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; DAWSON, GA. JUNE 19, 1923. |
Those who are kicking about the recent
cool weather are still here; now they are
kicking because it is so hot.
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It's always a feast or a famine somewhere.
Excess rainfall and floods in the west and
southeast, and drouth and forest fires in the
northwest.
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Coffee county is shipping cucumbers, and
the returns will net the growers $lOO,OOO.
Such as that will make Georgia the empire
state of the south, indeed.
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Crops are growing by leaps and bounds
since the sun hafs had a chance to get in some
work. It is amazing how quickly corn andi
cotton can recuperate from adverse winds and |
floods when given a fair chance.
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A Meritorious Measure.
The Illinois senate has passed a bill, and
there is likelihood that it also will succeed in
the house, prescribing a maximum penalty!
of one year in jail and a $2OO fine for any
motor car driver who sneaks away from an
accident in which he is involved without dis
closing his identity. The bill provides that the
driver of any vehicle on the public highway
who becomes involved in the injury to a per
son or the damage of property shall not leave
the scene of the accident “without first stop
ping and giving his name and residence, in-|
cluding the street number, motor vehicle
number and chauffeur’s numbers, if any, to
the injured person or to a police officer, or, if
no officer is in the vicinity, then to the near
est police station or judicial officer. The
News does not approve the making of too
many laws, but that kind of legislation ought
to be put through every legislature in the
country. The attention of the Georgia legis
lature, which is soon to convene, is respect
fully called to it.
Governor Smith and Prohibition. |
For approving the bill repealing the state'sl
prohibition enforcement law Governor Smith,
of New York, is still being condemned by
the “drys” for “violating his oath of office,”
and approved by the “wets” for “displaying
an independence that comports with the dig
nity of a sovereign state” As a matter of
fact Governor Smith may have done neitherJ
—simply done what was desired by a major
ity of the people of his state and what He
thought would best promote his prospect as
a democratic presidential candidate in 1924.
. Repeal of New York’s prohibition enforce
ment law does not necessarily violate the fed
eral constitution. The state is still subject to
the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead
act. Its police are still required to observe
the one and enforce the other. There has
been no “nullification” of either. There has
been and still is a difference of opinion
among the people, and the governor and the
legislature have assumed that the “wets” out
number the “drys.”
If Governor Smith shall be made the dem
ocratic presidential candidate in 1924 the
dominant issue of the campaign will be pro
hibition. If the “drys” outnumber the “wets”
they certainly have nothing to fear from such
an issue. If they do not they will gain little
by denouncing Governor Smith, even if he
merely seeks the presidency. On the other
hand, the “wets” have no occasion to applaud
until the votes are counted. There is nothing
to get excited about now.
Long Overdue.
The condition to which Secretary Wallace,
of the department of agriculture, has called
attention, an improvement in the farmer’s
economic status, is one long overdue: Where
fore, the south will hope that the secretary’s
belief in the ultimate realization of better
times has been well founded. And because
Mr. Wallace is admitted to be in a better po
sition for prophecy than any other individ
ual, whose interest would be just as lively,
it may be said that the hope is given much
encouragement.
Conditions, Mr. Wallace asserts, are better
than for two years. That needs no detailed
proof, for there has been an improvement. It
can be said, however, that the recovery is
not yet complete. There is still much room
for further development in that direction.
The great difference between the buying
power of the farmer’s dollar and that of oth
er producers of wealth has been a great in
justice. Cheap farm products and high-priced
manufactured goods never have been able to
create the impression of equality and never
will. If the farmer is forced to pay high
prices for the things he buys he ought to be
able to command proportionately high prices
for the things he sells. That question has
just one side.
A strong farm dollar, just as Mr. Wallace
suggests, is necessary for the good of the
whole country, however slow some sections
and some interests have been in reaching
that conclusion.
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2 Watch Crops Grow!
“Failure” has been the cry many a time
in Terrell county when things all seemed to
be going wrong in the spring months, but
we've noticed that as the time of harvest
comes on our farmers have about all they
can do to take care of their crops. We have
never yet made a complete failure on the
farms of the county. Watch the cotton and
corn grow, now that the sun is getting in
his work.
