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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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DAWSON, GA, SEPTEMBER 2, 1924. |
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It seems safe to say at this time that Mars
has not yet been heard from, regardless of
the fact that some radio enthusiasts insisted
they picked up strange noises.
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The state primary is only a week hence,
and nobody has got excited over the cam
paign yet. Everybody except the candidates
appear to be supremely indifferent as to what"
the results will be. ‘
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The Hatless Man. ;
Individuals who go about without CO\'-j
er on their heads are the subject of an inter-{
esting discussion by some of our contempo- |
raries. The Savannah Press has discovercdf
that Mr. Hanafourde of that city, who is |
prominently connected with the Tri-State |
Exposition to be held next fall, prefers to |
go bareheaded at all times, and Editor Sul-;
livan, of the Waynesboro True Citizen, is|
another who objects to headgear and prac
tices what he preaches.
There are others who look upon the hat as’
a useless article of wear, and the Savannah |
Press has overlooked a notable personage in|
Hon. Hooper Alexander, who is frequentlyl
seen in the heat of a torrid sun of summer or’
the icy blast of a winter wind walking the
streets of Atlanta hatless, and unafraid and}
unconcerned. '
The Valdosta Times, in a discussion of thei
subject, expresses the opinion that it is more |
comfortable to go without a hat in the rela-l
tively cool summer days of a temperate clime, |
provided one’s eyes are strong enough not
to require the shade of a hat-brim, and be
lieves that in moderation the practice may
be good for both the scalp and the hair in
asmuch as every variety of soil and vegeta-1
ble growth draws vigor from the sun.
“But,” says the Times, “except around
home the hatless man can hardly afford to
be sensitive, and needs to cultivate somewhat
of that indifference which has been charac
terized as the ‘rhinoceros hide.’"”
How about the politician who “throws his
hat into the ring” and does not recover it?
Will our contemporaries who have discussed
the hatless man so interestingly elucidate the‘
subject as it relates to him? g
He “Kidded” Himself. |
Norman Selby, former sheik of Hollywood,
and, years ago, a spectacluar performer in
the prize ring undcr the name of Kid Mec-
Coy, has wound up a colorful career in a jail
cell accused of murdering a woman. He hadl
had a love affair with her, which was one
of scores he had conducted at one time and
another since joining the motion picture col
ony. For Selby, or McCoy, was known to
be a gay boulevardier, a man who made love
where he wished and as often. He picked
them out here, there and yonder, and, like
the bee of the flower, he tired and passed
on to others.
Kid McCoy may have thought that he
was having a wonderful time being a free
lance lover. He lived fast, doing what he
pleased. He denied himself nothing that he
could get, and the motion picture offered him}
many opportunities to turn efforts into mon-i
ey. He was too successful with women—ori
not successful enough. He could marry
many and did; he couldn’t keep any of them.
But that made no material difference to Mc-
Coy. There were others just around the
corner, and there he sought new ones and
different,
Kid McCoy “kidded” himself into believ
ing he was living life at the flow. His pulse
may have beat faster at every new conquest,
but every throb of it brought him closer to
the inevitable finish, disaster. If he had not
been mixed up eventually in a crime like
this it would have been disaster for him
anyway. He would have reached the end
broken and alone. Time would have come
when his way with women would have been
his no longer. And with a competence im
possible the way he lived, ahead of him
would have been either the poor house or
boxing benefits to keep him from starving.
Kid McCoy was his own gayest deceiver, and
he did that kind of thing better even than
he used to fight a generation ago.
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The New Bad Check Law.
The Athens Banner calls attention to one
law of more than ordinary importance which
was enacted by the legislature at its recent
scssion, that of removing the allowanee of
30 days in which to pay a check when the
person who draws it has no funds in bank.
Under the amended law parties giving
checks who do not have sufficient funds
on deposit in bank on which the check
is drawn are guilty of a misdemeanor
and subject to imguediate prosecution. This
amendment will, no doubt, cause many to be
more careful in the future in issuing checks
when their bank account has been exhausted.
