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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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DAWSON, GA., MAY 29, 1923. |
Miss May still has a day or two to make
good on her well known reputation.
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A contemporary notes that a misquito is
always unwelcome because he brings his bill.
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“Fair and warmer” forecasts would be
more welcome if they were not so mixed up
with “cloudy and colder.”
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The motor car that races with a railroad
train for a crossing has everything to lose
and nothing to gain.
Persons who are so sure they could do
better running the paper never come around
when the editor would like to have a vaca
tion.
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The number of reckless drivers increases in
proportion to the increase in the number of
motor cars, pleas for safety and conviction
for law violators to the contrary notwith
standing.
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Senator Borah declines in most positive
terms to run for president on a progressive
ticket, as the candidate of the committee of
forty-eight. Borah predicts the renomination
of President Harding by acclamation.
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Governor Smith, of New York, is certain to
be damned whether he signs the bill repeal
ing the prohibition enforcement law ‘or
whether he does not. If he does not like the
situation he has only himself to blame for
getting into it.
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Dawson has never had a finer set of young
people than those now trooping back home
from the different colleges to brighten the
old town with the joyousness of their young
lives. Dawson welcomes them home, and
wishes them the best vacation ever.
Legislative Sessions.
The Massachusetts legislature has reject
ed a proposal to change from annual to bien
nial sessions. Massachusetts is only one of
four states, including Georgia, in which the
legislative body convenes yearly.
This retentipn of annual elections and an
nual sessions of the legislature is a notable
example of conservatism, or unwillingness to
change. The pcople will think differently
about it when they shall have made the
change. It is safe to assert that nong of
the other states would think of changing
from biennial to annual sessions of the leg
islature. If a change were to be made it is
more likely that it would be in the direction
of lenthening the interval between sessions.
A biennial session of any state legislature
can and does provide more legislation than
any state really needs, and the indications
now are that Georgia, at the session of the
general assembly soon to convene, will part
company with Massachusetts and the two
other states. 2
- New York Suckers.
It frequently comes to notice that some one
has been able to swindle New Yorkers on
their front or back doorsteps with schemes
that the most provincial person would see
through in a twinkling. And that is why it is
said that New York has so many “suckers,”
which old time expression eloquently de
scribes persons who are easily duped. The
operations of the westerner who sold fake
subscriptions to the Radio News might have
been successful in any city, yet it seems that
New Yorkers are taken in on things of this
kind with surprising ease. New Yorkers will
buy more gold bricks than anybody else, but
they never will admit it themselves.
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are
provincial persons. They know little of the
world outside their own great city. These are
responsible for the New York belief that
Pittsburg is a western city and that Chicago
is an outpost of civilization.- They live
cramped lives for all their apparent oppor
tunity for metropolitan enlightenment. The
average small town resident lives a fuller life
than the average New Yorker. He knows
that- this bailiwick is nothing but a bailiwick,
but his provincial neighbor in New York
makes the mistake of thinking that the me
tropolis is the world. And since new things
are developed outside the city limits of the
metropolis, the “sucker” is easily misled to
his discomfiture. Barnum, who enjoyed hum
bugging the American people, probably had
more fun with New Yorkers than with any
body else.
e Just Begun.
The motion picture is one of the newest
things we have. Thomas A. Edison, who
recently expressed the belief that it had just
started, has a vision of its undeveloped and
unthought of possibilities. It has made only
the merest beginning. It is as far from what
it will be ultimately as it is distant from
what it was at the beginning. It is not ye!
out of the experimental stage. As time passes
it will become less a play thing and more a
utility. It will establish its rightful place in
the world as its use becomes perfected. It
is Hot extravagant to predict that it will be
come one of the arts. As a means of pre
senting the drama it is destined to undergo
great changes. What we see today in the
motion picture theatre is crude in comparison
with what we shall see tomorrow, when the
picture play shall have been perfected. Like
the radio, the- possibilities of the motion
picture are infinite.
State Expenditures.
