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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
A HELPFUL SUGGESTION.

From the Griffin News and Sun.
In commenting on the resolutions
adopted by the State w. c. T. u. the
Augusta Chronicle says:
The ladies of our Georgia w. C.
I. U. have in convention passed a
resolution calling for prohibition of
cigarettes and other forms of to-
bacco to minors. So far as respects
cigarettes, which is the main evil.
there is already in existence a law
making it penal to furnish in any
way to any minor any cigarettes, CT
garette tobacco or cigarette paper.
1t is twenty years old, and if it has
failed of its purpose of course it is
OF no use to go on passing any more
laws just like it.
The w. c. T. U. is coping with
tremendous evil, and if acts of the
legislature fail it is to be commend
ed for seeking some other remedy.
With a view to be helpful we sug-
gest that at the next meeting it
adopt something like this: Re
solved, That when little Jimmie
comes in with his breath and hair
smelling of nicotine, or his fingers
showing that kind of stain, we call
on the man of the house to interview
Jimmie on the subject
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
AN INTERESTING EVENT.

The Albany Herald's Corn Carni-
val is being held today, and is be-
yOnd question most interesting and
helpful event. 1t will show the pos
sibilities of Southwest Georgia as a
corn-growing section, and encourage
the farmers of the garden spot of
Georgia, of Gods country" if you
please, to quit looking to the west
for their grain. AS a result of prizes
that were offered by our Albany con-
temporary we expect to chronicle in
the next issue of The News some re-
markable yields of corn grown by the
farmers of this section, and We shall
not be surprised if our own good old
county of Terrell proves to be the
banner corn county as we'll as the
banner cotton county of the state,
the latter being an undisputed dis
tinction she has enjoyed several
years
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
A MODEST MILLIONAIRE.

How few know that the late John
S. Kennedy of New York was one
of the richest men in the country.
He was so unreserved, so simple, so
unpretending that this marvellous
money-maker made so little stir in
the world as to be hardly noticed.
Now that his wealth is being un-
covered it is found to exceed $780,
100000, or four times as much as
his close friends had guessed. He
conducted his banking and railroad
purchases so secretly that those near
est to him were left in the dark when
trying to figure out his possessions.
Mr.. Kennedy had all the fervor of
the typical Scotch Presbyterian lay
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17

From the Triton Gazette.
Congressman J. M. Griggs of Daw-
son and Judge Boynton of Dickey.
who were guests of the Taft ban
quet in Savannah Thursday night.
pronounce it the most elaborate af-
fair they ever attended, although the
experience of both has been wide and
varied, including nearly every large
city in the union. Members of the
presidents staff pronounce it the
most elegant banquet given Mr.. Taft
on his trip. The furnishings and
fittings of the banquet hall were gor-
geous in the extreme, nearly 5000
roses alone being used in the deco
rations. The souvenirs were so num-
erOus that a small basket was fur
nished each guest to carry them
away in. Savannah did honor to
Georgia and sustained a reputation
OF two centuries for hospitality.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
"NeaOs" That May Well Be Suppressed.
From the Americas Times-Recorder

that has hitherto been unblemished?
Of course it is the duty of news
paper to publish news, but news"
need not necessarily be made so
broad a term as to include every bit
of scandal that is afOat, the scattec-
ing of the details of every offense
against decency that is committed
the prying into family troubles to
satisfy the disgusting puriency of
those of base minds, the gratifying
of the lecherous thoughts of the i'm
pure, the catering to those whose
greatest happiness is in seeing some
one dragged down into the mire.
The public interest is best served by
the suppression of many items of
news that suit that part of the pub
lie whose mental condition thrives
best, apparently, on carrion. And
when it is necessary to give news of
crimes that violate the public sense
of moral prOpriety certainly the
newspaper that reaches the innocent
girl, that goes into the heart of the
family circle where decency is en-
throned can well afford to eliminate
everything except the barest refer
ences to the crime and the punish
ment. And when it is possible to
omit such items entirely who can say
that the public interests have not
thereby been promoted and the
standard of usefulness and sphere
of influence of the newspaper pro-
portionately advanced 1t is well, in
deed, that the guilty should be ex-
posed and punished, but too fire.
quently the newspapers in their de-
sire to assist in this entirely forget
and ignore the innocent, and in the
furnishing of the one drag through
the torments of hell a score whose
skirts are without stain.
On every newspaper Office wall
there might well be written Shake
speare's noble tribute to what Beau
mont termed THE greatest attribute
OF heaven"
The quality of mercy is not strained !;
1t droppeth as the gentle dew from
heaven
Upon the place beneath. 1t is twice
blessed:
1t blesses him that gives and him
that takes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
THREE GREAT NEWSPAPERS.