William C. Worrill.
" The death of Judge William C. Worrill has
caused deep sorrow throughout the Pataula
iudicial circuit, over which he presided many
'vears with signal distinction. He was uni
versally admired and held in high regard for
his legal learning and impartial decisions.
Moreover, he was always fearless in the dis
charge of his duties, and was never swayed
by popular clamor from what he conceived
to be the right course. Judge Worrill gave
up a splendid law practice to assume the
jarger duties to which he was cailed by the
electorate of the circuit on the death of the
late H. C. Sheffield, and met every condi
tion with a dignity and fairness that won
for him the confidence of all the people. His
death is a distinct loss to the state and the
bar, and especially the judicial circuit which
has so long felt the touch of his strong per
sonality.
Without Authority to Borrow.
The United States supreme court has re
cently handed down a decision that should
be helpful to taxpayers. It is to the effect
that county commissioners or other public
officials cannot legally borrow money from
banks or individuals unless specific authority
has been given by the people. The principle
enunciated by the court applies, of course,
to school boards and city governments.
The decision was in a case from Georgia,
and grew out of a suit against Wilcox coun
ty to recover $20,000 which was loaned that
county for expenditures in anticipation of
tax receipts. Repudiation by the county au
thorities of the debt was based on the alle
gation that under the Georgia constitution
a county is not authorized to borrow money
in excess of anticipated revenue unless ex
pressed authority has been given by the
people. In many counties it has been the cus
tom to borrow funds to pay county bills un
til taxes are collected in the fall, and even
though these debts may not be valid in the
sight of the law it is not anticipated that
any of them will repudiate their obligations
after banks have, in good faith, been gener
ous enough to finance them when they could
not meet their obligations.
One effect of the decision, no doubt, will
be to make those in charge of the fiscal af
fairs of a county more careful and economical
inn the expenditure of public funds. The prac
tice of pledging a county's credit for as
much or more than the taxes will bring in,
in many instances even before the levy has
been made, has become general. If the ruling
of the highest court of the land does nothing
more than' to check this bad, extravagant
practice on the part of those who are entrust
ed with the people’s money it will be of
great and lasting benefit.
An Important Matter.
Now is the time to do work that will
count in the fight on mosquitoes. Dawson
can be made free of these pests if each citi
zen and the city authorities will co-operate
and destroy mosquito breeding places -by
proper drainage. Pools that cannot be drain
ed should be covered over with oil. All tin
cans should be carted off after they have been
pierced with a nail so that they cannot hold
water, Dawson cannot be a clear town with
flies and mosquitoes breezing around, and
the only way to get rid of them is in con
certed action. !
Search diligently today for whatever there
may be about your premises to furnish a
breeding place for carriers of disease germs.
These precautionary measures are made more
necessary this season by the continuous
rains and unusual amount of water. Swat the
fiy and put the mosquito out of business,
right now, if you would, make Dawson a
place for the enjoyment of health. You may
delay some other matter and get by with it,
but not this.
“Ex-Governor Slaton, sensible and hard
headed, continues to riddle the argument of
the would-be tax tinkers. Gov. Slaton be
lieves that we should stick to our present tax
laws. He holds that with proper economy
there is no need in gathering more taxes
from the pockets of the taxpayers,” says the
Sylvester Local. The foriner governor’s views
are always sensible, sound and safe. He op
poses the new fangled fads of government,
and believes in keeping alive those principles
and laws which have made Georgia a
great state. Government was established to
maintain peace and order and not to support
the people and an army of ofhcials, as
so many latter day political quacks would
have it do.
ERTIRL e
On this page is printed a very interesting
letter from Mr. Gordon Saussy, of Savannah,
relative to the proposed state port and the
great . benefit that agricultural interests
would derive from the estabiishment of port
terminals and an efficient marketing system
for farm produce. Mr. Saussy has given this
question.much thought, and believes it will
mean a great deal to the welfare and progress
of the people of Georgia, as well as prove to
be a remunerative investment. This will be
one of the big questions before the legislature,
and it should be given the fullest and most
impartial cgnsideration.
