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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10
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EDETEE 6Y TIE STAFF
YE COLLEGE OFAGREGULTUkE
BY President Andrew NJ. souIe.

that they saved several hundred DOL
lars for an expenditure of $25.OO'
about the amount required for traVel-
ing expenses and board to take one
of these short courses.
Will you continue in the old rut or
will YOU get out on the high new Level
of attainment which science has
shown to be within the reach OF every
farmer? viii you become regener-
ated citizen inspired with new pur-
pose? You have an opportunity TO 90
so through taking advantage OF these
courses especially prepared and offer
ed for your benefit and avahaole at
minimum of cost to every Whlle stu
dent of the state over the age OF SIX
teen who can read and write. rake
this matter up with your nelShDor'
canvass your community, bring cup
of farmers to the short course. vi all
the investments which you can make
as an individual or for your communi-
Nv none will surpass this. This IS
not a personal opinion, but is based
on the specific statements OF men
who have been with us in the past.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10

Every state maintains an institu-
ton to discover and disseminate facts
of utility to farmers. 1t was for this
reason that the State College of Agri-
culture was organized and is support
ed as a child Of the state. In order
that this institution may do its full
duty by the farmers of the state, it
has from year to year organized short
practical courses the first ten days Of
the month of January. They offer
him an opportunity to secure at a
minimum of cost the necessary facts
on which to project his farm opera
tions on the best practical basis for
the ensuing year.
There are courses in cotton indus,
try, live stock production, agronomy
and horticulture. Men are therefore
permitted to specialize along that line
in which they seek to become expert.
instruction is offered by the ablest
men on the College staff and is given
in the most simple and direct manner
possible. and illustrated by laboratory
and Geld demonstrations. Men who
have taken these courses have stated
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10
THE GRIGGs MONUMENT.

James Galloway in Macon Telegraph.
Hon H. NJ. Mcintosh, chairman OF
the committee on contributions, has
let the contract to erect the monu-
ment in Dawson to late Congressman
James NJ. Griggs. The design is
very handsome. Judge Griggs had a
wonderful hold upon the people. He
was a strong tariff reformer, and Ia
bored for a tariff properly adjusted.
He soon discovered the Western in
surgents were not for tariff reform
but were fighting for advantage tc
have more power in congress. In
the extra session called for tariff re-
vision the insurgents failed to aic
Speaker Clark, to his great chagrin
on the tariff matter. Judge Grigg!
warned the speaker that he would
get no tariff help from that source
1t is gratifying to know that monu
ment will be erected to commend
rate the public services of the be
! loved congressman.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT

It is the purpose of The News to
pay careful attention during the year
now under way to the proceedings
ri the County Commissioners Court
OF Terrell county, to print compre-
hensive reports of the meetings OF
the body. And in the way of max
ing a good start, early in the year,
such a report will be found in this
issue. The News has always paid
attention to this department of home
news. but perhaps not as fully as
might have been done. For the peo-
ple of Terrell cOunty-especially
those who reside outside of Dawson,
the farmers more especially-the
work of the county commissioners
has distinctive interest and import
ance. The Commissioners Court is
the legislative authority of the cOun-
ty, its proceedings having the same
interest for country people that the
work of the City Council has for the
people who live in the city OF DaW-
son.
Representative citizens comprise
the Commissioners Court. They are
a group of intelligent men whose
legislative and administrative func-
lions should and we believe will be
of advantage to the county. 1t is a
big and important business managing
the affairs of a county like Terrell
with it's millions OF dollars of proper
ty and a population Of nearly $4,000.
There are perhaps 500 miles of
public highways to keep in order
and look after, with dozens of
bridges and culverts, with public
buildings and public institutions to
handle 1t is a work that ought to
be handled by reliable and capable
men, who are patriotic citizens, too,
and it is a gratifying reflection that
for virtually thirty-two years Terrell
county has had that class of men as
commissioners.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10
cATARRH IN CHICKENS.
L. /. Jones, Professor Poultry
Husbandry.

