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BY E. L. RAINEY
CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
= DAWSON. GA. OCTOBER 3, 1922
The Turk continues to be unspeakable, but
not speechless.
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Nowadays with the long skirt back n
vogue a fashion display is just what it claims
1. be,
The News congratulates the legislature. It
will have as a member Hon. W. G. Sutlive,
of the Savannah Press.
That clerk who managed to deposit $52,000
to his personal credit in one year on a salary
of $l5O per month betrays all the ear marks
af a real financier.
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*“Why not swear in the new governor at
once?” asks the Thomasville Times-Enter
prise. Well, there’s the little matter of the
law not making provision for it
T
Europeans do not seem soO excited about
the possibilities of a war as do the Ameri
cans. Perhaps that is because the Europeans
are fcarin_g; there will be no conflict.
A Good Dog Law.
Owners of valuable dogs in Dawson—every
dog is valuable in the eyes of the owner, for
that matter—will no doubt be interested in
an ordinance which has been adopted by the
mayor and council of Cordele, and which the
Dispatch says ought to give owners of dogs
in that city “quite a bit of comfort.”” The
ordinance requires that dogs be inoculated
with an anti-rabies serum, and wear tags
showing they have been immunized and are
safe. ‘
Owners of dogs that are worth saving,
says the Cordele paver, “will be glad of the
cpportunity to go through this process to
save them. And people who fear rabies should
find relief in the measure, because a dog that
has been immunized can do no harm nor can
a dog with rabies harm him. Japan has al
most obliterated hydrophobia with this treat
ment of the dog. In a test in that country
it was said that the method which is being
used in Cordele failed in one case out of
forty-seven thousand. If it becomes a prac
tice in Cordele—and it will if the ordinance
is strictly enforced—this will become the first
city in the state to work under the plan. A
dog with a tag on is saved by the police. He
is to be kept at home, but if he gets into
the streets with a dog tag on he escapes
death and is returned to his owner. His tag
is the mark of safety. Dogs without tags will
be slain without question after October Ist.”
Cordele’s experiment with this dog legisla
tion will be watched with interest, and if it
proves to be successful it will likely be adopt
ad throughout the state.
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The “Tiger” to Visit Us.
Georges Clemenceau, former premier of
France and better known as ‘“Le Tigre,” the
tiger, is coming to the United States in No
vember to teli the American people that their
impression of France as an imperialistic and
militaristic nation is all wrong. He also will
talk about the league of nations, of which he
has very definite ideas, along lines somewhat
different from those heard nowadays. The
Americans who will hear M. Clemenceau on
the occasion of his tour across the continent
from coast to coast may rest assured of one
thing, and that is he will come with a full
understanding of his subject as he sees it.
As to the league of nations M. Clemenceau
is coming to tell Americans that he detests it
as part of the peace settlement. He views
a league of nations in a broader way, con
siders that its main purpose now ought to
be a coalition of the allied powers that won
the war. Of course he includes the United
States in that. He wants continued unity
of the victors, a unity of purpose for peace
that would be fought for if it came to that.
A mutual understanding of the perils of war,
a common course of action between the al
lies and the United States, which want peace
and ought to be strong enough to make ‘it
compulsory, and a league of nations that
would be acceptable to this country—that is
the Clemenceau idea he is bringing to Amer
ica. His visit will be interesting, even en
tertaining. A great many Americans believe
in the league of nations idea, and a great
many others (a majority) do not. Even so,
“Le Tigre” will be an attraction while here
because he has the force necessary to let
everybody understand just what he means.
Dawson’s Insurance Rates.
A recent dispatch from Americus says there
has been a reduction of fire insurance rates
in that town. Notwithstanding that Dawson
has a splendid water system and an efficient
paid fire department insurance rates here
have steadily advanced, and on one class of
risks the increase has been as much as 25
per cent in the past several years. The last
time Dawson was re-rated the rates were ad
vanced on the ground that the water system
was deficient, whereupon the city spent $30,-
000 improving the mains and plant, with the
idea, of course, that with better water facili
ties the cost ¢f insurance would at least be
fowered to the former figures, and perhaps
more. That was too or three years ago, and
up to this time nothing has been heard from
the insurance octopus in regard to the mat
ter. Dawson is paying excessively high in
surance rates as compared with other towns
that have no better water facilities, and it is
a matter that our city authorities and cham
ber of commerce should look into. It is an
opportunity for them to render the town a
real service.
