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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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DAWSON, GA., SEPTEMBER 11, 1923, |
Georgia needs to quit calamity howling
long enough to count her blessings.
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So President Harding died for the want of
a bit of Scotch? Of course, there will be
plenty of people who will want to believe it.
S,
The Thomasville Times-Enterprise thinks
that whatever Governor Walker may have
owed Judge Howard he has paid in full. It
would seem so. i
Mr. Coolidge and the anthracite miners
have the spotlight now, but in a little while
Senor Firpo and Champion Dempsey will de
mand and get it.
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Perhaps the coal difficulties will result in
finding a substitute for coal. If so we can
begin it all over again with the substitute as
the bone of contention.
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A charwoman at Detroit was fired because
she went to work in a motor car, but if all
the workers were dismissed for the same rea
son there wouldn’t be much done. 5
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The foolish notion that a president is en
titled to two terms merely because he has
held one must be abandoned, and the one
term rule established by popular acclaim.
They’re still cussin’ the legislature. Barring
the wind jammers and a few others with
spleen in their gizzards it was a very nice
legislature, and we have no crow to pick
with them.
Citizens of Cuthbert have held a meeting
to consider the paving of streets in the bus
iness section. The News is glad to note
this evidence of public spirit on the part of
our neighbors.
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Senator Hiram Johnson is ,’somewhat!
doubtful of California’s support in the event!
that he becomes a candidate for the presi-‘
dency, which recalls the old saying that a
prophet is not without honor save in his own
country.
The Georgia political pond is considerably
agitated at this time. It’s money, however,
that talks most convincingly, and it is a safe
prediction that when the time comes next
year to pay entrance fees there will be fewer
candidates than at present.
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It isn’t well to take the political situation
too seriously. The country has the vitality to
recover from a lot of foolishness. It survived
Sockless Simpson, General Weaver, 16 to 1
and numerous other periods of discontent,
growing richer all the while.
A prohibition enforcentent agent who
raided a place where he found a lot of booze
tried to maintain that he was not drunk af
ter drinking fifteen glasses of whisky and
three of wine, but the statement itself was
proof enough that he was not sober.
ANOTHER BIRTHDAY.
The Dawson News has entered upon an
other year. It is a pleasure to report that it
is“in good health, that it is enjoying life to
the fullest, and that its hope is lively. As the
vears come and go it finds increased oppor
tunity for service, from which it derives only
satisfaction.
Through the forty-one years of its exist
ence The News has had a well defined pur
pose and a definite objective. It has been
the paper’'s desire to be of service to the
people of the community of which it is a
part, to be helpful in all good things in such
a way as a newspaper may be helpful. Such
are its desire and purpose today. Of all that
has been The News has been a part, and it
cherishes the lively hope that of all-that is
to be it also will be a partaker.
A USEFUL LIFE ENDS.
In noting the recent death of Hon. Charles
1.. Davis, of Meriwether county, Georgia, the
Savannah Press says:
For a number of years he was the soul
and life of western Georgia. He made
Warm Springs, Ga., the mecca of law
yers and statesmen. He was once chair
man of the appropriations committee of
the house of representatives in Atlanta
and was a faithful guardian of the treas
ury. Of late years he had been in fail
ing health. But he was a faithful pal and
a whole-hearted gentleman. ; |
Mr. Davis also served very efficiently as
state game commissioner during the admin
jstration of Governor Slaton, and at the time
oi his death was county commissioner of
Meriwether county. During the latter years
of his tife he was deeply interested in giving
Georgia a system of modern highways, and
many of the splendid rodds through his sec
tion of the state were largely due to his ef
forts. He was a loyal and useful citizen, and
The News in common with his many other
friends learned of his death witkh deep regret.
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THE BIGGEST BUSINESS.
We often hear the statement that farming
is the “biggest business in existence.” Yet,
says the Progressive Farmer, “most of us do
not stop and think what a tremendous busi
ness it is. It is ten times greater than all the
mines and quarries and three times greater
than all the factories in the world. The in
vestment in agriculture back in 1919 was $60,-
000,000,000. This is equal to more than the
total investment .in all other industries in
America” These figures give some idea of
the immensity of agriculture.
