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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
A VISIT TO THE KRUPP WORKS.

An account of a recent visit to
Krupp's works at Essen appears in
The Worlds Work Among other
marvels described is the famous
steam hammer Fritz" the giant of
the 100 steam hammers at work in
the establishments. Fritz was con-
structed in 1860 by Alfred Krupp at
cost of 100000. At that time
Krupp's competitors regarded his in
tention to set up the giant hammer,
which possesses a falling weight Of
so tons, as a sign of incipient mad
ness. Undeterred, Krupp continued,
and today, after Fritz" has been at
work for so years, it is as useful as
ever. Breaking nuts without injur-
ing their kernels is a popular method
of demonstrating the marvellous deli
cacy of it's adjustment. In the armor
plate department there are huge n.y.
draulic presses, of which there are no
fewer than 81 in the works, and un-
der which steel blocks are pressed
and squeezed until compelled to as
sumo the desired shape, no matter
how large they may be. A huge
crucible steel block, weighing so
tons, is placed under a 5,OOO-ton
hydraulic press; after being coaxed,
handled and formed for half an hour
it emerges in the shape of the gigan-
tic shaft of an ocean steamship $50
feet long. By the aid Of special
mechanical apparatus the shaft is
bored, the kernel being extracted in
one piece.
Other equally famous machines are
the hydraulic shears, which cut
through three inches of solid armor-
plate as if it were cheese. Enormous
bending presses of 10,000-ton press
ure bend armor plates to any shape
desired with infinite ease. The firm
has it's own waterwOrks, makes us
own gas and generates it's own cleo
tricfty. The gas works supply more
gas for the factory town than is used
annually in Munich, namely 20, OOO,-
900 cubic meters. And yet the AGO.
600 gas Jets distributed all over the
establishment do not suffice for il
Eliminating purposes, and electricity
in the shape of 5000 arc lamps and
10000 incandescent lights has to be
pressed into service. Over 400 steam
boilers generate the steam for the
5000 different machines and the q
500 electric motors at work. More
than 900 miles of cable and wire and
over 500 telephone stations and 20
telegraph stations are required to
facilitate communication throughout
the works.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
Naming the Hams.

The prize offered by the Moul-
trie Packing Company for the best
name for it's first grade hams,
bacon, and lard has been award
ed to Mr.. Edwin Speight, a young
drug clerk of Moultrie. The name
selected by the committee for the
first grade products of the plant
is plantation, in honor of the
meat made on the plantations Of the
South. The name selected for the
second-grade products is Seminole, )"
in honor of a noted tribe of Indians
that inhabited Georgia This name
was sent in by a person who did not
wish his identity known, and who de-
clined to accept the prize offered.
The packing house is expected to be
one of Southwest Georgia's most val
liable and helpful enterprises.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
There Are Others,

1t is being insisted in some quar-
+ers that the farmers ought to pay
taeir debts.
why the farmer any more than the
men of other vocations?
OF course the farmer should pay
as much as he is able to pay OF what
he owes, but it is up to other men
who may chance to owe money to
meet their obligations as much 80 as
the farmer. The farmer has been
held up as an example with more OF
insistence than seems either fair or
desirable. The obligation to some up
+o the scratch rests on all of us-fOr
few people are fortunate enough to
be entirely free of debt.
This thing of making the farmer
the pivot on which the whole, scheme
hinges grew out of the fact that the
cotton season came on with the war
and the depression of business. The
farmer had cotton. The farmer had
gone in debt to produce the cotton.
AS a rule he had to do that If he
wanted to raise cotton. Cotton is
cash when ready to market. Per
haps it was entirely natural that ev-
erybody turned first to the farmer as
the man who could relieve the situa-
ton of stress by selling his product
With one accord everybody wanted
the farmer to unload, to sell his cot
ton, no matter what the price. The
effect would have put money in cir
culation and helped the situation,
but some people seem to have lost
sight of the fact that the farmer is
not the only man who owes money.
At all events he is the one and only
man who has been put in the lime
light as the man everybody had
right to look to in the emergency
that has developed. To pay what Is
possible is a duty that rests on one
man as much as anOther-on all
OF us.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
PROHIBITION AND BABIES.

From Spokane Spokesman-Review.
That the birth rate in Washington
will increase and that the divorce
evil will be reduced to a minimum
following statewide prohibition is
the belief of women of the Woman's
Missionary Society of the First
Methodist Episcopal church.
The speakers declared they are
confident the women of the state will
not hesitate to bring more children
into the world, believing the moral
influence will be better since the sa-
loon is voted out.
I'VE are confident that many
mothers who would be willing to
bear children under proper sur
roundings have felt it would be a
crime to bring a boy or girl into the
world who must step into such terri
BILE temptation said Mrs. Valance.
"The women of the state of Wash
ington will not shirk their duty when
they know the children they bear
are to be protected instead of forced
before a world which is filled with
pitfalls to lead them astray
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
What Ais Him.

