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BY E. L. RAISEY
CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
DAWSON,. GA. JUNE 5, 1923. 1
The trouble in Europe is that too many
nations are more ready for war than they
are for peace.
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The really thrifty person who gets the
thost out of life is the one who “makes all
he can, saves all he can and gives all he can.”
“Corn Planting Nearly Done” is a head
fine in a newspaper printed in the northwest.
Down here in God’s country it is roasting
ear time.
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Let it be hoped that neither the bride nor
bridegroom who were married by long dis
tance telephone when 1,600 miles apart got
the wrong number.
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*On the whole the farmers of Terrell coun
ty are showing a fine spirit in the face of
unusual weather conditions, and their opti
mism is heartening.
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“It's an ill wind that blows nobody good.”
The gardeners have found that the frequent
showers have helped to bring in the finest
vegetables in abundance.
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Dawson is fast becoming a ‘“city of roses.”
The Dorothy Perkins, just now in the full
glory of bloom, leaves nothing to be desired
in the way of daintiness®and beauty.
Many scientists have undertaken to tell
men and women how they could live to be
150 vears old, but none has satisfactorily ex
plained why any one should wish to live that
long.
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The peanut acreage in Terrell is small, too
small. As to cotton—well, that's another
story. To say the least of it, the boll weevil
will have no reason to complain of lack of
sustenance. j
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Persons who like cream on their straw
herries will approve right heartily the stag
ing of that Cook county, Ilinois, milkingi
marathon. Champions of that kind are worth
while in the world. ‘
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Larry Semon, motion picture comedian,}
is to get $1,000,000 a year for three years in
return for which he will merely play the
fool. What a travesty on life that so many
persons do the same thing and never get a
cent for it!
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This vear's experience “of a number of
Terreli county farmers has demonstrated the
value of truck and small fruits as a side line,
and the circulation of ready money has, of
course, helped every other line of business.
“The one thing that Georgia needs more
than anything else is fertile land. With fertile
land more profitable crops can be grown,”
says the Sandersville Progress. That is true;
and it is gratifying that Terrell county land
is getting better every year in every way.
A Wonder Engine.
The claim that a Diesel engine has been
invented and built out in California that will
propel a motor car 50 miles at a cost for
fuel of 214 cents is one that the gasoline
world will hesitate to accept until proofs are
forthcoming. An engine of that kind would
be a wonder indeed. It is a certainty that
the majority of persons, even if they saw
such an engine in operation, would feel just
like the farmer felt who looked at his first
giraffe, and would say: just about what he
said on that memorable occasion.
This is so close to a miracle that doubt is’
felt at once that the ¢laim can be substan
tiated. It is noticed that one of the men in
terested in the*wonder engine said “one is
already in operation at our plant,” but that
does not dispel the misgivings regarding the
truth of the statements. Scientists have been
saving that a thimbleful of matter could be
emploved to operate a railroad train if the
atomic energy could be properly released.
And when one can trade a postage stamp
for fuel that will drive his motor car 40
miles or so he is getting very close to the
atomic energy idea as far as achievement is
concerned. f
Even the fact that this is the wonder age
does not help the impression of this so-called
wonder engine along. Claims of the discov
ery of perpetual motion also have been made,
but nobody ever discovered it. And now the
next thing to consider in the motoring world
is not the possibilities of the wonder engine,
but the changing price of gasoline and the
mileage that modern engines give now.
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S Observe the Traffic Laws.
“Safety first? is being stressed by the of
ficials of Dawson in an effort to enforce the
traffic laws, which have in many instances
been flagrantly violated by thoughtless dri
vers of automobiles. Several near accidents on
the streets recently have aroused the public
to the importance of a better observance of
traffic regulations for the protection of life,
and all good citizens are co-operating with
the mayor in his efforts to bring about an
improvement. Those who have eves to see
cannot fail to go right on the streets of
Dawson. Definite lines have been drawn in
sl the 'streets, designating sgace for the
parking of cars, and pedestrians are remind
ed by the “straight and narrow way’’ at
each crossing to stop the dangerous prac
tice of “jay walking.” Turning only at the
street ‘corners is another thing being urged
tc prevent accidents.
| A Note of Warning.
