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DAWSON GA. SEPT. 12 1922.
The Montgomery Advertiser remarks that
“the Georgia cartoonist who put his weevil
on an open boll of cotton was probably
brought up in the maple syrup districts of
Vermont.” \
Sam Gompers says a law compelling work
ers to obey the orders of a court would be
slavery. If he is correct most of us now are
slaves, government is slavery, and anarchy is
the only freedom.
Every new commission or new govern
ment undertaking adds to the cost of gov
ernment. The bill for the coal commission
recommended by the president carries an
appropriation of £500,000.
Before purchasing any radio stock the wise
and the prudent will examine it with spe
cial care. The radio stock hound is reported
to be abroad in the land, seeking to lure the
sucker with this new and attractive bait.
e emee ey
The world has become so accustomed to
fighting that the little war in progress be
tween Turkey and Greece in Asia Minor is
scarcely noticed. In that quarter of the world
a state of war seems to be the normal con
dition.
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Freedom of speech is a great thing in this
country, but it begins to look like freedom
to work would be a far greater thing. A
man’s right to a job and to work at it ought
to be protected in the constitution, if it is
not already protected.
A lot of us, says a preacher, are veneered
furniture—mahogany on the outside, but
cheap on the inside. In other words, mere
imitations or sham. The preacher has only
invented a new way of saying that there are
a lot of hypocrites in the world.
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Of course it may be possible that Uncle
Henry Ford expects that some oi the coal
operators will guarantee him all the coal he
needs at approximately the same price he has
been paying. He has set the critical date at
September 16th, and much may happen in a
week.
Bill Biffem, of the Savannah Press, is a
candidate for representative in Chatham
county on the port issue. If there is any one
who is a judge of good port we imagine a
Savannah editor-legislator would fill the bill.
We are for old Bill, and wish we could move
our franchise long enough to vote for him.
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Not So Bad, After All |
In view of the criticism that has beefi
heaped upon the Georgia legislature for “‘do
ing nothing,” people will be interested in the
news that at the last session of the Texas
legislature fewer laws were passed than at
any session ever before held in that state.
Calling attention to what was then consider
ed a commendable record the New Orleans
Times-Picayune expresses the growing feel
ing in the country that we have legislated
to excess on the belief that all evils may be
corrected by the enactment of a statute. Ten
thousand bills a vear are said to be passed
by our legislatures, not counting the massive
output of congress.
But what is the explanation of the inac
tivity on the part of the Georgia lawmakers?
It cannot be charged to idleness, for the ses
sion in spite of its barrenness in respect of
new legislation was aobve the average in
the matter of industry. Nor can it be charged
that there were no important questions for
consideration. In fact, a number of import
ant questions were up. Unfortunately, the
session opened with the coolest if not the
most strained relations between the exec
utive and a large part of the general assem
bly, especially the senate. Almost all of the
governor’s pet projects were killed. Other
measures failed because of factionalism in
both branches of the legislature. The result
was an almost barren session. It is further
noted that while the legislature reduced the
output of new laws it did not reduce public
expenditures, as the people desired and as is
being done in some other states.
We do not need many new laws at this
time, but we do need some relief. Yet, we
are aware of the history of bills introduced.
Oftener than not they call for an appropria
tion and by the time several of those intro
duced, for whatever purpose, are adopted
and signed the taxpayers have ifound the
cost of their government increased again.
Remembering that one is inclined to view
with a measure of satisfaction the outcome
at Alanta.
Everybody knows that this is no time to
increase the cost of government.
Time to Be Impatient.
Passing the strike bill along to the con
sumer is just what should not be allowed.
Nevertheless, that is what is now being done.
Coal prices already have been advanced in
Georgia since the miners agreed to return to
work, and it is safe to say that similar ad
vances have been made in other states. What
is the consumer going to do about it? What
relief can he hope to secure short of inter
vention by the government? To bring about
that intervention the consumer will be obliged
to complain frequently, loudly, persistently.
He will have to make himself heard with an
insistence that congress will not dare to defy.
atience and submission will accemplish
othing. It is a time when patience has ceas
“ed to be a virtue. The consumer has been
the goat long enough. Let’'s have a new deal.
