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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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HAWSON GA., JUNE 12, 1923.
It must be that summer has come; the
girls are wearing their hot weather furs, as
usual. :
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The best cure for' hard times, says one of
the most successful business men of the
United States, is to stop taiking hard times,
get to work and keep money and goods in
circulation.
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It appears that many Terrell county folks
who have been in the habit of going away
for the summer are planning to stay at
home this year; and, after all, there is more
solid comfort to be found in one’s home
town than any other place.
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Dirty Streets.
There has recently been considerable com
plaint about the unsightly condition of Daw
son streets on Sunday morning, following the
crowds who throng the thoroughfares on
Saturday. Sunday is the time when the town
chould be especially neat and clean.. It 18
the custom of individuals to spruce up just
a bit more for the Sabbath, and almost ev
ery homekeeper sees to it that the home and
premises are spic and span for that day of
rest and relaxation. A great many visitors
pass through Dawson on Sundays, and
nothing makes a better impression than a
well kept town. The cleaning of the streets
Saturday night, after the large crowds of
the day have gone, will put the city in good
shape for Synday, and stimulate the pride
of every citizen. Dirt and litter make a bad
impression, beside being a menace to health.
Citizens generally will appreciate it if the
proper authorities will give this matter at
tention. y
Ratio of Casualties. |
Granting that war ought to be outlawed,‘
the preparedness advocate who has recog-|
nized that conflict may be absolutely impos
sible to avoid now has a new argument to
support his intention. The figures of casual-!
ties suffered by the central powers and the{
allies during the world struggle show a ratio
out of all proportion, but are explained by
calling attention to the circumstances under
which the contending armies were engaged.
Preparedness is credited with having made
it possible for the central powers to suffer
a lower casualty ratio than that borne by
the allied soldiers.
The central powers had a total of 22850,-
000 men under arms. They inflicted upon
their enemies 22,090,000 casualties, almost
one casualty for every man in the service.
That is a high mark of efficiency in effect
ing damage. As against this the allies had
42,189,000 men in the war, yet the central
powers had only 15405000 casualties, or one
casualty on the enemy for nearly three allied
soldiers enlisted. It is bound to appear not
only were the central powers better able to
protect themselves in battle but that they
also could inflict more punishment per capita
than could the allied fighters. United States
army experts, in studying the reports, have
concluded that the disproportionate results
were due to the intensive, universal system
of training given the German and Austrian
soldiers before the war started. Inasmuch as
one of the heaviest costs of war is that of
human life it might be a better national pol
icy to train men and have them fit for war
which may not be avoided. When prepared
ness can lower the rates of war casualties it
can also lower the ratio of physical suffering
and mental anguish. This is something new
for the advocates of unpreparedness to con
sider.
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A Word for Husbands.
The Portland Oregonian characterizes as
tommy-rot the suggestion of the Internation
al Woman's Suffrage Alliance that wives
should be paid wages, and in this connection
somewhat courageously speaks in defense of
the American husband. The time has gone
by, the Oregonian asserts, when husbands
stinted their wives. “To put it plainly,” it
continues, “more hushands are stinting them
selves * * * than there are husbands who
are niggardly with their helpmates. On any
street car, on any street, you will see men
whose apparent shabbiness is such, the evi
dences of whose toil is so patent that one
wonders what they are ‘getting for their
wages. The answer is, for most of them, that
they are maintaining homes.” The Oregonian
probably understands that it isn’t popular to
talk that way, but, notwithstanding, there is
a lot of truth in what it says. The Interna
tional Woman’s Suffrage Alliance might well
say a word in behalf of wages for husbands.
Religion and Business.
Defenders of religion and praise of the'
Bible are found- in unexpected quarters.
There’s Judge Gary, for example, who de
clares that religion is just “plain business
sense.” and that the .moral and religious prin
ciples of the Bible are unassailable. A good
many people who iook upon the steel cor
poration which Judge Gary heads as a mon
ster will think that is strange talk to be
coming from him. There was another man,
long ago, it wiil be recalled, of whom it was
ence said, “Can there any good thing come
out of Nazareth?” At least, if Judge Gary
feels that way about religion and the Bible
there is hope that some good thing will come
out of the steel corporation. Perhaps the
judge is not as bad as he has been painted.
| Worse Than 801 l Weevils.
