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DAWSON, GA,, .~\l'(}l':<T 28 1093 |
Instead of a school house on every hill
side it has come to be a filling station at
each street intersection and an automobile
under every spout.
The country will watch the new president’s
acts with interest as indicating what his atti
tude may be in labor and economic prob
lems during his administration.
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Will the fellow who insists that supply
and demand have nothing to do with prices
explain’ to us why cotton with a short crop
is soaring and wheat with a big crop is
crawling into the cellar?
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Residents of Butte, Mont.,, donned theirl
overcoats because it got a little chilly the
other day, which shows that they are 1e591
hardy than their neighbors at Shelby, who
went through the biggest frost in the town’s
history in their shirt sleeves.
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THE CRAWLING PROFESSOR.
If Dr. Julius T. House, professor of Eng'-l
lish at the State Normal school, Wayne,
Neb., is looking for a way to exercise him
seli vigorously he has found it in deciding
to crawl 100 miles and duplicate the feat of
a frontiersman and trapper. The news reports
of the contemplated exploit do not throw any
light on the importance of the proof which
the professor hopes to establish, yet he seems
to be deeply inspired to make the effort.
To crawl 100 miles is a considerable un
dertaking for anyone. It is a singular per
formance when done through necessity as in
the case of the old frontiersman if the story
be true as told; but it ranks with Marathon
dancing, pie cating contests and other endur
ance feats of bizarre kind when wholly un
necessary. Of course Dr. Hoouse will not neg
lect his duties as a professor while going on
all-fours for his century crawl, since he will
make the attempt during his summer vaca
tion. That he may even be a better instructor
after it is over because of the. workout
it will give him is probable. But the
professor might have the same results if he
made a garden and cultivated it censcien
tiously, and he would save a lot of money on
knee pads in the meantime.
SOLVE DOMESTIC PROBLEMS.
Urging that the surest protection from at
tacks without is for the nation to strengthen
iteslf from within, Senator Borah has an
nounced that he personally will endeavor to
forward domestic issues before congress takes
up consideration of anything else. Measures
to be designed to effect such a strengthening
of the country, he says, are in preparation
and will be presented when the Sixty-eighth
congress is convened in December.
The domestic problems Senator Borah vis
jons as the most important are those having
to do with fuel, freight and profiteering. He
is frank enough to admit that the measure
he will propose might not effect the re
sults desired, but he insists that legislators
who oppose them should be willing to offer
substitute remedies. Thus he demands recog
nition of the ills that affect the country, and
steps taken looking to their cure. Senator
Borah considers that “present conditions are
intollerable,” and that ‘“they cannot be per
mitted to continue.”
It is well understood, of course, that oth
ers than Senator Borah are thinking about
domestic problems and considering their so
lution. In fact, the general trend of the oppo
sition to the announced foreign policy of the
late President Harding, the strongest feature
of which is America’s entrance of the world
court, is to insist that domestic problems be
settled first. ;
When Senator Borah points out that so
lutiom of the pressing problems at home is a
protection against influences from abroad he
scores a point that cannot be overlooked. The
News has before said that satisfied, content
ed, prosperous, happy American workers in
any and all walks of life are not going to ac
cept untried, unreasonable suggestions from
abroad. Common sense would not permit
such foolishness, and of common sense we
believe the people of the United States have
their ‘full share.
AGES OF PRESIDENTS.
The impression that the office of president
of the United States is one that requires
physical strength as well as mental power
has increased as the results of the tasks
have made their marks on individuals. One
of the regrettable things is that no man is
quatified for the office until he has attained
experience that comes only with the passing
of years. Young men who are in their prime,
strong of body and with a reasonably great
expectancy of life, have not the mental
strength to undertake the job.
The average age of the presidents from
George Washington to Calvin Coolidge is
54. Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest
president. He was 42 when he succeeded
William McKinley in 1901. William Henry
Harrison was the oldest, having reached the
age of 68 when he became president. James
Buchanan was 65 and Zachary Taylor was
64. Andrew Jackson was 61 when he was
inaugurated. Six presidents, including Theo
dore Roosevelt, were under 50. The young
est next to Roosevelt was Ulysses S. Grant,
who was 46. Grover Cleveland was 47.
