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BY E. L. RAINEY
| CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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i DAWSON, GA, SEPTEMBER 19, 1922
The American rainmaker seems to have de
livered the goods again in Italy. At any rate,
he and a heavy downpour, the first in four
months, arrived in southern Italy at about the
same time. It is really remarkable how chance
and the elements conspire to assist men in
Dr. Hatfield’s line of business. It occurs fre
quently enough to make the skeptics waver.
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The United States senate and perhaps the
jower house will have a new element to deal
with in the congress to be elected in Novem
ber, namely: the Ku Klux Klan. Mr. May
field, senator prospective from Texas, was the
klan candidate in the primaries, and the klan
has exhibited strength as far west as Oregon.
The question has been asked, what will con
gress do about it? It is quite likely that it
wiil do nothing.
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The New Pension Commissioner.
In naming Hon, John W. Clark, of Rich
mond county, state pension commissioner
Governor Hardwick made a splendid appoint
ment. In the days that tried men’s souls he
followed the flag of the Confederacy as a
brave and gallant soldier, and in time of peace
he has served Richmond county as sheriff
and the city of Augusta as postmaster, filling
Both positions efficiently and satisfactorily. A
aumber of other deserving men, among them
old veterans, were applicants for the place,
and it is no discredit to them that they were
not appointed. The governor felt that
he should reward a personal and political
friend who had stood by him in many hard
fought campaigns. The new pension commis
sioner will make an efficient and popular of
ficial.
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A Lusty Youngster.
The writer was a recent visitor to Seminole
county, one of Georgia’s baby counties, and
was agreeably surprised at the evidences of
enterprise and thrift to be seen everywhere.
The fields were white with cotton; corn in
plenty was ripening for the harvest; there
were peanuts, cane, potatoes, hogs and cat
tle, and comfortable farm homes denoted en
terprising and prosperous people. Donalson
ville, the county seat, is the trading center
for a wide territory, and is growing rapidly.
Mercantile establishments occupy large and
imposing store houses, strong and conserva
tive banking institutions have modern build
ings, and handsome homes make the residen
tial section attractive. Seminole county has
more than justified the wisdom shown in its
ereation. Of all the new counties there is
perhaps not one superior to the gem in the
extreme southwest corner of the state. It is
one in which its people and all of Georgia
can well take pride.
On the Verge of Great Prosperity.
In the opinion of Secretary of Labor Da
vis, who has just completed a survey of the
work of his department during the past twelve
months, the times are bright with promise
to the American wage earner and to
American industry alike. He believes
that with two of the year’s three major
strikes—those in the coal and the textile in
dustries—settled the country is on the verge
of great prosperity.
More than 3,500,000 men who were idle a
year ago have been put to work. Unemploy
ment, according to analysis of the depart
ment’s figures, is hardly greater at the pres
ent than during the normal periods of pros
perity. There is always a floating population
of approximately 1,000,000 wage earners out
of employment. These figures do not include
the striking railway employes, but apply only
to wage earners who have been deprived
temporarily, through no act of their own, of a
means of livelihood. ‘
All returns to the department point to a
coming scarcity of labor, both skilled and
anskilled. How soon the country will expe
mience a labor shortage depends upon sev-?
eral factors, labor department officials state,
chief of which is the unsettled rail situation.
When that is adjusted good times, apparently,
have a clear road ahead.
The task of putting 3,500,000 men back to
work has been accomplished by American
industries, the department’s figures disclose,
with a reduction of not more than 5 per cent
m the rate of wages paid. In other words,
the wage cut has averaged during the past
twelve months less than 5 cents on the dollar.
There has been no “wage panic” such as
was feared a year ago.
Sinews of War.
The income of the national organization
of the United Mine Workers of America for
the fiscal yeéar ended September, 1921, ac
cording to the report of William Green, sec
retary-treasurer, was $4,346,311.61. That is an
immense sum, and it gives to the officials an
immense power. For one thing it enables
them to employ the highest legal talent. The
union expends large sums in attorney’s fees.
For example, Mr. Green's report shows that
a few days before Charles E. Hughes be
eame secretary of state he received a pay
ment from the union of $50,620.08. Mr.