'_ Fifty million boll weevils - cannot hurt a
community half so much as one idle gossip
| ing tongue, always ready to give utterance to
| the vile imaginings of a black heart. Web
| ster defines gossip as idle talk, and scandal as
| something uttered that is false and injurious
| to the reputation.” A good Dawson woman,
[ who is herself free from this awful habit of
| evil® speaking, gives these thoughts on the
| subject: “Physicians examine the tongue
| first. It is the index to the tone of the sys
tem, so the Bible tells us we can judge of
soul health by the tongue. ‘lf any man of
fend not in word his moral health is well
nigh perfect. By the right use of the tongue
an evil conversation can be turned aside and
good things spoken. We should take alarm
iat even an evil thought or desire to gossip
]ahout our neighbor. A spark may start a
flame that will consume a city. Anger, jeal
ousy, envy, revenge are often the motives
+hat kindle the spark that burns on and on
into the heart of some poor soul, blighting
lall that makes life worth living.”
Words have a life all their own. In the
{language of the poet: “Thoughts unexpress
|ed may sometimes fall back dead, but Godl
’himself can’t kill them when they're said.”
lMan_v a harsh word, many a vicious lie, manyi‘
2 scandal srom a gossip’s tongue has worked
its sting further and further into the woundi
it has made, continuing to ply its poison
even after its author has forgotten, and some-f
times even after the grave has closed over
the victim. Like the bee sting, the poison of
scandal cannot be withdrawn after it has
|I-een flung at a fellow mortal. Words are
lkcener than steel, and mightier far for weal
or woe.” |
“If T can lend a hand to the fallen or defend
the right against a single envious stain,
My life, though bare of much that seemeth
dear and fair to us of earth, will not have
been in vain.”
This little story from the Omaha Bee, un
der the startling headline, “Slain By Idle
Gossip,” which was recently reproduced in
The News, illustrates the point:
“Words kill, just as certain as bullets.
P. J. Schmidt worked in an Illinois bank
for many years, rising to the post of
cashier. A few weeks ago he retired and
today he is dead, a victim of thoughtless
gossip. After Schmidt had given up the
post he had so long and honorably filled
somebody, with more time than sense,
started a bit of gossip to the effect that
discrepancies had been found in the ac
counts of the cashier. When this report
reached the ears of the man it reflected
on he dropped dead. Examination of all
his accounts proved that his relations
with the bank were perfect.
“But the gossip killed him, just as
surely and suddenly as if he .had been
shot ‘instead of slandered. The man who
first told the story, those who repeated
it, had no intention of killing anybody.
A word was idly spoken, without malice,
maybe, but certainly without thought as
to what its effect might be. The unruly
tongue is a terrible weapon; it does not
always bring physical death, but it fre
quently deals wounds that never heal
Idle words harm reputations, injure feel
ings, outrage sentiments and often turns
the course of an individual.”
Another Landmark Passes.
New York leaders of society and celebri
ties in the world of art and music and litera
ture will continue to dine somewhere, but
not at Delmonico’s, which has closed. This
famous resort, which flourished for nearly a
century, has succumbed to two things—pro
hibition and the stronger demand made by
business. A skyscraper is to be reared on the
site where such illustrious persons as Louis
Napoleon, Lincoln, Seward, Grant, Dickens,
Whittier, Longfellow, Emerson and Bryant
had been entertained in the heydey of its
success. In the future dollars will jingle and
crisp notes will rattle there, for a bank will
take the place of this world famous establish
ment. Delmonico’s was founded in 1825, and
the proud boast is made that only on three
occasions had any one tried in its sacred
‘walls to eat peas with a knife, which state
ment may arouse the wonder of living per
sons!