L. /. Jones, Professor Poultry
Husbandry.
Question-How would you prevent
or cure catarrh in chickens?
A chicken affected with cold, or
catarrh, should receive immediate at
tention, for while this disease in itself
is not serious. it is liable to develop
into roup if neglected. Usually a
cold is caused by exposure during a
cold spell of weather, by draughts
of air over the birds while they are
on the roosts, by damp atmosphere
and wet weather, or by improper
housing conditions.
In many cases the bird will get
we'll without doctoring if the condi-
tions which caused the cold in the
first place are removed. A little red
pepper given in the mash often helps
them along. If the trouble is more
serious the nostrils, eyes and mouth
should be washed out with per
cent. solution of BOracic acid. Or If
roup is suspected dip the head of the
fowl in a l per cent. solution of po-
tassium permanganate, holding II
there % or 30 seconds. Repeat this
treatment 0~ca or t~'-0~ = O. It'll
fowl is cared 4 --@
the trouble is first nCt-c.
vent lot of work later w - : p
Ease has a good start.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10

We mean those inevitable, com
monplace, ever-incre2sing bills from
the butcher and the baker and their
many friends. Ii you will only read
,his article you will discover that :
goal also is a Bill The stupidity
of the average American citizen who
complains Of ~ high cost of living,
who sees his yearly income grow
smaller III proportion to what he
must pay for the necessities OF life
and who does nothing to curtail the
evil, when he is informed how to nit
it a clean, hard blow, is nothing less
than hopeless. One despairs OF such
people. If he did not need their help
to make his own income go as far
as possible he would be tempted to
let them reap the consequences Of
their economic blindness.
If the cereal crops in this country
suffer damage annually to the extent
of 5000, 100000 and the cotton,
the extent OF S220,OOO,OOO more,
and if IN the two states Of Indiana
and Ohio the Hessian fly can destroy
in a single year 2,577,000 acres Of
wheat, is this anything in which
plain John Smith and Peter Jones
are Interested financially? Most as
suredly. If this loss would have
been largely prevented by the proper
protection of our feathered friends,
the birds, which, if they had not been
killed, would have made it their bus
mess to eat up the cinch-bugs, the
wheat pest, and the cotton boil Wee
wills, the cotton pest, and the cut
worms the wiTe-WOrms, the army
worms, the grasshoppers, the leaf
hoppers and the thousand and one
other bugs and grubs and slugs that
wait to destroy our crops and our
fruits-doesn't it mean a very con-
siderable amount in or out Of these
mems pockets whether the birds are
protected or not? Bills and birds
just here go together That is, the
less birds the more bills. The more
birds the less bills.
Who is killing the birds and so
increasing the bills? That army OF
), 100000 men and boys who are
the so-,alled gunners and hunters Of
the United States. These are the
of our Industrious and
faithful allies, which are only too
glad to exterminate the noxious in
sects whose depredations help to
keep up and push up the high cost
of living. These gun-men, thousands
of them boys, many of them pot
hunters, are simply so man robbers
flching from the purses of every hon
est toiler in the land who has to
pay the bills of the household.
Ten Thousand Day.
In Louisiana alone it is reported
that during the short season 10000 !
robbins a day are killed by brutal
men and boys They are shot,
claobed to death in the trees where
they roost at night in great numbers,
by the wholesale to be
sold for a few cents apiece. And VT
the robin ana It's nestlings are PEI
:ect german iilcrs hnn t comes to
me- king a meal CT bugs and caterpil-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10
A NEW FIELD OF ENDEAvOR.

The passage of the initiative and
referendum amendment at the last
election has given rise to a new bus
mess in Colorado.
According to the constitution, as it
stands now, says Case and Comment,
publication printed in the interest
If the legal fraternity, any law to
be initiated that is offered to the peo-
pie direct without the intervention
of the action of the legislature must
have signatures to the number Of
ten per cent of the number of votes
cast for governor at the last state
election.
A great many people have bills
which they think are good, but OF
whose merits they have never been
able to convince the legislature.
Neither do they know how to lay
their case before the people. Enter
the signature broker.
The signature broker offers to get
all the signatures needed TO initiate
any law provided he is paid at the
rate of 10 cents a signature. When
the bargain is struck he employs
capYassers whom he pays at the rate
of 1 cent to / Z cents each for sigma
lures, leaving a pretty fair margin
o. profit.
We are glad to find at least one
good thing connected with the init
ative and recall-a new employment
and enlargement of the scope of
business endeavor. But, at the same
time, ten cents a head is mighty
cheap pay for bouncing public Off
cials and oyerturning governments.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10