The position of former Governor John M.
Slaton, of Georgia, opposing an abandonment
'of Georgia ideals and constitutional provi
' sions, particularly as to taxation, has proved
;to be a subject of absorbing interest among
business men and editors throughout the
Istate. ’
1[ The pressing problem of taxation is chal
lenging the best and most varied thought of
‘Georgia. As has been pointed out, it is a big
cuestion not to be solved by small minds.
And the distinctly hopeful thing in the entire
situation, says James B. Nevin, well-known
Atlanta editor, is that the problem is chal
lenging the serious thought and candid ex
pression of Georgia’s leading men, regardless
of faction or political alignment.
Former Governor Slaton, in discussing the
subject—and few men are better informed on
the question of state taxes—says:
“It causes me great sorrow to see a
willingness expressed by people in Geor
gia to abandon a Georgia civilization, te
adopt the theories of continental Europe,
which is nows decadent because of their un
wisdom. In this state our idea has been that
the citizen shall support the state, and not
the state support the citizen. This has pro
duced a strong, forceful people. In Europe,
where there are monarchies, soldiers and of
ficials on every corner, the government has
been paternal, and while taking from the
citizen his liberties has provided his sup
port and determined his course. If this coun
try desires to imitate Europe then, by the
increasing tax levies, we are adopting the
best mode to do so.”
The Malaria Carrying Mosquito.
Dawson’s. immediate need for the protec
tion of the community health is a determin
ed and persistent fight on mosquitoes and
mosquito-born diseases. J. A. LePrince, sen
jor sanitary engineer of the United States
public health service, who is so well quali
fied to speak on the subject, makes timely
comment and suggestions relative to ‘the ap
proaching mosquito season in the south,
For many vears we have been satisfied
with the partial protection from the mos
quito pest obtained by screening our houses.
But the public are evidently no longer satis
fied to pay fifty million dollars a year to be
driven behind screens, and in many locali
ties they have not only decided that the
pestiferous and disease bearing mosquito
must go, but are actually eliminating both
spécies. In one southern state over two hun
dred communities were busy last year with
mosquito elimination.
In many localities the public are now
ready for mosquito protection, and, in fact,
payving for partial screen protection; but they
do mnot get together to discuss their local
mosquito problem and determine just what
it is. Nobody steps to the front to see that
a proper start is made. |
What sort of mosquito problem have you
in the community in which you live? Some
‘small communities in rural districts are wor
rying along with a high sick-rate and dis
comforts that are not at all necessary and
which cost more to support than to eliminate.
Your state health department has trained
mosquito men out in the field to help and
to show vou how your community can get
‘most results for least expenditure. Mosquito
freedom is just like everything else—first we
must decide that we want it and then we
must go out and get it.
let no one look upon this matter of elim
inating flies and mosquitos as of minor im
portance. It is so vital to the best interests
of Terrell county we neglect these health
precautions to our peril.
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Our neighbor, the Cuthbert Leader, has
just entered its 34th years, and 25 years of
that time it has been owned and edited by
that splendid newspaper man and excellent
gentleman, John J. Howell. Although he is
a youthful bachelor Brother Howell is one
of the journalistic landmarks of southwest
Georgia. We extend fraternal greeting and
best wishes for many more years of useful
ness for him and the Leader.
In about three weecks the Georgia legis
lature will begin its 50-day grind, and pub
lic interest: will be turned toward Atlanta.
Many people in touch with public affairs
predict a livelier ‘session than usual, but just
what the prediction is based on is not ap
parent to the casual observer. Our guess
is that the; session will not develop anything
in the line of fireworks that has not been
chot off in previous sessions.
Archaeological discoveries are the vogue.
The finding of the petrified bodies of 11-foot
giants in the Grand Canyon will surpass any
cther relics found for years if the claims that
they once were human beings are positively
established. Then the genealogists, archaeolo
gists, biologists and other ologists will have a
']ot of fun trying to establish how long ago
'those American giants lived and why they
died as a race.