Editor Pat Griffin of the Balm
bridge Post always speaks out in
meeting" and doing so in the last Is
sue of his paper tells what ails the
country, in one respect at least.
Hear him: 1--WE heard the wife of
a man that makes seventy-five dol
lars per month growing about the
effect of the war this week. She had
on a sixty dollar cloak and twenty
dollar hat while discussing. The hus-
band is getting the same salary he
got before the war broke out, but
with a months wages on her back
she will agree with US that too much
wife has hit this poor devil sight
harder than a big war. A very no
ticeable fact about the matter was
that her little child with her had on
a dress that cost about thirty cents. D."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
ShreWd SWindIerS.

When John D. Rockefeller admits
he paid s15,25O for a painting that is
worth not more than $4,000 it is not
surprising that other folks pay too
much for books, pictures and a long
list of other things, or that swindlers
wax fat and the postoftice department
has such a hard time to prevent them
from using the mails. Mr.. Rockefei-
Ter made affidavit that he had made
a bad bargain" but he apparently
swallowed his loss with good grace.
An enterrpising swindler, says the
Savannah News, might think he was
entitled to everything he could get
out of Mr.. Rockefeller in a trade, but
it would not be good policy for every
body to accept uncomplainingly the
losses inflicted by swindlers. Mr..
Rockefeller may be expected to be
able to look after himself, and if he
is cheated is able to bear the loss,
but there are scores of thousands OF
persons in this country VINO maven I
either the business sense to recog-
nize a swindling scheme when they
see it or enough money to keep them
from feeling very deeply their loss in
a swindle."
Only the other day a warning was
issued by the government to farmers
telling them to beware of a certain
scheme purporting to be a plan t.
lend them money at a very low rate
OF interest. It was charged tina
some farmers had signed what the,
thought was an application for
oan only to find out later that wha
'ney thought they had signed was
promissory note.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
The King, Recovering from
Cold Feet, WEEDS Girl with
Fair Face and Shrill Voice

stricken deaf and bowed his head an.
of pity for her and himself. But +bo
King wrongly appraised this act ss nm.
of emotion. He applauded uproarious,v
and went wild with delight, for the
beauty of this songbird pleased him
beyond music.
After dismissing the sorrowing and
indignant losers, the King proposed tn
the poor maid, calling her My Nightlp.
gale" The trime Minister, still desf
and thankful for the affhction, thouph4
one would do as well as another and
the King upon his choice
Somehow the new consort never at.
tempted to raise her voice in song again
and the King never thought to ask her
having forgotten all his other Troubles
once married.
This was in the good old DAYS, Now.
adays any voice is enchanting to the
man anxious to wed, for he deadens his
All women seem sllur,na
to the tired business bachelor as they
sing Home, Sweet Home" and a rag.
time ditty off the key Of high G maketh
every one wild.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24

BY Frank Putnam in
Uncle Sam has been counting his
horses. He finds there were $685.
600 of them on January 1st, 1914,
worth approximately 500 apiece.
The 4,449, 900 mules were worth
roughly 1925 each. A dozen to fif-
teen horses and at least two mules
for every motor car. More horses
and mules, by far, and worth great
deal more money than the country
had when the first gas-driven
"horseIess carriage was set going
with confident prediction that it
would put the horse out of bust
ness.
The motor car has made it's biggest
gains in the cities. One seldom sees
there, any more, a fine pair of car
riage horses, those powerful but spir-
tied creatures that once proudly drew
the affluent in shining brass and
ebony up and down each Rotten
Row. The cab-horse, gaunt, medita-
tive, knee-sprung from too long and
too harsh contact with cobbled
streets, capable under the whip of
doing a creditably fast mile to a de-
pot with a belated passenger, but pre-
ferring to wait in a kind of leaning
posture at the curb-he, too, has
vanished. The taxi and the trolley
car have sent him thither. Few of
his kind survive, subdued to hope
less melancholy, in by-streets, wear
ing an air of conscious defeat. Each
year a larger percentage Of city
trucking is done in motCr-driven We
hicles. When did you last see one of
these eye-flling, splendiferOus six
horse teams of great pIumply, muscu-
lar, perfectly groomed Clydesdales or
PercherOns hitched to vast meat
van or moving mountain of beer
kegs? These, too, are a diminishing
factor, are going and will soon be
gone from our midst. STANDARD Oil
having learned to make gasoline for
less than cents a gallon in Texas
and to sell it in st. Louis for shade
over 10 cents the economic odds are
all against horse-feed at fancy prices.
When, on a Sunday, walking in city
park for physical and spiritual recre-
alton, you dodge and duck for your
life across roadways down which mo-
tors whiz like bullets, isn't it fact
that the sudden apparitiOn of horse
and buggy seems almost as strange as
would be that of camel? This tells
you how the horse has lost the fight
against the motor in the towns.
1t is in the country that the horse
and his half brother, the mule, have
held their own, and even gained in
numbers, serving larger population
Gasoline beats them on the paved
streets of the city; the dirt roads
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
Mans Second Best Friend.