Franklin Pierce was 48. James K. Polk and
James A. Garfield were each 49. Warren G.
Harding went into office when 55, one year
above the average age of the 30 executives.
! TOO MUCH PATERNALISM.
. It has been a popular idea for some time
{that there should be more business in gov
[erument and less government in business, but
!the wave of paternalism that started several
| years ago continues to sweep forward. When
lit will stop nobody can say, for it is not
known when a majority of public officials
courageous enough to stop it will have the
| authority to act. It will takt courage that the
| average politician does not possess, for pa
| ternalism is a political sop in which many
’indulge. :
’ Men with more business sense apparently
| are demanded in government. J. A. Shields,
of Indianapolis, president of the Indiana
lManufacturers' Association, told an audience
at Columbus, Ohio, a few days ago that 1t
we should run our business the way we run
}c-ur government we would soon be giving
Lenine and Trotsky lessons in applied fol
}ly." His idea oi governmental economy and
taxation is that our national and state gov
ernments should proceed in a business wayl
to cut down much of their overhead instead
of striving to find new ways of spcnding‘
money that the people have to supply. Touch
ing on the unrest that h#s come from agri
cultural and industrial troubles Mr. Shields
declared: ’
We cannot solve a 1923 problem with 1
a 1908 model thinking apparatus. We
should clearly understand that the way ‘
out of our agricultural and industrial dif
ficulties lies through sound economics
and not through politics. |
Mr. Shields must have observed that all
the elements of the national life when per
plexed appeal to Washington for help. They
seek adjustments that could only come
through paternalism. Running to Washing
ton has become a habit, the net result of
which is to rob the people of much of their
initiative by atrophy and of vast amounts of
money in taxation because the government
cannot undertake paternalism without in
creasing expense. Instead of asking Uncle
Sam to carry their burdens the people ought
to learn to stand on their own feet.
Selfish class legislation was denounced by
Mr. Shields in his address. He considers that
it “does violence to the first principles of
political economy” without obtaining perma
nent remedies. He believes that« legislation
by blocs and leagues is “like putting a very
small plaster on a very large sore.” He ad
vocates as a first needed reform in taxation
the spending of less money instead of look
ing about for new revenues through which
to raise more. The old time politician would
pass with reforms that reduced paternalism,
but his passing would mark a new era in
government, one cheaper, more efficient and
more satisfactory. .
PACTS IN FULL FORCE.
The simple but solemn ceremony in the
diplomatic reception room at the state de
partment, with the five first powers recording
their approval of the arms conference trea
ties, marked completion of an outstanding
achievement of the Harding administration.
It brought a realization to the various gov
ernments and peoples concerned that the ef
forts for peace and economy have brought
tangible results. The various treaties #iow in
force mean that the United States, Great
Britain, Japan, France and Italy are in ac
cord on the issues considered, which were
the ending of naval competition, termination
of the Anglo-Japanese pact and the preven
tion of war in the Pacific.
The arms conference treaties looked good
on paper. From the first the agreement sién
‘ed early in the administration of President
'Harding made a strong appeal to the popular
imagination. But the treaties take on a new
‘significance now that they have been ratified
‘and recorded. The immediate future will ex
‘ploit the high aims of the contracting gov
'cruments. Warships are to be scrapped, sunk
or dismantled and junked beyond the possi
bility of use in conflict. Everything else has
been done, and the next step is execution of
the plans provided in the pact.
‘No government represented at the state
department meeting had a protest of any
kind. All were harmony and understanding.
The representatives of the five powers were
in the closest possible accord, having been
commissioned by their governments to take
the last necessary step in making the treaties
operative. Everyone of them must have felt
the significance of the occasion, which mark
ed the closest approach yet made by nations
of the world to peace by understanding.
