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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-03-16
SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTITUTE
REV. MORGAN AND MIR. HORNADY
TO HAVE PROMINENT PART.
Programme For District Convention
Soon to Be Held at Richland EN-
braces TOniCs of Interest.

braces TOPICS Oh Interest.
An approaching event of interest
in Methodist circles of this section
is the Sunday School Institute for
this district, which will be in session
at Richland on April 8th and 9th.
Rev. E. F. Morgan and Mr.. w. P.
Hornady are on the programme for
the discussion of several important
totes, and the latter will also lead
the opening service. The programme
which has been arranged for the in
stitute is as follows:
Monday, April 8th.
1880 p. m Opening Seryice-Led
by w. P. Hornady.
Address-How to Make the Sun
day School a Success-Rev. H. c..
Jones.
Tuesday, April 9th.
$50. Devotional service-J. H.
$40. The Country Sunday School
and It's Problems-Dr. j. S. VIM
berly.
1000. The Home Department
How to Organize-W. P. Hornady.
1920. Trained Teachers-How
to Get Them-W. P. Wallis.
1910, The Parent and the Sun
day School-B. L. Wood.
1900. What Are the Most Seri-
Gus Drawbacks to Our Sunday School
Work?-Rev. E. F. Morgan.
1920. A Model Teacher-Rev.
H. c. Jones.
Benediction.
2:30. p. m. Devotional. The FL
nancial side of the Sunday School
and How to Handle It-Rev. E. w.
Gray.
$50 The Sunday School and Mis-
sions-E. l. Carter
3:05 The Sunday School and the
Preaching Service-W. P. Hornady.
$500. The Sunday School and
Temp P. Wallis
$40. How to Get and Hold the
Boys-Rev. E. F. Morgan.
400. The Teachers Meeting
How to Sustain 1t and What to Do
in It-Rev. H. G. Jones.
APO. Open Discussion.
$500. Benediction.
1880. Sermon by Rev. H. c.
Jones.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-03-16
TO PROBE CENTRAL s WRECKS
Railway Will Ask Disinterested Per-
sons to Help Investigate Future
Accidents on It's Lines.

SAVANNAH.-Wrecks and acct
dents on the Central of Georgia rail
way are to be probed in the future
by an investigating board partly
made up of disinterested persons,
who will be invited as representa-
tives of the public to sit with the
railroad officials.
IF in the future we are unfortu-
nate enough to have any serious ac-
cidents, and there is reason to be-
lieve there was negligence or care
lessness on the part of the railroad
we will invite prominent citizens
from the locality in which the acct
dent occurs to sit with the officials
Of the Central in making an investi-
CATION" announced Vice President
Winburn today.
Cur object in promulgating this
plan is to take the public into our
confidence. Often the public is given
wrong impression about railroad
accidents, and often the railroad is
given undeserved blame. We want
to thoroughly sift out the accidents
with parties entirely without the cir
cles of the railroad, placing the
blame where it belongs"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-03-16
HENRY X, CHAMBLFSS.
A Friend Pays Tribute to Memory of
Recently Deceased Citizen.