It is a good law, and one which will have a
good effect on checking the general issuance
of checks in settlement of debts by unscrupu
lous parties.
While the banks and those who are vic
tims of bad check artists will be reasonable
the new legislation will, as our contempo
rary says, afford those who have been im
posed upon an avenue of protection which
they have not had heretofore.
l Defense Day Plans.
The government is doing just what it ought
to do. It is going ahead with its plans for
Defense day just as though the political dema
gogue and the timid pacifist had kept silent.
This is because the government sees its own
duty under the constitution as a responsibili
ty to all the people, even those who are pro
testing against Defense day. Dawson and
other towns and cities in Georgia, at the re
quest of state authorities, will join in the
celebration.
The army and navy departments will seek
to impress upon the whole country on Sep
tember 12th the necessity of having a defense
strength, one with its various units co-ordi
| nated and made effective. The nation’s de
‘fcnse strength, by the way, is something in
‘which every taxpayer in the country has in-
EVC:K’(’. not because the army and navy de
partments demand it, but for the reason that
the government of the United States, rep
resentative in principle and in fact, has pro-}
vided it as a necessity. Some of the pacifistsi
and political demagogues seem to have the
impression that the military and naval es-!
tablishments have been forced upon the peo- |
ple. The police department, the fire depart-;
ment and the school system are not forced;
on a city's population. The people want
these things and demand them. Ifcidentally,
they pay for them. What happens when a
man, the responsible head of a family, takes |
out life insurance, or has his home or busi-g
ness insured against fire? An eloquent andg
persuasive insurance salesman may sell him |
policies that he does not think he wants, butl
as a rule it will be found that every mani
who seeks and pavs for protection does it
because he desires it. The people wanted to |
be protected. Their representatives in con-f
gress devised the methods of protection, and |
also provided ways and means for the peo-l
ple to meet its cost. !
It therefore is not a question of pleasing |
the pacifists and pacifying the demagogues?
when the government decides to take an in- |
ventory of its defensive strength, but onet
of performing its duty to the people, \vho,l
through their representatives, asked for and |
received ways and means of protecting them—l
selves against possible foes. That's all there}
is to this controversy over Deiense day. i
A nation’s defensive strength is not merelyi
the strength of its active and strong young
men. It takes more than mere fighting to}
defeat an enemy. It is for this reason moref
than any other that the war and navy de- |
partments hope to arrive at a better under-%
standing on Defense day of America’s de- |
fensive strength. i
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The South and the Negro. |
Columbia, S. C., is wholly a southern city,
one of fixed ideas that have endured for
many generations. Its white popvlation is one
that holds itseli proudly, that has a firmly
established attitude toward the negro, good‘
and bad. It is a part of the old south that
perhaps never will change. Perhaps the ne-i
groes of Columbia would be glad if it never |
did. For Columbians have just shown the
bigness of their hearts in paying tribute ast
a whole community to the memory of “Uncle
Jaggers,” a famous negro character who de
voted his life as a missionary to the poor'
and died at the age of 93, having done greatl
service to humanity in the time allotted to
him. |
“Uncle Jaggers” was born a slave. He was |
ordained a preacher when 18, and throughout
his life he labored as a minister of the Afri
can Methodist church. He sponsored many
charities. He conducted a negro mission and
an old folks’ home. He asked money of his
white friends and they gave it freely. Every
year, it is said, he put aside as his salary 1
cent. But the goodness of him was such that
the Columbia people saw to it that he had
food and clothing and shelter. He wanted
nothing else. :
A few days ago when “Uncle Jaggers” was
buried all Columbia, by proclamation of the
mayor, suspended business. It has a popu
lation of more than 40,000. Whites of all
stations in lif¢“paused for reflection as “Unclei
Jaggers” was carried to his grave. The most |
distinguished men in the entire community
were ‘honorary pallbearers. In his proclama
tion Mayor Coleman said that few, if any, of
“Uncle Jaggers’” kind were left, and he
‘doubted “if we shall again have the oppor
tunity to do honor to one of his race who so
frichly deserved it.”