The Abel News correctly diagnoses
the symptoms. tells what ails this
section of the country and prescribes
a sure remedy when it says: "One
of the greatest hindrances to the
farming interests is the heavy guano
bills, which are made every year in
order to raise cotton. The farmers
will gain their independence only
when they diversity their crops and
plant less cotton. Heavy guanO ac-
counts and high priced farm animals
have helped to make the times strin-
gent. If we would emancipate our
selves from debt we must practice
retrenchment."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10
BEEF GROWING ADVANTAGE IN
GEORGIA.
M. p. Jarnagin, Professor Anima!
HusbandrY.

M. p. Jarnagin, Professor Anima!
Husbandry.
Question-Can cattle be grown LOT
beef in Georgia as cheaply as in the
West?
The West can furnish grain ca%sp
err. but Georgia can produce more sill
age to the acre, get longer grazing
and more and better food from Ber'
muda grass than is obtained from
western grasses. The demonstrated
possibilities of corn-growinG in Geor
gia show that even the West should
have nothing over it in that respect
Georgia can now grow beef cattle as
cheaply as the grain states, but with
its full possibilities developed 1t
should have an advantage.
AS an indication OF how values can
be increased in growing cattle for
beef. the State College of Agriculture
bought cows in South Georgia at SIT
per head and sold calves from these
cows at the average age of % months
IN the Athens market for s44.S9 each
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10
THE BIRDS AND THE BILLS.
BY Erancea H. RowIe y IN Our Dumb Animals.


lars, the fiedglings eating one and
two-ffths their own weight of worm-
and insects each day. No wonder
men speak of many of these little
birds as worth their weight il
gold" How magnificent the econon!-
.c wisdom of the state that allows
their destruction at the hands OF men
who sell them for less than an ounce
Of copper.
Bob White.
A female chinch-bug is said to dc.
post SEQ eggs each month through
the summer. The department of az
riculture states that this insect de-
stroys 100000, 600 worth of wheat
rye, oats and barley every year. One
quail, killed in Kansas, had in its
stomach the remains Of 200 chinch-
bugs. To kill a quail may be sport
for some men, but it takes hard
earned money out of the pockets of
millions who can i'll afford to be
plundered by such MASTERS of wealth.
The Swallow.
A single pair of the cotton boil
weevils will raise a family of twenty
nine or thirty millions a year. There
are thirty-eight kinds of birds that
feed upon this pest, foremost among
them the swallow family Kill the
swallow and then pay the price in
every yard of cotton cloth you buy.
"The value of the birds destroyed as
game we are told, and for food
is not equal to one-thousandth of the
value they would save to the national
wealth if permitted to live"
Our Shore Birds.
Do you know, Mr. Farmer, that at
least thirty species of the shore birds
that the law allows the gunners to
kill-gunners who perhaps tramp
over your fields-feed upon insects
that are your foes? The gunners
who shoot legally" says Dr.. Horn
aday, are destroying 1874 species of
birds that are legally classed as
game birds, even in the North"
worth Their Weight in Gold"
That is literally true of every one
Of the birds mentioned in this ar
ticle. and of scores OF others. 1t has
taken US a long while to put these
little creatures in the scales and dis
cover how much pure gold they will
actually lift.
Your Duty.
The Mclean bill now before con-
gress to provide for federal protec-
ton of all migratory birds is the
most important wild life measure"
that ever came before that body. 1t
is senate bill No. 6497, and on the
senate calendar is No 606 If we let
this session of congress close with
this bill unpassed it will be little less
than a crime. 1t will be passed if
congressman and senators find out
that their constituents demand it,
How shall they know? You must
write them. Do it now, Get every
friend to write Direct the letters to
your representative and senator.
Write in your own way and Ian
guage. This is wisdom. 1t is econ
omy Do it for the birds. Do it
FOR yourselves even if you will not
for these faithful friends.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10

w. R. Fox, 1875 Washington ST.,
Noblesville, Ind, says: after suffer
ing many months with kidney troub-
lie, after trying other remedies and
prescriptions, I purchased a box OF
Foley Kidney Pills. which not only
did me more good than any other
remedies | ever used, but have posi-
lively set my kidneys right. Other
members Of my family have used
them with similar results" Take at
the first sign of kidney trouble. Daw-
son Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10
Shareholders Meeting.