OPPORTUNITIES AT HOME.
Just why Georgia doesn’t have a greater
number of industries owned and controlled
by the people of the different communities is
one of the surprising things to the Savannah
Press. There should be a great number of
these, and their operation would bring pros
perity to the immediate sections in which
they were operated.
The Press notes that Judge U. V. Whipple,
of Cordele, “has found an industry of this
character to which he calls attention in a
communication to the Cord=le Dispatch. It is
a horse collar factory at Buford that started
thirty years ago as a small concern and which
has grown into an industry of large propor
tions, with a big payroll and enthusiastic
workers. One would think in this automobile
age if a community can find profit in handling
horse collars and harness and shoes for hors
es and mules that other communities should
be encouraged to tackle lines that are even
in more demand tHan these things.”
Judge Whipple tells of the establishment
at Buford of a small tannery, which later led
to the starting of the horse collar factory.
Here is Judge Whipple’s description of what
he finds at Buford: ‘
Some thirty years ago a horse collar“
factory was added to the business, Later
on a shoe factory was added as a side
line, and finally a harness factory com
pleted the list. Today Bona Allen, sr.,
. age 76, president; Bona Allen, jr., age |
45, vice president; John Allen, age 40, |
treasurer; Victor Allen, aged 39, secre
tary, and H. W. Christian, age 50, man
ager, are the guiding spirits of this
mammoth $1,000,000 enterprise. This
collar factory claims to be the largest
of its kind in the world, with an output |
of 1,500 collars per day, 3,000 pairs of
shoes are made each day, while the har
ness factory does a like rushing business.
No difficulty in marketing all their prod- |
ucts has ever been experienced. Approx- |
imately 1,700 employes contribute to the
success of this enterprise and its payroll )
causes awfully flush times around Bu- |
ford twice each month, despite the boll
weevil.
A review of such a manufacturing site
as Buford induces the writer to believe
that there are at least a dozen different
lines of manufacturing that could be
started at Cordele with promise of great
success. Young men of Crisp county:
this is written to catch your attention.
Why not become interested in some
manufacturing enterprise, even though
small at first, and leave the boll weevil
for the older men to worry with? I
What is true of Cordele and the young
men of Crisp county is true of Dawson, and
of the entire state as well. There are innum
erable opportunities waiting for some one
with enterprise and vision to develop them
into big industries. :
THE NEW BONUS BILL.
Congress will enact bonus legislation, ac
cording to all the evidence at hand. The at-‘
titude of members toward giving the ‘former!
service men compensation has not changedi
since last winter except, perhaps, further to
crystalize in its favor. This is indicated
from all sides, so it is practically a certainty
that when congress convenes in December
for the regular session bonus legislation will
be one of the first things considered.
Senator Smoot, scheduled to be chairman’
of the ‘senate finance committee, told Secre
tary Mellon that the treasury would face the
problem of financing the bonus. Senator!
Smoot probably meant by that that congress;
would expect advice from the treasury de
partment on the method of raising the mon
ey. “Mr. Mellon would be able to answer it
in just one way—by emphasizing that con
gress would have to resort to taxation. He
also might suggest where the new burden
of taxation should be placed, and congress
might accept the suggestion if it found that
it could shift the responsibility ‘from itself
to the treasury department. Congress would
be in great danger of deceiving itself for the
reason that an increase in taxation, general
or special, would be understood as coming
from the legislators and not from an execu
tive department. The point is that, at the
best, congress would be directly responsible
for the increase.
It is impossible, therefore, to agree with
Senator Smoot that it is up to the treasury
department to find the money. Instead, the
whole thing is where it was last winter when
President Harding vetoed the bonus because
cengress had not provided a way to raise the
money. President Coolidge would be com
pelled by his' own good sense to treat the
bonus in the same way it was treated by his
predecessor. He has said that he would veto
the bill. unless congress created a plan to
meet the cost.
Congress members ought to understand by
this time that they cannot pldy for the sup
port of former service men and their con
nections by passing the bonus and then point
to some one else as responsible for increas
ing government expenditures. Congress can
not pass the bonus and then turn right
around to pass the buck to the treasury de
partment or to the white house. The job of
raising the money belongs to congress and
tc no other government department or agen
cy. If a great many members of congress
were not afraid of their shadows they would
not expose themselves to ridicule by grab
bing at popular favor while seeking to shield
themselves from criticism.
