The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1890-02-19
THE .CHAIR WARMERS"
a Practical Sermon to Young Men.

from the Brunswick Times that
worth a careful perusal. 1t strike
the nail a laundering blow. Youn
man, paste it in your derby
''smoke 1t in your pipe" store
in the halls of your memory an
keep it there:
Augusta claims an organization
OF young men with the above nam
(chair warmers.)
The Times has not the homo
of an acquaintance with any mem
Der ofthis unique society, and t.
be plain, the Times isn't losing an,
time on account OF it. The
probability is that these "Chail
Warmers" are like all the rest OF
that guild, no matter where found.
They are sorry LOT at best. who
sit around hotels, smoke cigarettes,
ogle passing ladies If they are
pretty-wear loud and Aashy
clothing, at the expense of their
tailors or fathers, imbibe wisdom
from the type of their heads on
the top of canes and get "full' on
Apolinaris.
Of course there is a possibility
that this Augusta society may not
be one of this class; the Times
does not say it is; but there is such
a significance in the name, that
such a conclusion seems logical and
inevitable.
There are too many chair warm,
ers in the south; there are too
many young men waiting fer some
thing to turn ur, provided that
something is elerkshipi1 a store
or Office, even if their salary is too
small to pay their cigarette bills.
The boys are leaving the farms
rs they begin to sprOut a faint
streak of fuzz on the upper lips,
hunting for places where this pre-.
cious fuzz will be secure from the
blight of the sun, and the undue
familiarity of the wind. And then
there are too many yoang men in
the cities and towns who are mere
animated advertisers for confiding
tailors. Too many for the simple
reason that there ought not TO be
an idler in the south.
Not onel
There is work in the south for
every young man, plenty of it, and
the pay is remunerative. In re :
cent address, President Kincaid, of
the Griffin cotton mills, said:
"What the south needs above all
other things is, men. / have a sit
uation at a handsome salary for
any young man Of sense who will
60 through the techn. logical school
and graduate, and then spend
three years at hard work in a cot
ton mill. We need such men to
be our superintendent.
Soon after the war, the gifted
Ben Hill wrote and published se>
les of articles setting forth the
natural resources of wealth to be
found n the south, and pleaded
with the college graduates not to
enter the professions but to become
artisans, miners, civil engineers
and intelligent developers of those
incompatible resources. He urg'
chs one fact with singular elo'
quence The south must fnd in
her young men that skilled labor
which is impossible in the negro
He advocated the founding oil
chronological schools, where these
young men might learn useful
trades, ard train their hands to dc
skillful work. The great Geor
gian saw that the pressing need Of
the impoverished south was the
heroic and manly labors Of hen
young men of intelligence, brair
and Drawn. and with them he
pleaded with rare eloquence fol
the loyal response to the cry of thC
land tor help and restoration.
Never in the history OF tho
country has there been such invit,
ing fields for toll as the south pre-
sents to day. Never did a coun'
try have less use for "chair warm.
ers" than has the south at this hour
The young man whose sole ambl
ton is to do nothing at all that
will soil his hands, tan his face oil
endanger his hint of a moustache
is miserable failure and pitia'
bic buclesque on manhood.
The Chair Warmers" should
move on.
"Its only a question OF time,