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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22
A BotherSome Problem.

The bill that has been passed BY
the California house of representa-
tives and is now pending in the sen
ate, which prohibits aliens who are
not eligible to citizenship from own.
( ing or leasing land in that state, has
aroused considerable irritation in
! Japan and saddled the Washington
administration with another treaty
dispute The measure embraces all
such aliens, but its supporters do not
deny that it is aimed especially at
the Japanese, and they expect the
national government to defer to
their sentiments of opposition TO the
requirement of land by Japanese.
The United States, however, is bound
by the treaty of 1911, which gives
the subjects of Japan the right Ito
own or lease and occupy houses,
manufactures, warehouses and
shops" in this country and Ito lease
land for residential and commercial
purposes" The treaty accOrds sim
liar liberty in Japan to Americans
Nothing is said about the ownership
of land, but at the same time there
is no limit of duration specified for
leases.
The California bill prohibits the fu-
ture leasing of land by aliens ineli-
gible for citizenship, and this part of
the measure indisputably is in direct
conflict with the treaty of 1911. ia
pan has formally protested against
it's enactment, and, if California
persists in her attitude, may re-
nounce the whole treaty of trade and
commerce between the two nations.
President Wilson is on the anxious
seat, neither wishing to infringe on
state rights, nor to abrogate nor to
contradict the spirit of treaty obli-
cations Yet, a strong hint comes
from California that the treaty itself
instead of being the supreme law
must give way to the state law.
The result of the argument will be
awaited with much interest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22
Man and Monkey,

The question of the simian ances-
try Of man has long been the sub
ject of jest. From the geological
point of view it has been a matter OF
more serious concern as far as the
position of man in any scheme of
classification is involved. With the
advent of modern methods of study
applied to blood and the problems
of immunity data of a new sort have
been furnished to bear on the real
relationship Of man to some of his
animal competitors. To this evil
dence of blood relationship have now
been added fresh facts derived from
the study of nutrition. The long
known contrast between man and
the animals, according to the Jour
nal Of the American Medical Associa-
ton. is thus made less striking by
the discovery of those intermediate
species exhibiting human character
istics in more than one way. The
gap has been abridged by the studies
on the anthropoid apes which have
now furnished to science the reputa.
Bile evidence for that relationship
which the behavior of apes in vau-
devil1e and elsewhere has strongly
suggested.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22

Editor The Dawson News: | have
just read your friendly criticism Of
the bill that | intend to introduce il
the next session of the legislature
| invite the most rigid criticism, and
if the plan proposed is not for the
best interests of the children in Geor-
gia then we viii try some other.
Let's see. Yos say that you are not
prepared to say that it would be wise
for the state to go into the publish
ing business. The state is already in
the publishing business and has been
ever since it was a state. The bust
ness of having various books publish
ed has increased as time goes by until
at the present what do we find? The
state is publishing and furnishing
law books to every one in Georgia at
cost. Everything published in GeOr-
gia in the form of law book is now
being published by Georgia and fur
nished to all its citizens and every
one else at cost Even the form
books are published at cost, the state
buying the copyright This of
course helps lawyers, but not school
children
The state is having edited and
published Colonial Records, and not
one person in every thousand has
ever seen a copy mot that I am
against this), and it does seem to me
if the state can do this for lawyers
and colop:a! lovers then we might
with a superhuman effort publish one
little school book to furnish one lit
tie poor child in Georgia at cost.
In 1872 Georgia commenced pub
fishing it's supreme court reports.
At this time So volumes had been
published by the Reporter, and every
one had to pay $500 per volume for
them. What was the result when the
state commenced publishing them?
The price dropped from $500 to
$3.50 per volume. Every lawyer in
Georgia knows this.
| have the text books of Ontario,
Canada (and l wish every voter in
Georgia could see them), and the
price of the primer bound in cloth is
4 cents, the price of the first reader
is cents, the public school arith-
metic 10 cents, and so on through
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22
EXCURSION RATES.
Cheap Rates Via the Central of Geor.
gia Railway Company.