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Former Governor John M. Slaton, who has
just returned from a trip of two months
through Europe, says the world today is
suffering from lack of governmental econo
my, and adds: “Wherever I went through
Furope I found that heavy taxation is par
alyzing industries and working hardships up
on the people. The same condition exists
in this country, and the burden must be re
duced. The man and woman in every walk
of life feels the pinch.” Mr. Slaton has a
level head, and his observations and views
are always worth something. It is time to
call a halt in governmental extravagance,
from the smallest to the largest.
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Old Man Taxpaver is waking up. In an
election in Atlanta last week a proposed bond
issue was defeated by a vote of two to one.
' The hydro-electric plants of north Georgia'
are furnishing the people of that section |
|with cheaper lights and power than it is|
| possible to produce at steam plants, says!
the Sandersville Progress. There are a num-'
‘hcr of such plants in south Georgia, and The‘
News would again respectfully cafl the at
tention of Dawson officials to the fact that
they can buy and sell electricity much cheap
er than they are producing it at the locali
plant. ‘
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| The Butler Herald says it knows of sev—!
!cml large farms in Taylor county that have |
been operated this year on the proceeds from
lcrcam and egg sales, with the result that the
owners are clearer of debt than for many
’ycars. A great revolution is taking place in
‘the agriculture of Georgia, and farmers
who are taking advantage of these side lines
are the ones who are leading the way to pros
perity and independence for tillers of the soil.
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According to the census report the per
capita indebtedness of the city of Savannahl
is $40.43 for every man, woman and child in
its- limits. Savannah is not the exception.!
However, it furnishes a forceful example ofl
how our governments, like a great many in
dividuals, are spending far beyond their m-l
cemes. It explains, too, why taxes have be-l
come so burdensome, and a spirit of rebellion
on the part of the people is apparent.
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The Meridian, Miss.,, Star says the straw
berry crop of Lauderdale county this year
reached 100 carloads, with a total value of a
quarter of a million dollars. This should bel
encouraging to strawberry growers in Ter
rell county, who also met witly considerable
success the past year. The indications are
that the acreage here will be considerably
increased this fall.
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Just when the country was about sold on
the idea that it was going to the demnitien
bow-wows, with the calamity howlers pre
dicting national bankruptcy and the moralists |
warning that we were becoming thriftless inl
cur pursuit of pleasure, comes a financial
statement showing that savings deposits are
more® than a million dollars over what they
were a year ago.
Those of our contemporaries that opposed
Governor Walker the most strenuously in |
the campaign last summer are now having’
a great deal to say. They are tooting loud
and long, and if given time will get a lot of
discord out of their systems.
Now, just what is Hokus up to? Says: the
Lexington Echo: “His friends are beginning
to nominate ex-Senator Hoke Smith for vice
president. Looks to us like he is after some
thing more assured.”
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Some newspapers that have space to waste
are advocating a reduction in the member
ship of the legislature. They are at least fine
examples of optimism,
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| RUDE RURAL RHYMES |
l FAIR TIME. |
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On every farm there should be spare time
to take a holiday at fair time. Yea, though
the oats are cured for thrashing and silo
corn is right for slashing, let’s steal one
whole day from cur labors to see a few new
sights, by jabers, and swap some mnew lies
with the neighbors; for some old friends are
sure to drift in whom you’'ve not seen since
nineteen fifteen. O let us go with gleeful
gushes to goshes to gaze upon the first prize
squashes and, full of grins and honest gloats,
let’s point with pride to good fat shomts.
Pa’s hat is small a sizc or two because his
corn is tagged with blue,; and Ma can triumph
in her turn because the first prize jell is
hern. Our barefoot Jim is not forgotten but
wins with spuds that he has brought in,
while Sue’s best beau beholds her biscuit
and right away decides to risk it. Each ru
ral fair should have some classes, with entry
free, for lads and lasses. To offer small but
many prizes for kiddies’ work a plan most
wise is. Ten dollar prizes make morg noise,
but easy cash is bad for boys. Let many kids
go glad to bed instead of one with swollen
head. A jitney here and two bits there will
make the youngsters like the fair, and if we
train them up like this when they are
‘grown they’ll’ never miss. When you have
joined the angel throng the fair will still be
going strong. Yea, when you rest beneath
‘the grasses all those who can will try for
‘passes, but if they can’t get through the
‘wickets they’ll trot around and buy some
'ficket& —BOB ADAMS.
