
from the life of the Prince of Peace. When
the heart is roweled with emotions conceived
in the matrix ‘of industrial strife, when the
mind is heavy-laden with thoughts of the‘
future no haven offers calm and quiet equal
to that afforded in the shelter of the prom
ises of Him who lived on earth that Love
might reign in every heart. Prince of Peace
he is because he never compromised with
evil. Just as with stinging whips he drove |
the moneyv changers from the temple so must
His disciples know that Peace will never
come till Right prevails. He who winks at
,(-\'il for fear strife will come sows the seeds
lof future trouble. There was no cnmpmmisel
with the money changers. When the Prince
of Peace entered the temple the sources of |
discord were forced out. And so this Satur
|day evening will be an evening to be re
membered through all the weeks to come if
it but teaches us that peace comes through the
| triumph of right. The Prince of Peace comes
t\\'ith comforting touch to the hearts and
,minds of all who stand foursquare for Right,
| for the Spirit of Christ made manifest in
}(laiiy living. This is the way of Peace.”
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l| With the State Papers. I
i Giving Suggestions. ¥
;’ Greenshero Herald-Journal: A woman
i reader of this paper recently suggested as
to how we should run this sheet. We told
i];;xr if <he took more interest in her home,
{oteil she wouldn't ba—-e time to make edi
torial suggestions to ve editor.
} Not as Well, Very Likely.
i Swainsboro Forest Blade: Some news
| papers are cussing the legislature, and we
are not wrerared to say that the cussing'is
wholly undeserved, bnut the question will
{bob up in our mind: “Could these same news
ipaper men have done better had they heen
{in the nosition that the legislators were?”
{ Naturally we dec not believe that some of
them would do even as well
{ The Dog Knows.
| Griffin News and Sun: Two men lived!
151410 by side. and each owned a dog. FEach
,(i:.l'.'_ as one man went home his dog would
frush to greet him, joyiul over the return
‘of his master. Whenever the other man en
|tered his gate his dog would slink out of
|sight. Dogs are good judges of the true
inwardness of a man. :
THE DAWSON NEWS
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| CURRENT COMMENT. |l
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Washington Labor: The farmers of Bul-|
garia have solved the problem of what to do!
with kings. They have put their king to |
work. When the farmers took over the |
government and selected as premier a fine old |
peasant with the euphonious name of Stam- |
boulisky, they informed the king that hc:
might reign but could not govers. King
Boris, being a wise young man, agreed to!
become his Bwn gardener, and if you wcre!
in the vicinity of Sofia these fine August morn- |
ings yvou might see this sprig of royalty|
dressed in an old linen duster digging po—{
tatoes. He rested from his labors long
enough the other day to say to a newspaper!
reporter: “In our country everyone must
work. Our policy is one of productivity.|
Even my sisters are doing their share. You|
will find them in the kitchen doing some use- !
ful household tasks.” Incidentally, Stam-|
boulisky says he does not fear the growth
of bolshevism in his country.
AN UNFORTUNATE INSTITUTION.
Kansas City Star: Helen of Troy was |
not more talked about than are the young
girls of .this age who are made to regard
themselves as flappers. They have not un
naturally come to feel that it is necessary
for them to talk and act and dress the part.
Girthood is denied them. As soon as they
are out of the nursery the world calls them |
flappers and begins its interminable com- |
ment on their dress, their conversation, theirfl
social habits and the thoughts that are sup-|
posed to be in their heads. Thus has theli
flapper come to be a social institution and |
to mean any girl and any woman of almost |
any age who dresses near enough to the;
prevailing modes to escape conspicuousncss.“
[t's an unfortunate institution in some ways, |
for it has given to quite young girls a very |
exaggerated notion of its importance, and|
of their own. Actually, the universe is not|
standjng still to contemplate them. It ma_\';
not seem so to the flapper, but in reality the!