A meeting of the shareholders Of
the Bank OF Dawson, of Dawson, Ca,
will be held at their banking house
on Tuesday, January 18th, 1913, at
10 O'Clock a. m, for the purpose of
electing directors and for the trans
action of any other business as may
properly come before said meeting.
J. E. MORRIS, Cashier.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10

Is the prohibition party dead?
John G. Wo0Iley, who was its NOM
inee for president in 1900, declares
that it has "outIived its usefulness, y
and he has quit it. Mr.. Woolley has
not ceased to be an advocate of tenn
perance, but intends, he says, to work
alcng new lines. He predicts that
there will be no prohibition party
candidates in the presidential race
in 1916. The greatest vote the party
has polled in a presidential race was
in 1892, when 264,133 votes We're
east for john Bidwell of Califor-
mia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10

President Taft has been the great
est traveller among our presidents,
His plans indicate that he will con-
tinue to see much of this and OF
other lands. After his successor is
inaugurated in March he will visit
Georgia, make summer trips to New
England and to California, spend a
wear in New Haven as a lecturer in
the Yale Law School and then, with
Mrs. Taft, make a tour of the world.
He recently made his fifth trip to
Panama.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10
CORNERS IN FARM PRODUCTS.

Are we to have no more gambling
in agricultural products? asks the
Savannah News. II looks a little that
way. The supreme court has de-
cided in the case against Patten,
Hayne and others indicted for run
ming a corner in cotton that corner
ing of agricultural products is a VIC
lation OF the antitrust law. There
fore. the indictment against them
viii stand.
1T is an open question: says our
Savannah contemporary, whether or
not speculation in cotton helps the
cotton farmer. There are those who
hold that it doesn't, that. on the
contrary. it makes the market unset
tied. and that in the long run results
unfavorably to the producer. So
convinced are the cotton farmers Of
this that they have urged national
legislation prohibiting it.
1T IS a fact. however, that spec
ulation requires two parties, one
seeking to put up the price and the
other TO put it down. AS q general
rule the disposition is to buy rather
than sell cotton futures ana hence
the tendency of speculation is to put
ND the price. The opposing forces
gather only when there is good rea-
son for thinking that the price is
higher than actual conditions of the
cotton crop warrant. Y
IF Patten and the other defend
ants in the cotton corner indictment
should be convicted there would be
an end to cotton speculation, ant
then we should know by actual ex
perience whether or not speculation
is helpful or harmful to the cotton
producer. The men who enginee
corners often win great fortunes, bu
the amount they win doesn't come
out of the pockets of the cotton pro
ducers unless the producers them
selves engage in speculation. |
Genes out of the pockets of thos
who engage in speculation for tn
purpose of getting rich quickly.
The stopping of speculation i
cotton would be a good thing for tn
South generally. BY means of i
since the close of the war betwee
the states, hundreds of millions c
dollars have been lost to the SOutl
The tendencies of the Southerners
to back the crop of their section, AM
as a rule, they are on the bull sid
OF the market They don't seem
know when to sell, and hence whe
the break comes and a fall in prit
follows they find themselves loade
with cotton, and consequently suff'
heavy losses. without any referen'
n tho question as to whether or n
r~acuFot'nr tar77 o nut ND or d
down the price of cotton the stonnir
Of gambling in cotton would be ben
fetal to the South because it wOu
keen At home millions of dollars g
cry year that are now lost to Il
sneruIqtcrs on the New York Cote
Exchange"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10
Shareholders Meetin O.