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The attitude of eastern democrats toward
Mr. Ford is disclosed somewhat by what
Senator Edwards, of New Jersey, says of
him. It is Senator Edwards’ guess that the
democrats have too much sense to think of
nominating Mr. Ford for president. “Why,
le’s no democrat,” the senator is quoted as
saying. “We don't want him and we won’t
bave him. T.et him run on a third ticket if
he wants to. I guess that's where he be
longs.” Mr.. Ford, with his notions about
money and prohibition, to mention nothing
else, would be a bitter pill for the demo
crats of the east to swallow. |
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The American cigarette also appears to I)el
marching around the world. Exportations to
Europe, to the South American countries, to
China and elsewhere are steadily increasing,
resulting in increased manufacture. During
the first three months of the present year
15,000,000,000 cigarettes, in round numbers,
were manufactured, as compared with 10,000.-|
000,000 during the same period in 1922. The
growth of the cigarette habit is one of thel
striking phenomena of the times. ;
The tenacity with which Mr. Bryan clings'
to the spotlight is remarkable. Though he
has occupied it for more than a quarter of a
century he continues to be one of the chief
headliners of the moment. Yesterday it was
political controversy, today it is a religious
dispute, and tomorrow—what of it? Tomor
row will be a great day with vital moral and
cconomic questions in issue, and Mr. Bryan
may be counted on to be in the thick of the |
contest and very mnear to'the spotlight, }
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An Atlanta dispatch states that Editor Jim |
Wilhams, of the Greensboro H«r;‘h!-}(mrnal.f
will in all probability be appointed state |
game commissioner by Goyernor Walker. |
Now, that will be fine for the governor and!
those who are interested in the administra
tion of the office of game commissioner. The |
genial Jim will be an efficient and popu!ar?
official. i
The man who discovered the Klondyke,
from which untold millions in gold were ta
ken, died recently, leaving an estate of only
$l.OOO. George Washington Carmack made
an enormous fortune in the Dawson coun
try, but it was not enough to satisfy him.
Possessing millions when he leit the north
and returned to the states, he kept on pros
pecting for gold. His fever lasted. His widow
<aid he lost his money digging for new de
posits in the Cascadé®.
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There are enough small fruits growing in
Terrell county, free for the picking, to make
all the jellies, jams and preserves of the very
finest quality to supply every family. We
will have gone a long way when we leave
off imported goods of this kind and utilize
home products.
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Mercer University has conferred the degree
of LL.D. upon Hon. John T. Boifeuillet, of
the Georgia public service commission. It is
an honor worthily bestowed, and The News
joins his other friends in sincere felicitation.
Mr. Boifeuillet is one of Georgia’s finest
characters.
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Nbw that the allies have consented that
Uncle Sam should “be paid for keeping his
army on the Rhine at their earnest solicita
tion, the next thing to interest him is when
pay day will come.
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It isn't a matter of whether we approve or
disapprove of a law. So long as ithis a law
we must enforce it if we are low abiding
citizens.
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| RUDE RURAL RHYMES |
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This bard like lots of others gents, who
sit around upon the fence while their own
gardens grow to weeds, can tell the farmer
what he needs. I pray you Farmer Jones
draw .near; I’'ll spill some wisdom in your
ear. That scheme of ‘agriculture’s rotten
which leans alone on wheat or cotton. For
nature’s plan is ages old, to fill her soil with
leafy mold. But we must even nature better
obey in spirit, not in letter. She has no
thought for what® she’s sowing:but scatters
daisies in our mowing, and though her
chance-sown flowers be sweet, a! hungry
world still calls for wheat. She-sows a lot of
weeds and junk in, while we are strong for
corn and punkin. Instead of quack that
spreads all over, we should plow under rye
or clover. The cow is one of our best bets,
she pays the land her honest debts. That
man will find it hard to live who tries to
take but never give. E'en if he wins he is a
orafter, who'll have to face his sins hereafter.
The game of life no more he’ll beat, but
shovel coal to earn his heat. So let us see i
Mother Earth, who gave us nature since our
birth. a partner to be justly used, no easy
mark to be abused. O not for us alone was
| made the soil we turn with plow or spade.
When we are done with all our tilling, our
milking and our silo filling our sons will
<ow where we have sown and mow around
where we have mown. If we the soil shall
rob and pluck and all the riches from it suck
our children will be out of luck. So let us
follow nature’s plan and work in humus
while we can, else® when good Gabriel’s
trump shall blow Saint Peter will stand us in
a row and likely tell us where to go.