The figures contained in the annual report
of Comptroller General Wright, showing an
increase in state expenditures during the last
five years of more than 50 per cent, are im
pressive. Indeed, the large increase in the cost
of the state government in five years is an as
tounding fact. The total expenditures of the
annual period ended December 30, 1918, were
$8,000,000 and for the annual period ended
Dec. 30, 1922, they were $12,000,000. If the
figures were not official it would be difficult
to credit them.
The comptroller general’s statistics do not
cncourage hope for a reduction of taxa
tion. Indeed, they stimulate fear that taxes
are going higher. There is no visible sign that
state expenditures are going to be curtailed in
any particular, Estimates that have appear
ed forecast a total expenditure of more than
£13,000,000 during the current year, an in
crease of $1,000,000 during the year ended De
cember 30 last. If this estimate is accurate it
will be necessary to discover and exploit new
sources of taxation, as has been suggested by
Governor Hardwick, instead of reducing tax
ation at any point.
The rapid and prodigious increase in state
expenditure, while astounding, is in line with
prevailing tendency. All forms of public ex
penditure have been ballooning during recent
vears—federal, state, county, municipal and
school. The question that ought to concern
everyone is: How can the up\;.'ard movement
be arrested? Certainly there must be some
limit to public expenditure, as there is a limit
to the ability of the people to carry the bur
den of taxation. The average taxpayer feels
that he already ‘is carrying about as heavy a
burden as he can endure. o
“Easy Come, Easy Go.”
The death as a pauper of Sadie Martinet, a
bright star two generations ago, is just an
other incident that illustrates the truth of the
old saying, “easy come, easy go.” Wealth
that does not require heroic efforts in the
making frequently slips away as easily as it
came. There are exceptions to all rules, of
course, but they are rarely encountered, or,
at least, they do not attract the same interest
or attention notwithstanding that they pro
vide a much better moral of life and how to
live it successfully.
Persons who achieve fame, especially those
whose work is the entertainment of others,
easily drift into extravagance. Sarah Bern
hardt, who had made millions in her long
career and who had gmatified every desire for
luxury and ease, died a few weeks ago almost
penniless. John L. Sullivan went broke sev
eral years ago before he died, but managed
through the help of friends to get hold of a
little New England farm out of which he
wrested a living until the end. James J. Jef
fries, another pugilist who won a fortune in
the prize ring, is a bankrupt and has started
all over again by accepting a theatrical con
tract to appear before the public in a doubt
ful role of reflected glory. Mrs. Oscar Ham
merstein, widow of the famous impressario,
has been suffering dire poverty for years, al
though her husband made millions before his
death. At one time he accepted a payment
of several hundred thousand dollars from a
rival opera company when he agreed to
handle no productions in_America for a stipu
lated period. But his estate was practically
nothing when he died. With him, as with the
others, it had been “easy come, easy go.”
The wise person, man or woman, ‘salts”
away some of the easy money, looking far
ahead to the time when a rainy day may
come in life. The spendthrift entertainer
grows old and yields to the younger, fresher
generation. It is always the way. Sadie
Martinet’s life and death showed the two ex
tremes, wealth and fame on the one hand and
poverty and obscurity on the’ other.
The railroads continue to report an im
menge increase in the volume of freight han
dled. “It has been announced repeatedly,”
says the Railway Age, “that the number of
cars loaded with freight has broken all rec
ords, for this time of year, but how complete
ly all previous records have recently been
surpassed is not generally known.” The rec
ord of cars loaded during the first four
months of the year exhibits an increase over
the previous high record, established in 1920,
of nearly 11 per cent. During the month of
April the number of cars loaded wds 29 per
cent greater than during the corresponding
weeks in 1920, This record reflects not only
prosperous conditions, but it indicates also
the immense productive capacity of the
country.