Hybrid Cattle.
Out in Texas, where the opinion prevails
"that the residents of that state know more
about cattle than anybody else in the whole
country, something new has been evolved
by Colonel Goodnight, who promises to be
come the Burbank of the fauna field. He has
developed—or is developing, as he puts it—
'hybrid cattle, and hopes soon to have a food
animal that will far surpass any hitherto pro
duced on the wide western ranges of America.
The hybrid is a cross between the buffalo
and the Polled Angus of the cow kind.
j Cross breeding of the two widely separat
ed species, pedigreed cattle and the buffalo,
or bison, has developed, according to Col.
Goodnight, a few hybrids that possess two
ancestors. The buffalo has 14 ribs on each
side and the cow only 13. It is the hope of
the breeder to develop hybrids that have two
extra ribs, thus insuring more hardihood and
a longer and deeper line. This, he explains.i
will take much patience and time because of
the obvious necessity of careful selection asl
to types.
The buffalo has much more hardihood than
cattle. He can stand extreme weather ini
which cattle succumb. The buffalo can sur
vive in any and all climates, which the cat
tle cannot do. High altitudes are dangerousi
to cattle, but do not affect buffalo. Colonel
Goodnight expects the hybrid to adapt itsclf!
to the same conditions of environment in |
which the buffalo thrives so well. He says
of the hybrid: {
“As far as I have been able to test I
them the cross, when high grade, is im- |
munc to all diseases. I have sent them
to the gulf coast, our tick infested coun- l
try; none of the full bloods have died, |
and of the one-eighths one out of three |
have died. |
“They thrive and do well on less food
than other cattle. They put on more flesh l
for the food they eat than any animal |
known, but do not carry the great extra ‘
fat which is a waste i common cattle. |
Their tallow is worth from 2% tc 3 cents ‘
more on the pound.” ‘
‘ At once live stock men will be interestcd;
in this cross breeding, which has been not-‘
ably successful for a number of years. Col
onel Goodnight insists it is practical, and that!
it will improve both quality and productionj
of food animals. Greater hardihood, immuni
ty to disease and improved quality of meat
for food ought to impress growers favorably.
Another thing that will interest the lover of
natural history is that, once this cross breed
ing hag_proved to be successful on a large
scale, it will mean that the American bison,
a famous and romantic figure on the plains
70 years ago, will not become extinct.
The High Cost of War.
The United States veteran bureau reports
that during the last fiscal year $481,000,000
was expended on behalf of the disabled vet
erans, or at the rate of more than $1,000,000
per day. The disbursements for the current
fiscal vear are estimated at $513,693,000, or
at the rate of $1,407,000 per day. Even at
that high figure the peak probably has not
been reached, it being estimated that event
ually annual appropriations of $1,000,000.000
will be required. To this sum must be added
‘the additional compensation that is to be
,awarded the veterans. While the country will
not begrudge a dollar of the money expended
in aid of the disabled soldiers the figures
‘make clear the staggering cost of war. It is
not the first cost of war that counts, but the
i aftermath.
i One of the freely exercised privileges of
I:\mvricans. one of their favorite indoor sports,
\is telling other people what they ought to
ido. Every private conversation, the speech
les of a multitude of after dinner and chau
itauqua and other speakers, the sermons from
Ithe pulpits and the editorials in the news
papers are filled with more or less dogmatic
assertion of what people ought to do. Judged
by these expressions it would seem that
most everyvbody is doing everything except
what they ought to do, from the president
down. It’s great sport, this telling people
!what they ought to do. How exceedingly
wise we all are!
The chiefs of the railroad brotherhoods
merit the highest commendation for their
Icffort to bring about a settlement of the
shopmen’s strike. There is no reason to
‘question the sincerity of their purpose and
| desire. Their mediation has failed, but it is
| better to have made the effort and failed
i than not to have made it. They sought only
!to find common ground upon which the rail
‘road managers and the shopcrafts leaders
’could stand. Though sympathizing wholly
| with the shopmen they were just and impar
ltia] and made no undue use of the power they
[ hold.
i SSR e R TR S
[ Coca-Cola is a beverage that everybody
Eknm\'s about. Perhaps everyone does not
!know. however, the dividends there are in
this familiar article. The Coca-Cola com
!pan_\' reports that during the first half of the
I present vear its gross receipts totaled $lO,-
{171,220, on which its net income was $3.721.-
|O4l, or $6.74 a share on the common stock.
fMore than $10,000,000 was spent in nickels and
idimcs across the soda water counter in six
('months for this beverage alone! And yet
|there is some talk in this country about peo
iple being hard up.
