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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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DAWSON, GA, SEPTEMBF_M, 1923. |
What is so rare as a week without rain?
The answer is another dry one.
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What assurance is there that the extraor
dinary session of the legislature will not per
form as did the regular session?
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This is the season of the year thousands
of tired vacationists come home to rest up a
few days before going back to work.
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This is the mentioning season, and if all
the gentlemen who have been mentioned
become candidates next year there will be live
times in Georgia.
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Scientists who said it would be a cool
summer and who found out they were mis
taken are now trying to get even by pre
dicting an early and severe winter. ’1
The Greensboro Herald-Journal says there
are too many laws and wants to know if we
can’t get some of them repealed. Well, the]
legislature recently in session did the next|
best thing; it passed very few new ones. |
THE STATE’S TAX TOTALS.
State taxes collected in Georgia last year
amounted to $12,000,000 and county taxes to
$23,000,000.
Adding to these amounts the estimated mu
nicipal taxes paid, the total state, county and
municipal taxes in Georgia last year easily
reached $65,000,000.
This does not include federal taxes, emi
bracing the large total of $40,000,000 income,
tax, or occupational taxes or automobile li
cense and gasoline "taxes.
Altogether, they run the tax bill of the
state for one year well above the $100,000,000
mark,
It is an enormous total. Of course it must
be recognized that the price of public im
provements, of the greater demands of in-.
creased business, is more taxes. |
Yet, the prospective investor or citizen al- |
ways asks, as one of his first questions,l
about the tax rat¢ of state, county or city. It
is considered an important item by him. A
high tax rate frequently “scares him off.”
A growing state requires heavy outlays for
public purposes. But it must be borne in
mind that high taxes isn't a good advertise
ment, |
A NORMAL HEIRESS. '
Mrs. Lester Norris, heiress to the Gatesl
millions, has done what any normal woman
with enormous wealth would do. She ahan-[
doned the little rented home in which she
and her young husband first set up house
keeping, and bought an imposing residence
in keeping with her financial resources. Mrs.
Norris’ purchase of the estate of Crawfords
burn, just outside Chicago, need not disap
point persons who had admired the democ-]
racy of her act in moving into modest quar
ters when she had money enough to live in
a palace. If she is happier as a result of
spending slso,ooo—not an extravagant sum
for a home as compared to what some mil
lionaires expend—that was the thing for her
to do.
Stories of persons who come into huge
fortunes and say they are going to stick to
their lasts in their cobbling shops, or to the
washboards, or to the hod, or what-not are
memories. But almost without fail the cob
bler, the washerwoman and the hod carrier
find that it is much pleasanter after years
of hard work to rest awhile and enjoy the
things that money can bring. There is not
so much said about them when they forget
their vows that they would not change their
modes of life just because the fortune fell
into their laps. That is because abandon
ment of the original modest plan of living is
the usual thing, and, therefore, is not of
much interest or importance.
1t is human to want things that much
money will buy, and when one has enor
mous wealth one usually satisfies the desire.
Mrs. Norris, new to great wealth, did not
realize just what it meant. She is obviously
commencing to realize it now. Crawfords
burn, with its 45 landscaped acres, if the
owner had enough money to support it
would appeal to any one more than a cot
tage or an apartment. Mrs. Norris promises
better than she did when she was married.
She is normal, and will have servants, finery,
motor cars and the other complements of
wealth; and since she is a normal human be
ing, as the evidence shows, she may also find
that her vast fortune can be used for the
benefit of others who are less fortunate than
herself.
* BIENNIAL SESSIONS.
The Grifin News and Sun declares that
the wisdom of former Governor Hardwick
in recommending bicnnial sessions of the leg
islature has been proven. Biennial sessions
were urged by newspapers and citizens long
before the ex-governor gppeared on the
scene of action at the state house. If our
memory serves us correctly, and we are sure
it does, the late John H. Estill, of the Sa
vannah Morning News, was the pioneer in
this wholesome movement. The opinion is
growing stronger that the legislature ought
not to meet oftener than two years. Only
four states now have annual sessions, and
the probability is that the Georgia assembly
will pass the biennial sessions bill next sum
mer. It would undoubtedly save the tax
rayers a huge sum, and the infliction of many
needless laws upon the state.