While Henry Ford’s career so far-has been
interesting it is the chapters remaining that
will be the most absorbing, the Springfield
Republican suggests. What disposition and
use will Mr. Ford make of his enormous
carnings? So far he has used them in exten
sion of his business, but as they increase and
accumulate the task of investing them will be
come more and more complex and danger
ous. It is a significant fact that while the
feeling of the public generally toward that
other rich man, Mr. Rockefeller, is one of
hostility Mr. Ford’s colossal wealth so far
has aroused no popular hostility towards
him.
RSR T A R
When policewomen were first appointed a
few years ago they were hardly taken seri
cusly, and the innovation was regarded as
but a temporary expedient. They appear to
have become a permanent fixture in civic
life. however,* for a national convention of
policewomen has just been held in Washing
ton, D. C., and attended by representatives
from 40 cities in the United States. It must
be that there is work for the woman police
officer and that she is making good in it.
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It should not escape notice that we con
tinge to have about the usual amount of
banditry in our own country. Banditry at
home, however, has been so commonplace
that we do not get excited about it as we do
when it occurs in China or some other re
mote place.
The FEuropean allies will not . allow the
Germans to manufacture airplanes, but the
French learn to their alarm that the Ger
mans have discovered a way to force air
planes down by radio control. No one knows
rnor can imagine what the ingenuity of the
German mind will devise for the “ngxt war.”
Therefore, it should be all the more the bus
iness of Europe to make certain that there
shall be no next war.
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When the people indict politics in our
state institutions and departments they draw
an indictment against themselves. In the last
analysis the people of Georgia are responsi
ble for conditions that have forced heads of
state departments and college and univer
sity professors to dance to political pipes.
They have taken no affirmative action to
heal the hurt at which they at times so loud
iy .complain.
Jesse A. Bloch, of Wheeling, W. Va, pres
ident of the Tobacco Merchants’ Association,
has called attention to intensive drives
throughout the country designed to “bury
tobacco in the same grave with John Bar
leycorn.” But consorts of Lady Nicotine may
not worry overmuch. They have too many
legislators, judges, governors and other high
officials on their sidé for anything like that
to happen.
It seems that Miss Anna Jarvis, of Phil
adelphia, founder of mothers’ day, and the
chairman of the mothers’ day committee in
New York, got into a dispute over the New
York program and that Miss Jarvis ‘was ac
cused of having written threatening letters to
the chairman. When Miss Jarvis was told
oi the accusation she said, “That’s a lie!"—
just like that. Goodness! What are women
coming to?
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Americus entertained the state convention
of county commissioners Thursday and Fri
day. As usual, our neighbor did herself
proud. The big and the little pot were both
put in commission, and the visitors never
‘had a dull or Idnesome moment. The good
women of the city contributed in no small
degree to the enjoyment and success of the
occasion. :
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A few law breakers in a community can
set afloat propaganda to make it appear that
everything is going to the bow wows, That
seems peculiarly the policy of those who
seek to discredit prohibition. What is need
ed in every community to set at naught such
bluffing is the stiffening of the backbone of
those who claim to stand for law and order.
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The Sylvester Local notes that “a north
Georgia man has brought forth an improved
corn which will revolutionize the chief indus
try of that section of the state.” If, as our
contemporary says, “the new kind of corn
will make five gallons to the bushel,” there
will not be enough of it to supply the de
mand for seed. ;
Judge Hodges, of the Northern circuit,
who presided over Terrell superior court last
week, made a decidedly favorable impression.
Of pleasing personality, learned in the law and
just and merciful in its application he is an
ideal jurist. It is men like him who grace
the bench. .