A meeting of the shareholders of
the City National Bank of Daw-
son, Ga, will be held at their bank
ing house on Tuesday, January IA,
1913, at II o'clock, for the purpose
of electing directors and for the
transaction of any other business as
may properly come before said meet
ing. X. S. WORTHY. Cashier.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10
shareholders Meeting.

a meeting of the shareholders OF
the Dawson National Bank of Daw-
son, Ga, will be held at their bank
ing house on Tuesday, January IA,
1918. at IL o'clock. for the purpose
of electing directors and for the
trarsCc ticn of any other business as
go -tr- o-ly c~~a heto-a said meet
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10

Although there are still a few
households in which an old colored
woman cares for the little ones as
lovingly and faithfully as if they
we're her own flesh and blood the
black nanny" of the South is rap
idly passing away. In this connec-
ton the Youths Companion, pub
lished at Boston, Mass, says: "Only
those who knew the old-time South
arn home can understand the feeling
that was aroused when the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy. in their re-
cent convention, proposed to put up
q fitting monument to the faithful
and affectionate creature who will
soon be known only in dim tradi-
ton"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10

EseT Fclay's }oney ard Tar Com
pound always ~ herd. an you cay:
quickly head on a cold by is pron'Nr
use. 1t contains no opiates. heals and
soothes the infamed air passages,
stops the cough and may save a big
doctors bill. In the yellow package.
Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10
Notice to the Public.

Hereafter l will not be responsible
for goods charged to my account I'M
less bought in person or by written
order from me. This January 1st,
1918. J. R. MERCER.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10

Benjamin Leath, the corn club
rr'ze winner who has been taking a
-.r - ~-r~'ture. has been com
80. 49, H-ra y C'7-'5
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10

The curtain has fallen for the mo-
ment on the iron workers convicted
at Indianapolis of completely in dyna-
mite violence. The thirty-eight men
are in the federal prison at LeaVen-
worth. Kansas, with. it would seem,
but scant hope of any reversal or
mitigation Of their sentences.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10

r. NJ. Johnson, editor OF the Hous-
ton, Texas. Post, who has been ap-
pointed United States senator to fill
The vacancy caused by the resignation
Of Hon. Joseph w Bailey, is a Geor-
gian and son of a printer. Mr. John
son spent most Of his early manhood
In South Georgia and did newspaper
work in Bainbrige and Valdosta be-
tore going to Texas. Governor Col
auitt, who appointed him senator, IS
also a former Georgian.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10

The Rev. Anna Shaw advocates
daily prayer service in the interest
C woman's suffrage. That is a SEN
sible idea, thinks the Savannah News.
From the viewpoint Of the men folks
it beats pouring ink and acid into
letter boxes and cracking windows
and skulls with bricks. Absent treat
ment for heartless men who deny
women the ballot might be tried with
nossi bility of success.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-10

Cuthbert, Ga, Jan. s, 1913
The chronicle=news., 1913-09-23
.sulzea @!HOuNcts
!, MEicE DURING TRIAk
,cesss.s-a srss. pas. l.,

- itCsossssea ssess paGe ~
with snlzer's statement Of campaign
expenses and alleged xpecuiations In
Wall street. he summed UP his ar.
Gumeut - follows:
The failure Of the governor 10
file \ complete and accurate state
msnt OF campaign contributions did
not constitute any offense recoEniz-
able BY our laws.
The election law does not require
. statement Of contributions made
to . candidate.
The failure Of . candidate 10 file
the statement required by this act u
not nm oifcnse. but subjects him to
. prcmtory demand by = court to
perform this duty. william suIzer
never received such . demand.
THE statute recognizes . candi-
dates right to he given notice oi cr-
roes In his statement and his right
to an opportunity to correct them.
The state cannot call him to account
until Il first has accorded him these
rishts.
The penal code does not require
. candidate To file q statement Of
contributions made to him md there
arc no statutes Oh this subject.
"lneorrsct ststements Of facts. In
serted In an affidavit but not mater.
ial thereto. do not constitute per-
Jury.
Perjury cannot be based on an
oath which was ariihcr required nor
AUTHORISED BY Law.
As the election Law does moi re-
qulre the statement to liz verified
and ~ neither the election Law nor
the peaai sod~ require the candidate
10 insert eoatsibutions. made 10 hin,
there = ~ ground for the charge ot
perjury. sos for the charge Of avg.
leet Of duty.
These pcinis wcrr advanced In 4
supleme ntsi brief which came ~ 4
surprise 10 memb-rs Of the LiRh court
10 whom copies OF Judge iicrriok's
original brief had len distributed.
Messcnsars werc sent seurrsins &c
obtain Law books and the mcmicss
seemed TO take . srcsirr in:crrss Ia
thu now contentious than they had
eSiaccd duriag any OF thc other lc.
gal prclimiaaries. Informal whis-
pcred consultations were held.