This fruition is a monument to Warren G.
' Harding. He called the conference as one
of the first acts of his administration. Had
‘he lived he would have been present at the
‘head of the table to participate in the record
3ing of the solemn agreements for peace. The
{peoples of five great nations today have rea
ison for paying a solemn tribute to his mem
ory. The Harding arms conference is a sue
cess.
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Cupid is now forced to hesitate 10 days in
Nebraska on account of a eugenics law go
ing into effect in that state. Consequently,
many couples, impatient to unite the bonds
of matrsmony, are hastening from Nebraska
to adjoining states to get married. Just an
other evidence that “love will find a way”
and the futility of trying to regulate affairs
of the heart. -
The farmer may not be well off, but he
is- better off than he was two years ago,;
and he will be better off two years hence
| than he is now.
You can’t always tread on air. You can’t
always have everything as you would like
to have it. Occasionally you are going to
stub your toes. Once in a while things are
going wrong.
How do you react to difficulties? That,
says Jerome P. Fleishman in “Uncle Jerry
Says,” is what I'm asking you!
Do you get grouchy and mean and sour
when the world slaps you in the face? Do
The Chicago crime commission has report
ed that robberies with the aid of guns have
been greatly decreased since the law went
into effect increasing the penalty for such
crimes. The Chicago Tribune sees in the re
sult proof positive that “the law vigorously
applied will cut crimes of violence very
‘promptly." Assuredly. The criminal who
finds he can rob or kill with comparative
safety due to the inoperation of stern justice
is encouraged to go on. The moment he un
derstands that the hand of the law will fall
upon him, and that it will be a heavy hand,
he shrinks from contact with it and com
mits fewer and milder crimes. Punishment
does deter the criminal.
Seventeen states,” including Georgia, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana and Texas, tax gasoline
one cent a gallon for roads: twelve, includ
ing Alabama, have a tax of two cents; one,
Utah, taxes two and one-half cents; six, Vir
ginia, North and South Carolina, Florida,
Arkansas and Oregon, tax three cents. Four
of the one-cent states will go to two cents
in 1924. At the recent session of the legisla
ture Georgia was lifted to the 3-cents list, ef
fective the first of next January.
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“The legislature didn’t put any tax on a
man for kissing his wife,” remarks the
Crawfordville Advocate Democrat with evi
dent satisfaction. Oh_ well, they probably
thought the poor fellow was already taxed
all he could stand in supplying the accesso
ries required by the modern female.
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If the girls will give the same attention to
adorning the inside of their heads that they
give to decorating the outside of their skins
all will be well. And if the boys will exer
cise as much muscle on some useful job as
they do in running bases the supply of staple
merchandise will be ample.
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Happy is the man who knows how to play.
He will never grow old. Years cannot chase
the smile from his face or the song from his
lips. For him the world is never grey and
dreary; he finds new food for happiness in
the society of his friends, and he makes
friends wherever he goes’
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Some people talk too much. This thing
of declaring Georgia farmers ‘“ruined” is get
ting on the farmers’ nerves. They are far
from bankrupt They can’t very well go
bankrupt with cotton around 25 cents and
harvests of big crops of corn and hay just
ahead. ‘
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Editor Rush Burton, of the Lavonia Times,
is another popular Georgia editor who has
been appointed to Governor Walker’s staff.
Bedecked in uniform, shining buttons and
gold braid Brother Burton will be a dashing
figure on state occasions.
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" Former Secretary Daniel may be right in
‘saying that Mr. McAdoo {s “a strong con
jtender" for the democratic nomination, but
'so are many others strong contenders now;
the test will come next summer,
| RUDE RURAL RHYMES
| FATE. |
There is a blank verse bard who states that
men are masters of their fate. I like his runes
so full of spunk, but what he says at first
seems bunk. Each one of us is like Jack Hor
ner, we're eating pie, each in his corner.