The News tries to steer clear of
carrying water on both shoulders,
but looking at the Atlanta papers
the Constitution, Journal and Geor-
gian-on Sunday of the week of the
automobile races we are constrained
to indulge in admiration for the en-
terprise and local pride of all three
of them, as evidenced by the splendid
editions each gave to the world that
day. AS examples of Georgia news
paper enterprise we are proud of all
three of these great papers, and
more than ever are we impressed
with the fact that Atlanta is a great
city, worthy of such papers. 1t is
difficult to compute the extent of
their influence in drawing crowds
last week to Atlanta, but this much
is certain-that thousands of sight
seers went who would have stayed
at home but for these papers. That
is what a newspaper can do for its
home town and people
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
BY f.. L. RAINEY.
DAWSON, GA, Nov. I7rn, 1909
BRUTALITY IN HIGH LIFE.


The killing of Eugene A Byrne
9f the West Point cadet team, in a
loot ball game the other day serves
10 remind us that the love of brutal
sport is still strong in the American
aeart. The sacrifice of this young
nan is a shock to those who arrange
sbese exhibitions, which does not,
however, last long. Those who de-
2end these brutal contests are quick
10 denounce the savagery of prize
Sighting; are much put out at even
she law being construed to allow
she guise of boxing exhibitions. Yet
loot ball is just as cruel as the act
IF two big athletes pounding each
other in a sawdust ring. Each sport
rs merciless each should be sup
pressed.
New York society has dropped
monkey receptions and taken up
prize fighting. On a recent night at
one of the swell suburban homes
of the city Mrs. Adolphus Ladenburg,
= leader in the New York Four Hun
cred. hired six prize fighters to give
2 fistic encounter for sixty men and
women guests who were dressed as
# they were to attend the opera.
1
sing and saw the athletes of low
grade intelligence pound each other
onmercifully. When the crowd had
4heir fill the combatants were sent
back to New York in automobiles.
And thus another score was made by
a member of the smart set in doing
something to make the ultra fashion,
able world talk about for a spell
TO guard against police intrusion
guards were stationed at all the ap-
breaches to the ground so that there
might be no interruption of the
Oummeling. One of the fighters was
knocked out, and remained uncon-
scious for severa! minutes The so
aiety buds who saw the mill thought
IS was great, and several of them
shook hands with the winner.
If it is right to uphold a game
%hich has much of brutality in it,
much which is dangerous to life and
limb such as foot ball, why not place
1rize fighting in the same category,
and do away with the laws leveled
against it? Each is a disgrace to
our civilization. The only difference
IS that one is witnessed and ap-
glauded and supported by the re-
spectacle and religious, while the
other appeals to an element not par
ticular as to their associations and
not given to church-going.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
PICTURES FROM HOME,

We see it stated that in line with
the movement for houses owned by
the United States government for the
lOdgment of official representatives
Iof this country in foreign countries
is the furnishing of portraits of pres
ldents by the state department for
use in the adornment of American
embassies and legations throughout
the world. The portraits sent out
are etchings of Presidents Washing
ton, Jefferson, Lincoln and Taft. in
neat oak frames, on the upper por-
ton of which is a representation in
gilt of the American coat of arms.
Travellers have often commented on
the lack of anything reminding them
of home in American embassies ex-
cept the American flag. The sight of
familiar American faces hanging on
the wall will go far to take off the
chilli and warm the hearts of pa
triOtic Americans.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17