TO CHATTANOOGA, TENN, and re-
turn, account United Confederate
Veterans Reunion, May 1929.
TO ST. LOUIS, MO, and return, ac-
count Southern Baptist Conyen-
ton, May 14-21, 1918.
TO NASHVILLE, TENN, and return,
account Worldwide Baraca-Phila-
thea Union, June 21-25, 1913.
TO LOS ANGELES, CAL, and re-
turn, account International Con-
vention Tilted Society of Christian
Endeavor, July ola, 1918.
TO MONTEAGLE AND SEWANEE,
TENN, and return, account Open
ing Week, July $40, 1913, Bible
Course, July 1870, and Mission
airy Meeting, August 30, 1913.
TO ELBERTON, GA, and return, &C
count Annual Convention Georgia
Sunday School Association, April
22-24, 1913.
TO BIRMINGHAM, ALA, and re-
turn, account National Good Roads
Federation, April 24-25, 1913.
TO ATLANTA, GA, and return &C
count General Assemblies, Pres
byterian Church in the U. S. A,
United Presbyterian Church OF
North America, Presbyterian
Church in the U. S., May 14-June
l, 1913.
TO SAVANNAH, GA, and return, &C
count Grand Lodge of Georgia 1.
o. o. F., May 1929, 1918.
TO DALLAS, TEX, and return, &C
count Annual Meeting Imperial
Council Ancient Order Mobiles of
the Mystic Shrine, May 1915,
1913.
TO ATLANTA, GA, and return, Sc
count Southern Sociological Con-
gress, April 1929, 1913.
For full information regarding
fares, dates of sale, limits, schedules,
ETC., apply to nearest ticket agent.
J. c. HALLE, Gen. Pas. Agent:
F. J. ROBINSON, Asst. Gen. Pas. Agt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22
$135,OOO,OOO

Total ..... $135, 900, 900
Balance against Georgia 37,496, 900
Ordinarily when a private individ-
ual is indicted there must be some
evidence to authorize q conviction.
This charge is an indictment against
the state of Georgia. 70 support
these figures Mr.. Hastings cites the
state department of agriculture OF
Georgia generally and Mr. P. A
Methvin, state pure food inspector
specifically. Now, 1 shall assert that
Mr.. Methvin does not Enow and can
not submit proof that VII sustain the
allegations in the above figures. FJf
instance, the corn which il is asserted
is imported to Georgia would furnish
more than 80 bushels for each man,
woman and child per capita in the
state of Georgia, and any man and
every man who is in any wa familiar
with importation of the corn in
Georgia knows there is no such con-
sumption According to these figures
there is $37, 100000 deficit with cot
ton placed at IL cents per pound,
and as cotton did not average for
gooa, bad and Indifferent II cents
per round the deficit would in fact
have been much larger. Other ASH
cultural products in the state Of
Georgia, money value, were not over
1925, 100000, and as that was COM
posed of corn, peas, potatoes, oats,
etc. it was almost entirely consum-
ed. and furnished no money for the
purchase of other things. Perhaps
the manufactured goods were worth
$250.0GO,00O. If the net profit on
that was Is per cent the manufact-
ured goods, afte" aging labor, raw
material, interest on investment
would still not make up this deficit.
Now, I think it is the duty of Mr..
P. A. Methvin, if he is responsible
for this statement, to prove it, and let
us know from whom he got his fig
ures, and then explain to us from
what source we receive our revenue
to purchase clothes, hats, shoes, flour,
coffee, sugar, salt, rice, tobacco,
cigars, guano, mules, horses, brick,
lime, lumber, hardware, crockery,
machinery, automobiles, houses,
lands and the numerous other artic-
les of use. both of necessity and lux
ury.
personally am tired of the ex-
travagant statements going abroad
against the state of Georgia that have
nothing behind them but hysteria.
Now. in the name of the people OF
the state of Georgia who dispute the
charge as set forth in these figures
| invite whatever officer in the state
department of agriculture of the
state of Georgia who is responsible
for that statement to furnish plainly
and distinctly the evidence which
they have to substantiate the charge
and to furnish me not privately but
to- publish it in your paper. Very
truly, M. c. EDWARDS
Dawson, Ga, April II.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22
Key to the Store House of Hidden Treasure

