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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
Threatened Calamity.

News from Europe seems to por-
4end war between Austria-Hungary
and the little kingdom of Servia, as
the result of Austria's sinister Ell
forts to discipline Servia for the as
sassination of the crown prince Oh
Austria and his morganatic wife. II
the strife were confined to those two
nations the military movements
would not possess so much import
ance. But the trouble is of a nature
that may involve other and powerful
European nations, and thus bring on
the greatest war of modern times.
Not one power in the old world could
keep aloof. If they were not drawn
in directly they would be drawn in
indirectly. The cost to business and
prosperity and the cost to posterity
in debt and in the inheritance OF
feuds would be a worldwide calam-
ity.
Great and civilized nations cannot
wage war in this day and time with
out other nations of like status feel
ing the stress of the conflict in one
way or another, and irrespective OF
which of the continental powers
clashed the United States could not
escape bearing part of the penalty.
Hostilities in Europe would mean
that all our surplus gold would be
drawn there and would stop coming
to this country from Europe. Euro
pean investments here would dwindle
to a minimum. We would have to
depend on our own resources, so far
as finance goes. Prices of commodi-
ties would go up, since the demand in
Europe would be intensified, and as
there would be no demand for it the
price of cotton would decline to fig
ures that have not been known in
years.
It is to be hoped that the clash will
be averted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
For State Treasurer.

To the People of Georgia: I am
a candidate to succeed myself as
State Treasurer, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary. My can
didacy is based strictly upon my rec
ord and experience in this office,
which are well known to the
people of Georgia, and which
I trust has been satisfactory.
If, in your opinion, the management
of the states finances under my ad-
ministration for the past several
years has been faithful and efficient
I would gratefully appreciate your
endorsement at the polls in the COM
ing primary. Thanking you for the
support and confidence extended me
heretofore, l earnestly solicit your
further kind consideration of my cam
didacy in the present campaign. Re-
specially. w. j. SPEER.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

The American Magazine sent Kay
Stannard Baker to Washington 10
trace your income tax dollar and re-
port penny for penny exactly now
Uncle Sam spends it. The result OF
his investigation appears in the Au-
gust number. Under the indirect
method of taxation, by which we still
continue to raise most OF our reVe-
nues, few people felt any concern as
TO what the government spent, but
with a direct tax like the income tax
several hundred thousand Americans
will feel this year, for the first time
inst what it means to help buy war
ships and pay for unnecessary post
offices. Following is part OF Mr.. Ba-
ker's report:
1.-The very first thing that struck
me. and struck hard, was the ract
that. although we have had no grea'
war in fifty years land only little
one sixteen years ago), over sixty
| cents of every dollar that Uncle sam
collects from you and me directly
or Indirectly goes for military pur'
poses including continuing expenses
lof past wars-pensions.
81 think that few people realize
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
HolD Uncle Sam Spends Your Income Tax.

what this means-in nation which
considers itself peculiarly devoted to
peace.
Sixty-three per cent to the army,
navy and pensions, and only thirty
seven per cent to pay all the other
vast and useful purposes of the gov
eminent, excluding postal service and
the preposterous sinking fund-re-
quired by law, but never provided for
in fact. This thirty-seyen per cent
only is available for building the Pan
anna Canal, improving our rivers and
harbors, supporting the Indians, en-
couraging agriculture, public health,
and education, to say nothing of TAX
ing care of the entire machinery of
civil government-congr execu-
tive. courts and the diplomatic and
| consular service.
In the estimates for the new year
! the expenditure of the government
for all purposes with the exceptions
above stated reaches the vast sum
of S74O,0OO,O0O. OF this 1866, 00O,-
900 go for war purposes and forty
five per cent of this goes for pensions.
retirements and interest on war
debts"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
ANNOUNCER NTS
For Ordinary.

To the Voters of Terrell County:
Inasmuch as there is a vacancy in
the Ordinary's Office l take this meth
cd of announcing myself a candidate
for the unexpired term, and hereby
solicit your votes and influence. l
promise if elected to be diligent in
the enforcement of the law and dis
charging the duties of Ordinary. Ask
ing you to honor me with your vote
on the day of the election, am yours
to serve, r. H. JENNINGS.
am candidate for the unex-
pired term for Ordinary, made vacant
by DR.. w. B. Cheatham's appoint
ment to the postof1ce at Dawson.
Your support and influence will be
highly appreciated. l have lived here
nearly my whole life and have never
before asked for an office. l will
show my appreciation by giving my
whole time and best service to the
office. solicit your support. Yours
truly, G. S. CROWELL.
am a candidate for Ordinary of
Terrell county to fill the vacancy that
will be caused by the resignation of
W. B. Cheatham, and respectfully So
licit the support of the voters of the
county, pledging intelligent and con-
scientious discharge of the duties of
the office L. c.. HOYL
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
A PATHETIC INCIDENT.
From the Macon News.