’ THE COST OF CRIME.
We are constantly reading of crimg, yet
,seldom reflect that it imposes a considerable
iburden on us. We are more interested in
| the details of crime than we are in the cost
%it imposes on the public. We are shocked
tand some times alarmed lest our person or
lproperty become involved. But we seldom
think far enough to appreciate the ‘fact that
| we pay our proportional part of the cost of
|cvery crime committed.
{ According to recent estimates the national
crime bill amounts to approximately 'three
‘hillion dollars annually, which means a per
| capita charge of $3O to every man, woman
'and child in this country. And even this
istupt;ndous amount does not embrace the
| cost of erection and maintenance of penal
land correctional institutions, which add fully
as much more to the individual assessment.
It has bene calculated that if to the two
| above items there be added the cost of the
| construction and maintenance of all institu
tions for the care of the insane every Amer
ican is paying annually approximately slool
for the liquidation of the crime bill of the|
It:ountry. Of course, some pay more than |
others because they pay more taxes than
others, but $lOO is the average ona per cap
ita basis. ]
The National Security Company, of New
York, in considering this tremendous and
partially unnecessary burden on the people
holds that we have laws enough but lack
public support in the enforcement of laws.
Undoubtedly this is true, as the people, gen
erally speaking, regard the enforcement of
law the exclusive business of the policel
forces of the country. If they are aware
that one of the first duties of good citizenship
is to obey the law and see that others obey it
they are careless of this obligation, their
carelessness creating conditions which' per
mit crime that is to a large extent prevent
able. l
LET EUROPE ALONE---MELLON.
'The report of Mr. Mellon, secretary of the
treasury, to Mr. Coolidge on Europe is of
particular interest at this time when there are
suggestions from various sources that the
United States should offer aid. The secre
tary of the treasury, who recently returned
after a visit abroad, does not believe that
America can intervene successfully. Besides,
European economic conditions are improv
ing, which may be taken as precluding the
necessity of American intervention.
The advice Mr. Meillon has offered regard
ing non-interference with European economic
problems is of value. He appreciates, more
than anyone else because of his gfficial posi
tion, the responsibility that would be Amer
ica’s if this government sought to help Eu
rope. The one element of which the most
would be required and which would be tlie
tirst demanded is money. American cash
would be more powerful in the European
view than American thought and moral in
fluence. The Europeans could use Uncle
Sam’s pocketbook although they might dis
dain his advice. Having poured out billions
already that may never be retrieved America
may well hesitate to open her coffers again
on an international gamble of that kind.
Secretary Mellon is a hard-headed, careful,
thinking man, one not susceptible to for
eign blandishments and one, therefore, hard
to deceive. He goes after facts and not fan
cies. He wants material proofs. His belief
that America has done enough and that she
should not do more than enough is due to
‘the proper use of common sense, and the
president, with all kinds of problems before
him in which finances are to be considered,
is fortunate to have a man of that kind
around.
TUNEFUL SOLONS. |
The Dalton Citizen thinks the songs that
resounded through the legisiative hall every
‘morning came high. It says:
! Whitfield’s representative told us mem
bers of the legislature sang daily. Judg
ing by the treasurer’s report, which shows
~ the rec :nt session cost the state $120,000,
~ and the small amount of work done
. doubtless their song was: “I'm Running
Wild: I've Lost Control.” 2
' As for us, we believe the time was better
spent in song than it would have been in leg
islating. The state is already suffering from
a multiplicity of laws, and there is far too
little music as we pass along. It may be
mentioned, too, that the able and affable mem
ber from Whitfield often led the singing. He
sings well, and, moreover, he is one of the
best members of the general assembly, far
above the average. We hope Whitfield coun
ty will keep him at the law-making job, and
that he will continue to sing.