' Columbia has clinched the argument that
deserving negroes in the south cannot get bet
ter treatment anywhere else in this country.
lThat city’s beautiful tribute to “Uncle Jag
gers,” a worthy character and a loved one,
proves that chivalry has not yet passed and
lthat sentiment has not died in the hearts of
men.
At last the responsibility for motor car
;windshields being cluttered up with stickers
of a bathing beauty has been identified. He
is Mitchell Heinemann, general sales mana
ger of a knitting mill in Portland, Ore. He
evidently is worth whatever salary he is re
| ceiving, for he has the whole country giving
his company free advertising. Meanwhile in
lsome cities motorists are being forced by
new ordinances to take the bathing beauties
|off their windshields.
The one great need of our people is econ
omy. We must learn to live within our means.
The man who tries to run a Pierce-Arrow
car on an income which justifies nothing
more expensive than a Ford is bound to ex
lperience difficulties. The politician who tells
lpeople suffering from lack of judgment in
{ managing their affairs that their troubles are
idue to the government may win temporary
| support, but he is misleading the people.
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i While the politicians are going about the
state telling us how poor we are Georgia is
collecting vearly several million dollars in
lautomohile Jicense fees and gas tax.
Texas Does a New Stunt.
The country witnessed another political
innovation the past week, when Mrs. Mariam
Ferguson, wife of former Governor James E.
Ferguson, of Texas, who was impeached by
his political enemies, was nominated by the
idemocrats for governor of that state. Her
majority was more than 100,000, and she de
!feated one of the ablest and most prominent
‘men in Texas. T
~ Mrs. Ferguson's candidacy was due to the
fact that her husband could not get his name
on the ticket as a candidate, and she took
up the guage of battle for his vindication
upon a platiorm opposed to the Ku Klux,
which has been powerful in the state.
While it is recognized, of course, that the
impeachment of her husband during his sec
ond term was the primary motive in Mrs.
Ferguson’s entrance into politics her over
whelming victory carries more than mere
vindication of her husband’s integrity.
The unanimous expression of opinion
is that Mrs, Ferguson has scored a new
step for her sex in the long struggle for
equality. The fact that the first woman to
become a governor had never been active in
politics or even in the movement for equal
suffrage is considered particularly signifi
cant. The people of the state largest in area
have chosen a plain home-making housewife
to be their chief executive and this empha
sizes the strides made in the last ten years
in the recognition of women.
Some of the enemies of her husband who
are high in the councils of the democratic
party have announced that they will not sup
port Mrs. Ferguson in.the general election,
but she will, nevertheless, be elected, for a
democratic nominee is as certain of election
in Texas as in Georgia.
The Sylvester Local sounds a timely note
of warning when it says: “Farmers in South
Georgia have made money this year with
tobacco. There will be a tendency to plant a
larger crop ‘next year. But the farmer had
better beware of the large crop of anything.
It he plants too much tobacco he may spit
red next summer. The same rule applies to
cotton.” An over-production of tobacco will
result in a similar misfortune to that which
befell peach growers this year. The orchard
ists were doing fairly well until others took
a notion that they, too, would get rich quick,
with the result that in the past three or four
vears several million more peach trees were
set out in the state. What happened is too
well known.to need repeating.
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The Ocilla Star hasn’t agvery high regard
for alienists. The News shares with it this
opinion of these frauds, who manage to get
into every court trial whenever the neck of
a wealthy murderer is at stake or a large for
tune is in the balance: ‘“The more we read
about alienists the more respect we have for
just plain hard headed common folks. It is
hard to make sensible people believe that one
who has always been considered normal till
he has committed a crime is any other than
normal.”
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Some one has figured that there are 60,-
000,000 acres of swamps. Perhaps there are,
but just now we do not need more land, and
the swamps are serving many useful pur
poses. Better let them alone until necessity
drives mankind to further alter the face of
nature,
Snoring may be a disease instead of a
habit, as a Chicago health department bul
letin says, but most persons—who never hear
themselves doing it—call snoring a crime.