—BOB ADAMS.
| We Wonder. |
Vonbh o e ) R N
From the Sylvester Local.
We wonder about this and we wonder
about that. Some of us wonder where the
rent money is coming from, and others
where we can get a bottle of hooch. It
is said the chorus girl sometimes doesn’t
even know where her next lobster is com
ing from. Mama wonders why Papa
hasn’t got sense enough to make the sal
ary that the man next door does. May
be the man next door does a little bhoot
legging on the side. The Sweet Young
Thing in the Tricky Hammock wonders
why the Bashful Young Man ‘doesn’t
take her in his arms and propose to her.
He, in turn, is wondering if he tried to
steal one little kiss if he’d hafta marry
the goil.
The Inquisitive Woman with the
Burning Interrogative wonders how the
girl next door dresses like she does on
§lO a week.—Jacksonville Times-Union.
Yes, the whole world seems to be one of
wonders. Sometimes we wonder why we are
living at all. We wonder how any : boy
grows to maturity without getting his head
cut off five or six times.
We wonder how some folks manage to
live without work.
We wender why some people can’t pay
their debts but vet manage to get hold of
enough money to buy gasoline for the flivver.
We wonder if the boll weevil is going to
leave enough cotton to pay the guano bill
and to buy an extra side of western sow
bosom.
The whole world and the short span of
life here on it is one of wonders.
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| Keeping Business at Home. l
Lo s emrs R el
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From the Fitzgerald Leader.
No town can be permanently prosperous
in which the citizens and tradesmen depend
ent on each other do not patronize each oth
er. The fact is, but little is ever made by go
ing away to trade, if it can be secured at
home, and oftener there is a loss. Show us
a town in which the people make it a rule
not to send away for anything they can get
at home and we will show you a town in
which business is lively, and everybody buys,
and trade is centered from abroad. Prices
are low and the tradesmen patronize each
other. having no suspicion that confidence
will be abused. Let it be understood that
when business men bf any town get in the
habit of sending abroad for purchases their
business will languish. Having no confidence
in each other how can they expect others to
have confidence in them? No, that's not the
wav to build a town. Patronize each other,
and keep vour business at home.
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I Georgia Press Talk. I
The Jackson Progress-Argus calls atten
tion to a situation that does not reflect credit
on Georgia. Says Editor Jones:
Georgia’s record of money spent for
crops grown outside the state is not one
to be proud of. Records show we are
spending about one hundred and fifty
million dollars for things that we can
ocrow at home. Even if that amount of
money were saved it would be of tre
mendous help. It would certainly require
less cotton. What is the use of growing
cotton to payv for food and feed when
we can grow these things at home and
save the high freight? |
THE DAWSON NEWS
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| CURRENT COMMENT. |
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| THE PAY OF DOMESTICITY.
| Philadelphia Public Ledger: How much is
| 2 wife worth- a week? The question might
| well be countered with another: How much
'is a husband worth a week? The statistician
'who can answer either question could ap
| praise the sunrise and write price tags for
the flowers of the field and the soft winds of
' cummer. The ordinary pay of domesticity
'is struggle and hope, worries and love, weari
ness and content, bills and the interest on
' the mortgage, and the cost of shoes for rest
less little feet. In a word, it is a sight draft
on the not always solvent bank of life.
CHEERING DEBS.
. Lincoln Star: Fiiteen thousand people
<tood and cheered for seven minutes when
' Eugene V. Debs took his place on ‘a New
' York platform the other day before a gath
cring he was scheduled to address. As a peo
ple we are inclined to make light of the pos
sible dangegrs that may lurk around the next
corner. Our prosperity is so comfortable, our
bread and butter so certain, our government
<o well established. that we have no time to
worry over distant possibilities. We put our
spare funds into 6 per cent tax free bonds, we
cstablish for ourselves a certain fixed income
for life and then we retire. .
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I The World’s Cotton Situation. |
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From the Manufacturer’s Record.
The world is discussing cotton to a great
er extent than ever before in history, for the
world is realizing that it is facing an acute
situation which might endanger, as it has
never before been endangered, the supply of
this stanle so essential to civilization.
