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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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DAWSON, GA., AUGUST 21, 1923.
The fields are donning robes of white, and
cotton will soon be rolling in.
e e s
From all reports the recent session of the
legislature incubated more gubernatorial
boomlets than laws.
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That Jupiter Pluvius is in good training in
this part of the world is evidenced by the
way he delivers his showers.
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News from abroad that the short skirt is
coming back may surprise some person who
would maintain that it never went anywhere.
The farmer himself is saying less about
asking Uncle Sam for relief, but that makes
no difference to politicians who keep up the
harangue.
|
“It is a good idea not to go about talkingi
so much unless you know what you are talk
ing about,” tritely remarks the Greensboro
Herald-Journal.
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CHALLENGES LAW ENFORCEMENT.I
Another crime wave seems to be sweeping
the country. Robberies and murders are re
ported from various communities. Violence
is still a feature of the everyday life. The
news is a challenge to law enforcement. Ev
erywhere there is need for vigilance on the
part of officers of the law, sheriffs, police,
marshals and the courts of justice. Some ob
servers attribute the outbreaks of crime to
one cause and some to another. Liquor is
blamed variously for many of the crimes‘
committed in the heat of passion. It is‘
known that intoxicants are to blame for at
least some of the murders and attempts to
murder. But there is another type of crime
which hardly admits liquor as a cause. Rob
bery is traceable to greed, avarice, parasitism.
Some persons wish to live without work;
hence, they rcb. If they do not produce
wealth they must take from others who do
produce it. That is a phase of life that, in
stead of passing, seems to find a more per
manent footing from day to day. The an
swer to the question of what to do to meet
the emergency created by crime and crimi
nals is one and one only—enforce the law. |
THE VALUE OF CROPS.
Former - Secretary of Agriculture Meredith,
in a recent interview, discredits the state
ment that “the American farmer will receive
less this year for his crops than he did last
year,” He cites the fact that on July: 1,
1922, the price of corn per bushel on the
farm was 62.2 cents, but that on July llst
this vear it was 86.5 cents; that oats increased
from 37.3 cents to 42.5 cents; and barley
from 522 cents to 55.7 cents. The price of
cotton is several cents higher than it was a
year ago. Mr. Meredith says that the figures
show that the total value of corn, wheat,
oats and barley on July 1, 1922, was $3,-
183,682,000, while on July Ist of this year
the value of the same crops was $3,683,506,-
000, or a half million dollars more.
Former Secretary Meredith’s interview
will be read with interest; first, because it
presents the first comparative exhibit of the
value of crops, and second because, through
this comparative statement, it shows that
there has been and probably still is purpose
in misrepresenting the value of this year’s
crops. While Mr. Meredith does not define
this purpose in any definite way his state
ment can be construed as indicating his be
lief that decrease in the value of the wheat
crop from 93 cents to 87 cents is being cap
italized for political purposes by a coterie of
politicians—to gain power in congress for the
promotion of schemes which they hope will
inure to their personal agrandizement.
With such knowledge of the value of grain
crops as has been supplied by Mr. Meredith,
value which has been sustained by the Unit
ed States Department. of Agriculture, it is
well to keep an eye on the politicians who
are indulging in misrepresentations to cre
ate discontent and unrest in order to feather
their own political nests.
WORK THAT BREAKS MEN.
Warren G. Harding and Woodrow Wilson
are two men who found the highest honors
possible for an American citizen to achieve.
Each also found labors so exacting that they
succumbed under the strain. The white house
job is not a sinecure. Its demands are con
stant, and none can realize the weight of the
burden of responsibility who has not been
president.
Mr. Harding has said that he “did not en
joy” being president. The most industrious
man, one eager and willing to work, cannot
be expected to find happiness in undertaking
too much. Both Mr. Harding and Mr. Wil
son have done that. Mr. Wilson made a
western trip in 1919 because he felt his job
demanded it of him. He addressed large
crowds and made trips in rapid succession
from one city to another. He collapsed be
fore he got back to Washington and he is
an invalid today.