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
TOMATOES.
The classic orange, with its flowers, per
fumes the air in southern bowers and hangs
a halo on the bride which frequently is jus
tified. Its golden fruit is so romantic it darn
near drives the poets frantic, with thoughts
of kindred tropic sweeties, of sugar cane and
senoreeties. But I choose rural themes like
Cato and sing the Bonny Best tomato. No
orange you have ever bit has got a blooming
thing on it. I'm glad that when the summer
heats have made me choosy in my eats to
matoes come with ripe red skins, brimful of
health and vitamins. When wintes rages o'er
the land I eat the ones that Hannah canned.
You ought,” like me, to form the habit and
when you see one grab it. I bless the orange
on its journey {rom Florida or Californy.
No word of mine shall do it dirt, although
it's very apt to squirt, both in my eye and
on my shirt. But we whose wallets are not
weighty should stick to fresh and canned
tomaty, and suck its juicy vitamins till they
run down our double chins.
—BOB ADAMS.
The Law’s Dilemma.
From the Conyers Times.
No right thinking American could take
offense at the present agitation for fewer
laws and more enforcement of the laws we
have. The more laws enacted the more cons
fusing becomes the mind of the people; but
the greater problem is to keep up the ma
chinery of enforcement and keep the wheels
of justice moving efficiently.
An eminent lawyer recently made the
statement that the laws of our state and fed
eral governments have become so numerous
and complicated that instead of serving their
primary purposes, namely, to make plain the
rights and duties of social and commercial re
lations, they have defeated such ends in many
instances,
The purpose of law is to simplify matters
of government and to clearly define the rights
of persons and property. With new laws in
vast numbers, with over three hundred new
decisions by courts of last resort every day
in the United States, it would seem that a
few laws to render clear the laws we aiready
have might be a worthy object of our legis
lators.
An old bachelor says that the greatest im
provements of the age are those which hide
the ravages of time and keep women look
ing young.
When a man marries he saddles another
mortgage on his life.
THE DAWSON NEWS
From the Jackson County Herald.
That any state should confiscate all farm
lands and make tenants of the occupants
would seem unbelievable. But the process is
under way, and at the present rate of progress
will be accomplished within the life time of
the present generation.
Dr. R. T. Ely, of the University of Wis
consin, shows, by official tax records of
states, and also figures compiled by the bureau
of economics of the department of agricul
ture, that the states will soon absorb all in
come of farm lands.
It is a principle of law that to take the in
come from property is practically the same
as to take the property itself.
In Ohio farm lands between 1880 and 1920
increased in value from $45.97 to $113.17 an
acre, while taxes from 1913-1921 increased
177 per cent. In Kansas values increased
from $10.98 in 1880 to $62.30 in 1920, and
taxes 271 per cent from 1913 to 1921.
Since 1920 land values have decreased at
an average of 20 per cent. Taxes, on the other
hand, have shown the opposite tendency. A
statistical chart of taxes and farm income
would show the line for taxes steadily curv
ing upward in the past eight years, and now
near to the line of income, When it crosses
that line the work of confiscation is com
plete.
“The power to tax is the power to -de
>tru_\'."
From the Fitzgerald Herald.
Dinosaurs and other weird beasts that in
habited parts of the earth so long ago that
we only know about them because scientists
have reconstructed their forms from the bits
of bones which have been discovered are
more or less familiar to the oublic.
Few people know anything about prehis
toric flowers. Yet flowers that are supposed
to have blossomed 90,000,000 years ago are
being preserved and reconstructed at Yale
botanical laboratory. The fossils which have
restored some prehistoric plants to the light
of day are found in the Southern Black Hills
in South Dakota. To the uantrained observer
they appear to be nothing but queer rocks.