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| RUDE RURAL RHYMES |
l CREATION. ,
My fellow man’s a curious cuss and feign
would know why things are thus; iorever
asking what is what, his mental eye is never
shut. In these rude rhymes that look like
prose I've told how human life arose, eluci
dated unto you some facts that Bryan never
knew. This good old world, the best of top
ics, I now explain from poles to tropics. The
nebular hypothesis is useful for a job like,
this. When back, far back, our vision passes
we find a universe of gases. Although that
gas was hot and fizzy, at first it was not
whirling dizzy, but as the mixture cooled we
think it probably began to shrink. Uneven
shrinking caused rotation until she spun like
all creation. Then earth began her course to
run, and sister planets one by one were
thrown off from the central sun. Still does
cur earth, though seeming quiet, show traces
of her early riot. The crust has central fires
to move it, our earthquakes and volcanoes
prove it. And, like the earth, our souls have
sprung from something old but ever young,
planets of God that, every aqne, revolve
around’ a parent sun. However thick the
crust of sin some. primal fire still burns with
in, and evermore upon us heat eternal floods
of light and heat, until this stubborn soil of
ours is blessed at last \2'ith fruit and flowers.
—BOB ADAMS.
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| Georgia Press Talk. H
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The Billboard Disgrace.
Svivester Local: One of the resolutions at
the final session of the General Federation
of Woman’s Clubs in Atlanta was one con
demning what is styled the “billboard dis
grace.” This resolution calls upon all club
women to cexert their utmost influence to
create a Strong public sentiment against the
erection of advertising biliboards in locations |
where they mar the natural scenic beauty |
of the countryside, and also against erection
of unsightly boards everywhere, in both city
and country.
Self-Sustaining States.
Greenshoro Herald-Journal: Farmers in!
some states are more nearly self-sustaiging |
than in others. Virginia ranks high in thisi
respect, farmers there being credited with
growing 72 per cent of what they eat, Mary
land farmers with a credit of 71.3 per cent
in the official study} Ohio 70.2 per cent.
Peynnslvania 61.8 per cent, New York 61.8}
per cent, Massachusetts 492 per cent, Ilh
nois 54.6 per cent, California 34.8 per cent
and Michigan 63.7 per cent. It will be ob
served that the leading fruit-raising state, |
California. is the least sélf-sustaining ‘
Finns Showing Us How. i |
Pearson Tribune: The newspapers tell us!
that the Finn colony in the southern part of |
Wayne county, in their farming operations |
cn low land heretoiore considered worthless !
for farm purposes, has given the natives anf
sbject lesson worth while. On land on which |
the average. native would starve to death
these Finns are not only getting a handsome
living but laying the foundation for future
opulence. What is the secret? Nothing butl
labor intelligently applied to poor land.
THE DAWSON NEWS
| CURRENT COMMENT. |
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THE BANKING BUSINESS.
Waterloo Tribune: Most people have a
notion that banks are “gold mines.” But they
are not. They are just business concerns.
Banks have losses same as other concerns.
The public does not hear of one-tenth of
them. Bank stock is 4 good investment or a
poor investment, according to location and
management. Bank stock is in the hands of
the people. Few banks of importanct are
privately owned. They are managed in the
best interest of the stockholders. They
have to be careful, if they are to succeed.
Over 1,000 banks have failed in the past two
years, which shows that the banking busi
hess isn’t a “gold mine,” but just a busi
ness that requires the most careful manage
ment.
| Too Much Maudlin Sentimentalism. '
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From the Dalton Citizen.
The proposition has been advanced that
convicts be taken off the roads in the state
of Georgia, and that the road work be done
with free labor. The people advocating this
policy have not yet lety it be known what
they think should be done with the convicts.
There is too much sentimental gush about
people ‘convicted of crime. We know of men
in our own chaingangs who are faring better
there than thev did out of the gang.
The work the convicts are doing on the
roads, under competent supervision, is wor
thy. If convicts are taken off the public roads
we have no conception of what could be done
with them. Private leasing of convicts is un
thinkable, and unless these reformers and
meddlers want to house the convicts in lux
ury, furnishing them servants and varied
entertainments, we know not what they in
tend doing with them.
There is another thing that is causing the
judicious to grieve in' this commonwealth.