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The finest cabbage in the world, to say
nothing of almost every kind of vegetable
and fruit, can be grown here in southwest
Georgia. Recently The Dawson News re
prorted two Terrell county specimens which
weighed twelve and fourteen pounds respect
ively, and now the Richland News announces
the receipt of a sixteen-pound cabbage from
Mr. I. W. Joiner, who grew three that
weighed forty pounds and filled a cotton
Lasket. Our Richland neighbor is certainly
entitled to the prize.
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Mr. Gaston’s search for the remains of
Pocahontas has the appearance of misguid
ed archaeological zeal. The remains of Poca
hontas will be honored no less whether her
bones are allowed to rest in English soil or
whether they are recovered and returned to
America. |
Miss Bess Fouche, of McDonough, first
woman to he elected superior court clerk in
Georgia, was honored by the County Offi
cers’ Convention by unanimous election as a
member of the executive committee. Miss
Fouche, whose mother was reared in Dawson,
is well known here, where she has often visit
ed relatives.
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A New York woman who is suing her hus
band for divorce, on the ground of cruel and
inhuman treatment, alleges that he compell«
ed her to wear lisle instead of silk hose. If
that isn't cruel and inhuman treatment, in
this day and generation, then there is no
such thing as cruelty and inhumanity.
| RUDE RURAL RHYMES |
T Ty oDo e e e ...
l MOTHER EARTH. |
I'd rather wander down the byways than
breathe the dust along the highways. I'll take
my time and ambulate the rough dirt roads
that autos hate. The fewer cars go honking
by, the better for such gents as I, who'd
rather tread on rutty drives which offer safe
ty for our lives than good macadam, rolled
and pressed, where flivvers knock us galley
west. O I like folks and like to meet them,
I like to grin at them and greet them, yet
sometimes feel in every bone the call to walk
a while alone, where all the road is free be
fore me, where fragrant wayside trees hang
o’er me, but no one hangs around to bore
me. You've heard the story of the Titan who
had with Hercules a fight on. Though fierce
lv Hercules would pound him, though oft he
grabbed ,and shook and downed him, he riz
right up again, confound him; for when he
touched his Mother Earth she poured new
strength through height and girth. So, as I
walk in pleasant weather the soil and I draw
close together. The old elm dreaming by the
meadow drops fellowship as well as shadow.
I am a part of all I see, Dame Nature bares
her heart to me, reveals alike her worst and
best, and, when I stop a while to rest, gives
me a bit of earth to light on, with windfall
apples for to bite on till I'm renewed like
that old Titan. —BOB ADAMS.
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I Tax Increase Astounding. |
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From the Conyers Times.
The figures contained in the annual re
port of Comptroller General Wfright,
showing an increase in state expenditures
during the last five years of more than
50 per cent, are impressive. Indeed, the
large increase in the cost of the state
government in five years is an astounding
fact. The total expenditures for the an
nual period ended December 30, 1918,
were $8,000,000 and for the annual pe
riod ended December 30, 1922, they were
$12,000,000. If the figures were not of
ficial it would be difficult to credit them.
The comptroller general’s statistics do
not encourage hope for a reduction of
taxation. Indeed, they stimulate fear that
taxes are going higher. All forms of
public expenditure have been ballooning
during recent years—federal. state, coun
ty, municipal and school. The question
that ought to concern everyone is: How
~ cap the upward movement be arrested?
- Certainly there must be some limit to
. public expenditure, as there is a limit to
ability of the people to carry the burden
of taxation. The average taxpayer fecels
that he already is carrying about as
heavy a burden as he can endure.—~Daw
son News.
We present the above figures from
| Comptroller General Wright's office. While
| the facts are astounding, no one will have
the temerity to question the statement; this
being the case, we think it time to stop! look!
and listen! Why not begin by changing from
annual to biennial sessions or preferably to
quadriennial of the legislature and senate?
Georgia is one of the four states in which the
iegislative body convenes yearly. Why this
unnecessary waste of time and money? There
are already more conflicting laws than can be
interpreted by a Philadelphia constitutional
lawyer, to say nothing of the cost of the 50-
day annual sessions, which will probably ex
ceed $200,000, to say nothing of the appro
priations that exceed the state’'s reserve.