From the Macon News.
There is a touch of the pathetic in
the cable dispatch from Paris about a
gendarme admonishing the former
Empress Eugene against plucking a
flower in the garden of the Tuiller-
| les, where once she reigned in splen-
dor second only to that which was
associated with the throne of the first
Napoleon.
This aged lady, now in her eighty
eighth year, visits her beloved France
once a year, spending several weeks
there under an assumed name in an
out-of-the way hotel. Dressed in
deep black she goes inconspicuously
about the streets and parks. This
week she strolled into one of the
public gardens and stopped to pick a
budding rose, only to be halted by a
guard, who warned her against this
trespass. Asking her name he was
little wiser when she replied simply,
"Eugenie.'
Yet there was a time when Eu-
genie was a name to be conjured
with. The granddaughter Of an
American consul to Spain, the daugh-
ter of a Spanish grandee who fought
with Napoleon, she is the last remain
ing link that connects the NapoleOnic
dynasty with the present era. Though
born six years after the emperor's
death she married his nephew and
for nearly twenty years occupied the
throne wherein Marie Antoinette,
Josephine and Maria Louisa had sat-
The rise of Josephine is no stranger
and no more meteOric than the ad-
vancement of this Spanish senOrita,
whose within it was that led to the
war between France and Prussia, re-
sulting in shameful humiliation of
the latter.
Well might we exclaim, "How the
mighty have fallen" when we read of
a policeman taking the former En-
press of France to task for breaking
"a flower, and yet there is no salts
faction to be gained out of the incl
dent. Rather, it stirs our pity, and
awakens a keen sympathy for this old
woman, whose state was once so
great.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
AND THE sPEEDERs SPEED ON,

From the Madisonian.
The Atlanta Constitution of last
Friday contained the following local
news item:
1.-TWO women driving an automo-
bile Thursday noon hit and knocked
unconscious George Adams, who lives
at 2O4 Central avenue. The little
boy, who is years old, had been to
see one of his chums on Pulliam
street. Disappointed at not finding
him he was returning home at the
time of the accident. When he reach
ed the corner of Pulliam and East
Fair he stopped to look at a COW
standing in the street. Suddenly a
speeding auto was upon him, the fem
der throwing the unconscious form
toward the curb. People on the
street were shocked by the sudden
ness of the accident. The machine,
however, witnesses say, carried the
women from the scene without their
stopping to investigate the extent OF
the child's injuries. Witnesses quick
ly carried the boy to the home Of his
father, ]. T. Adams, where cut was
found on the right side of the head.
"a
and pronounced the case a cOncus-
sion of the brain. The name OF the
driver of the car has not been learn
ed"
And the ''speeders" did not even
stop to inquire whether the boy was
dead or alive, MANNED or uninjured.
What cared they for this little fellow
lying in the street? On with the
ride!
Let JOY be unconfined!
Some of these days a similar trag-
edy will, in all probability, be enact
ed on Madison's streets. The joy
riders would probably stop long
enough to say they were sorry, aw-
fully sorry. But would that atone
for the crime committed? Can
words of sorrow bring the dead back
again?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
The Inhuman Third Degree.

Commenting on a bill-which has
passed the senate-to prohibit the
sweating" of confessions from pris-
oners the Tampa Times expresses
views that are in accord with what
The News has said at various times
of this inhuman practice. That pa
per says:
It should not be necessary to
pass any such bill. The sense OF
Justice and fairness that finds lodg-
ment in the breast of every honest
man revolts against it.
It is cruel and cowardly and
violative of the fundamental rights
of a prisoner to subject him to the
mental and too often the physical
torture of the Infamous third
degree" for the purpose OF eX-
tracing from his unwilling lips
under the duress of threatened
punishment or promised reward a
confession that is by ell the rules
of evidence prohibited from being
used in a court of justice.
We read with horror nowadays
the stories of the tortures inflicted
upon helpless prisoners in the old
en- times for the purpose of ex-
torting confessions of crime, and it
is thought necessary in this TWEEN
tieth century, in the states OF this
union, to adopt a statute to pre-
vent a like practice. How far has
civilization progressed?
Many poor devil has been made
to confess" a crime he did not COM
nit in order to escape the brutal
torture of an inhuman officer. And
the torture inflicted on a prisoner is
often a greater crime than the one
with which he is charged.
1t is a brutal and degrading GUS
practiced here in
Georgia to the shame of the state
that should not be longer tolerated.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
For Congressman

To the Voters of the Third Con-
gressional District: 1 hereby an
nounce myself a candidate for re-
election as Representative from the
Third district to the Sxity-Fourth
(64th) Congress, subject to the pri-
mary of August 18th, 1914. Dur
ing my short term Of Office I have
earnestly endeavored to serve the
people of the district, and will deeply
appreciate a second term. Or ac-
count of i'll health l will be physic-
ally unable to canvass the district.
shall ever be grateful for all support
given me. If elected, 1 promise to
discharge the duties OF the Office to
the best Of my ability. Very sim
cereIy, CHARLES r. CRISP.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
A WONDERFUL CENTURY.
From the Savannah News.