Too Much Politics.
The Augusta Chronicle notes that there
is complaint in South Carolina of “too much
| time given to politics,” and there are those
.in that state who are asking for relief. One
'nc\\'spuper thinks it is a reflection on the
ipeople that they should “consume more time
and energy in electing a governor and other
I.slutv officers than many men do in earning
ila living.”
; Georgia is down with the same complaint,
{and, as the Chronicle says, there is a senti-
Iment in the state against too many elections.
;"[Cln-vtion of state house officers every four
|vears and sessions of the legislature every
|two yvears—or four years—have a great many
| iollowers on this side of the river,” says our
| Augusta contemporary.
j In this connection The News would
state that Hon. W. B. Parks, representative
of Terrell county in the legislature, has ex
[;:rc,\scd an intention to introduce at the next
session of the general assembly a bill to fixi
the term of the governor at four years and
make him ineligible for re-election. There
should and no doubt will be very little 01)-{
position to such legislation. Political cam-|
paigns, with their wrangles and animosities, |
are entirely too frequent in Georgia. |
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Thomas E. Watson. |
The unexpected death of Thomas E. \Vat-?
son, United States senator, author and edi-i
tor and for thirty years a prominent factor in |
Georgia, shocked the wide circle of his ac-!
guaintances and admirers, who had not an- |
ticipated the possibility of his death. He uscdl
the wide circulation of his newspaper to'
strike at men and measures he did not ap-j
prove. His strokes were dealt without gloves, |
and seldom failed to leave a bruise. Whether
he was always just in his estimates of men
and fair in his criticism of them and their
acts are matters upon which there is a di-l
versity of opinion. Those who followed his
leadership are confident that he strove only |
for the attainment of that which is best in
government, Those who opposed him are
equally as certain that he was inspired by
motives which were personal and selfish.l
Shakespeare makes Marc Antony say in hisi
funeral oration over the dead body of Caesar:
The evil men do live after them. '
The good is often interred with their bones.
But it is human nature to bury the evill
that men do with their bones and to preserve
the good they have done to posterity. Those
who have been most bitter in their criticism
of the dead leader in his lifetime will be con
tent to let the bitterness pass with him to
the embrace of earth. They will prefer to'
forget the stings of his caustic pen and thcl
bruises of his virile eloquence in the prcscnce‘
of the dead.
Tom Watson has been a powerful influcncc!
in Georgia politics, and has dominated con
<iderable of the sentiments of its people. By
nature he was a fighter. He looked
upon a conflict with the delight of a
mailed warrior. He spurned no challenge. He
asked no quarter. Death came while he was
booted and spurred for the conflict. Such men
leave their impress upon those with whom
they come in contact. So has Thomas E.
Watson left his impress upon the people of
Georgia.
When the clay of earth hides the form
from human ken and the dreamless sleep of
the tongueless takes the place of the strife
and bitterness of life the memory of the citi
zen, the publicist, the author and statesman
will grow and blossom like the flowers plant
ed on the mound which marks his earthly
resting place, whilg the passing years will
mellow the partisan sentiments as the setting
sun mellows the glare of day to the softness
‘of twilight.
Senator Capper suggests that the plain
common sense way for America to help Eu
rope is to collect every dollar of that $11,.-
000,000,000 war debt as quickly as possible.
Turope, the senator points out, would then
Lave $11,000,000,000 less to spend on larger
armies, bigger air fleets, more deadly poison
ip,as and more war. The senator contends that
| Europe should not expect us to contribute
iSll,()O(’).OO0.000 to another massacre of na
tions, and that is what cancelling the war
debt amounts to. As he interprets the pur
pose of the American people, “they intend
to plant no more forests of white crosses in
iforcign lands.” Senator Capper hits the nail
|on the head. It is not up to America to fi
[nance any more European wars—not right
lu\\'ay. in any event.