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‘ A special edition of the LaGrange Re
porter, containing 32 pages filled with illus
itrations and interesting news articles por
‘raying the achievements and advantages of
lLa(}range and Troup county, has reached
iour desk. It is a splendid publication in ev
| ery respect, and reflects credit upon Editor
‘Jones and the people of his city and county.
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l The Dalton Citizen notes that the annual
!report of the prison commission shows there
lare no editors in the state penitentiary. To
!the credit of newspaper men, it has been a
llong number of years since one of them
| served“a term in prison. Every other profes
i sion and occupation is never without a rep
| representative in the penal population
Recent reports oi flagrant violations of
;t}:n orohibition law have stirred a large
inumber of good people to definite action.
f\‘.'h‘:x"fi will not doubt result in an awakening
gox' the public conscience and the bringing
| about of better conditions.
Although there will be no elections until
the fall of 1924 the candidate is already
abroad in the land. The current issue of the
Swainshoro Forest Blade carries the an
nouncements of 20 patriots who would serve
the public in the various county offices. The
“boys” over there are wide-awake; they
don’t propose to be caught napping. '
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Henry Ford contends that the question of
his personal wealth should not be consid
ered in connection with any plans he may
have as a presidential aspirant. Perhaps not;
but if it were not for his personal wealth is
there the remotest possibility that Mr. Ford
would be considered as a presidential candi
rate?
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California has just licensed its 1,000,000 th
motor car, which is the highest license ever
granted in any state in this country. The
general run of Californians either must have
plenty of money or property easily mort
gaged, or both.
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If it were anybody else but Henry Ford
who had set out to acquire all the available
water power sites in the country what alarums
would be sounded! Isn’t it truly remarkable,
the childlike confidence people have in Mr.
Ford? 3
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Mr. Hoover’s recommendation to buy next
winter’s coal supply now might be more
readily accepted if the people could be sure
that they were through buying this winter’s
supply. ,
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Dawson is going to have a good baseball
team in the field, and proud and boastful
friends in other towns may as well prepare
to receive some wallops.
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[ RUDE RURAL RHYMES |
IADVICE TO GARDENERS.I
The original garden, eastward of Eden, had
every kind of fruit and seed in. When man
left Eden for Eden’s good; he lost this old
time wholesonte food. Dut by some thous
and vears’ selection, we now have made a
new collection, When you make a garden
you want it complete, not too much carrot
and too little beet. These are the kinds of
truck crop things which every garden should
' have, by jings. First are the leaves like spin
‘ach and chard and lettuce which fill this
hard-eating bard with plenty of .iron and
vitamins, with strength and grace and health
ful grins. The leaf crops too will furnish
roughage required by tender age and tough
age. The snappy snap bean in the diet has
varied use and all should try it. Sweet corn
we eat with some restraint—if we have sense,
which this bard hain’t. Your time on carrots
is well spent, but catch them young and in
nocent. So also beets, best when they're
small and better eaten tops and all, since all!
the leaves.beneath their skins are full or iron
and vitamins. lLet onions too perfume the
air and plant tomatoes everywhere. Your
cabbage should be eaten raw—more vitamins
are found in slaw. Eat onions also raw and.
free, and then, gosh sake, steer clear of me.
The model garden should, be planned for
winter use both stored and canned. I wurge
such foods at every season, and as the ad
savs, there’s a reason. We all would be a
Lappier nation if we were free from consti
pation. There’s nothing so rare as a day in
June, because that month is a garden moon,
and all our livers are in tune. Yet any month
would be as good if we were careful of our
food. —BOB ADAMS.
| Weddings. |
Jlbe e sR T B T e e
From the Atlanta Georgian.
How much should a man have saved be
fore he marries? Estimates have varied. In
Kentucky $4.50 is regarded as a reasonable
sum; and even that may be cut, because
the license is only $2.50, and the magis
irate's fee $1.50.