world has one or two things on its mind.i
it flaps a good deal itself in various ways, |
hoth noisily and foolishly, and doesn’t always |
talk and act as it should, but young girls|
should not be misled by these antics. Like |
some other flappers it’s older than it acts.{
[f yvoung girls wouldn’t mind its talk so|
much it might mind its own business after
a while, and then they’d have their girl-|
hood back and get a lot more of real en-f
joyment out of it than they are getting now. |
[t must be painful to have to pose all thef
time, and have to do and say things they |
are supposed to do and say as flappers, when |
they'd rather be girls if only the world
wasn’'t looking. |
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A DISTURBER OF PEACE. }
New York Times: Mr. Gompers mnow |
joins other labor leaders in insinuating that |
railroad equipment has so deteriorated, ow-|
ing to ‘the strike, that the lives of both |
trainmen and passengers are daily endan-”
gered. He makes no pretense of knowing|
what ‘are the facts. He simply says thatl‘
there are many “statements” charging a “de- |
plorable condition.” On that basis alone hei
passes along what are evidently no better
than rumors—but rumors transparently de-i
signed to alarm the public. To suppose that |
railway managers would at this juncture]
send out enkines or cars which they knew
to be in such bad order as to be perilous is
to suppose that they are incredibly stupid
as well as unutterably wicked. The truth,
moreover, is easily ascertainable. There are
reports which the railroads are compelled
by law to make public. There is official in
spection of locomotives. Let the facts be |
made known by all means; but till they are
established and in hand let any man who
wantonly tries to frighten railway passengers
be regarded as a disturber of the public
peace—at least, the peace of mind. !
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| The Golden Corn of Georgia |
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From the Dalton Citizen.
According to the Empire State, issued by
the Georgia Railway and Power Company,
the 1922 corn crop of Georgia will amountl
to 57,725,000 bushels. The information isl
based on hte report of the United States |
Department of Agriculture.
Corn is now selling at a minimum of’
eighty-three cents a bushel, thus making the
1922 crop worth $49,911,250, and, concludesl
the power company’s statement, “It’s great‘
to be a Georgian,” and it is. i
And vet we hear much weeping and wail-i
ing about the boll weevil. A grown-up who |
is just about ready to surrender to a little
bug ought to take something for what ails |
him.
Coton can be raised profitably in spite of
the boll weevil, but it takes a lot of pains
taking care, and if a farmer doesn’t want|
to take it he should cut out cotton and grow |
something else.
Dairying can be made to pay, and pay big,
in Georgia. There is now a demand for but
ter fat (cream) far in excess of the supply.
The creameries of the state are crying aloud
for more cream.
Georgia consumes meat far in excess of
what she produces, and there is a constant
cry for more hogs at Swift’s Moultrie plant.l
which is located in our own state. If the
packing plant is to run at full capacity mil-i
lions of hogs must be shipped into the state |
annually. |
We are short on dairy cows, hogs and
sheep, and long on boll weevils, shcep-kill-,
ing dogs and bellyachers—and yet not as
bad off as many other counties in the state.
Why not diversify, as the good Lord in
tends us to do, and let the boll weevil go
to the devil?
SOMETHING NEW, INDEED. ’
From the Sylvester Local. |
The Dawson News has discovered somc—,
thing new under the sun. It has discovered
a man running for office who has no advicc‘
to offer the farmers. Of him the Dawson
paper notes that in announcing his candidacy |
he promises never to ‘“‘advise the farmers to’
hold cotton or sell, or when to plant peanuts !
as a substitute for cotton, nor tell them how |
they can get rich growing alfalfa hay.” i
THE BROOM AT LAST IS BUSY. E
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From the Commerce News. i
The good old state of Georgia is to get a |
genuine sweeping, if we may believe what we |
read in the newspapers. Hardwick will sweep |
it and Walker will sweep it and J. J. Brown!
will sweep it and Blalock will sweep it and |
plain Dick Russell will sweep it, and—well, |
they ail say they will sweep it. If all of]
‘em sweep it she sure will get a good sweep- |
ing, and everybody knows she needs it. |
MONUMENT FOR JOE HALL. |
From the Bainbridge Post-Searchlight. {
If the people of the state of Georgia were |
to raise a monument to the memory of Hon. |
Joe Hill Hall it would be a most worthy act. |
No man ever loved Georgia as he did. Had |
he loved himself more and his state less he .
would have held a high position.
Russians would be enthusiastic borrowers:!
if they could find any lenders. But all the en
thusiasm is on one side.—Charleston News.
Tempting Items at
Tempting Prices
Hold out at BRIDGES every day. Here’s a
list of specials. Use the phone—No. 370
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER ; 192211