That is, many of the same people who are
strong in their talk for law enforcement, and
who insist on the extreme penalty for crimes,
arc the first ones to run to the prison com
mission and the governor for appeals for
mercy when redhanded murderers are con
victed and sentenced to pay the penalty for
their offenses. It is such conduct as this that
increases crime to a certain extent, and these
sentimentalists (or perhaps meddlers is a bet
ter word to use) are partly responsible for it.
We realize that often “the extreme of .the
law is the extreme of injustice,” but in most
cases the law should be permitted to take its
course, without being interfered with by out
siders, _
Sometimes we feel most of the “interest”
is taken by outsiders in order to gain for
themselves: notoriety. People prominent in
this kind of work are “played up” in the
newspapers to an.extent that is pleasing to
them, and this causes them to redouble their
efforts in behalf of the parties guilty qf the
most heinous crimes. It would seem that it
is time for this sort of business to stop.
As to those convicted and sent to the chain
gang, what better work cah they be engaged
in than road building?
I ' Thrifty Colored People. |
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From the Pearson Tribune.
The first county in the South Atlantic
states to employ a negro agricultural exten
sion agent for work with negro farmers,
Gloucester county, Va.,, was recently visited
by a representative of the United States de
partment of agriculture. This wo? has been
carried on continuously in the cdounty for
some sixteen years, the present agent serv
ing since 1908. Numbers of, well kept farm
houses, nroductive fields, church and school
buildings in excellent condition, it was found,
have taken the place of tracts of undevelop
ed land.
About half of the population of this coun
ty is negro, and reports show that more than
95 per cent of all the heads of negro families
own their own farms and homes. The farms
‘average from 10 to 30 acres in size and are
devoted chiefly to growing truck crops and
poultry for city markets along the Atlantic
coast. Both products have been well stand
ardized, so that it is possible to market
them co-operatively. The public spirit, thrift
and energy of these negro farmers is evident.
Practically all homes and public buildings are
made attractive by liberal use of paint and
whitewash and well planned plantings of
shrubs and flowers.
Farmers' clubs, including all the family,
are popular and have been in operation sever
al years. Oftentimes the session of the crim
nial court passes without a single case on the
docket, the negro as well as the whijte popu
latfon taking pride in the maintenance of
the county’s reputation for order and indus
try.
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From the Savannah News.
In the south up to April 30th there had
Leen built 1,700 so-called ‘“Rosenwald
schools” and 49 teachers’ homes at a total
cost of $6.257,492. Of this amount 55 per
cent was contributed by white persons and
from public funds, Negroes contributed 25.6
per cent. Evidently there is co-operation for
the schooling of negroes in the south. The
white people have taken a, considerable
interest in it and the states, counties and
cities, in which by far the greater part of
public funds are paid in by white persons,
have contributed about half of the total cost
of these 1,749 buildings. Fourteen states are
represented in the list. The negro is being
cared for in a degree commensurate with
the ability of the southern states, in mat
ters of education; the effort is of course to
be practical in what is taught, simply be
cause it is desirable that the great majbrity
of negroes be taught something that is most
likely to be serviceable to them after they
grow up. :
SENSIBLE AND WHOLESOME.
From the Atlanta Georgian.
Commenting upon some remarks in this
column recently, with respect to a bill in the
Flerida legislature providing for the aboli
tion of the senate thereof, The Dawson News
calls attention to the fact that the late Joe
Hill Hall, of Bibb county, frequently stated
that the senate of Georgia was “an entirely
useless appendage to our scheme of govern
ment ‘and should be abolished.” The *“Old
Lion of Bibb” never went so far as to intro
duce a bill providing for that, but it is very
well known that he entertained just those
views. "Uncle Joe” was a picturesque figure
m Georgia affairs- for many years. He en
tertained and advocated a great many ideas
that were wholesome and sensible about a
great many things.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS HENCE.
From the Washington Star.
The last 27 American soldiers are home
from the Rhine. The “last Yank to leave
German soit” will probably hang on as long
as the last survivor of -the charge of the
Light brigade.
A good man is one who loses a dollar and
hopes some poor widow will «find it. |
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