! The senate has passed a bill which limits
|can(]idatcs for senator to an expenditure of
[ 810,000 and candidates for representative to
'an expenditure of $5,000 in their campaigns
{for election. These sums, however, do not
linclude necessary personal expenses, such as
[travel, subsistence, stationery, writing or
[printing and distributing letters, circulars
lzmd postage, ectc. Newspaper advertis
iing is prohibited. Such a law would not
|be worth much and would do little to pre
| vent excessive expenditures ‘by candidates.
{lt would no nothing to prevent expenditures
by friends of candidates. It amounts to lit
it]u more than a gesture by congress.
! Mere man’s oft repeated assertion that wo
| man cannot compete with him on a mental
|Lasis will have to be modified somewhat, ac
{cording to what astronomers say of her abil
{ity as the highest type of mathematician.
!.‘\l<>re than one half of the computers in the
| astronomical laboratories are women for the
Ircason that the astronomers whom they as
!.\ist in their work find them more reliable
ith:m men. The infinite patience of woman in
;wnrking out problems with the various fine
|y adjusted instruments, together with a nat
! yral aptitude for the work, is believed to
Thold the secret of her success in this line of
;scicntific endeavor.
| One may doubt the wisdom of the old
| saving that “a bird in the hand is worth two
{in the bush” after discovering that jewels
{always have a much greater value after be
ling stolen.
In the death of Senator Watson Georgia
has lost its most potent political factor. No
man in the state’s history ever had a more
loval or devoted following, and no man cver
exerted greater political influence. Governors,
United States senators and others in high
places courted his favor, and in the last
twenty years no one he opposed has been
clected to these positions. His passing will
cause a great change in the politics of the
state.
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The world stands aghast before the men
ace of another great war. It wonders, too,
how Prime Minister Lloyd George, of Great
Britain, can continue policies which practical
lv guarantee to produce a conflict. He is
nlaving with dynamite in the near east, and
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when one plays with an explosive one may
expect an explosion.
As a rule the death penalty is abhorrent
1o modern teachings, but there are cases
when it is well to have the knowledge that
this penalty can be inflicted in such cases.
The average hardened criminal cares, Tittle
for a long penitentiary sentence, but he would
very frequently hesitate if he knew the death
penalty could be called into action.
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Sunday observance along sane lines must
be encouraged. No one who has the interest
of his community at heart is going to argue
in favor of or do anything to promote Sab
bath desecration. And yet sensible people
realize that there is such a thing as going to
extremes.
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The support by William J. Bryan of a wet
candidate for the senate in Nebraska is caus
ing some of his admirers to marvel. Many
of them believe that the Old Commoner
must have had his fingers crossed when ne
entered into this political compact.
The general tendency of female auto driv
ers is to speed. Notice the average woman
and you will see that she will maintain a
greater speed under like circumstances than
a man. It is possible our women are “getting
st
Twenty years ago if a woman exposed i
fetlock she was embarrassed, while today
well, to say the least, the show business is
less embarrassing.
Yout don’t hear anybody kicking about
hot weather down here in the cotton belt.
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l HAIRY VETCH. i
In the pleasant summer weather rye and
vetch grew green togcther. A boy came over
hills and hollows, saw the vetch and spoke as
follows: “Funny little purple p#h, what can
you do for me? I see you twining in the
rye, where it stands head high; I see your
lacy leaves grow, pretty purple posies blow,
what’s your use, I want to know?” “My beaut;
would be some excuse, had my vine no other
use, smiling at you from the rye as you
wander barcfoot by. But 1 have other uses;
root nitrogen my best excuse is. Plow us
under and entomb us, rye and I will give
you humus. In your field or garden plot bury
us and let us rot. With a little longer stay,
mowed in June and stowed away, we make
mighty tasty hay. We grow well in falls and
springs; guess we have our place, by jings,
in the general scheme of things.” Once a
better bard than I wrote of coming through
the rye. So I make this rhyming sketch in
honor of rye’s chum, the vetch.
—BOB ADAMS.
| CURRENT COMMENT. |
THE WET-DRY POLL.