The French minister of justice
has sent orders to the district at
torneys throughout France to pros
ecute vigorously all cases of cruelty
to domestic animals. He adds that
the prevalence of this evil is dis
tressing, and that it is largely caused
by the Indifference of the authori-
ties. If We had an active anti
cruelty society here in Dawson or
Terrell county we might be saved
some revolving revelations of cruelty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
LIMBURGER A SPECIFIC.

A Denver chemist, Philip Schuch,
has announced that limburger cheese
IS a cure for cancer, and a specific
for leprosy, He has found this out,
he says after eleven years of re-
search. His mode of treatment is
as follows: First, he applies the
liquor of quick-lime and milk to the
cancer, to clean the malignant
growth. The bathing is repeated sew
@ral times, aud then a salve of linz
burger and glycerine is applied to the
eancerous spot.
1t has not yet been determined
whether it is the germs in the cheese
shat kill the cancer or whether the
cancer germs are scared to death or
suffocated by the cheese. The can
GER quiyers when the cheese touches
it, and from this it is believed the
cancer is really and actually fright
ened.
Schuch's laboratory workers say
IT has been demonstrated that no per-
son who is addicted to the limburger
cheese habit can get cancer. The
Odoriferous cheese acts as a specific,
with anti-microbe and septic proper
ties. As the germs of cancer, leprosy
and consumption, they say, are much
alike it is hoped, by further expert
ments, to modify the cheese treat
Inent so as to eliminate tuberculosis
Erom the list of deadly human ills
One reason why the Germans so sell
dom have cancer, Schuch's assistants
say, is their fondness for limburger.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17

The thoughtfulness of Councilman
Charles Deubler in having a section
of fire hose attached to water plugs
ON the morning of circus Gay and the
streets in the business section of the
city and for several blocks around
made thoroughly wet added much to
the comfort of the several thousand
people who were here. Had it not
been done the dust would have been
insufferable. There were many ex-
pressions of grateful appreciation by
residents and visitors alike.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
Amt 1t the Truth,

From the Atlanta Georgian.
The truth is that nobody loves to
work. 1t is necessity which alone
supplies the first incentive that later
may develop into a fixed habit. Be-
cause living may be so much easier
gained in the south the first incentive
to work may not be as strong as it is
IN colder climates. But hook worm
has nothing to do with it, and it is
to be noted that the armies of I'M
employed are located in northern
cities, and that the Weary Willies''
are nearly all northern men who are
claimed to be hook worm immunes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17

The Savannah Press says Presi
dent Taft has been credited by tn,
metropolitan newspapers with doins
many things in that city which hi
did not do. For instance, says The
Press, the New York World says HI
said in Savannah:
Sometimes mans head
swells a little bit with his mo-
mentary authority, and he
thinks there is good deal of
the limitation of the constitu-
ton which might have been
safely omitted in his case. s.
But our forefathers builded
well, and they knew what they
were doing, and | am not in
favor, even if it seems to me
that a particular provision ought
to have been omitted, of chang
ing the constitution every time
you run against the sharp edge
of something that indicates that
you are mortal, and that the
forefathers in making the con-
stitutiOn distrusted your human
nature.
But the first thing we have
got to do after arousing the
people to the necessity of
change is to change the law,
and not rely upon the executive
to ignore the statutes and follow
law unto himself because it is
supposed to be the law of high
er morality.
The Press states that the presi-
dent did not say it in Savannah
but whether he said it in Savan-
nah or not, we heard him say
it before the tremendous audience
he addressed in Macon, and it was
good enough to have been repeated
in Savannah. In fact, in our opin-
ion it is one of the best of the many
good things the president said on his
trip of nearly twenty thousand miles
around the country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
rom the Savannah News.