Hughes was one of union counsel in the liti
gation following Judge Anderson’s decision
in the “checkoff” case. The salary list shows
that the union officers draw modest com
pensation. The largest item of expenditure is
’ for aid to strikers, the tota! for 1921 being
more than $3.000,000. These facts are gather
ed from a summary of Mr. Green's report
made by the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
| Mental Dyspepsia.
: “What ails us?” inquires a contributor to
the Omaha World-Herald, commenting on
the grouch that afflicts a large part of the
| American people, and he supplies the answer
| himself. It is “mental dyspepsia.” We need
no physician’s diagnosis, says the correspond
| ent, to reveal the symptoms; they are appar
lent all about us. There's the man who is
i‘fcarfnl of impending catastrophe; the man
|obsessed by the hallucination that the world
‘is coming to an end; the man who rails at
(the government and prophesies bloody revo
lution: the man who avers he has lost faith
in humanity; the man who believes we are
going to the hounds morally. All these mere
'ly indicate a state of mind; they are mani
festations only of mental dyspepsia. The
remedy for dyspepsia is a purge. What
purge shall be used to rid us of this afflic
tion of mental dyspepsia? How shall the mind
be freed of its hallucinations and delusions?
What physician will restore us to the pow
er to think clearly and deeply and to labor
efficiently? The Omaha paper’s correspondent
answers: |
Would not the re-establishment of the ‘
old-fashioned home with its blessed ties |
do it? Would not far more good books
to supplant the vulgar, unsatisiying pub- ‘
lic entertainments do it? Would not the
re-establishment of the old ties with our
neighbors, their sympathies, their help
fulness, help to do it? Would not real old
fashioned knee prayer, aided and abetted
by the gospel of Jesus Christ?
These things might not effect a complete‘
cure, but certainly they would help material-i
ly. They are worth trying, at all eveuts. :
Answered. |
The unwarranted accusations and mislead
ing insinuations heaped upon the prison de
partment of the state by two or three ex
convicts, the Macon Telegraph and Represen
tative Perryman, of Talbot county, have been
emphatically and decisively answered.
First, the five eminent superior court judges
who were appointed by Governor Hardwick,
at the request of the prison commission, to
make a thorough investigation into condi
tions at the state prison farm found nothing
to substantiate the charges of cruel treat
ment of prisoners and mismanagement. They
reported, in effect, that in some particulars
the physical condition of the plant was not
in as good a state of repair as it should be
and that some of the buildings should be
enlarged and otherwise improved. This, these
judges found, was due to the failure of the
legislature to make needed appropriations for
the work. The prisoners, according to the
report of the judges, were comfortably cared
for and humanely treated. The Ilegislature,
when it convened some time later, also re
fused to be stampeded by unfounded and sen
sational charges, and paid scant attention to
a number of alleged “reform” bills that were
introduced by Representative Perryman. And,
now, the people of the state have passed
their judgment and rendered a similar ver
dict. In the state-wide primary just held Mr.
R. E. Davison, a member of the prison com
mission who was seeking re-election, over
whelmingly defeated his opponent, who pitch
ed a campaign of abuse and misleading state
ments on the allegations emanating from the
sources above mentioned. Mr. Davison car
ried 125 or more counties, with one exception,
perhaps, more than were carried by any other
man who was voted ‘for in the election.
The people of Georgia keep informed as
to public matters, and believe in fair play.
It is seldom that they can be fooled.
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Thomas R. Marshall has been close to the
presidency, but seeing it from the inside has
not filled him with desire to be president.
“Why should anyone want to be president?”
Mr. Marshall asks. “Folks thinks a president
is superhuman. They expect him to perform
miracles.” Mr. Mlarshall said he would never
criticize a president, having seen too much
of that while in Washington. It is easy
enough for Mr. Marshall to say that he does
not want to be president, because he is in
no danger of being president. While a good
many people wonder why any man should
care to assume the burdens of the presiden
cy no one has yet refused to take the job when
the opportunity presented itself. There will
always be men willing to take it.
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i Governor Hardwick has tried to give the
‘state a safe and sane administration, and
lwe believe public officials whose records have
Ibeen good should always be given the en
dorsement of a second term. The people have
}decided differently, however, and Mr. Walk
er, the nominee, should now have the good
wishes and support of every good citizen.