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'l Georgia Press Talk. I
Atlanta Georgian: Editor E. L. Rainey, of
’The Dawson News, in the current issue of
his excellent newspaper, submits this very
timely and worth-while observation: “Some
people talk too much. This thing of declar
ing Georgia farmers ‘ruined’ is getting on the
farmers’ nerves. They are far from bankrupt.
They can’t very well go bankrupt with cot
ton around 25 cents and harvests of big
crops of corn and hay just ahead.” That's
the sort of talk we need in Georgia just
now. Not only is it helpful, but particularly
helpful in the healthy and substantial sense
that it is wholly true!
One View of Migration.
Tifton Gazette. A news story from Daw
son says._ that, while many negroes have
gone north from Terrell, the loss of labor is
scarcelv felt. Which is true of practically all
rarts of the cotton belt, where the boll wee
vil got in its work this year. There is very
iittle cotton to pick, and what there is cam
be gathered without having to hire negroes
to pick it. Had there been a full cotton crop
to harvest the labor situation consequent to
the negro hegira would be another story, al
together. As it is, the migration has remov
ed a great many whom the owners of plan
tations would have found it difficult to take
lcare of. _—
| Southwest Georgia Marvelous.
l ‘Ft. _Gaines Georgian: Listen, Southwest
‘(,;eorgxans: hold fast to your faith in south
west Georgia. Everything considered, it is a
Isectlon. without a superior in this state or in
the union. The pdétential greatness of south
west Georgia indeed is marvelous, and it is
a pity that more people in other parts of the
United States—people with money, brains
and energy to invest—have not learned about
it. Once more we urge: if you live down
here in this part of the south’s empire state
‘be proud of the fact and look to the future
‘not only with hope but with supreme confi
dence.
THE DAWSON NEWS
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l The Price of Participation.
From the Kansas City Times.
It is obvious upon every showing that
American participation in the readjustment of
Europe must be based, first of all, upon can
cellation of Europe’s debts to this country.
That consideration is foremost every time
this proposal of American “help” for Europe
emerges.
It was brought out again in Premier Poin
care’s latest offer to reduce the total of the
German - reparations. It is in the back of the
head of every European statesman. When
they talk about American help for Europe
that is what they mean—the remission of
the American debt. Give them that and they
can get along without any other American
participation in their affairs.
[f Americans want to go into Europe they
ought at least to know what the price of this
participation will be. The European debt
must be paid by somebody, if not by Euro
peans then by Americans. It cannot be
written off in such a way as to vanish into
thin air. These billions were collected from
the American people in taxes and loans, ad
vanced by their government to Eurdpe, and
ii they are to be repaid by Americans as
the price of their indulgence of international
cmotionalism how much will the bill be, how
will they pay it and how long will it take
them?
This country lent Europe something more
than $11,000,000,000 first and last. Only the
British share of this debt has been funded
and is being paid. Something like $6,000,000,-
000 remains, the major sums being repre
sented by the French, Italian and Belgian
debts. That therefore is the amount Ameri
cans must pay taxes on and must ultimately
extinguish as a principal before they will have
paid the price of going into Europe.
To pay it in 50 years, principal and inter
est, will mean approximately an annual pay
ment of $250,000,000 for that period. That is
what Americans must pay in income or oth
er forms of taxes if they give Europe the
help Europe wants. Are Americans ready to
pay it? Are they ready to take this much
out of their national wealth each year for
50-years for the privilege of sitting in at Eu
ropean conferences on Balkan boundaries,
Polish speech controversies, Armenian griev
ances and minority wrongs evrywhere?
This is the question of European participa
tion presented in terms of taxes. They are
the only terms America can view it in with
justice to itself. If justice begins at home the
American taxpayer will be his government’s
chief concern in determining the question.
l Georgia’s Oldest Dwelling. |
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From the Industrial Index.