Friend Pays Tribute to Memory of
Recently Deceased Citizen.
Mr.. H. K. Chambless died We'd
nesday morning, March 9Th, at his
home near Yeomans after suffering
nearly six weeks from typhoid fever.
Mr.. Chambless is survived by his
wife and three children. The re-
mains were inferred at New Bethel
cemetery. a.
If we shall speak in too high praise
of him you will pardon it on the
ground of our relationship to him,
for 'he was my friend, faithful and
just to me-" If his life was blame
less and too nearly faultless before
us it was because we loved him
warmly, fraternally. For ten long
years-since our association when
boys in schOol-the writer has known
him; and during this time has not
found flaw in his character or a
mistake in his life.
His departure was a loss to his
community, in which he performed
all the functions of a true citizen
passing well. He was conservative
and never intrusive with his ideas,
yet fOresighted and progressive in
his theories and his ideals. Indeed,
his lofty intellectual, social and spir-
itual ideals were an inspiration to
all who knew him intimately. And
his people were not unmindful of the
good in him. Every friend and ac-
Quaintance paused and wept when
his spirit took it's flight to the distant
Alden, when his soul departed
and his wife's relatives have received
his death as a mighty crash that
stirs the bottom deeps of their souls.
He was the soul of honor, the
quintessence of truth and the embod-
iment of all those virtues that con-
tribute to the making of stalwart
manhood, and hence the world has
lost man. His life was gentle, and
the elements so mixed in him that
nature might stand up to all the
world and say, this is man" He
was a friend without deception, a
neighbor without reproach, a christ
ian without hypocrisy, and a man
without guile.
In the home he was a good pro-
WIDER of all the necessaries and
many of the luxuries of life. To his
children he was a good father, ever
kind, loving, positive and true; to
his wife he was thoughtful, ten
der husband, a happy affinity, a con-
genial companion. And shall she
meet him ever more? Shall she ask
this dreadful question of the hills
that look eternal, of the streams
that flow on forever, of the stars
amid whose azure depths her Hen
rvs spirit now walks in glory-all
these would be silent; but, surely,
when she looked into his living face
she could see something in the love
that mantled through it's grandeur
that can never die" She shall meet
! him yet again. For in the distant
heavens whittier he has gone to wait
for her some day he will welcome
her back to his happy embrace.
| A. q. CLEVELAND
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-03-16
STATE COMMITTEE ROASTED.
BROWN AND WATSON DON'T LIKE
CUTTING OUT COUNTY UNIT.
Decry Decision to Give Minority No
Representation When Naming Del
egates to State Convention.

egateS to State Convention.
ATLANTA.-Gov. Jos. NJ. Brown
Manager G. R. Hutchens of the I'm
derwood campaign and Thomas E.
Watson all gave out strong state
ments today denouncing the action of
the state executive committee in
abandoning the county unit plan in
connection with the presidential pri-
mary and the state convention of
May 20. The committee provided
that the candidate receiving Geor-
gias plurality vote shall have all the
delegates to the convention, regard
less of how each county votes. thus
eliminating the minority, as was
done by the Smith faction in 1908,
and which was followed by Joe
Browns election.
Mr.. Watson says the democratic
primary system was founded on con-
stitutfonal representation in the leg
islature to prevent domination by the
city counties.
Thought IL was settled.
He declares the Hoke Smith crowd
has switched back and forth at the
beck of its boss, whenever it seem
ed necessary to win. 1t cost Gov.
Smith the election in 1908, he says,
and it will have the same result, he
predicts, this year. Governor Browns
statement on the committee action
is as follows:
THE action of the committee sur
prises me because I thought this
principle had been settled once for
all at the ballot box in Georgia. tt
was one of the chief issues in my
first campaign for governor. At that
time they, the state committee, for
obvious reasons, provided that the
candidate who received the most
votes for governor should have the
delegation from every county in the
state, even those which had voted
against him. The object, of course,
was to crush the minority by giving
it absolutely no representation. 1t
was not considered possible that pop
ular Indignation against the renun-
citation of a great constitutional guar
antee would put the machine respon-
sible for the outrage in the minority,
but that is what happened and that
is what gave me, over my protest,
the vote of every delegate from ev-
cry county in Georgia. I neither
asked nor wanted the vote of a sin
gle county whose people had voted
for somebody else at the ballot box.
above all things l thought it dam
gerous that the liberties and rights
of the people should thus be leopard
lied by the absolute elimination of
minority representation, whichGs one
of the basic principles upon which
our government is founded.
Not Wilson'S Fault.
Il did not dream that any COM
mittee would have the effrontery
within so short a time to go back
to a principle which had been so
Overwhelmingly repudiated, and yet
that is just what has been done.
According to the committees or
der every county in the state must
have its delegates to the state con-
vention chosen solely from among
the supporters of the candidate for
president who receives a plurality
vote of the whole state. Thus four
fifths of the counties may vote
against one man and the vote of the
other fifth would force those four
tifths to send delegates supporting a
candidate against whom they had
voted. If such a principle as this
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-03-16

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New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
TO GIVE DINNER FOR KENLON
Many Will Unite in Paying Tribute to
Fire Chief on January 90.