Stronger in constitution as well as in
physique than his predecessor, Mr. Harding
went farther afield and attempted a more
strenuous task. He, too, collapsed, and it is
not surprising that he did. Being president
is a big man’s job, and more than mere
mentality is demanded of one who under
takes it. Mr. Harding went into office a lit
tle more 'than two years ago in perfect health.
In fact, he was robust. But the duties wgre
too many and too arduous. Work in the
white house is work that breaks strong men.
| ANVTHING MAY HAPPEN.
. The world, already having been astounded
by the length to which disagreements be
tween France and Great Britain could be
| carried without a complete break, are again
| contemplating that possibility. And again it
Iwill be surprised if, following the Curzon
note to France, the entente continues. Ap
parently all of the requirements of an abso
lute divorce are at hand. Still—old world
!diplomacy is capable of many a trick and
many a turn—Paris and London may pre
sent yet another surprise by getting together.
The note forwarded by Lord Curzon, act
ing in behalf of the British government, is
’thc sharpest yet sent to France. Tt gives
France to understand that -the thing desired
’now is action, not words. The note is po
lite, but determined. It even may be con
'sidcrcd an ultimatum. The element of time is
even contained without direct mention, for
Lord Curzon has emphasized the need of an
immediate understanding. Unless the Brit
ish government is prepared to attempt still
another effort toward an agreement the sit
uation puts the thing squarely up to the
French 4for either the acceptance or refusal
of the conditions laid down..
Great Britain wants to save Germany for
more reasons than one. Protection of her
own trade is not the only motive. What
might be considered a stronger one is a de
sire to avoid the outbreak of a new war, and
that is a possibility that all observers of the
European situation admit. The next step is
what M. Poincare will say in reply to the
Curzon note. A complete break may result.
If it does, anything may happen on the
continent. The wintef might bring a re
newal of the conflict, but with surprising‘
changes in alignments. France faces, per
haps, a greater responsibility than that of
collecting her own debt from Germany.
DESERVES A MONUMENT.
The Bainbridge Post-Searchlight has pro-i
posed something that should enlist the sym- .
pathy and co-operation of every Georgian. |
Qur contemporary says: ‘
The Macon papers ought to launch a |
movement to have a memorial of some !
kind erected to Joe Hill Hall, their fel
low townman and a man that many, many |
folks in Georgia want to honor in this ‘
manner. It is passing strange to us
that with half the weekly press of the
state advocating'this and all of them |
wanting something done the papers ‘
of this great man’s home town have not
raised their voice to further the move
ment. * * * Joe Hall was a big man. He
did Georgia great service, and these daily
papers that have ignored his passing
have paid honor to many that deserved |
much less at their hands. ; |
A monument would be fitting tribute to
this tribune of the people. Able, fearless and
incorruptible he served his day and generation
well, and richly deserves any honor an ap
preciative people can render him. Although
he made some mistakes, as do all men who
accomplish anything, The News believes that
Joe Hall was the most useful man and did
the state and people greater - service than
any one who has served in the legislature in
the last quarter of a century.
HASN’T DONE IT.
_The boll weevil has cost the south a
billion and a half dollars in the past five
years, according to a dependable statis
tician.—Savannah News.
On the contrary, The News believes that
‘the boll weevil has been worth millions of
idollars to the southern farmers by curtailing
‘the production of cotton and enhancing the
price. In all probability if the weevil had not
infested the cotton belt the farmers would
now be receiving less than 10 cents for the
staple. (Moreo“e.r, the f4rmers have been
forced to the diversification of crops and
better methods of cultivation, which has
been worth more millions to those who are
tilling the soil. Everything considered this
pest, which was viewed as a curse when it
invaded the cotton fields of the south, de
serves a vote of thanks.
Stories that reveal the bigness of Presi
dent Harding’s character may be expected
now that he is gone. For the first time it
is publicly known that when he succeeded
Mr. Wilson he gave orders to the navy de
partment that Admiral Grayson, Mr. Wilson’s
physician for eight years, was to be assign
ed to duty in Washington only. This was
in order that Mr. Wilson would continue
to have the care of the physician who had
attended him so long and who was familiar
with his case. Not even Mr. Wilson knew
of the order until after Mr. Harding’s death.