Many may not chose the pie he takes, though
some of them be leathery fakes and some
of them the kind that mother makes. We
reach in blindly after plums, some get them,
others burn their thumbs, or when they seize
the luscious boon it like as not turns out
a prune. Had 1 been born in other climes I
might be writing Chinese rhymes. I'm glad
it was not Fortune’s plan that I should be
an African. I'm very glad she cast my lot
within this favored Yankee spot; I'd hate to
be a Hottentot. Though winters freeze or
summers melt us we have to play what cards
are dealt us. And yet at that the bard I
quote may have some sense in what he
wrote. “In the fell clutch of circumstance”
we still may have a fighting chance. Though
blows may fall upon our erown we need not
take them sitting down. East of the sea or
west of it we still may make the best of it.
They may be right, those Hindoo men, who
teach that we are born again, just circle
round from death to birth and keep on com
ing to the earth. The way we ran our pre
vious race in each new life must fix our
place. Believe me folks, if this is so I want
to do the best 1 know, lest I be born an
Eskimo. I hope I'll keep all future dates
within these same United States. Should I
be born in Dutch Guiana I'd have no chance
to marry Hannah. —BOB ADAMS.
’ A Literary Digest Selection. I
From the Charlotte Observer.
Wonder what the southern admirers of The
Literary Digest think of its treatment of the
negro exodus from the south and its causes?
The Digest is supposed to be a publication
which gives weekly summary of the best
thought of the people. In many respects it isa
valuable paper, but in copying a full page
cartoon from The Liberator and its selection
of causes advanced for the migration of the
negro it has inflicted a dent in its own repu
tation. The cartoon represents an army of
negro men, women and children fleeing from
the south. The Literary Digest was circulat
ing a picture which must inevitably establish
a false impression in the minds of thousands
of people who, not knowing the south, will
ever think of it as a land of savages who
burn negro homes, hang the negroes to trees
and drive them out of the land. There are
many vicious negro papers in the north and
west, and there is an incendiary organiza
tion known as the National Association for
Advancement of the Welfare of the Negroes,
but the combined evil influences of all these
would never work the injury to the reputa
tion of the south that The Literary Digest
publication has wrought.
If Life Were All Roses—
vou tighten up your muscles and make ready
to slap it back? . ;
Or do you smile grimly to yourself, take
a hitch in vour mental belt, face the music
confidently and, with faith in God and de
pendence on your own resources, go at the
next thing at hand with all the courage and
spirit you can command?
Ii life were all roses the iragrance would
overpower our will to do.—Selected. :
THE DAWSON NEWS
From the Chester (S. C.) News.
Recently a bond issue for the purpose of
building roads in Union county, North Car
olina, was defeated by a large majority. The
people of Union county have enough of taxes.
In Marlboro county, South Carolina, only
a short while ago, a bond issue for the build
ing of a road and a bridge or so was also de
feated.
From other sections of the country The
News notices accounts of where bond issues
are being defeated. This would indicate that
the people are getting enough of the public
debt business.
The News is of the opinion that many
people in the country have gone wild on the
bond issue business and apparently are willing
to place unlimited debts upon the people of
the commonwealth. Much of the agitation for
large bond issues comes from those who have
a sclfish motive. The bonding of a state or
county means muche to them in a financial
way, hence they are willing to load the peo
ple to the brim with public debts.
During the meeting of the last general as
sembly of South Carolina the matter of is
suing fifty or sixty million dollars’ worth of
state bonds for the purpose of building hard
surfaced roads throughout the state came be
fore the legislature. At that time The News
voiced its opirion agfisinst such an issue and
cvery day we become more and more con
vinced that our position was correct.
South Carolina needs good roads and we
realize that it takes money to build them, but
if sixty million dollars’ worth of five per cent
Londs are issued it also means that when the
bonds are retired at the end of thirty years
the sixty million dollars’ worth of roads will
have cost the taxpayers of South Carolina
near on to one hundred and fifty million dol
lars, ninety million having gone in the way
of interest to those who hold the bonds.