He is a native Georgian, a man of unblem
ished character and has heretofore served his
state well in high and responsible positions.
There is no reason why he should not make
a good governor, and The News believes
that he will. We will uphold his hands
lin his endeavor to serve the best interests of
iGcorgia.
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There were several big majorities in the
state primary, and Judge Dick Russell has
the distinction of receiving one of the largest
given any of the candidates. Besides being an
able lawyer Judge Russell is one of the most
| democratic of men, and has acquaintances and
Iloyal friends in every nook and corner of
Georgia. Chief Justice Fish will retire aiter
a long and honorable career, and with the
‘esteem and good wishes of all Georgians. His
record has been one of which ke well may
be proud.
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With schools opening at the beginning of
|another scholastic year it is well for every
!parent. and every resident for that matter, to
stop a moment and think what an important
institution the public school is. The influence
of the teacher does not end with the mind
alone. Many a successful man points back to
one of his school teachers as the source of the
‘inspiration that led him to success. Every
teacher can have a great influence over his
or her pupils, provided the proper co-opera
tion has been given by the parents.
| Most’ murders are committed with one
handed guns, commonly called pistols. *Very
seldom does a man go out to steal and murder
armed with a shot gun or a rifle. Contrawise,
'nmst game hunters use the shot gun or the
rifle and not the pistol. Consequently there
can be no argument against the suppression
of the one-handed gun from a sportsman’s
point of view. Their indiscriminate sale to
unknown, irresponsible and criminally .in
clined persons should be stopped by law.
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It is no argument for a ship subsidy to say
that millions of dollars are spent annu:-}lly to
export American made foods in foreign bot
toms. If millions can be made by foreign ship
owners carrying goods of American manu
facture millions can be made by American
ship owners carrying these goods. Even if it
were true that American shippers would have
to operate at a loss, then it would be econo
my to carry our exports in foreign ships.
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One Dawson business man says that if the
people of Terrell county could recover the
money they have wasted in speculation they
could make up for all their losses due to in
dustrial troubles and periods of depressions of
all kinds, or for losses due to any other cause.
It seems impossible to stop this imposition
upon the public. The stock salesman is too
smooth for the average man or woman.
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The reformers now want all the warlike
songs like “Onward Christian Soldiers” and
“The Son of God Goes Forth to War” taken
out of the church hymnals. Ii the denaturing
process is continued much farther it will be
considered a crime to talk about “red blood.”
You may disapprove of and cuss him all
vou like, but the old man of Hickory Hill
puts them and takes them out. -
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| BIDDY PROTESTS. l
[ celebrate the good old days when no one
checked upon our lays. These modern meth
ods make me sick, thus spake old Biddy
Dominick. We laid to please ourselves you
bet, folks took what fresh eggs they could
get. We were not kept a narrow yard in but
wandered freely through the garden; for ev
ery hen and every chicken had all out doors
to scratch and pick in, and as we ambled
here and there of every crop we took our
share. Although we roosted oft in trees and
shivered in the midnight breeze, no sane man
looked for winter eggs nor watched the col
orsof our legs. We slept at night like Chris
tian folks and had no wish to make more
volks; but now we stay up half the night
and lay our eggs by Mazda light. If 1 should
go too soon to slumber some watchful gent
would take my number. Of privacy divested,
we're caught and pinched and weighed and
tested. This culling business I protest; I'm
growing old, I want to rest, but I must still
perform as rated or have my old head am
putated. 1f I myself escape the block some
friends are missing from the flock, and wheu
‘the honeymoon is over they seize and exe
cute my lover, yea when the hatching sea
son’s done they swat my husband and my
somn. —BOB ADAMS.
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l Temperance Day. l
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Editor Dawson News: The Temperance
Day bill, passed by the legislature, is now a
law. The date set for observing the day is‘
March 28th. The object of the day in public
schools is to teach the children the history{
of our temperance work and workers and to‘
familiarize the pupils with the principles of
}citizenship and obedience to law.
What is the true definition of temperance?