As farmers are now preparing fof
another crop it may not be amiss 20
offer 6 few suggestions looking to
better preparation and better meth
DDS, says Cotton and Cotton Oil
News.
Proper breaking of the land is the
foundation for the crop. Without a
good foundation good crops will not
be produced. A good house cannot
be built on a weak, shallow founda-
ton, neither can a profitable harvest
be gathered where the soil is not
well prepared,
Next in chronological order comes
the selection of good seed. Like be-
gets like. Weak, faulty seed will
produce weak, faulty plant, and
such plants inevitably produce infe-
rior grades and reduced yields.
These are self-evident PROPOSE
tons, and need no argument to en-
phasize their Importance, their neces-
sity.
Seed selection and thorough prep
aration of the soil for planting can
not alone give bountiful crops.
Something is more essential.
The intelligent farmer will apply
improved cultural methods and sci
entific principles. He should learn
what chemical elements arc wanting
in his soil. This knowledge he can
obtain from the agricultural colleges
or experiment stations. He will then
know what kind of fertilizer to use
And here it is well to urge farmers
to begin a system OF fertilization
Texas lands are failing in productive
capacity owing to wasteful and eX-
haustive cropping methods in the
past.
The red hills and sandy bottoms %
Georgia and the Carolinas are pro-
ducing more per acre than the rich
prairies of Texas. These Eastern
states are at last learning the value
of intensive farming and fertiliza-
ton. together with other features of
higher agriculture"
1t is no exaggeration to say that
every farmer in Texas and in the
whole South by employing the meth
DDS outlined above can easily in
crease his yield per acre Is per cent
with less than 25 per cent additional
outlay in labor and money.
Last year four thousand boys and
girls and young men, competing in
the prize contest inaugurated by the
! Texas Industrial Congress, made an
average of a little more than a bale
of cotton per acre, and their net
/, profits per acre were many times
greater than the general average OF
Texas farmers. How did these com
paratively inexperienced young peo
pie accomplish such results? They
did it by cultivating their lands ac
cording to the directions of experts.
There is no mystery about the
processes they employed to grow sucl
crops.
A negro in Alabama has produced
a bale of cotton on a measured one
eighth of an acre, or at the astound
ling rate of eight bales per acre. 1
= a negro and boys and girls can grow
t such crops surely every farmer in th'
, South should be inspired to emulate
their example. Southern farmer
must ultimately adopt better methods
= of agriculture. The sooner they TAX
a progressive step the better it viii
be for them and the country a
large.
Our farmers should write to tn,
f agricultural department at Washing
ton, the state agricultural colleges
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22

A great deal is coming from Wash
ington these days about Georgia pat
ronage and who is controlling it. 1t
would be a hard matter to convince
the 10000 patriots in this state who
want to connect with the said pat
ronage that anybody is controlling
it, as none has yet come this way
after nearly two months of weary
waiting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22

The King of Spain can realize how
true it is that uneasy lies the head
that wears crown" The anarchists
have tried three or four times to get
Alfonso, but each time he has escap-
ed unhurt. We do not know how
rich the young monarch is, but he
is certainly lucky in the matter OF
escaping assassination. The old say
ing comes to mind that it is bet
| ter to be born lucky than rich"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22
This Old World
By Walt Mason.