The better plan, as per our judgment, is
to adopt a pian of building hard surfaced
roads and to pay for them as we go. It
might not be a bad idea to levy a special
tax on gasoline, such special levy being spent
solely for permanent roads, and at the end
of a term of years we would not have ex
pended more ‘for interest than for bonds.
Each day the opposition to bond issues i 8
growing stronger and stronger.
From the Tampa Daily Times.
A deaf man, age 65, writes to the New
York Times from Mt. Vernon, N. Y., about
listening in on his home-made radio to a
marriage ceremony at Newark, N. J., and
hearing it all distinctly, including the bride
groom’s kiss, “as plainly as if the whole af
fair were taking place five feet.away in my
awn room.”
Shades of Olga Nethersole! That was a
kiss to reverberate down the ages; one upon
which a man might waste his whole breath
and wish he might never get it back again,
just die right there; one of which the bride
might join the sleeping princess in the fairy
tale in exclaiming: “O, Love, thy kiss would
wake the dead!”
But that was not the point that the writer
was making in his letter, It was another
and a pretty good one. Given in his own
language it is “Not all deaf people can use
a telephone, but z large majority can and
every one of these would find a good radio
an unspeakable joy. To those who have
good ears listening in is more or less a pas
time, but for those whose poor ears catch
cnly a fraction of the words and other
sounds around them radio broadcasting be
comes a new and delightful entrance into the
joys of hearing.” .
There is pathos in this statement which
for us who enjoy the use of all our senses
to show us the loneliness of “isolation in
which must live our friends who are de
prived of hearing or sight—an isolation that
is none the less feit by them though hidden
behind a cheerful mien and overcome, to a
certain extent, by the cultivation of other
senses to take the place of the missing one.
But hail to the radio that can make a deaf
man hear a groom kiss his brideiat a distance
of several hundred miles, when lots of us
who think we have keen hearing would as
Bobbie Burns says, “gi’e o'or lugs” to do
that same. \
From the Washington Post.
Henry Ford’s assertion that prohibition is
ne longer a political issue is what might have
been expected from on¢ who holds history is
“bunk.” True, the prehibition amendment
has been ratified, but the question of en
forcement remains. That is an issue that
is very much alive. With certain states at
tempting to nullify it by repeal of co-opera
tive enforcement legislation and with large
elements in both parties clamoring for modi
fication of the enforcement act and with other
large elements opposing any lessening of re
strictions, prohibition—in its enforcement as
pect—is about as live an issue as is now
kicking about the country.
POLITICAL FARMERS.
From the Albany Herald.
We are getting tired of the chatter of
these political farmers. Some of them are
in congress and others are in the several
state legislatures and trying to work their
way into congress. Still others are after
just. any sort of office. In the aggregate
there are entirely too many of them. These
political farmers hope to get the votes of
real farmers by deploring their terfible con
dition and proposing to do something for
them. And once these fellows get into of
fice their interest in the real farmers seems
to cease.
LESS GOVERNMENT, LESS TAXES.
From the Metter Advertiser.
Defenders «f soaring tax rates usually at
tempt to justity their position by contending
that the government is rendering a greater
service, and taxpayers should therefore be
willing to pay for it. In many instances these
extra services are unnecessary or not worth
the cost, and some are positively injurious
to the taxpayer. As long as the government
undertakes to regulate the lives of individuals
and the conduct of every business, greatand
small, the tax burden will be exorbitant, says
the Houston Post.
LO, THE POOR FARMER.
From the New Orleans Times+Picayune.
Two out of every five farmers in the Unit
ed States own at least a flivver! so the Auto
mobile Exchange of America announces. It
is also said that in proportion to their num
bers farmers bought as maay autos last sea
son as any other industrial class.
NOT A CHURCH MEMBER.
From the Commerce News.
President Coolidge is a Congregationalist
in helief, but not a member of any church.
Uniortunate. With the possible exception of
Abraham Lincoln this is the first president
who did not belong to some branch of the
church.
BOND ISSUES.
Heard Them Kiss.
A LIVE ISSUE.
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