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The News has received from the publish
erg, . W. ‘Butke & Co., Macon, Ga, a
booklet entitled “Colored Soldiers,” the au
thor of which is Hon. W. Irwin Macllntyre,
of Thomasvillee. The book is an interesting
and entertaining collection of dialect stories,
weaved around army life at Camp Gordon.
The central characters are Thomas county
negroes, and humor predominates in every
narrative. Mr. Maclntyre is to be congratu
lated upon giving the public such an enter
taining little volume.
Andrew J. Volstead either does not be
lieve that prohibition is having difficulties of
enforcement, or he is trying to make him
selfi believe that the country is dryer than
most people regard it. He is reported to
have dismissed the subject of a semi-dry
America with what evidently is a favorite
expression of the father of prohibition—
“rats!” The country is not bone dry, and
Mr. Volstead cannot make it dry by saying
“rats!t
—e,
It is said that twenty-five members of the
United States senate, or more than one
fourth of that body, are either in Europe or
back from Europe, or about to start for Eu
rope to “study conditions,” says the Savan
nah Press. What’s the use? They all re
turn with the same opinions they had be
fore they went. Their views have not chang
ed, and they are talking and will be found
voting as heretofore. -
Things are already warming up over in
the Second district. Congressman Park is a
candidate to succeed himself, and Hon. Den
nis Fleming, of Albany, Judge E. E. Cox, of
Camilla, and Judge Roswell Eve, of Tifton,
have let it be known that they will also be
in the race, to say nothing of a half dozen
'or so other estimable gentlemen who have
'rods up and are hopefully inviting the light
{ning to strike.
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! It takes four chikens to furnish eggs for
each American, notes the Tampa Times.
Uncle Sam’s count shows 428 million chick
‘ens in the United States. They furnish us
with the eggs we need and an additional 500
‘million a year for export, which latter is
‘about three-fifths offset by the eggs we im
port from China and elsewhere.
R R B
When the government gets into the bus
iness of providing agencies for marketing
grain it may as well extend its activities to
cotton and pork and beef and to the prod
ucts of the mills and the factories. Quite
naturally we shall expect it to market our
newspapers, and all the things which all men
produce. :
“While we are going wild on making
things free why not make bread and meat
and clothes free to the school children of
the state?” inquires the Winder News. There
would be as much reason for doing that as
for some other things that are being done;
and at that, it would not be a reason.
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Farmers and business men of Crisp county
have adopted a five-year farm program which
will be of untold worth if adhered to. Crisp
is already one of Georgia’s best counties, and
the movement just begun insures still great
er prosperity and independence for its people.
A new weekly newspaper has recently en
tered the Georgia journalistic field. It is the
Crisp County News, published at Cordele by
the Ham Printing Co. The initial issue is
excellent, and the stories reflect the progress
of the locality in \Yluich it has sprung up.
Shde e e e
Watermelons are selling at $l.OO to $1.50
each in Atlanta. At that rate it won’t be a
great while before it will take the proceeds of
a bale of cotton to buy a succulent rattlesnake
or a tom watson.
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Hard times evidently have fallen upon the
fashionable folk at Deauville; the girls have
no stockings to wear.
| RUDE RURAL RHYMES |
| PREACHING.
This bard is something of a teacher and
now and then a sort of preacher. Although
he writes his foolish jokes in hopes that they
will tickle folks vou maybe notice, dames
and gents, they oft contain a bit of sense.
My father preached the good old word and
spoke with power to all who heard, and I
am sobered when 1 ponder that, scattered
here to way out yonder, I speak to groups
and congregations that stretch across two
mighty nations. In Canada and U. S, A.,
wherever editors will pay, subscribers read
the weekly pome which I extract from my
bald dome. I find this life and its hereafter a
cause for tears as well as laughter. Come
let us take this darned old world, and trim
her down and teach her grace, and make
her such a decent’ place that every dweller
far and near shall get two grins for every
tear. And when my muse from time to time
pours out deep wisdom in her rhyme, O
friends, you'll dodge a lot of aches if you will
learn from my mistakes. I give you lessons
life has brought me—besides some few that
Hannah taught me, —BOB ADAMS.
| A Good Work. |
o e SRR g T LS
From the Savannah Press.