This world is but a dismal place,
a desert sad and dreary." So Croak-
er says, with long drawn face, and
Croaker, makes me weary. I've hung
around this good old sphere for two
score years and twenty, and found
that things are pleasant here, and
there is joy a-plenty. Although
Brer Croaker tears his robe and
talks like some soured prophet he
will not leave this gay old globe until
we push him off it. I've noticed that
the chaps who roast this world
wherein we're dwelling and sigh to
join the shining host where anthems
aye are swelling, when called away
put up a roar and naught their grief
can soften; they hate to leave this
punk old shore that they've abused
so often. l like to think that when
we die to Aidenn Wen be vending,
and sing beneath a cloudless sky in
happiness amending. However glori-
Gus the land for which q hope) we're
headed we shouldn't knock this mum
dane strand where we are now home
Isteaded. | hope to have a harp that's
pearled, and keep that harp album
ming. but while 1 loaf around this
world I have no kick a-coming.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22
Let 1t Become Universal.

From the Savannah News.
A big Western railroad has launch
ed new slogan. 1t is, Learn to
laugh" Simple, isn't it? 1t merely
means to quit taking your troubles
to other people. Instead of telling
how you suffered with the lumbago
and cold feet and how the neuralgia
nearly drove you crazy think up a
funny story and use it. Laugh, don t
moan. Expressed differently the slo-
gan means, Don't be a crouch. The
market value of a grin is far greater
than that of a frown.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22
The Income Tax.


For an initial attempt the income
tax section of the tariff revenue bill
appears reasonably free from unnec
essarv complications. but some parts
of the machinery will need adjust.
ment before smooth running can be
expected. The impost is made neces-
sarv to replace the loss of revenue
occasioned by greatly increased free
LIST and a drastic reduction in the
customs duties on other articles of
commerce.
1t is TO be levied at the rate of one
per cent on all incomes, from what
ever source derived, in excess of $4,-
900, with surtax of one per cent
on earnings in excess of $4,000 up
to $4,000, two per cent on incomes
in excess of $4,000 up to 100000,
and three per cent on the excess over
100000. An income of 10000
would be taxed on SIG, at one
per cent. equivalent to $3.50. A man
drawing $4,000 annually would pay
one pei. cent on $4,000. or $46O, to-
gether with one per cent on the diff
ference between $4,000 and $40
600, or $500, a total of $3.50 With
an income of 100000 he would pay
one per cent on $96, 900, or $3.50,
one per cent on 100000, or $500,
and two per cent on the difference
between 100000 and $4,000, or ST.
900, a total of $2,260. A man with
an income of million would pay one
per cent on $3.50, 900, or $4,000, one
per cent on $4,000, two per cent on
$4,000 and three per cent on the
difference between S1,O0O,000 and
100000, a total of $3S,260. The
duty on intermediate incomes would
be calculated similarly. Thus an in
come of $4,000 would be taxed one
per cent on $68,OOO, or $3.50, one
per cent additional on $4,000, or
$500. and two per cent additional on
the excess over $4,000, or $44O,
total of S1.420.
1t is charged that provision for
such a high limit of exemption brands
the new impost as a piece of class
legislation. Undoubtedly the num-
her Of persons liable will be small,
nrohah1v mot axceeding 100000. but
+bav are tho neonIe who derive most
protaction from the nation. and
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22
For Sale.

Fancy table syrup, home raised, in
one gallon cans, IS cents per gallon;
also several barrels at 40 cents per
gallon. Best home raised hand
packed tomatoes in three-pound
cans, 10 cents each, or s1.30 per
dozen. Can also furnish eggs for
Matching from the finest Ringlet
Barred Rocks in the South; also
fresh eggs and butter at any time
Telephone me your wants. ]. n
McLENDON, r. f. D. 8, Dawson, Ga
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22
Notice to School Trustees.