The taxpaver is a long-suffering individual,
but, like China, will some day wake up. May
the dav be already dawning when the leth
argy will be shaken off and the demand
made upon our public servants to apply real
business methods to every department of both
state and county affairs.
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| About 801 l Weevil “Destroyers.” I
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From the Early County News.
With detailed reference to the “Deluge of
801 l Weevil Contraptions and Poisons” the
Progressive Farmer warns its readers against
the many “sure death,” ‘“secret”(?) chemical
destroyers of the boll weevil. It says:
“Very few in this aggregation of self
appointed experts have any knowledge
of the cotton plant or the habits of the
boll weevil, and apparently no concep
tion of scientific evidence; but many des
perate farmers take their worthless sug
gestions and worse than useless decoc--
tions as 100 per cent true and valuable
and cast aside the only proved means
of protection and control. It is a tragic
example of ‘fools rushing in where angels
fear to tread.’”
It is becoming clearer every day that
there is no ‘“short cut” to a solution of the
boll weevil problem. The lure of mystery is
strong, but it won’t meet the need. Nothing
short of organized effort and hard work will
ever stamp out the “curse” of the weevil. Any
sound, practical plan for organizing the farm
ers to a definite line of work, if such a plan
is free from the taint of “milking the farm
er” to pay for high priced “experts,” is
worthy of careful consideration and earnest
support.
We are a sound and mechanically minded
people, and when we realize that our pros
perity can be insured only by fighting this
foreign invader just as we have fought every
other invader of our homes and farms, then
we shall get the results that come from prop
erly organized effort.
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1 Insects Deserve Respect. |
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From the Atlanta Georgian.
You swat the fly and are merciless with the
mosquito, but you respect many of their in
sect cousins. Canada is importing French
wasps from the United States to exterminate
the boring worm and save the corn crop..
Only insect policemen can deal individually
with insect criminals, |
The tiny wasp, imported from France and
bred in our government breeding places, de
stroys the baby borers as they devour the
green corn in the ear. The lady bug destro_vsl
“scale” that ruins fruit trees. When sheep
tarmers had given up hope of raising clover!
i Australia bumble bees were sent out fromi
England. They acted-as pollen carriers, and
the clover now grows luxuriously. ‘
Respect the insects. They have condensed'
inherited knowledge into what we call “in-!
The -real uns=lfish patriot is the working bee.
stinct,” and are far ahead of us in many ways.l
THE DAWSON NEWS
I The Farmer and a State Port. |
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Editor . The Dawson News: In your last
issue I find on vour editorial page under the
caption “South Georgia’s Need” a brief arti
cle, reproduced from the Moultrie Observer,
which is full of meat.
This article closes with this comment: “QOur
crying need is the resolve to quit a system
that has been ruinous for one-half a century
or more, and turn to a system that harmon
izes with the times and with modern condi
tions.” i ‘
This -need is being appreciated not only in
vour section but throughout every part of
our state. It is noticeable that there is a de
cided drift away from the old ruinous sys
tem referred to, and a turning to a systerr
more in keeping with modern agricultural
methods and more adapted to make Georgia
a truly prosperous state permanently.
I do not recall that there has ever been
so much agitation in Georgia for a more di
versified agriculture, for a greater acreage
given up to pasturage, and of the production
of feed for stock and poultry as well as of
various food products for humanity. The
newspapers from every section of our state
bring to me the news of this widespread and
rapidly expanding movement. Judging from
their news columns there is more acreage giv
en up in Georgia this year to pasturage, corn,
hay, oats, peanuts, beans, peas, etc., than
ever before in its history, and the output of
cattle, hogs, poultry, eggs, etc., promises to
be unparalleled. In some counties progressive
co-operative marketing steps are being taken,
but in other counties the old method evident
ly still prevails and the harvesting of prod
ucts may find the farmers facing a serious
situation as to the profitable marketing of
the same. ]
While our agricultural leaders are laying
so much stress on diversification of products
it must not be lost sight of that if improved
marketing methods are not brought into ex
istence at the same time this very turning
toward new crops and their production on a
larger scale than ever hefore seen in Georgia
may result in the serious embarrassment of
our producers later on. If we are going to
continue this program of varied products we
must provide more efficient and more satis
factory marketing methods. :
Here is where the state port and terminals
project comes into play, providing, as it will,
a modern, thoroughly equipped and economi
cally operated warehousing, cold ,storage,
marketing and shipping system, conducted by
the state for the sole benefit of its own citi
zens. That is all the term state port and ter
minals implies. It is to be a servant of the
producers, enabling the assembling of their
products at some central marketing point on
deep water where numerous buyers will
gather, and permitting the producers to
cheaply and safely warehouse and carry their
products until they see fit to dispose of
them, all expenses reduced to a minimum.