The town of Fitzgerald, Ga., has had the
Jefferson Davis highway marked from Mont
gomery to:Savannah. The moving spirit in
this work was Mir. I. Gelders, of the Leader-
Enterprise of Fitzegerald, and the man who
did the actual work was Mr. Sam Wilcox
ol that city.
The latter gentleman was a month in com
ing from Montgomery: to Savannah. But this
does not mean that the roads will not allow
quicker transit. He reports them in very
good condition, but he was busy during the
trip placing signs and markers along the
route. The distance between Savannah and
Montgomery is about 350 miles. The route
follows the Seaboard from Savannah to Ab
beville, Fitzgerald” via old Irwinville, where
Jeff Davis was captured; Ashburn, Albany,
Dawson, Georgetown, Eufaula and Mont
gomery.
Mr. Wilcox placed 150 signs along the
route. These were placed at the point of en
try into and at the spot of exit from every
town; also at the crossroads. Two thousand
markers, printed in red, white and red, with
letters “J. D. H.,” were tacked up on trees
and poles along the route.
Mr. Wilcox is a very enterprising and in
dustrious man. He said, however, that Mr.
Gelders was the inspiration of the idea, but
it was evident that the job had been finished
very thoroughly.
| Georgia Press Talk. I
Ball games should not be permitted to in
terfere with work, in the opinion of the Mad
isonian. Editor Bacon says:
Monday was one of the most favor
able days for farm work we have had
this yvear, and yet scores of negroes and
white people, too, could be found loafing
about Madison on Monday morning, and
when importuned to go out and help
save a grain crop already made or help
cultivate a growing crop they would of
fer the information that a ball game was
on for the afternoon. We had two days
of it—negroes riding around in automo
biles to ball games. The occasion not
only drew many laborers from the fields,
but those at’ work became demoralized
and dissatisfied. And yet we hear them
complain of hard times and nothing to
eat. —_—
The Monroe Advertiser doesn’t believe
there is any virtue in the lung assistance
that is so freely given the¢ farmer. It says:
A tiller of the soil recently remarked
that there are too many telling the farm
er what to do and too few turning their
efforts into the channels of actual pro
duction. The number of those who have
weak hands and strong lungs is quite
large, and their method often seems to be
to begin with the assumption that the
farmer is a fool and to end with the giv
ing to him that which he does not want.
THE DAWSON NEWS
I Menace of Special Legislation. |
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From the Blackshear Times.
The following extract from an address by
Thomas R. Preston, a prominent banker of
Chattanooga, Tenn, is well worthy of
thoughtful consideration. It illustrates in
startling fashion the trend of the times, and
contains an appeal to the thoughtful to save
themselves from the growing menace of spe
cial legislation. Read it thoughtfully, Can |
there be real formation through the enact-|
ment of an unending stream of special laws?
Can anything take the place of real integri-‘
ty and a spirit of unselfishness in individual
character? We think not. Mr. Preston said:
“This country is literally waterlogged
with laws. Congress has been in almost con
tinuous session for ten years. Instead of
meeting the issues and solving within them
selves some of the perplexing problems that
arise their policy in recent years has been to |
set up a multitude of commissions and bu
reaus to meddle with the most intimate af
fairs of the people, and to regulate by law
nearly all their activities. This has been the
tendency for twenty-five years. It has been
most noticeable for the past sixteen years.
During these sixteen years there has been
proposed in congress 179,202 new laws. Dur
ing a recent two and one-hali months. ses
sion of the legislature of one of our states
2400 new laws were proposed. Taking this
as an average there have been proposed by
the legislatures of the forty-eight states and
by congress in the past sixteen years 1,001,-l
502 new laws, a great majority of them |
secking to regulate the life and business of
the people. During this period 132,000 new
laws have actually been put upon the statute
books, over 225 per day, including Sundays,
yet ignorance of the law excuses no one.
“A most striking manifestation of what too
much government is leading to is noted im
the number of our civilian employes. We
have over 700,000 civilians employed by the
United States government. We have, all told,
more than 2,000,000 paid officials in our na
tional and local governments. Approximately
15,000,000 people are now supported by va
rious governments.