} In both Mississippi and West Virginia the
! women candidates for United States senator
lwere defeated in the primaries. In West Vir
lginia Mirs. Izetta Jewell Brown, of King-
IWood, received 40,000 votes, but was 15,000
{votes behind Maj. Matthew M. Neely, the
'winner on the democratic ticket. Inasmuch as
‘Mrs. Brown owns a million dollar farm in
Preston county why should she desire a
United States senatorship, anyway?
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| Under the control of W. G. McAdoo the
'railways of the country cost the government
j 1540,000,000. and it is one of the messes that
lhas not vet been cleaned up. The present ad
"ministration no doubt will ponder long and
'seriously before now taking these carriers
under control.
. Thomas R. Marshall, who recently came
' home from Europe, reports that everyone in
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| Germany seems to feel sorry lor himsclf.
“The German,” says Mr. Marshall, “regards
| himself as the most abused man on earth.”
' Perhaps the Germans would get along bet
ter if they were to devote less time to fecl
ing sorry for themselves. No state of mind
is quite so hopeless as that.
' The indebtedness of the states has the ap
pearance of being large, considered separately
and in the aggregate. The total, according to
estimates prepgred by the bank of America,
New York city, is $1,071,506,981. That con
stitutes a staggering burden, and indicates
how much more rapidly we are spending
money than we are making it.
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Think of struggling Poland increasing its
army from 250,000 to 300,000 men, which is
twice the size of the United States army.
Poland is one of our debtors, owing us the
sum of $148,594,423.11, on which not a cent
of interest has been paid. With Poland in
creasing armaments why should we be asked
tc forgive its debts?
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President Harding’s liking for obsolcte
words is illustrated by the use of his word
“approvement” in the sense of approbation
in a recent letter of a public nature. “Ap
provement” has been on the obsolete list for
2 good many years. How does the president
remember all these old words?
The Literary Digest is “in bad” with the
American Legion on account of the poll on
the bonus and with the drys because of the
vote on prohibition. Suppose the voting had
revealed a different result. would there have
been complaint?
Tomorrow will bring the state primary, and
politics will be at an end for a while. The
campaign has been rcmarkaége for the lack
of interest on the part of the pegple. Geor
gia has never before experienced anything
like it. .
Hot as it is, it is nearly time to begin
worrying about the frost getting the late
gardens.
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| GARLIC. I
Our garden crops have come from far
where other climes and pecoples are. From
mountain. valleys of Peru the snappy bean
comes to you. In Mexico sprang Indian corn,
in India the cuke war born. The cabbage
hails from FEurope's sea land, hot weather
spinach from New Zealand. But there’s one
“)cppy garden plant we natives mostly do not
want. When long of yore its fumes arose and
h_l.elped to shape the Roman nose, a favored
food was garlic then for fighting fowls and
fighting men. They mixed it with the war
rior’s hash and with the rooster’s morning
mash. It kept the legions primed for war till
fear of Rome spread near and far, and doubt
less ‘made game fighting cocks of pacifistic
Plymouth Rocks. A shrinking rabbit fed up
thus would lick a hippopotamus. Hence
spxfing old tales of sudden death from drag
on®@slaying with their breath.
—~4BOB ADAMS.
| IN LIGHTER VEIN. 1
Vit e e Rl du i 1, - 8
Charlie was cashier in a bank in a little
country town. He had been engaged to May
Brown, but, alas, a rift came in the lute!
They quarreled. .
“And please remember,” said May, in tear
fully haughty tones, as she handed back the
ring, ‘that when we meet again we meet as
perfect strangers.”
A few days later the fair maid entered the
bank to cash a check. He took the slip of
paper, eved it back and front and then, in
stead of counting out he money, handed
back the check.