The boll weevil has threatened the cotton
crop. Manufacturers, bankers, producers and
consumers, alike, are studying the possibili
ties of lessened production in the south. Many
English financial authorities are claiming that
Great Britain cannot pay its indebtedness to
this country unless it can get cheap cotton
from America. Some writers say that it will
be impossible for England to pay high prices
for cotton, or high as compared with former
vears; and continue to meet its promises to
pay to this government. Mighty influences
are at work to break down the price of cot
ton.
For 100 years Europe has been carrying on
exactly the same kind of campaign to grow
cotton elsewhere and to break down.the price
of American cotton. Its success in producing
cotton to meet its growing needs and the
needs of the world are no more promising
now than they were 100 years ago, notwith
standing all propaganda to the contrary.
Unfortunately many people in America, not
fully understanding the situation, are eager
to join with Europeans in holding the cot
ton growers of the world in economic slav
ery, readily accepting the propaganda which
is being sent out so vigorously and profusely
irom Europe, which now seeks to connect
‘he ability of Europe to pay its indebted
ness to this country with low prices for cot
ton. The scheme may appeal to some finan
cial interests, but it is false, as have been alt
the claims that Europe could become inde
pendent of ~American grown cotton. Contin
ued efforts of this kind will of necessity wid
en the breach between Europe and the Unit
ed States, despite movements which seek to
develop greater harmony. Pronouncedly is
this true as to Great Britain and this coun
try. England should heed this situation very
seriously.
I Too Much Sentiment for Criminals. I
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From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
* The state prison commission has made
a recommendation that ought to be
adopted as quickly as possible. It is the
proposal that a change be made in the
prescnt parcle law which allows prison
ers serving life senténces for murder to
be paroled after three years minimum
service. The commission would have the
minimum extended to ten years, because
the present three-year minimum is less
than that for other offenses even less
grave. As we see it, there should be no
minimum period of service for a life sen
tence. When a person is' convicted of
murder it is considered an act of mercy
to grant a life sentence rather than that
of death. Why, then, should the period
of service be reduced? Compel more*
murderers to serve life terms in prison
and there will not be so many of them. To
say the least of it they should not bhe
entitled to parole in less than ten vears.
—Rome News.
The News well says that a convicted
murderer has already had his share of mercy
when he is given a life sentence instead of
death. The jury and the court have already
tempered justice with mercy.
Executive clemency for murders after a
short term of service makes life too cheap.
It all but places a premium on crime. A
man who has a grudge against another con
cludes that he won’t be restrained of his
itberty very long if he slays the other, and,
having no conscience, he proceeds to kill him.
The law has no terror for this type of man;
it does not deter him, for he feels reasonably
certain that he will not have to do time very
long.
And it is true in the matter of other vio
lations of the law. There is too much clem
ency for criminals; too much maudlin senti
ment, and as a result men are constantly kill
ing each other and committing crimes of al
most equal gravity.
The recommenddtion of the prison com
mission should be adopted with an amend
ment that the “ten years” provision be
stricken, and make a life sentence mean for
life.
WHERE IS YOURS?
From the Millen News:
The dollar that stays in this town keeps
traveling from one pocket to another, but it
is always here. 'lt does many people in this
community a lot of good. ‘
That is fine.
The dollar you send away from this town
also keeps circulating from one pocket to an
other. It, also, does many people a lot of
good, but those people are not of our com
munity.
That is not so fine.
What becomes of your dollars?
TRUTH WELL TOLD.
From the Cedartown Standard.
Here is a.truth well told: A man may use
a wart on the back of his neck ‘for a collar
button, ride in the back ccach of a railroad
train to save interest on his money till the
conductor gets around, stop his watch at
night to save wear and tear, leave his “i” or
“t” without a dot or cross to save ink, pas
ture his mother’s grave to save corn; but a
man of this sort is a gentleman compared
to the fellow that will take a newspaper two
or three yeafs and when asked to settle for!
it nuts it in the postoffice and has 1t marksd
“refused.” 1
The boll weevil seems to be making great
hcadway, due to the abundance of ram in
this section for the past several weeks,
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