An old citizen of Georgia, a gentleman
thoroughly alive to the industrial possibili
ties of this state and section, tells the In
dustrial Index very interestingly of what he
understands is the oldest residence in the
state.
“In the early history of Georgia,” he said,
“there was a certain tribe of Indians in the
northern section of the state ruled over by
a chief of unusual wisdom and foresight. -He
was constantly on the lookout for new things
and better things for his tribe—a ‘progress
ive’ Indian we would call him—and his
band always had the knack of finding the
most fertile valleys, the best grazing grounds;
it was not a happen-so at all, for he had his
scouts out searching for just such valleys.
“This chief built the first brick residence
ever erected in Georgia--built it in what is
now Murray county, at or near the present
town of Spring Place. It was a two-story
dwelling, substantially built, and stands to
this day in good condition.
“The bricks out of which it was built were
made in England, were carried across the
ocean and then were hauled from Savannah,
through swamps and mountains, over a long
and tedious route, to the spot near the Ten
nessee line where the house was built.
“The point is not the enterprise of the
Indian chief, or the durability of the material,
but the fact that those brick were hauled
over better clay in Georgia than the Eng
lish clay out of which they were made!”
Today this Georgia clay is being manu
factured, in volume, inio brick, hollow tile,
sewer pipe and other useful material. There
is a perfect wealth of the raw material, and
this industry, already great, is bound to in
crease in volume with the growth in popu
lation and in housing and public-improve
ment requirements.
| Brings Better Prices. I
From the Sandersville Progress.
The Dawson News thinks that the boll
weevil has been a blessing in disguise for the
cotton planters. They have been compelled
to produce their own supplies, as cotton can
no longer be depended upon to meet the
bills, and they are receiving more money for
the small crop that is being produced than
would have been possible if the attacks of
the weevil had not been made; cotton would
now be selling for ten cents a pound, or per
haps less. A ten million bale crop will put
more money in circulation in the south than
would have been possible had a fifteen mil
lion bale crop been produced, and the other
crops which are valuable are that much ex
tra. If the cotton destroyed by the boll wee
vil could have been saved and sold at the
prevailing prices there would not have been
enough room on the roads for the new auto
mobiles; but it would not have brought half
as much as it commands today, because the
saupply would have exceeded demands, just
as has happened in former years.
WOULD MEAN MORE OFFICES.
From the Kansas City Times.
Recent failures of Wall street brokers have
incited the gentlemen who expect to cure all
evils by legislation. They propose a new law
to license all firms doing an interstate busi
ness in securities. We don’t undertake to say
whether such a measure would accomplish
any good resuits. But one thing we do know.
It would increase the number of office hold
ers, and the amount spent by the government.
Every such measure brings the day nearer
when each worker will be followed around
by a government employe whom he has to
support. :
. LIFE IS JUST DISASTER.
From the Kansas City Star. .
Senator Brookhart has wired the president
that only quick government action can avert
widespread disaster. Let’s see. The latest dis
aster before this was Senator Couzens’, if
beer was not authorized by congress. The
one before that was Senator Magnus John
son’s if an extra session of congress were
not convoked. The one before that—well, we
forget. We can’t keep statistics on all the
disasters the politicians predict.
A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE.
From the Portlahd Oregonian.
A four-hour day in 2023, eh? All the hard
work to be done by electrical energy, accord
ing to Dr. Steinmetz. Let’s go a little better.
There may be electric bugs to replace the
buman element.
Be sure to attend the :
Meeting of the
Strawberry
Growers
Thursday, August 13th '
10 o’clock at
COURT HOUSE
Everyone who intends to plant strawberries
must be there. 275 acres already pledged
and final arrangements will be made at this
meeting for orgamzing.
STRAWBERRIES
offer anothffr money crop for Terrell.
Do You Want
Top Prices
For Your
COTTON
SEED—
CORN—
HAY—
VELVET
BEANS—
PEANUTS—
?
It you do, bring them to us. Pay
ment made as soon as weighed.
Don’t Sell Before
Seeing Us.
Dawson Compress &
Storage Company
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 193