The dinner which was to have been
given to chief Kenon OF the Fire Depart
ment in December and was postponed will
take place ono week from tomorrow even
ing at the Hotel Astor. Mayor Gayrlor.
Fire Commissioners Johnson, Police Com
missioner Waldo and others. including
two Supreme Court Justices. will speak
Those I'm charge OF the dinner feel that
this is a fitting time 10 honor the CHIEF
after his conduct OF the Equitable aud
other large fires. Moving spirits in the
arrangements are ex-Chlef Croker. Deputy
Chiefs Rolf Lally Binns Gucrin, Lang
ford and Howe and Department Surgeons
Harry NJ. Archer and Herman Refs. Al
ready over $50 invitations have been ac-
cepted city officials men In all the de-
partments and private citizens are among
those who will attend in order to attest
10 the chiefs popularity.
The dinner was originally set for De-
cember. but the illness OF Chief Kenon's
son Gerald prevented its being held. The
young man, who was studying TO take the
entrance examinations TO Annapolis. broke
DOWN through overwork and was in a
serious condition for a time with typhoid
pneumonia. He Is now doing nicely. how
ever, and expects soon to resume his
studies. /tt..
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
THE STATES ALMONER.

Petitions have recently been addressed
TO Governor Dix urging him TO reap
point Dennis Mccarthy, Of Syracuse,
whose term as fiscal supervisor OF
state charities will soon expire. Mr..
Mccarthy has served in that place. with
signal credit to himself and the state.
man of business training and expe-
rieuce he has known how to make a
dollar of the states money do dollars
work. He has had long experience in
helping to administer charitable insti-
tutions. He is man Of human sym
pathies and broad views.
Governor Dix in his first year of Of
fee was too prone TO regard his ap-
pointments as mere arrangements or
djcker and trade for his political adj
vantage with the Democratic organiza
tion or of party spoils pure and simple.
He seems now to he awakening 10 A
clearer perception of the states duty 10
its wards-the poor, the helpless ana
the insane-than he has had hitherto. 1t
Is to be hoped this better view will
he manifested in his consideration W
this appointment. II is place where
the question Of partisan politics should
not enter. and only the qualifications OF
the individual to serve the state and the
states wards should he thought Of.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
TAFT TO ADDRESS LAWYERS
He and Mr.. Knox To Be Among Speak

President Taft. Secretary. Knox. Senator
Root. Ambassador JUsserand Of France,
Joseph II. Choate. Governor Baldwin Of
Connecticut. Robert C. Smith, Of the Mon
treal bar. and Justice jerks are some OF
the sneakers who will address the members
Of the New York State Bar Association at
the thirty-hfth annual meeting on Friday
and Saturday.
The President has accepted the invitation
10 bc the guest OF honor at the dinner to
be given AZ the Waldorf-Astoria on Satur-
day evening. and Secretary Knox will de-
liver the annual address in Carnegie Hall
on Friday evening Mr.. Root. president OF
the association. will deliver his address on
Friday afternoon other addresses on the
general topic OF THE Reform Procedure
in the Courts OF New York" will be de-
livered by George Gordon Battle, Joseph
NJ Proskauer, Neal Dow Becker. Everett
= Wheeler. Henry 4. Forster, j. Newton
Fiero, of Albany: John i. Cohaan and
Robert Ludlow Fowler, the Surrogates Of
New York County. and Justice Rlddel Of
Toronto.
The Century Association, tho Union
League club and the city club have eX-
tended Ntheir privileges 10 members Of tho
State Association during the two days
meeting and the Association of the Bar
of tho city Of New York will give n rcccp-
tion for Secretary Knox. the State Bar AS
sociation and its guests directly after Mr..
Knox's address on Friday evening. The
Hotel Astor will be the headquarters FOR
the meeting.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
THE HUNGRY AND GOLD
Human Beings Have Better Claim to
Help than Animals.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The writer had occasion to pass
through East Broadway to-day noticeu
line OF poorly clad, shvering men goins
In a building that is occupied by the he
brew Shelterlng and immigration Aid so
clety The evident suffering depicted OF
the faces OF some of the men caused me 10
stop and make inquiry as to- the meaning
Of the line. | was told that the soclety
was giving dinner to the men.
Being interested, ! went inside, ana OH
asking the man as TO the why ana "here-
fore, was referred to Samuel Mason VINO
has charge of the society's rooms. he IN
formed me that they gave more than oo'VVV
meals to hungry men in 1911, ana that
they sheltered about 1000 for an average Oh
five DAYS each during the year. lie tolu
me that he depended on contributions LOT
the support Of the work. and that the only
red tape that had to be gone through 10 get
a meal was to state that you were hunsry'
II seems to me when people are giving
$1,000 for the maintenance OF an amman
society. as one rich woman was credl'eu
with doing in the papers last week, that II
a charity Of this sort was called 70 thelr
attention and they saw chance TO help
suffering human beings they would be glad
TO do so.
These cold days find that line there. The
people who go down TO see II will not be
able to keep their hands out Of their pock-
cts. although they may be able to read this
without paying any further attention to the
matter.
am confident that this through your
columns will reach some one who can and
will help these people help themselves.
CHARLES \. BELL.
N.n, VnrI Hnn
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
THE PESSIuIST.