New York Tribune: The final returns of
the Literary Digest’s poll on prohibition have
been tabulated. Out of approximately 1,000,-
000 votes 40.8 per cent favor modification of
the present laws, 20.6 per cent favor repeal
of the prohibition amendment and 38.6 per
cent favor strict enforcement. Two questions
arise in discussing this verdict. Was the straw
vote fairly representative of the nation’s feel
ing? Did the form of the ballots permit an
unequivocal answer? The first question may
be answered more or less affirmatively. Bal
lots were mailed to 10,000,000 voters in all
parts of the country. Experience with such
polls shows that a return of 10 per cent is
unusually good. In view of the strong feel
ing of most people en this question it may
be assumed that there was no concerted ef
fort on the part of drys or wets to have
those who received questionnaires to vote or
refrain from voting. Certain individuals car
ried on an active propaganda among their
friends. But an opportunity was given to a
large portion of the public to express an
opinion, and, from week to week, as new re
turns came in, the variation was so small as
to make it plain that the poll accurately re
flected the sentiment of a cross section of the
electorate. To the second question an affirma
tive answer can also be given. It has been
claimed that the formula, “Do you favor mod
ification of the existing laws so as to permit
the introduction of light wine and beer?” was
not sufhiciently specific. They say that much
depended upon the contingent circumstances.
Those who favor modification may not favor
the return of saloons, for example. To most
people, however, the question seems clear
enough. The answer to it, on its face value,
shows opposition to the law. The poll, there
fore, must be taken as favorable to the wets
and as opposed to Volsteadism as it is at
vresent. |
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Always Something to Tell. |
Hartwelil Sun: Before the election the can
didate tells what he will do. After election he
tells what he can’t do. If defeated he tells
what he would have done. There's :Jways{
something to tell. |
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Doctor Killed Dog With MNice -». |
Commerce News: Dr. L. G. Hards kifl- |
ed one dog and put another t feep ai the !
meeting of the Ninth district ¢ . tors held
recently. He killed the dog dead as a door
nail by injecting tobacco nicotine, and put
the other dog to sleep by a discovery of his
own, which may vet take the place of anes
thesia when the surgeon’s knife is used.
A Georgia Miracle Announced.
Sylvester lLocal: Miracles are still being
performed here in Georgia. For instance it isl
announced that the tax rate of Thomas coun
ty for this year is six dollars on the thousand.
Thomas county ought to tell the other coun
ties of the state how the thing is done. |
THE DAWSON NEWS
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l LET CATTLE EAT BOLL WEEVIL.
‘| 1f Turned Into Cotton Fields at Right Time
i They Will Help Exterminate the Pests.
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! From Ft. Worth (Texas) Record.
| What amounts almost to a cotton shortage
| in the world was necessary to arouse the
| farmers to the importance of making a_hard
and effective fight against the boll weevil and
the boll worm, They have been making such
a fizht this year with good results. But the
hattle has just begun.
4 Quggestion has been made that the planting
of cotton be discontinued for one year in or
i der that the boll weevii, having no cotton
| icaves and bolls to feed on, might starve to
| death. But it is claimed, and probably truly,
| that the cotton boll worms and weevils, while
| they prefer the cotton plant, can live just as
| well on other members of the vegetable fam
lilv, so nothing would be gained by abandon
ling cotton for one year. In fact, it would en
| tail a hardship on the world that the people
would not permit.
| Poison and various schemes of plowing un
der the cotton plant have been suggested,
and each probably has some merit. Without
doubt, poison has been used this year
throughout the cotton belt with good cfiqct.
| There 1 one effective method of ‘thtmg
the boll weevil that has been practiced by
fsnmc farmers, and should be adopted by
{more of them. It may mean the loss of a
| top crop, but that loss will be small in com
| parison with the better crop next year. It 1s
| this:
| Cattle will eat the cotton plant, leaves,
I bolls and stalks. They like it and they fatten
ton it. If turned into a cotton field at any
time they will, if n sufficient numbers, clean
it up to the ground. They will eat the leaves,
%thcy will eat the bolls, cotton, seed and all, and
ithcn they will chew on the stalks. And if
there be any boll weevils or boll worms nest
|ing among the leaves or feeding on the bolls
|the cattle will eat them, too.
| A cotton field is the finest pasture ground
(for cattle of all kinds, whether they be milk
| cows, steers being fattened for the market
lcr calves. So long as the cotton leaves and
| bolls are to be had the cattle need little else.