From the Savannah News.
Judge Pendleton thinks there are
many women who seek divorce prin-
clpaily for the purpose of obtaining
aiimony, thus assuring themselves of
permanent income without the
necessity of performing the duties
of wife and mother; and there
may be a good deal in that view of
the matter. Judge Pendleton allows
only small alimony in cases that
come before him. If his theory is
correct the practice of it ought to
have the effect of reducing the di-
vorce docket of his court before a
great while. 1t seems now to he
quite heavy, though this is the
judges fourth year on the bench,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
JUDGE GRIGGs IN THOMAS.
The Thomasville Press, in it's issue
of Saturday, said:

The Townsville Press, in it's issue
of Saturday, said:
Hon. James NJ Griggs, con-
gresham from the Second con-
gressional district, arrived in
Thomasville Wednesday night
and spent Thursday here cir
culating among his friends. He
stopped at the Masury hotel,
where many called to greet him.
Thursday he spent most of the
day on the streets shaking
hands and conversing with the
people. Mr.. Griggs is a good
mixer and an interesting talker,
and has the knack of leaving a
good impression on all strangers
that he meets. He received a
hearty reception while here, and
no doubt went away feeling that
brownsville was not such a bad
place after all, even if it does
contain some first-class material
for his seat
Judge Griggs has always had a
very high regard and the kindest of
feeling for the people of Thomas
county, and Judging by the way they
always vote-even when some of
that first-class material contests
with him for his seat-it is mutual.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17

And now Alabama treasury is in
a bad way. The authorities are
facing defect of $1,OO0,0O0 or
more. The legislature appropriated
money with a lavish hand, but failed
to provide the means of raising
enough of it. That is a way num-
Der of legislatures have of doing,
among them that of our own state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17

The ladies' of the Woman's Mis-
sionary Society, recently in session in
Savannah, had something to say
about the spit red" preachers, and
now, on the eve of the assembling
of the two conferences in Georgia,
she Wesleyan Christian Advocate
throws out this to the brethren
generally: I'VE sincerely hope that
the brethren at the approaching ses-
sion of our annual conference will
not forget themselves so far as to
stand around the front door of the
church in which the sessions are held
and talk so loud and pun so much
smoke as to disturb those within the
building who are attending to bust
ness or engaged in worship"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
No More "Coronations. ;.

From the Rome Tribune-Herald.
We suspect that whoever is elect
ed governor of Georgia next year
there won't be any coronation cere-
monies. That part of the spectacle
was a failure.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
Can Afford Hook Worm.

From the Griffin News.
Well, with 15-cent cotton why
shouldn't we have lazy bugs if we
want EN-? We can pay the price
and whose business is it?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17

A Connecticut autoist has a rec
ord of two men killed and fourteen
wounded. By this time next year he
hopes to be no longer regarded as
an amateur.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17

The department of agriculture is
now attacking the character of cats
as rat catchers. Their long stand
ing as back fence soloists is still I'M
questioned by the department.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
OF the United States for the Western Div,
ion of the Northern District of Geor~;a

In re James H. Cole,
Terrell County, In Bankruptcy. No 400
Bankrupt. '''
Notice IS hereby given that the above named
James H. Cole, who was on the oath dav ~
February, 1909, duly adjudged bankrupt has
hied his petition praying a discharge, and that
the same will be heard before a Judge Of said
CITY OF Atlanta Ga. on the 1st day Of Decembev
ISOS, at 10 O'Clock a. m, at which time and place
any one at interest may appear and show canse
II any there be, why the prayer Of said petition
oeF' ISOS W G. CARTER, Clerk.
by n A. Brown, Deputy.
h' j. Neomans, Attorney for Bankrupt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17