To the scientist and botanist they are mar
velously interesting. Pollen and seeds, blos
soms and leaves are disclosed with the aid
of the microscope and carefully directed pol
ishing. These cyoads are the ancestors of
most of our present-day flowers. It is for that
reason that they are of Buch special interest
to botanists and all persons interested in pre
historic life of any sort.
The botanist who is doing this special
work with the cyoad collection says that the
discovery of these strange flowers that bloom
ed millions of years ago has aided greatly
in the study of the history of modern plants,
a subject that had not before come within the
range of scientific discussion.
In many ways mankind today knows more
about the remote past than it does about the
near future.
From the Winder News.
How often we are defeated in our efforts
in life! And when these defeats come how
often are we prone to become discouraged!
In reading the lives of the great and success
ful characters of the world we find that they
won their way to success by overcoming the
difficulties along life’s pathway, and by press
ing on in spite of defeats. The following facts
connected with the life of Abraham Lincoln
should bé an inspiration to every one:
When Abraham Lincoln was a young
man he ran for the legislature of Illinois and
was badly swamped. He next enteréd busi
ness—iailed—and spent seventeen years of his
life paying up the debts of a worthless part
ner. -
He was in love with a beautiful woman to
whom he became engaged—and then she died.
Entering politics he ran for congress and
was badly defeated. He then tried for an ap
pointment in the United States land office,
but failed. After this he became a candidate
for the United States senate and was de
feated.
- In 1856 he became a candidate for the vice
presidency, but lost the race. In 1858 he was
once more defeated, this time by Douglas.
In the face of all this he eventually became
one of the country’s greatest men, if not the
greatest.
How would you stand up in the face of
such setbacks? Think it over.
From the Madison Madisonian.
There is a feeling of optimism among our
people that has not before obtained in several
years. The crop prospect is the best in several
seasons, and the stiffening of land values has
had a tendency to strengthen confidence in
all values.
But a great deal of propaganda is being
broadcasted now by the city newspapers and
large real estate operators. The good crop
and high price propaganda is being over
worked. There is basis for it, but at the same
time we do not believe the facts will quite
justify the spirit of optimism that is now
prevalent. People should not take too seri
ously the reports of fine crops, high prices
for farm produce and returning land values.
There is some truth in all these reports, but
not enough to justify people in any very
great expenditures or commitments and de
pending on the crop return to meet their
obligations. The corn crop in many sections
is being seriously damaged by dry weather,
as is the peanuts and bean crops. Cotton is
not” suffering seriovusly, but the excessive
rainfall in the spring caused cotton to run
largely to weed and foliage, and there is very
general complaint of small fruitage. It is by
no means certain that prevailing prices for
farm produce will prevail when the farmer
has to market his crops.
So let’s play safe, and not make too many
obligations based on big crop returns this
fall.
THE HAT SWINGER.
From the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
The hat swinger is a promising citizen.
But he is only a promising one. He does not
deliver the goods. He shouts for public im
provements, but he does not come across with
cold cash. He is loud in his denunciations,
enthusjastic in his commendations, but lim
its his community service to the exercise of
his mouth. The hat swinger makes a politi
cal meeting peppy, but when the votes are
counted the hat swinger is missing. He
praises the value of service, but gives little
or none himself. He is a good starter, but a
poor finisher. When he swings his hat there
is nothing to it. When he puts it on there is
nothing in it but ivory and hair, or only
ivory.
Taxation Takes Property.
Prehistoric Blossoms.
Do Not Become Discouraged.
Let’s Play Fair.
The Favorable Balance.
From the Fitzgerald Herald.
It develops that the United States has had
a much larger “favorable balance of trade”
the past year than the year before. In the
fiscal vear of 1922-1923 that balance, or ex
cess of exports over imports, reached the
comparatively low figure of $175,000,000,
whereas during the war and immediately
afterward it had amounted to billions a year.
In the fiscal year of 1923-1924 it rose to
$754,000,000, a gain of more than 300 per cent,
The United States sold more abroad and
bought less.
Many a man who eats pie with a knife
wighes he had an ax.
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