The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-03-09
The -RUBBERNECK LAW
NORTH GEORGIA CITY HAS AN
ATTACK OF FREAKISHNESS.
About the CIassiest of All Classy
Laws Will Be Put Into Effect
By City Fathers,

| by OIty FdIucrS.
GAINESVILLE.-Swish! Flosh!
Swish! This is a substitute imita-
ton of a woman passing.
Now, when a man hears a noise
| like this it is natural for him to
| look to see what makes it. He will
even turn his head way around so
as to get a good view OF the back or
front, according to the case. There
has heretofore been no restraint on a
man for this. Most every man does.
Gainesville has a classy aggregation
OF rubbernecks numbered among her
population, and they do their work
up in neat style; but 10! listen to
what our city fathers have done.
If you turn the rubberneck trick in
Gainesville it is going to be a costly
look-sO if you want to do some rub
bering at pretty girls rubber at them
from front, or pay the price of ad-
mission to some nifty musical come
dy. 1t will be a whole sight cheaper,
for the fines that will be imposed
upon the offenders will only be IS
and costs. So beware!
Tonight there will be a call meet
ing of our city fathers. There, be-
hlnd the closed blinds of the council
chamber, they are going to do some
thing. AS yours truly is not a mem
Der of the council-although he
would like the place, and could guar
antee you that there would be no
such laws as the acknowledgements
passed, if he was on the iob-he
cannot exactly say what they are go
ing to do. But there is one thing
that is an absolute certainty They
are going to make it against the law
for some fan to pass a woman on
the streets and make a magnificent
rubber at her. If he merely looks
sideways at her the fine will be 81
and costs, but if he turns clear
around and rubbers IS will be the
fee.
The cOuncilmen have all passed
that age where they like to rubber
at good-lOOking woman, and they
do not care a Whit what we young
uns share in this life's blessing.
What is more blessed to the human
eye than a gOod-looking, neatly
dressed woman? If this law is
passed successfully steel braces for
the back of the head will be the only
cure for the rubber, and they will
soon wear out from the friction.
Now, this law does not include a
woman rubbering at a man. What
are We poor male creatures to do?
Are We going to be run over like
that? We can't look at a woman,
| yet she has all the privileges of sizing
us up-criticising our dress, making
remarks, etc. You all know that if
a woman is given an inch she will
take a mile, so dear city fathers, if
you do not apply this law to women
you had better put a fence around
| 1t, enclose it in a glass cage and put
several bars around the cage.
Yes. A woman is care-free in this
ordinance. She can look and stare
and criticise a member of her sex at
her own free will. Everybody knows
that woman will involuntarfly turn
around and look at another woman
as she passes to see if her dress fits
right in the back, to see if it is in
style, and get notes on how the other
one has got her hair dressed. Now.
you are not giving us men a square
deal on this proposition. Apply it
to the women as well as to us. We
pay the street tax, and then some;
we keep the treasury full-paying
fines, etC.-and numerous other
tritles that the women seldom touch,
so why not give them a taste or so
! of moral law?