‘ Some of the members may now be excus
ed for much of what they said in outlining
their plans for straightening things out up
.at Atlanta during the session of the legisla
ture that is now at an end. They were never
legislators before, and really did not know
how limited their powers would be when it
came to arranging things just as they would
like them. The same thing applies to other
members who had an ambitious idea that
when-they got into action the special objects
of their displeasure would take for the tall,
uncut timber. What one wants and what
one gets in the legislature is often so dif
ferent from each other that the idea of any
relationship existing between them is never
suggested. :
| R R A
| The postoffice department’s initiation of a
lnight airplane mail service is a thing that
‘marks a development in aviation in that it
shows how seriously the government con
|sider_s the possibilities of commercial flight.
IThe cross country service from New York
(to San Francisco by night as well as by day
lis a signal achievement. It marks an ad
| vancement and an enterprise in keeping with
| American progress.
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Now is the time to get busy with the fall
'gardens. There are always some fine ones
in Dawson. ;
}_ Wonders will never cease. The Commerce
News has found a preacher who is “fed up”
lon chicken. “It almost makes me sick to see
| a chicken; everywhere I go they have chicken
on the table” wails the reverend gentleman.
The Commerce paper suggests to its readers
that they feed to their ministerial guests
country ham with brown-eyed gravy, old
time corn bread such.as mother used to
lbakc. juicy steak, fresh beans and roasting
ears and tomatoes from the garden, and
peaches. We believe any preacher would like
that menu. »
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The practical failure of the cotton crop
’throughout this section emphasizés the needi
of payrolls in Dawson. Much of the money |
spent for sport and frolic would help the
town more than any thing else if put in in-l
dustrial enterprises. Georgia towns that arc|
prospering and growing have numerous |
<mall manufactories that give employment
to people. A little more public spirit would
work wonders. i
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! Americus, Tifton and Sylvester are three'
'more neighboring cities that will have hydro
}electric power, supplied by one of the big
companies operating in this section, at a rate
'much less than .municipal owmed plants
charge. This is a matter that Dawson offi
cials should look into. Cheaper electricity
lwould be worth a great deal to the city in a
inumber of ways.
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~ Editor Dake, of the Douglas County Sen
tinel, has found out that the value of poultry
in Georgia has increased $1,500,000 in the
rast twelve months, and asks his readers just
to think what it will be five years from):ow.l
It is a fact that the hens all over the state!
have been laying golden eggs in recent!
months. l
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Why stop at fixing a government priccl
on wheat? Why not on cotton and corn andi
hogs and cabbages and pickles? Will the |
wheat growers of the west say that tho_\'i
cught to be protected by class legislationi
any more than the cotton farmers of Geor-|
gia? And if this “guaranteed price” idca§
starts where will it end? !
That’s all right for the coal dealers to pre
dict an early winter, for it’s a good business
policy, but weather forecasters who pin all
their faith to the .premature migration of
ducks and geese are making a sad error by
not listening carefully to the hee-haw of that
justly famous mule as well.
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Governor Walker is being criticized for his
earnest effort to carry out his campaign
pledges. There are evidently some who do
not believe pre-election liromises_ mean any
thing, but it is to the governor’s credit that
he would keep faith with the people. Many
politicians can’t understand - it.
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Did you ever hear it said that the common
people of the United States have nothing to
do with their government? It isn’t true. The
president of the United States started life
as a New England farm boy and his son is
now at work in southern tobacco fields for
$3.50 a day.
The most abused word we know of is
“expert.” Everywhere in everything, no mat
ter what has been your experience or suc
cess, you are confronted with a so-called ex
pert who has had neither experience or suc
cess. It has become ridiculous.
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
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‘ APPLES. l
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No other leafy plant to me seems friendly
as an apple tree. Where its great arms are
spread abroad 1 love to lie upon the sod. I
love its trunk and leaves and shoots, I love
its buds and flowers and fruits. I'd rather
pluck such pomes as these than those that
dangled from the trees in Homer’s old Hes
perides. A homely, freckled, big-eared kid,
how often would I doff my lid and stretch
myself within the shade some pasture nat
ural fruit had made. If I could beat the
bossies to it I'd lie beneath and gaze up
through it. I'd loaf and watch the white
clouds float, each one a cotton batting boat.