To be sure, before the couple established
the financial basis referred to had left the
justice’s ,office the sheriff appeared with in
tent to stop the ceremony. But that is a de
tail. He was tco late. Love, with $4.50 to
back it, had dreamed itself into wedlock.
Not puppy love, either. The bride was 46,
the bridegroom 43. They had reached years
of discretion. And though they faced a. 20-
mile walk back to the poor house, where
they were inmates, they set forth with heads
up and a swinging step.
They were probably sure of one .thing.
Their marriage was at least as likely to en
dure as if they had four and a half million
dollars between them. Too much is as dan
gerous as too little.
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| Fashionable Fatness. I
From the Fitzgerald Herald.
Fatness—perhaps we should say plumpness
—is coming back. The plump woman has
suddenly become fashionable in Paris, and
the rest of the world may be expected to ‘fol
low. A famous restaurant has opened a room
especially for stout patrons. The leading
dressmakers are specializing in gowns of am
ple proportions. The doctors are besought all
at once for fattening foods. Sweets are in
big demand. There is a run on drug stores
for medicines guaranteed to add weight and
girth quickly. To be skinny has become a
social error.
All of which is amusing rather than useful.
The vogue for thinness, silly as it was in
many ways, had the substantial merit of
making surplus fat unpopular.
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| Georgia Press Talk. |
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Editor Boatright has a forgiving disposi
tton. He says in the Swainsboro Forest-
Blade:
Will, the lady who always posed as
our staunch friend until she got an op
portunity., which she was short-sighted
enough to believe was going to be per
manent, to work against us, and who
then put her shoulder to the wheel that
was rolling in opposition to us, come on
back and ask us for favors as she msed
to do. If she will we will grant them,
just as we always did. We hold no en
mity aigainst you: we are only sorry
that you are so easily misguided. You
have our sympathy—not our enmity.
The Savannah Press makes a good point
in this comment:
Colquitt county has shipped a carload
of tomato plants to Indianapolis. And
next winter the folks in Moultrie will
buy the tomatoes they produce shipped
back to 'em in cans with a nice red label
on ’‘em. i
When irving fish. dip them in milk in
stead ci eggz before rolling them in bread
crumbs: this is more economical and the
fish will taste better besides.
THE DAWSON NEWS
| Think of These Things. l
Editor Dawson News: After studying care
fully the growing and marketing of strawber
ries 1 am strongly impressed with the nat
ural advantages peculiar to this section. First,
the Florida crop is out of the way; second,
the superior quality of the berries grown in
our climate and soil. The firm, dark clay sub
soils of Georgia are at least equal to those
of Tennessee and Kentucky for quality fruit,
and the climate enables us to get into the
markets about one month ahead of these
states. We read an advertisement in a Ken
tucky paper calling for four or five thous
and pickers to begin about May 20th, which,
vou know, is about four weeks at least later
than Terrell county growers began. Tennes
see has just shipped the first carload. There
is no good reason why Terrell county should
not make a carload shipmenf in April of nexf
vear, if a few more farmers will join those
who have made abundant crops this year.
It is a conceded fact already that there has
been no crop grown in Terrell that will re
tufn as large net cash profits as strawber
ries. Let the small farmers join hands, plant
one acre or more, whatever amount of land
they can handle to advantage, and those who
have experience will show you a way to
market ‘'what your produce. A FARMER.
| A Pampered Pup. [
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From the Washington Star.
Qf all the pampered pups known to man
kind Otto, the giant German police dog be
longing to Sénator Oscar W. Underwood, of
Alabama, certainly takes the hot frankfurter.
Otto is sitting on the top of the world. He is
living in solemn state at the Underwood home
in that one-time aristocratic section of Wash
ington, 2000 G street northwest. Otto’s lord
and master is in Europe, visiting the tomb-of
Tut and seeing the other wondrous sights and
hearing the wondrous tales of a post-war Old
World. If the lord and master could have ar
ranged it he would have taken Otto with
him, but European dog quarantines and reg
ulations and passports make it entirely too
hard for a pampered pup, and so Otto was of
necessity left behind.- A year ago Senator Un
derwood went away and left Otto in strange
hands. The dog didn’t thrive at all. In fact, he
suffered. Therefore, it was arranged this year
that Otto should have the entire Underwood
home to himself, with a cook, a butler and
a gardner to look out for him.