The answer was given by Xenophon, who
lived in the fourth century B. C.: |
“Temperance means, first, moderaticn
in healthful indulgence: and, second, ab
stinence from things dangerous, as the
use of intoxicating wines.” i
To this has meen added the testimony
of many other thinking men of all the ages.
Ex-President William H. Taft says concern
ing strong drink:
“To the man who is engaged in re- ‘
sponsible work, who must have at his |
' command the best that is in him at its |
best—to him I would with all the em
phasis that I possess advise and urge «|
leave drink alone absolutely.” ‘
William E. Gladstone, the great English
statesman, made this strong assertion: ‘
“The ravages of drink are greater than
those of war, pestilence and famine com- |
bined.”
The careful investigations of the Com
mittee of Fifty, who inquired into the his
tory of 13,402 convicts, show that intemper
ance was a strong factor in the downfall of
over 6,000 of them. A mind cannot be sound
when the brain cells are undergoing con
stant injury. The reports of the commission
ers of various insane asylums show that
about one-fourth of the men who are insane
are so because of the etfects of strong drink.
Dawson, Ga. CITIZEN.
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They had just been married in a Chicago
parsonage. The minister turned to the bride
groom and asked why the couple wanted
to be married in Chicago.
“Well, vou see,” the bridegroom replied,
L enlisted #n the army i Chicago.”
Sam was a colored porter in a large hotel.
‘Onc day he approached his employer with
a request for a position for his brother down
lin Tennessee. Having secured it, in due time}
the brother arrived. He was several shades |
darker than Sam, and his employer remark
[cdi""Sam, vour brother is rather dark, isn’t
1e?
l “He sure am,” replied Sam. “He’s so h]uck!
| dat down home in Tennessee de lightenin’
bugs follow him around all day, 'cause dey |
‘thlnk he’s night.”—Judge. l
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| THE PATH. I‘
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l “Where does the path lead over the hill,
The hill that looms to the west?” {
“It leads to labor and striving and jov. |
‘ And then it leads to rest.” i ]
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: “Where does the path lead over the hill. }
! The path that is winding and steep?”
! “It leads to sorrow and weary loss, ‘
| And then it leads to .\lccp."-
“Where does the path lead over the hill,
When at last its windings cease?”
“It leads to life and it leads to love,
And at last it leads to peace.”
—MARY STARBUCK.
THE DAWSON NEWS
| CURRENT COMMENT. |
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Chicago News: The chief trouble with the
ountry, Mr. Beveridge asserts, is that too
many restrictive laws have been adopted mi
the last two decades, laws that have hamper-|
¢d and paralyzed business and industry. Thel
great need, he says, is to free the hands of
honest business, to clean house, to repeal|
foolish and unnecessary: laws that penalize |
enterprise and stand in the way of healthy;
prosperity. Trade and commerce han'c'becnl
made timid, half hearted and spasmodic by !
fears of meddlesome interference, demogogi- |
cal attacks and actual law prescribed penal-|
ties for innocent transactions. Confidence can!
be restored only by the acceptance ot a l)gw’
policy—that of repealing harmful legislation |
and of refraining from interference with le-!
gitimate activities. |
REMARKABLE MEMORIAL. l\
Wichita Eagle: At Valley Forge, Pennsyl-|
vania, there is rising, slowly and beautifully,
one of the most remarkable memorials in
America. It is the Washington memorigl‘
chapel and its accessory buildings. There 1s)
a wonderful artistic chapel, complete now
save for a tower and chimes, and there are‘
to be added a Washington museum, an as
sembly hall and a large banquet room. The
architectural merit of the group will be wor
thy of the project, and the situation is most
suitable. Valley Forge, where Washington
and his bare-foot, hali-starved army of colo
nial troops spent the winter of 1777-1778, cer-!
tainly is most fitted by history to be a shrine |
of American patriotism. During the darkest |
hours of American history the little army |
and its devoted commander here sutfered!
worse than death for the cause of American
independence, while a few miles away, over |
in Philadelphia, General Howe and his o‘f-'
ficers were having the times of their lives.
and were being encouraged and entertained !
by a host of Americans who were anxious
to make friends of the children of iniquity,
lest the revolt fail. In the bleak woods near
Valley Forge, it is related, several persons
during that trying winter came upon Wash
ington at prayer. Far from his troops and
his people the troubled commander knelt in!
the snow and talked with God. And here!
the chapel and its memorial accessories are |
being erected to preserve the memory ofl
those dark days, to the enoblement of the
coming American race. l
I Forty Cents for Cotton. I!