With grateful tongue I sing the praise of
apples in those good old ways. With sum
mer wind the leaves were rippled, by sum
mer suns the fruits were stippled. When I
saw one that suited me I threw a stick or
shook the tree, but every year the first to
redden were those some lively worm had fed
in, had crawled about and made a bed in.
How carefully I chewed 'round one way un
ti! T almost reached his runway, and then,
reversing, chewed on back clear to the bor
der of his track. I know at pressing time'in
fall we drink sweet cider, worms and all, but
cther times I hate like sin to bite in where
a worm has been. Yea, I am wrought up
even more to find the worm still in the bore
and most particularly blue whene’er I bite
him square in two. Yet often now in city
streets, amid the dust and noise and heats,
a vision rises in my soul, I see a cool, shaded
pastures roll, and feign would check my
hurrying pace. chase off some cow and take
her place to doze on grass that tree shade
dapples and eat a lot of wormy apples.
—BOB ADAMS.
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iI Georgia Press Talk. |
Lavonia Times: Down at Dawson, Ga., an
envelope of boll weevils was dropped in the
| coilection hat at a revival service. There is
ino use giving the boll weevils to the Lord.
!G‘ive ’em the devil. That’s what we are do
-ling for them in this section.
! A Bad Combination.
| Jacksen Progress-Argus: Last year south
‘\vcst Georgia made almost a normal cotton
icrop. It went to the head. This year they
| “plunged.” It rained. It kept on raining.
| The weevils came. They are still coming.
'No man can compete with the weather and
| boll weevil combined. This is what overtakes
jany people anywhere who put all their eggs
iin one basket. The cow, sow and hen are
'safe and dependable.
{ Very Likely.
i Greensboro Herald-Journal: The Dalton
1 Citizen calls attention to the act of the legis
{lature putting a ten per cent tax on cigars
‘and cigarettes, but doesn’t touch snuff and
| chewing tobacco. The Citizen thinks the leg
!islature must “spit red and cusses.”
THE DAWSON NEWS
h Reduce Local Taxes. ]
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From the Atlanta Constitution.
All over Georgia there is a cry for tax
reduction.
{ There is scarcely a county newspaper in
Ithe state’ that is not devoting columns to the
advertising of lands for sale for non-payment
of taxes.
Most of these properties are farms—farms
upon which the owners live, and from which
they make all of the “living” that keeps the
' wolves from the doors.
' These taxes that are burdensome are not’
‘the state taxes, but the combinations of the
various local taxes, the gross rates in thel
counties running as high as 40, 50 and 60
mills, That such rates are depressing and
oppressing is too obvious for comment. It is
the local taxes that pinch, and yet local pol
iticians will*attempt to camouflage the real
situation by charging the oppression to thel
state.
The legislature should long ago have lim
ited in the constitution the rates that coun
ties may levy. In its failure to do so, The
Constitution now points out that under thel
new gasoline tax law—imposing 3 cents a
gallon gross—one cent of this, or $1,000,000
a year, will go to counties to meet the very
expenses for which the people are now taxed.