Such a plant should and will not only pay
its fixed charges and operating expenses, but
take care of its bonds, provide the fund for
their retirement and become in the end a
bond-free property owned by the state and
producing for it a handsome revenue. This
has been demonstrated by the operation of
somewhat similar plants elsewhere.
I hope that The Dawson News, which has
ever been a progressive leader for its imme
diate section, will come to the aid of the state
port and terminals project and by the edu-'
cation of its readers as to the advisability,
necessity and advantages of such a plant
bring their influence to, bear in its behalf
when the legislature meets. It is not a ques-!
tion of location of such a plant. It is a ques-‘
tion of providing somewhere on deep water
an efficient. thoroughly equipped, economi
cally administered marketing base. Very,
truly yours, GORDON SAUSSY.
Savannah, Ga. 1
lShlpments From a South Georgia Town.|
From the Savannah News.
Pavo is a little town in Thomas county.
Thomas county is in south Georgia. There
are a number of other counties, each with
several towns, in south Georgia. The whole
south Georgia climate and soil condition is
approximately alike. It is reasonable to con
clude that what could be done in the way of
produce shipments from Pavo might be done
from a number of other towns in the same
section.
Thursday of this week, for example, Pavo
shipped a carload of chickens. It has shipped
other carlots of poultry; so have scores of
other communities in the section.
But an interesting thing to note is the va
riety of other things than_ poultry which
Pavo—just one south Georgia town—has
shipped in the past month. It shipped the
first carload of tomato plants ever sent in
one consignment from Georgia, it is said. It
shipped in all in May nearly $35,000 of va
ried produce. It used to be that except for a
basket or two of early vegetables carried to
town by the farmer when he went to buy
‘rations on credit—to be paid for in the fall
when cotton came in and the fertilizer and
mule notes fell due—there was nothing turn
ed from the farm into cash in May. But in
May this one little town shipped more than
a quarter of a million pounds of plants at
$1.25 a thousand; over a hundred thousand
pounds of cabbage; more than sixty-five
thousand pounds of sweet and Irish potatoes;
it shipped squash and beans, beets and on
ions, carrots and turnips, cucumbers and
English peas, peanuts, syrup, chickens, eggs,
hides—and turpentine and rosin. In all near
ly $35,000 of miscellaneous farm produce went
out of Pavo in one spring month—a season
formerly noted for its paucity of incoming
cash to the farm.
And that did not account for the cream
shipments, nor for the local sales, nor for the
truck shipments to nearby towns and cities.
The gatherer of facts and figures about Pavo’s
May shipments makes excuse—the weather
was not altogether fortuitous and there had
not been sufficient planting of many items
to meet the keen demand at good prices.
The record speaks for itself—more elo
quently than any general argument for di
versification that any of the experts could
adduce.
WELL, COME TO THE BAT.
From the Americus Times-Recorder.
The Dawson News rises to remark rather
boastfully that—*“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.” This
paragraph is respectfully referred to Col.
Robert C. Lane, who is organizing some
team here in Americus. He will be prepar
ed to do some walloping himself, friend
Rainey. |
TRUTHFULLY SAID.
From the Jackson Progress-Argus.
If Georgians will only save the one hun
dred million dollars now going outside the
state for food and feed products it will give
us a working capital that can be employed to
good advantage.
MAKES HIMSELF UNDERSTOOD.
From the Sioux Falls Argus.
The unspeakable Turk may not use very
choice language; but he seems to be pretty
definite about what he wants or does not‘
want,
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