Seldom has a better developed case OF
peSSimism in the political field been pre-
sented to public inspection than that
now offered by Mr.. Edwin A. Merritt,
ir.. the newly elected Speaker of the AS
sembly. 1T will be useless for the As
"sembly to pass affirmative legislation
direct nominations or otherwise says
the Speaker. THE kind of bills the Re-
publican Assembly would pass would
mot satisfy the Democratic Senate and
Governor. and we in the Assembly Will
hardly accept the bills Of the Demo
cratic Senate" Therefore, he argues,
the thing for the Legislature TO do Is to
acouit itself of certain routine duties and
go home.
The decision Of the Court of Appeals
has left Tammany's jerry-built election
law a lopsided ruin. Tammany's direct
primary law" passed overnight, has been
condemned as unconstitutional in i'm
portant respects by the Supreme Court,
while the court Of public opinion has
branded it as grossly unfair and eveh
|
united in declaring it ambiguous and
probably unwOrkable in its practical de-
tails The working people Of the state
need protection Of life and health while
at work, and humanity demands that
| they receive proper compensation for III
| juries. The states vast resources Of for
est and stream await legislation to set
them at work in furthering the prosper
| ity and welfare OF the people. The
power of the states agents under exist
ing statute law in curbing and control
ling its great public service corporations
has been declared defective by the courts.
These are problems which delay will not
aid in solving. They are questions of
moment to the people Of New York. They
and others as important have been called
to the attention of the Legislature Of
1912. and that Legislature will he recre-
ant to its duty if it does not try earnestly
and honestly to solve these problems.
What's the use? thinks Mr. Merritt.
His reasoning Is: We're Republicans
in the Assembly, and the Democratic
Senate and a Democratic Governor could
not possibly agree with us, or we with
them. on anything. Is this the clarion
call of leader TO valiant battle in the
service of the state? Are these the eager,
inspiring words Of jealous public SER
want, who ranks public duty and his
oath of Office above partisanshlp? The
public at any rate has little regard for
the man who quits job before he he,
gins it.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
THE pOSTOFFJCE RUILDING.

The proposal that the federal govern
ment abandon the postoffice building and
allow it's site TO retert to the city is the
fruit of the attention now being given
to the subject Of civic centre for New
York. Allowing the erection of the post
office where it is was shortsightedness
of the sort which resulted in the erection
of the obnoxious Tweed courthouse
where it is. and which would have been
followed. but for a sharp public pro-
test, by the construction of still big
ger and more inappropriate building in
City Hall Park to take the place OF the
present courthouse.
The postoffice Is an architectural mis-
fit and il has Outlived its usefulness.
The federal judges who sit in II are not
much better housed than the state judges
in TIE county courthouse. 1t is time,
therefore, that the government built Il
new postofice in New York. modern and
in every way worthy Of the city and the
nation. Such building could and
should be made a part of the group
which the city is planning to place about
the new courthouse. thus contributing It's
share to the development of a civic
centre. The present postoffice and the
Tweed courthouse ought to come dowA,
not only because both of them are
wretched buildings. but also because they
cucumber ground which once was ana
should be again part of City Hall Park.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15