His time for revenge had come!
“I'm sorry, madam,” he said coldly, “but
it is against the rules of the bank for the
cashier to cash checks for perfect strangers.
You must find someone in town to identify
you!”
Henry Allen Wilson, secretary of the New
England Anti-Tobacco lL.eague, said in an
address in Portland:
Carefully compiled statistics show us that
for every cigar a man smokes he shortens
his life three days, while with every cigarette
he shortens his life a week.”
At this point a prominent Portland physi
cian rose in the rear of the hall.
*“Are those statistics absolutely accurate?”
he asked.
“Absolutely, sir,” said Secretary Wilson.
“Why?”
“Because it's rather important,” explain
ed the physician. “You see if your statistics
are accurate I've been dead over three hun
dred years.”
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I . The Call of the Country. l
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There are laughing, singing rills,
Tumbling down the country hills,
And their babbling, lilting laughter my soul
with rapture thrills.
How they leap like merry rovers,
Down to mingle with the clovers,
With a joy that seems unfettered and voices
glad and free!
They" are luring—calling me.
There’s a river road that winds
And a lover’s lane of pines;
There are flowers, wild and fragrant, and
there are morning glory vines;
There “are fieid larks on the wing,
And the wild birds stop to sing:
And there’s the dreamy, booming, buzzing
of the honey drinking bee -
All a-luring—calling me.
Oh, the rustle of the corn!
And the joy of harvest morn!
And the gathering ot the rural folk to rustic
vigor born.
Not afraid of sun and weather,
Nor ot sharing toil together.
Oh, their simple hearts and true, free from
guiie and full of glee,
Are luring —calling me.
Oh, the music of cow bells!
And the drink from deep wells,
And bleating sheep on pastures green, all
weave their magi@ spells. .
Oh, the smell of ramm and sod!
It's like getting back to God.
And returning to Eden’s garden, when I heed
the country’s plea
That keeps luring—calling me.
—Alma [.. Lonsdale in Kansas City Star,
THE DAWSON NEWS
| CURRENT COMMENT. |
L by
Indianapolis News: The phrase, “knock
wood.” comes from an old Danish myth. Here
is the authentic origin: According to l):mia;h
tradition whenever an old Danish sea captain
was about to start on a long journey in his
wooden vessel he would tap on the side of
his ship silently by. It was a superstition that
the cives of the forest would come out to
bless his ship because it held millions of their
kind in its timbers. Whatever the cause, Dan
ish ships submitted to this quaint ritual seem
ed to acquire immunity from the perils of
the sca. So the superstition became a cus
tom. And the old.idea has come down to
modern times. That is why one “knocks on
wood” whenever he does not want his luck
to desert him.
AGREE ON ONE THING.
Louisville Courier-Journal: Mr. Reed’s vic
tory in Missouri over Mr. Long for the
democratic nomination as United States sen
ator closes a campaign noted for its rancor,
for the doubtfully wise intervention of for
mer President Wilson in the race and for
the injection of the “wet” and “dry” issue
into the contest. Mr. Reed was the “wet”
candidate. Also he attracted the anti-Wilson
votes among German and Irish circles that
little liked Mr. Wilson's war policy. Repub
licans in great number entered the demo
cratic primary to vote for Reed, especially
in St. Louis and Kansas City, the Reed
strongholds, outside of which Long impress
ively led. By some persons Reed’s victory
will be interpreted to be a triple one—first,
for the anti-Wilson sentiment in the demo
cratic party; second, for the Reed personality,
which is admittedly forceful; and, third, for
the movement favoring return of light wines
and beer—the only proposition perhaps up
on which Mr. Wilson and Mr. Reed may be
found in agreement.
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' The Glory of Corn. I
Lo s e
Meredith Nicholson in the Cosmopolitan.
Poets and orators have celebrated the glory
of American corn; but corn remains its own
best interpreter. It seems forever to be utter
ing a message. Even on windless nighfs there
are infinite stirrings and whisperings, as
though an invisible spirit walked the furrows.