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From the Savannah Press. i
Fred E. Arthur, who seems to be a prac-;
tical Sumter county farmer, or, at least, a]
Sumter county man who knows somcthingl
about the cotton situation, has written a let
ter to the newspapers urging farmers not
to sell their crop at twenty cents a pound.
[t's worth forty cents, in Mr. Arthur’s opin
ion. He says in a letter to the Atlanta Con
stitution:
There seems to be a mad rush on to
get this crop from the farmer around
twenty cents, and soon it will be out of
his hand, and he will be left nothing in
the world to go through the winter with,
as a greater number of them are not l
making any feed stuff on account of past |
climatic conditions. |
Then, what's going to become of things I
for another crop? You take a mule, thir
ty-seven acres of land, two hands, and
they make, say four bales of cotton at
twenty cents, they have $400; one-half
of this for the “landlord,” the other for
the two hands. |
It is only he best class of farmers that
get four bales to the plow. The two men
who ran this one mule get $200; both are
to be fed and clothed out of this $2OO.
In addition, they have to pay for their
one-half of the fertilizer they use; the
“landlord” furnishes the other half of
the fertilizer, feeds the mules, furnishes
the land, keeps up all farming tools to
make the crop with, such as plow gear,
plow stocks, and all farm machinery; has
to keep up the houses the hands live in,
pay taxes and insurance, so please tell
me where either the hands or the “land
lord” come in?
Can anyone keep out of debt?
Cotton today is cheap at forty cents;
still we are rushing to let them have it
at twenty cents.
It would seem that there is something in
the conclusions reached by Mr. Arthur. Cot
ton is too cheap now for the farmer to let al]l
of it go at the price offered. The natural
thing to expect is higher prices for cottonl
as the season advances, and when the world
learns of the ravages of the boll weevil
throughout all the cotton belt there is ev
ery indication that cotton is going up. Eu
rope will want additional supplies and the
American mills will take all they can get,
and this is going to eat pretty well into the
visible supply. '
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| Europe’s Wet Nurse. I‘
From the Kansas City Star.
Americans will be a little surprised to learn
that soviet Russia is dancing around on the
edge of Europe's new war crisis watching
for a chance to jump in. The last word they
had from that country the people were
standing in line waiting for a bowl of Amer
ican soup.
Of course, we don’t begrudge $20,000,000
spent to ‘feed a country too exhausted to
work, but if we were feeding Russia out of
a spoon all winter merely that she might put
in the summer fighting, there seems some
question as to whether we picked the right
subject for charity. The soviet, it is now
said, has new visions of conquest. It is de
bating whether to have a nice war with Po
land or Roumania or both. It is expectantly
watching the development of the crisis in
central and southeastern Europe, confident
that it will produce a fight of some kind and
determined not to be cheated of a share in it.
If Russia has to go to war again may
we ask if it expects us to hold the baby while
it's gone? And who’s going to warm the
milk for Austria’s baby if she goes march-|
ing, too? The same wet nurse, we suppose.
No wonder Europe takes to war so joytully.
It has nothing but the fun of fighting while
the United States supports its family. War
no doubt is a gay pastime ‘for countries that
have no domestic responsibilities; Russia and
the rest of them may be pushing a good
thing too far. We don’t want to be unkind,
but if they're going to jump up from their
breakfast of American groceries over there
and rush off to war it would serve them
right if we requested them to take their in
teresting families right along with them.
TOO MUCH SURCHARGE. i
From the Tifton Gazette. !
In Georgia the percentage of those whol
ride in the day coaches has taken a jump.
Quite a number who thought they could af
tord a pullman ticket at $2.50 a throw balk
at the $3.75 now exacted, which, with a quar
ter for the porter, means $4 for a night’s very
indifferent rest. Quite a few travelers are
being caught unawares, under the impression
that the surcharge does not go on until Sep
tember 21st. It went on August 15th. [t
isn’t making any love for the railroads in
Georgia, either. 3
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