try cries, another. is still awaiting a
change in the character of politics.
And 1t Is suggested that II might be sald
Of republican finance just as it was said
ten years ago Of monarchical and "rota-
twist" finance, that "the budget con-
"tlnues to be made on the old lines,
yearly more given to unremunerative
expenditure and lending deaf ear 10
those material improvements which the
country so greatly needs"
The remedy for this deplorable state
of affairs Is not OF course, to over
throw the republic and restore the mon
archy. but to reform the republic. That,
however. is much more easily said than
done. Meantime, the blundering OF the
republic affords the monarchists an OPP
portunity to agitate for restoration
and TO gather for their reactlonary cause
much strength which it could not com
mand IL the republic had come nearer
to realizing the reasonable expectations
of the people.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
POOR WORR IN pORTUGAL

The reported intention Of the Portu-
guese government TO go into the gam
bling business in competition with Mo-
naco as a method Of raising needed
revenue will be. if fulfilled, distinctly
discOuraging to the well wishers of the
new republic and may presage the
downfall of the government RESPONSE
BILE for it. 1t will also add TO the wide
spread disappointment which is felt in
Portugal itself at the failure of the re-
publican government to put the finances
Of the country into a sound and pros
porous condition. 1t had been sup
posed that monarchical profiigacy and
extravaganza had been responsible for
the accumulation Of debts, and that
with the advent Of an honest, efficient
and economical republic there would he
fiscal revolution for the better.
That expectation has not been real
zed. On the contrary, the new govern
ment has actually increased expendi-
lures and has resorted to fiscal expe-
dients Of the most dubious character.
The budget for the present fiscal year,
June, 1911, to June, 1912, was presented
eleven months later than II should have
been, namely, last month, the delay ap-
parently being made for the sake Of
finding some way OF reducing the def
icit. On the face of it, this was done.
The deficit was more than $5,0O0,0O0 in
1909; 1t was $4,589O00 In 1910, and in
1911 1t was apparently only 81 1856, 600.
This was made cause for exultation by
some partisans. But II was confessed
by the government that the result had
been attained by the expedient Of
adding to the revenue by coming some
$3,34S,000 of silver. The actual ex-
penditures have increased, especially in
the War Department, while the GUS
toms receipts have declined
Under such circumstances 1t is not sur
prising that people are disappointed, dis
couraged and disillusionized. One paper
complains that after year Of the repub-
lie the country is suffering financially
and economically ''as IL the plague had
ravaged or war wasted It," The coun.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15
THE EAYIONAL DELEGATES.

The problem of selecting delegates to
the Republican National Convention
which SO perturbed the Republican State
Committee appears vexing chiefly be-
cause OF the change in the number and
component parts Of the Congress dis
tricts In this state. The new "direct
primary" law seems much clearer in re-
gard to the election OF national delegates
than on many other subjects 1t attempts
TO treat. 1t provides that according 10
party rules delegates TO the national
conventions may be elected at state con
ycntions, or from Congress districts, or
partly by state conventions and partly
from Congress districts. In Presiden-
tisl year there must be spring primary
at which the voters shall make their
ebsice Of delegates and alternates to the
national convention, and in case the
party regulations call for q state conven-
tiop the delegates to that body are to be
elected directly at this primary.
Under the form Of call used for the
Republican national conventions district
delegates TO those gatherings are chosen
New-York tribune., 1912-01-15

In the same manner as candidates ioi
Congress. Since under the new law can
didates for Congress will be voted loi
directly in the primaries, the delegates
and alternates to the Republican Ma
tional Convention must be chosen al 'he
spring primary by the voters witn1n tne
Congress districts. Delegates to lhe
state convention to name the big Four
will be elected directly at that same PR
mary. The Democrats of this state VIII
not need to change their system OF other
years, under which the state convention
itself chose the district delegates oy
virtue of the fact that 1t passed on them
and gave them their credentials.
Details of the nomination Of district
delegates by the Republicans will be
harder to work out. 1t may be Heces-
sary 10 put the names of the candidates
for district delegate on the primary bal
lot by petition. inasmuch as there are
few Congress district committees prop
erly constituted. since the reapportion-
ment to make designations for places on
the ballot.