1t is hereby ordered by the Board
of Education that an election be held
on the fourth Saturday, April 26th,
from 8 to Il o'clock m, for the pur-
pose of filling all vacancies in the
boards of local trustees. Please at
tend to this duty promptly, and select
such men as feel an abiding interest
in our public schools. By order of
the Board This April 3, 1913.
J. w. T. LOWREY. G. & q
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22

1t will probably interest our South
west Georgia farmers to know that
experiments in Germany have shown
that dried potato vines have the same
value for feeding stock as good mead
ow hay.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22

There are signs that the war be-
tween the four Balkan states and
Turkey is near its end. As a result
Turkey will lose virtually all of her
territory that is in Europe. But what
an amount of human suffering, Of
sorrow. of loss Of life and property
the war has caused.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22

A contemporary observes that
when the American woman wants to
vote she chucks Uncle Sam under the
chin When the English women are
on the same mission bent they hit
John Bull in the face with bricks
and throw frecrackers under him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22

Thousands of starving deer have
been found in Idaho, victims of the
food. They are beyond the reach of
relief crops.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22
Splash and Glitter of United
States Ambassadors Abroad

Note-The official salaries of these
ambassadors was $17,50O per year.
Benjamin Franklin, the first and
the greatest American ambassador to
France, spent little more than $4,000
per year. This was in the days OF
real Observation-Disclosures time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22

To feel strong, have good appetite
and digestion, sleep soundly and en-
joy life use Burdock Blood Bitters,
the family system tonic. Price 81.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22

Itch! Itch! Itch! Scratch! Scratch!
Scratchl The more you scratch the
worse the itch. Try Doan's Oint-
ment. For eczema, any skin itching.
SOC a OK
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-22
EDWARDS is SKEPTICAL.
from the Macon Telegraph.

From the Macon Telegraph.
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
There has been going the rounds of
the papers of the state of Georgia
and other portions of the United
States statements which appear to
me to be absolutely untrue and a
gross reflection upon the intelligence,
advancement and common sense of
the people of the state of Georgia
at large and the farmers in particu-
lar. One article, of which H. G. Hast
ings of Atlanta is the author, is an
epitome of the charges. This state
ment is as follows:
THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA
In Account With
NORTH & WESTERN FARMERS
Debit
Corn purchased in 1912 $780, 900
Hay purchased in 1912. %, 68O,000
Oats purchased in 1912. 39,336,000
Miscellaneous feeds . 2,550,0O0
Meat dairy and poultry 48,OOO,OOO
Total .......... $172,496,00G
Credits
BY 100000 bales of
cotton at $50 ...$108,O00,000
BY 100000 tons cotton
seed at $50 .,..... 100000
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-07
BAPTIST.

At Calvary Baptist Church the Rev. DIT.
Joseph W. Kemp, of Edinburgh, will
preach tomorrow morning on "A Call TO
Steadfastness" and in the evening on
Jesus Christ Himself"
The subjects of DR.. l. NJ Haldeman at
the First Baptist Church tomorrow will
be as follows II a. m.-'The Meaning of
other Worlds. the Reason for an Absent
Saviour and the Hope of Coming Lord
s p. m.-"The Scientific Reason Why Men
DO Not Believe in the Gospel; or, Is the
Devil, After AL the God of This World?
These will be DR.. Trademarks last SER
mons previous to going away for the
summer.
At the Madison Avenue Baptist Church
tomorrow DR.. Charles A. Eaton VIII
preach morning and evening.
At Mount Morris Baptist Church the
Rev. DIT. J. Herman Randall will preach
at II a. m. tomorrow on simplicity of
Life" and at p. m. on THE Soul and
the World"
In Ascension Baptist Church the Rev.
Charles Hillman Fountain will preach ut
II a. m. tomorrow on The Great APP
pointment." Children's Day service at
S p. m.
There will he a peace meeting to-mor-
row evening in the Washington Avenue
Baptist Church Brooklyn, under the au-
spices of the American Peace and Arhi-
tration League. at which Henry Clews'
the president OF the society; Hudson
Maxim, A. r. Humphrey and Dr. Madison
c. Peters will speak for international ar
bltratlon.