[ And cattle will prove as effective in ridding
|a field of -boll weevils, if turned in at the
}zight time, as turkeys will in clearing a pota
' to patch of potato bugs. |
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THE ONLY GIRL. |
iAI o g R SN A SRRt L R SRR e |
From the Americus Times-Recorder.
| When you go back to the old home town
| after being away many years one of the\
;most startling discoveries lis the change
| wrought by time in fellows you once knew
|as town drunkards, loafers or bullies. I
i A fellow who in his early twenties was
'no good—"“never be worth his salt”-——stepsl
|up briskly and wrings your hand. You learn
' that he is in business for himselfi now and
' “doing fine.” '
' He is restless. You guess that he is anxious
| to confide. Then the great and important se
cret comes out. He met “the only girl” and
| married her, Proudly he opens his watch,
'<hows vou her picture—also the things that
‘are running around the house besides the
| fence. She put him to work.
' A little further down the street you meet
' the fellow you once knew as the town bully.
| There is a sad, reminiscent vacancy in his
' eyes, such as Napoleon must have had at
St. Helena. The system has caught him.
' He is industrious, obviously, but in such a
| timid way that you wonder if he went in
| for preaching.
‘ Then his great secret comes out. He, also,
met “the only girl” and married her. He
| doesn’t tell you, but you surmise that she has
him well tamed.
Another familiar face looms up. You can
net place him until vou realize that it is be
cause his red nose, bleary eyes and finger
tremble have disappeared. |
The town drunkard! |
You wring his hand, comment how well
he is looking. Then you ask him what he'si
doing to get “the stuff” these days. |
“Oh,” he boasts, puffing up like a fresh
blister, “I never touch the old hardware any
more. Haven’t had a drink for so long I sup
pose three fingers of it would make me sick.
I quit when I met the only girl. We’re mar
ried now. I voted dry.” i
The good influence of good women is
about the finest thing in life. Poverty is a
sad handicap. So is ill health. So are thous
ands of other forms of misfortune. |
But, when all is said and done, the worst
kind of bad luck that can happen to a man
is in not meeting ‘“the only girl” or in meet- |
ing her and not getting hct_‘. i
| The Value of a Good Name. ]
From the Tifton Gazette. 1
Much water has gone over the dam since |
Publicius Syrus in “Maxim” quoth: “A good
reputation is more valuable than money.” Yet
its truth applies with equal force today. In
the opinion of Editor Charley Brown, of the
Cordele Dispatch, it applies to the negro as
well as to the white man, for he says:
“An unusual verdict was given a negro inl
Irwin county the other day by a jury of white
men against a white man. He won damages
against the white man for beating him up.
His assailant took a crowd to the negro’s
home and jumped on the negro. In the de
fense to the suit the white man claimed that
the negro ‘had insulted his wife. But the ne
gro had a good name-—a reputation among
white people that went further than what his
white assailant said on the stand. The jury
not onlv would not believe what the white
man said about it, but gave the negro dam
ages for the injuries. What we want to stress
is the meaning of a good name for a negro—
just how far it will go in a test—in a crisis.
The negro who lives so as to merit the con
fidence of white people seldom suffers when
his case is left in the hands of those who
know him. The good name is the thing.
‘ ALSO AMEN HERE. l
}From the Dalton Citizen. .
| The No-Tobacco League is demanding
e law restricting the use of tobacco in
~ public places, and prohibiting the adver
. tising of tobacco products. May Provi
~ dence spare us from more prohibitory
legislation.—Dawson News.
| Amen! And then again, amen! Prohibi
‘tory legislation, such as mentioned above, is
simply crime-breeding legislation.
NO DOUBT OF IT.
Ivc 1 the Lexington Echo.
The customary announcements are being
made that colleges cannot accommodate the
applicants for entrance into them. There’s
room in the old field schools for some of the |
applicants, and don’t doubt but that the_v‘
could profit by attending them and studying
the three r’s a little more, anyway.
| SAD RECOLLECTIONS. |
From the Waco Times-Herald. '
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recall when the parson dropped in for din-{
ner and displayed his fondness for fried
chicken while you waited for the second|
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