Otto is well known to most members of
the senate. Whenever the Underwood auto
mobile calls for the senator at the.end of the
day Otto always sits beside the chauffeur.
He is a one-man dog and loves his master’s
voice.
| The Transitoriness of Greatness. |
B o RRseTSR s e s R Re o)
From the Albany Herald.
A Washington correspondent exclaims,
“How transient is greatness!” and then pro
ceeds to furnish concrete evidence in proof
of his assertion. “When,” he writes, “a for
mer president of the United giates rides in
a go-cart of a future would-be candidate
and is ordered out of the way lest he block
the gangway of the present president it be
comes painfully evident that this is a democ
racy, in which none are permanently great
but the traffic policeman. That is what hap
pened to past President Taft when approach
ing .the Lincoln memorial to attend the
ceremontes in honor of the architect. The fact
that Mr. Taft had been president of the
United States, was even now chief justice
of the supreme court and chairman of the
Lincoln Memorial Commission and therefore
in supreme charge of the ceremonies of the
day, made no difference to the boorish po
liceman. His flivver was ordered aside from
the main avenue and remained parked out
side during the .ceremonies, while a gold
medal was presented by President Harding
to t!}c architect of the memorial, Henry Ba
con.
| A Bit One-Sided. I
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From the Bainbridge Post.
The idea of Governor Hardwick to pay the
families .of convicts for their work is a bit
one-sided, to say the least of it. Why not
pay the family of a murdered man a pen
sion, too? It would be just as fair and more
square, for the average murdered man has
not time to arrange his business matters. The
country is certainly putting a premium on
crime as sure as the world stands. It is a
shame that our people don’t stop this hys
teria. Jf a man is deterred at all from crime
it is the fact that he knows that his' family
will have to suffer. If you pension a mur
derer’s family half who kill will be glad to
be rid of supporting their families. If you
then remove the chance to make him work
by abolishing the lash and not allow him tc
be punished for infraction of rules, and give
him a farc at the table that is.better than
85 per cent of the working class get, vou
make it a business proposition to go on, kill
somebody and get in the penitentiary. He
will fare better and his folks will get more.
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| A Sure-Shot Recipe. |
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From the Lyons Progress.
At the big automobile show in Omaha,
hanging in a conspicuous place in the show
room where every person who drives or
contemplates driving a motor car might see
it,.,was this wmique recipe:
“Take one reckless, natural-born fool,
two or three cupfuls of bad liquor and
one fast, high-powered car and let go.
After due time remove wreckage, place '
in black box and garnish with flowers.”
There is no doubt that this unique meth
od of sounding a warning to the reckless
caused many resolves to use a little more
care and caution, and the auto dealers are
to be commended for introducing the plan
at a time when it would reach the attention
of so piany auto drivers.
SOUTH GEORGIA’'S NEED.
From the Moultrie Observer.
There are acres of diamonds about us. Men
have flocked across the uncharted expanse
dividing the east from the Pacific coast and
crossed the Rocky mountains in carts and
wagons to reach gold fields less alluring than
the nossibilities of south Georgia soil and
south Georgia climate. There is a wealth
here untouched that surpasses any undevel
cped resources in any part of the world. It
is not capital that we need. It is not men
that we need. It is not opportunity that we
need. Our crying need is the resolve to quit
a system that has been ruinous for half a
century or more, and turn to a system that
harmonizes with the times and with modern
conditions.
IS RIGHT ON THE JOB.
From the Jackson Progress-Argus.
More than twelve hundred -boll weevils on
seven acres of cotten is the report that comes
from Terrell county, which ranked second in
cotton production in Georgia last year. The
cotton groewer who thought the weevil was
taking a vacation this year will find out later.
that the little pest is very much on the job.
What Does It
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If you think it is costing you too much and yoy
are overdrawing your grocery .allowance it is a very
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