No other plant known to our fields 1s at
cnce so interesting, so opulent or so decora
tive as corn when it has sprung to full
height and the grains await their transmuta
tion into ivory or gold. A field of wheat is
a thing of beauty and grace, tremulous and
shimmering in the lightest airs, but corn
challenges attention like a militant host that
marches with banners flying.
Corn gave to the American pioneer what
was truly the hard won bread of democracy,
and corn remains a fitting sign and symbol
of American ideals. It is finely representative
of the vigor and wholesomeness of American
life. -Planted in hope, it is watched and tend
ed with full confidence of reward. It publish
¢s broadcast its lessons of patience, industry
and tolerance. No stalk jostles or tramples its
neighbor. Each full, ripe ear is a renewal of
the old pledge between America and nature,
its mighty and unswerving ally.
“That only holds men together,” wrote
Whitman, “which aggregates all in a living
principle.” The corn’s serri¢d ranks in the
vast plains of the Mississippi valley give the
impression of a harmonious whole, no stalk
lore favored than another, but all drawing
’fifc in amity from a common soil, and warm
ed and quickened by the same sun, dew and
rain.
| Cows and Chickens. I
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From the Minneapolis Journal. i
The proposal to have a national poultry!
show in connection with the national (lairy[
show is good. Cows and chickens go well;
together, whether on the farm or in grcat%
exhibitory events. All that is needed is pigs!
to complete the farm tri:mgjc. Sophisticated |
city folks like to talk learnedly about blood- |
ed stock and great dairy adventures for ev-;
ery farmer. Such talk is harmless, and may-I
be helpful. But the hard headed farmer |
knows that there is a difference between |
keeping a few cows, such as he and the boys
can look after, and plunging into the intri-;
cacies and high expenses of modern dairying. |
Such farmers will keep chickens and hogs, |
as well as cows. They will perhaps buy aj
blooded bull in a neighborhood to improve !
their stock. But they will shy at overdoing |
the dairy end of their muitifarious farm work,
lest they get in over their heads. So it's a'!
good idea to show folks who come to town |
not only the cows but the chickens—both of |
which pay well, when not overdone. !
!
I Good Old Gravy. h
From the Omaha World-Herald. |
A French sauce is all right so far as it}
goes, but it only goes about half way to-’
ward satisfying a_hungry man’s appetite. Un- |
deniably it has flavor, but it stops there. Itl
lacks substance, and what the American diner |
wants is ‘‘something that will stick to his
ribs.” What he really wants, whether he is
conscious of it or not, is gravy, good, old
fashioned, home made gravy, rich with thcl
juices of roasted meat, thickened with flour |
browned just $o and reduced to just the right
stage of semi-fluidity with whole milk. Gravy‘
is the sauce Americaine. It is the American
housewife’s gift to the American husband.
Cooked as it ought to be cooked by one who
learned cooking in a kitchen it has the flavor
of ambrosia. Served as it ought to be served
with a hillock of mashed potatoes or a slice
of bread hidden beneath its creamy surface
it satisfies the appetite completely, perfectly.!
It's the crowning feature of the dinner, thel
one dish for which there can be no sul)stitntc.i
LEGISLATURE DESERVES PRAISE
FOR WHAT IT DPID NOT DO
From the Swainsbore Forest-Blade. |
The session just closed of the Georgia leg- |
islature is accused, perhaps justly so, ofl
doing nothing, but we want to tell you that |
it took mighty hard work to keep something]
from being done. Ii all the bills calling for |
Lig appropriations and bond issues that were !
presented had been passed the people could’
have said truthfully that something had been |
done—something that the state would never |
remember getting over. Some times it is bet- |
ter to keep things from being done than it |
is to do things.- !
GCING “BRAVELY” TO GALLOWS. {
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From the Savannah News. |
It is no great compliment to a man con-:
demned to death to say that he went un- !
filnchingly to his death. The chances are that |
the great majority of men who have been |
hanged and electrocuted in this country did |
not have to be supported by officers, did not |
collapse on the scaffold or at the chair. The |
regro man who preceded Frank DuPre on!
the scaffold in the tower in Fulton county |
went just as bravely to death as did DuPre. |
The difference was in the amount of popular
interest in the two cases, that DuPre was a
voung white man and McDonald was a ne-'
gro.
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