From the Savannah News.
On the day that the first formal
ceremony in the Anglo-American
peace centennial celebration was held
in England the first step was taken
towards plunging Europe into a ter
rible war. That war may never come
because the other necessary steps
may not be taken, but the first step
was enough to furnish a contrast
with the gathering of Englishmen
and Americans at old Sulgrave Ma
nor, the ancestral home of George
Washington, and their talk about the
hundred years that have passed since
the two great English speaking peo-
pies were at war with each other.
It has been a wonderful century
since the close of the war of 1872.
Not only is war different now, but
peace is also. The whole world has
changed so far as material things go.
Railroads, electric cars in the streets
and above them, flying machines,
electric lights, wireless, telephone,
telegraph, utomobiles-the list is
endless-haye transformed the earth.
But they have not transformed the
people. They are unchanged in
many ways. They still are prone to
quarrel and fight, and nations, which
are much like individuals, are still
prone to send their armies and ships
to battle. The same old human ma
ture exists. Very likely it has not
changed much since the days when
men fought with sings and clubs.
Weapons have changed, but the same
desire to kill, the same blood lust,
the same angry passions, hatreds,
race antipathies, are there. They pull
the trigger now just as formerly they
swung the sling.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
For State Senator.

I hereby announce myself as cam
didate for the State Senate from the
Eleventh Senatorial district, subject
to the Democratic primary. l have
endeavored to profit by my opportu-
mites to learn to become useful dur
ing my experience in the General AS
sembly, and believe that my expert
scce in a law maxim body has bet
Ter equipped me to serve the people
whom l represent. If elected, !
promise a faithful and conscientious
discharge of the duties of the office
to the best of my ability. solicit
your support D. G. PICKETT.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
For Representative

To the White Voters of Terrell
County: l am candidate for the
Legislature, subject to the action OF
the Democratic primary August ~.
Your support and influence will be
appreciated, and should you elect me
| will show my appreciation by CIV
ing you the best service in my power,
Yours truly. M. J. YEOMANS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

Efforts to stamp out the bubonic
plague in New Orleans have not been
as successful as it was thought they
would be, and that disease may yet
prove to be a calamity to that city
and may be to this country. There
have been nearly a dozen cases and
several deaths. A deadlier type OF
the disease-the septicaemis type
has made it's appearance in the city
and claimed a victim.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
For Representative

To the voters of Terrell county: ]
announce myself candidate for Rep
resentative from Terrell county in
the General Assembly subject to the
regular Democratic primary. Your
vote and influence in my behalf is
earnestly solicited and will be highly
appreciated. Thanking you in ad-
vance for any consideration my can
didacy may receive at your hands,
Respectfully, J. H. WILLIFORD.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
CAUSES OF DIVORCE.

From the Savannah News.
A lawyer who makes most of his
living handling divorce suits may be
expected to know about as well as
anybody else what are the chief
causes of divorce. A divorce law
yer in New York said the other day
that lack of children, the dance craze
extravaganza, decrease in the income
of the husband and general hard
times were the chief causes of mari
tai infelicity nowadays.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
The Cost of Hog Cholera.

According to a recent statement
losses of swine from disease in 1913
was 119 to every 1000 hogs in the
United States. The losses of 1912
were 10 per ], 900, while the average
yearly loss in the preceding ten years
was SIS per 1000, thus showing that
the losses are increasing instead of
diminishing. Last year the loss to
the farmers of the United States by
this disease was 100000.
Cholera keeps Southern farmers
discouraged and retards the devel-
opment of our hOme-raised meat in
dustries, and in this connection it is
gratifying to note that under re-
Gently passed act of congress, which
appropriated 100000 to combat hog
cholera, the United States depart
ment of agriculture will cooperate
with state authorities to prevent and
eradicate the disease by the use of
serum and quarantine methods. APP
-proximately $4,000 will be spent
during the coming year in each ex-
detrimental area selected. Thirteen
of the counties, where the work is to
he carried on, have been picked out,
and in twelve of these the work has
already been started Two other
counties are to be selected within
short time. The twelve counties Sc
Iected for the present campaign,
where the work has actually been
begun, are as follows: Idaho, Twin
Fails; Illinois, Kankakee, Indiana,
Montgomery; Iowa, Dallas; Kansas,
Marshall; Kentucky, Henderson;
minnesota. Renville; Missouri, Pettis;
Michigan, Branch; Nebraska, Gage
and Johnson; Ohio, Allen; Tennessee,
Maurv. The thirteenth county where
the work will soon be inaugurated
is Decatur, here in Georgia.
Appropriations will be spent IN
making surveys, using serum on hogs
on infected and exposed farms, IN
sanitation and quarantine work and
in organizing farmers to cooperate
with the state and federal authori-
ties. In addition funds will be used
for the production by the department
of anti-hog cholera serum and fol
the inspection and proper control oil
serum prepared by private and other
agencies.
Extensive demonstration and edu
cationaI work also will be undertak
en- in territory outside of experiment
al areas to acquaint farmers with thu
results of the experiments and to sup
ply them with information as to tn
methods of controlling the disease.
There should be the fullest coop
GRAFTON on the part of the farmer
in the effort to stamp out this dis
ease, which is costing them so dearly
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