“There is now little incentive for men to
strive, to sacrifice, to labor and achieve. By
our high rates we are driving the rich to tax
free securities, thus putting a premium on
idleness and a penalty on industry. In eight
vears the taxes in this country for all pur
poses have increased 390 per cent. The peo
ple are now paying $8,500,000,000 per an
num in taxes. This vast increase is by no
means all due to the war, and much that is
excused on account of the war could be
greatly lessened, if not entirely -eliminated.
More than 15 per cent of the total income
of the American people now goes for taxes.”]
, The Age of Trees. |
L
/From the Chicago Journal
Experts declare that a cypress in Louisiana
is 2,500 vears old. At the birth of Christ that
tree had been standing two centuries longer
than the time that has elapsed since the first
voyage of Columbus. Rome was a town of
mud huts when that tree sprouted from the
seed, and Nineveh, of which Prophet Jonah
tells, was just destroyed.
Yet it is far from being the oldest known
tree. The Santa Maria del Tule cypress in
Mexico is estimated to be between 5,000 and
6,000 vears of age, and some redwood in
California are placed at 4,000 years. The
Mexican cypress antedates the birth of Abra
ham as the Louisiana tree does that of Christ,
and the redwoods probably were taller than
any tree in Cook county when King Tut
was laid in his tomb.
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree
wrote one of the best of our latter-day
American poets. He might have added that
few poems are as enduring as some trees.
A SAVINGS BANK PRESIDENT. I
From the Lincoln Journal.
We have no statistics to show for Mr.l
Coolidge’s scale of living in Washington as
vice president. It is a safe guess, though,
that he has saved something for a rainy day
from his $12,000 salary, a thing no official
in Washington is supposed to do. And now
that his salary rises to $75,000 a year with
house and servants thrown in he will doubt
less do still better. Saving money has been
unpopular in the United States. Our prefer
ence is for attending to the bunghole and dis
regard of the spigot. We have despised the
careful spender. It is the inning of Ben
Franklin and thrift. We suggest to the sav
ings banks that now is the time to organize
Calvin Coolidge clubs, committed to the
hitherto heretical but now orthodox doctrinel
of spending less than we make.
FULL SPEED AHEAD.
From the New York Commercial.
All signs point to a general boom in trade
this fall. The politicians expect it, but far
more significant are the present plans of the
big captains of industry. They are talking
expansion and creating expansion by their
confidence in the immediate future. The time
to get on the train is not when the whistle
blows. The shrewd business man places his
orders early, when he sees real signs of bus
iness being on the jump. Such indications
are now plentiful. They are invitations to
be up and doing and reaching out for busi—l
ness before it gets out of sight. Prosperity
waits for no man.
THREE MILLION YEARS HENCE.
From the Tampa Daily Times.
Eohippus, the original ancestor of the
modern horse, was so small that he could
casily crawl through the skull of a 1923
horse. He lived three million years ago. It
makes us wonder what evolution will have
done to man three million years hence. In
sects may have exterminated man and in
herited the earth by then.
DIVERSIFIED CROPS SAFER.
From the Cuthbert Leader.
Terrell county has been Jeading the state
in cotton production recently, but a few days
ago farmers of that county held a meeting
and discussed growing strawberries, celery,
tobacco and other things as money crops.
This is a good indication that our farmers
are realizing that diversified agriculture is
safer. ;
LEGISLATIVE “PROMINENCE.”
From the Cedartown Standard.
The only way some legislators can ever
achieve any prominence 1s by attacking
somebody or something. A legislature that
met only once in ten years would be too
coften for their sort. I
WHO KNOWS?
From the Dalton Citizen. ‘
Now the legislature is talking of taxing!
roodle dogs $lO a year. And it may be the'
statesman introducing the bill has a half;
dozen or more houn’ dogs loafing around the |
house. I
SOME COW. f
For Sale—Jersey cow, gives the finest of'
sweet milk, buttermilk and cream cheese.—
Classified ad. in Mobile Register. '
No one has yet dis
covered how to
spend money and
still have it, and a
good many bright
people have gone
broke trying to solve
this problem—
Experience is a Dear
Teacher. Profit by
the experience of
others.
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