The Baptist hosts of Georgia are
gathering at Dublin today for their
great annual convention.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-11-17


to the publication of real live
newspaper is the fact that in
nearly every instance where
there is a good news article
which is perfectly legitimate for
publication, and which the gen
eral public is entitled to know,
there is some person who will
come to the office of the publ
cation and ask that the article
be not published, saying that
sit will do no good to publish
these things '-Covington News.
There is one class of news that
people do not ask suppressed, and
that is the class of news the dis
semination of which is beneficial to
the highest material interests of the
community. No one ever came to a
newspaper Office and asked for the
suppression of an item about a new
business enterprise, a new factory,
a new project in an industrial way,
a plan for a new railroad connec-
ton, a large sale Of property, the
coming of new citizens, the erection
of new building the improvement
of a homeplace, the building of a
new good road. the opening of a new
street, the making of an extraordi-
nary large crop, the experimenting
along a new line in agriculture.
And, after all, these are the real gen
uine news items that tell for the
good of the community.
What people ask for is the sup
preston of items that bring tears to
mothers eyes, sorrow to a daugh-
ter's heart, the blush of shame to a
wife's face, disgrace to a worthy son
humiliation to a respectable father
the items that represent the sin and
the wrongdoings of erring humanity
And, after all, isn't it true that ii
is these very items that many news
papers are most intent on publishing
most eager to pry out, quickest to
hunt the details of? And what good
do they do the community when they
are published? Don't they leave q
bitter taste in the mouth, don't they
leave unpleasant suggestions in the
minds of many don't they bring the
bar sinister to many an escutcheoI
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-02

New Orleans Picayune.
When United States Judge Boarman,
while a jury was being impaneied to
try the Adler case in the court over
which he presided, declared that the
mere reading of the newspapers did
not disaualify citizens for Jury duty.
he not only set forth an Important
truth, but he placed a ban upon the
rule SO often insislcd on by counsel In
criminal cases thai the proverbial ain
telligent jury" should be composed OF
the most Ignorant and stupid persons
to be found.
Not a few judges in such cases have
submitted TO the demands of counsel
that talesmen summoned for Jury ser.
vice should be. barred II they should
happen to have read any mention Of
the use in the public press Judge
Boarman realizes that the preliminary
reports printed of alleged matters that
may come up on trial are hearsay
statements and individual opinions,
based on incomplete and often incor-
rect Information, and cannot stand in
brought out in the trial of the case.
The person who, having formed an
rect statements made IN the press un-
der conditions that attend the circule.
ton of preliminary rumors and reports,
and who cannot abandon that opinion
whent officially informed of the actual
facts. Is either very stupid or Is max :
ing a pretext to escape a citizens duty,
Judge Roarman has rendered an i'm
portant public service in ruling ON the
aub1ect as he has,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-02
LESS GLASSWARE USED.

A bran new indictment has been filed
against prohibition The Philadelphia
Record brings us the hard luck story
of a manufacturer who lie at the head
of a company engaged in making glass
tumblers. He declares that orders are
SO scarce that his concern will prob
ably have to shut down presently. Un-
like other manufacturers. he does not
attribute this to the tariff agitation or
the hope of tumbler consumers for
lower duties on glassware. He attrib-
utes it to the temperance movement,
He saya that the prohibition wave In
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Georgia, Kansas and Oklahoma has de-
creased the demand for tumblers. and
already several factories have been
closed. ....-
This item of news somewhat obfusti-
Gates The Albany Herald, which wants
to know what's the matter with the
water drinkers. Are they using tin
cups and gourds? it asks. Well. as to
that matter, the total abolition of sa-
looms, If such thing were possible,
would certainly cause a great falling
of in the demand for several kinds OF
drinking glasses. Any man who has
been in a well-furnished saloon, as
doubtless The Herald man has done in
the good old times when they had such
things in Georgia, knows that they
kept a large and varied assortment
Of glasses on hand all the time, and
also knows that breakages were con-
tinually happening, The absence of
any use for these glasses is no doubt
responsible for the falling off in the
glass manufacturing trades,