Every owner of a horse or mule
should make its life just little
more endurable during the hot
months. A little reminder in the
papers to give a thought to the hot,
thirsty, tired animals will do a world
of good in making the burdens light
er for them at the time of great need.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
THE FARMERS INTEREST BILL.

From the Farm and Homestead.
In 1910 the farmers of Georgia
were paying interest upon nearly
eleven million dollars borrowed upon
farm lands.
The census report covers the mort
gage Indebtedness on farms cult1Vat-
ed by owners, mind you. 1t says
nothing of the mortgage indebted
ness on the farms of absentee land
lords.
The farmers interest bill on land
loans in Georgia is around million
dollars year. In the entire United
States the farmers yearly interest
bill is some six hundred and ten mil
lion dollars.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
MUNICIPAL TICKET.

The undersigned are candidates
for mayor and councilmen of Daw-
son, subject to the primary election
called for September 9th, and solicit
the support of the voters of the city:
For Mayor:
J. A. LANG.
For COunciImen:
w. ]. MATHIS.
J. M. RAUCH.
T. C.. GEESE.
MUNICIPAL TICKET.
The undersigned announce their
candidacy for mayor and councilmen,
subject to the action of the Septem-
Der primary, and solicit the support
of the voters of Dawson:
For Mayor:
]. NJ. BELL.
For COuncilmen:
A. B. HAMILTON.
]. G. DEAN.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

Editor H. Reid Hearn, who made
the Eatonton Messenger a splendid
paper, has been succeeded by Cor
don B. Galloway, who got his train
ing on the Oglethorpe Echo, which
means that he is keeping the Messen-
ger up to a high standard. We wish
both the old and new editor success.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

Electric fans for the Ware county
court house have been refused by the
county commissioners. Members of
the board who opposed the scheme
believe that persons in court can fur
nish their own fans and the motive
power to run them, or sweat, as they
may choose.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

1t seems that the appointment of
Roscoe Luke as United States attor-
ney for the Southern district of Geor-
gia is still hanging fire. The presi-
dent could make no better appoint
ment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

eff you never express an opinion
you will probably not make anybody
mad" says a contemporary. Or glad,
either. Neither will you grow in the
esteem of your fellow citizens and
neighbors. Some people have no
opinions because they are afraid,
and others because it pays.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

The effort to abolish the fee sys-
tenn and put officials in Georgia on
salaries has failed again in the legis-
lature. But it will come in the course
of time-a short time, at that.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

Although thousands of tons of nj
trate of soda are applied to the crops
of this section every year there are
many people who do not know that
Chilli is the country from which it
comes. Mr.. William S. Myers, Chill
ian delegate to the International Con-
gress of Applied Chemistry, assures
us that the prevailing notion that the
nitrate supply in Chilli is in danger
of exhaustion is an error. The sur
veyed and certified tonnage now
opened up and ready for extraction
carries 250,OOO,OOO tons, and great
deal of land still unsurveyed is
known to be more or less rich in nj
trates. And it is suggested that the
nitrates are possibly renewed by ma
ture. So that's off our minds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

A contemporary prints an article
on amusing methods of carrying
money. What would be more inter
estfng would be a method of getting
money to carry.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

In this day of high prices the
Southwest Georgia farmer who fails
to raise few head of cattle and a
bunch of hogs is very much in his
own light.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

The movement in Mexico seems to
indicate that the Constituencies
will ere long be in control of the
capital and a defacto government.
NEGOTIATIONS between the factions
point to such a elimination, with
Carranza as provisional head OF the
governemnt until general election
can be held. Of course it is always
possible in Mexico that new revolu-
tionary movements will spring up,
and they may be of formidable ma
ture.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

The legislature will be with us
just eight more days. It has con-
tributed to the relief of summer mo-
notony, ald will be missed.