This being true every county board in
Georgia should meet at once and reduce the
mileage so that the farmers and other land
owners will not be called #pon to. pay by
local taxes for local road work that they also
pay for by another process every time they
buy a gallon of gasoline for thejr automo
bibke, tractor or farm machine engine. |
| The Barber Pole. |
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From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Editor The Advertiser: I am writing for
information. I would like to know through
vou just where did the barber pole originate,
and what does the red, white and blue sig
nify? And just when barbering began, and
by whom? (Signed) B 0. T
When we first read this retter of inquiry
we remembered in a general way that in
carly days the barber and the surgeon were
one and the same and the striped.pole was
originally the sign of the doubled profession,
when bilsod letting was believed to be an
important aid to promoting health.' But to
be exact and definite enough to satisfy the
correspondent we consulted that repository
of authentic information, the Encyclopedia
Brittanica. Here is what it says of the his
tory of the profession in full:
BARBER: (from Latin, barba, a beard)
one whose occupation is to shave or trim
beards, a hair dresser. In former times the
barbers’ craft was dignified with the title of
a profession. In France the barber-surgeons
were separated from the peruquiers and in
corporated as a distinct body in the time of
[.ouis XIV. Tn England barbers first re
ceived incorporation from Edward IV, in
1461, By 32 Henry IV, ¢. 42 thew were
united with the company of surgeons, it be
ing -enacted that the barbers should confine
themselves to the minor operations of blood
letting and drawing of teeth, while the sur
geons were prohibited from ‘“carvery or
shaving.” In 1745 barbers and surgeons were
separated into distinct corporations by 18
George 11, ¢, 15. The barber’s shop was the
favorite resort of idle persons, and in addi
tion to its attraction as a focus of news a
lute, viol or some such musical instrument
was always kept for the éntertainment of
waiting customers, symbols of the use of
which is still preserved. The fillet around
the pole indicated the ribbon for bandaging
the arm in bleeding and the basin the ves
sel to receive 'the blood.”
In many European communities and in
certain foreign neighborhoods of New York
city the barber still performs his ancient
functions in cupping and bleeding his cus
tomers,
A STRONG HAND NEEDED.
From the Dalton Citizen.
The mob spirit seems to be rampant in the
state, demonstrations of lawlessness occurring
in' four places last week. Two lynchings and
an attack upon 1 state institution are among
the outrages that have recently smudged
pages of Georgia’s record. Conditions have
aroused the new governor to action, and he
says he will prevent disorder and lawlessness
if he has to resort to martial law. Governor
Walker has set for himself a big task, and
if he succeeds in it he will rank with the
best gubernatorial executives—men who have
fought the insidious forces seeking to weak
en their commonwealths. Mob-law has be
come so common in the last few years that
it will take a strong will to combat it, and
the governor who banishes the lawless spir
it, which is so detrimental to the best inter
ests of ‘the state, will serve well in one re
spect at least.
SOUTH RAISES MORE CORN.
From - Farming Magazine.
Based .on conditions as of June 1, as re
ported by the agricultural bureau, the south
ern states will produce appreciably increased
green crops this year. It is estimated that
these states will produce 148,358,000 bushels
of wheat and 161,657,000 bushels of oats this
vear. Last year the south produced 124,467,-
000 bushels of wheat and 137,910,000 bush
els of oats. According to the forecast the
south will this year produce 23,900,000 bush
els of wheat and 23,700,000 bushels of oats
more than it produced in 1922, The indicated
wheat production for the entire country this
vear is 816,580,000 bushels, or 45,500,000 less
than the country produced in 1922. Oats pro
duction for 1923 is estimated at 1,256,456,000
bushels, or a gain over 1922 of 55,000,000
bushels.
WOULD HONOR JOE HALL.
From the Macon Telegraph.
The people of Macon and Bibb county in
general and the friends of the late Joe Hill
Hall in particular will be especially pleased
and deeply grateful that a number of week
ly newspapers in the state are suggesting
that a monument should be erected to Mr.
Hall for his fine and loyal services to the
people. Among the outstanding weeklies
making the suggestion are the Bainbridge
Post-Searchlight and The Dawson News. It
is really superfluous to state here that Mr.
Hall was a statesman of unusual ability and
sincerely devoted to the public cause. A mon
ument in his honor would not be amiss,
EAT THE DIRTY DISHES.
From the Eustus Lake Region.
A Frenchman has invented a machine for
making dinner plates,/ and also cups and
saucers, from a kind of cake dough similar
to that from which ice cream cones are
made. The invention is designed to do away
with dish washing. After you have finished
the main courses you simply eat your plate,
cup and saucer for desserf, and there is
nothing left but your knife and fork. Now,
if some one will invent a system of cookless
cookerv the problem of living will be great
lv simplified.
MUCH THE SAME.
From the Cedar Rapids Republican.
It takes a practiced eye to tell the differ
ence between a frugal man and a tightwad.
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