st. Louis POst-Dispatch.
OF the country are the karricades he
hind which mans second best friend
is now defending his right to be. In
that field the invasion has begun and
presses steadily forward. Motors
driven by prosperous farmers have
done more to teach the value of hard
country roads in 20 years than Amer
lean farmers had learned from all
other sources in 200 years. 1t is only
a question of time. Given country
roads hard and smooth like CITY
streets-such roads as one finds near
ly everywhere in western Europe and
in large portions of New England
roads now being built by thousands
of miles at a cost of thousands per
mile in Texas, California and other
progressive states-and the motor
car will push the horse and the mule
back into their last ditch, the plow
field. That domain they will de-
fend against the encroaching mo-
tor until-whO knOws?-a new
era of large-scale cooperative or cor
porate farming sweeps away a multi
tude of little line fences and opens up
vast strips of arabic land for cult
walton in fiVe-mile or ten-miIe fur
rows by gasoline tractors. The thing
is done even now, here and there, in
the newer territories where lands are
cheap and line fences run in miles
around imperial private domains.
Perhaps the new legislation in
tended to safeguard small proprie-
tors in possession of small farms, and
to enable other millions, now home
less, to acquire such farms, may erect
a new barrier of safety between the
beleaguered horse and his enemy the
motor. Gasoline is pumping the wa
ter, washing the clothes, churning
the butter, lighting the house and do
ing many other new services on very
many farms, but we cannot see the
motor adapted to competing with the
horse or the mule in the cultivation
of small fields.
Only change is constant in this
world. Mechanical inventions that
have thrown mankind into new fer
ment by shifting vast populations
from country to town must affect al
SO the fate of mans Oldest servitors,
the horse that hauls and carries him,
the dog that once guarded him while
he slept, the cat that protects his
hearthstone in the days of his pros
perity and deserts him in adversely.
The modern town boy is taught to
know these creatures, sharers OF
mans long and fearful upward march
out of prehistoric savagery, as odious
survivals spreading filth and disease
We are glad to have known them as
friends and comrades.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
Invest In Hogs.

The Houston Post states that a
number Of the country banks of Tex
as are taking occasion to advise their
| farmer customers to reduce the cot
ton acreage and to produce every
thing needed for the table at home.
| One banks letter to its farmer Gus
toners concludes with these words:
Don't neglect to save all the hay
possible and SOW a few acres in rye
for winter and spring pasture; also
buy a SOW and pigs to make your
next years meat, for no farmer can
afford to pay for his foodstuffs and
meat"
Here's another: my advice to
the farmers has been directed to the
living-at-home necessity and the
raising of home gardens, grain and
feed crops and less cotton. 1t is
food. and that three times day, that
is needed; therefore, raise that for
which there is the greatest demand,
and let your farm be self-support-
ing"
Attention is called by the Post to
one bank that has offered to lend
money to farmers to buy live stock,
especially hogs.
The advice given by these Texas
banks is Just as good for Georgia as
it is for Texas. We do not believe
that the cotton farmers Of Georgia,
so many tens of thousands of whom
do not raise hogs, would be averse
10 buying hogs, for they are bound
to know from the price they pay for
meat that hogs command high prices,
and surely they know that there is
more profit in hogs than there is in
cotton. The difficulty with many of
them Is that they lack the money to
buy the hogs, and banks that will
loan a reasonable amount of money
for that purpose will solve the hog
problem.
1t is to doubted If the cotton farm
ers in Georgia can be stocked from
the Georgia supply. Stock for breed
ing will have to be purchased from
states which engage more generally
in hog raising. Bankers and bust
ness men in counties which are def
cient in hogs, and nearly every Geor-
gia county is, might purchase hogs
in carload lots, just as packing
houses do, and dispose of them to
their farmer customers on reasonable
time. In this way Georgia might
soon have available for farm use and
market purposes several million hogs
per annum, and it would be an in
creasing source of prosperity for the
whole state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
South Georgia Conference

Dawson has warm and cordial
welcome for all the ministers ana
delegates of the South Georgia Con-
ference. which will begin its annual
session here tomorrow morning.
Dawson Methodists and our people
generally are glad of the honor OF
entertaining such a splendid body Of
Christian ministers and laymen, and
their presence in the community can
but prove beneficial from a social as
we'll as a spiritual standpoint,
The Methodist congregation IN
Dawson is one of the largest in the
bounds of the conference, and an act
i've and effective body of Christian
men and women.
Dawson is a religious community
Church work finds its highest appre~
citation here, and christians Of every
denomination find cordial sympathy
and cooperation in every effort to
lift Nd and save mankind.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24

1t is important for every farmer to
act promptly If he is going to get his
oats in this fall. Let me give you a
few examples of what might be done
with the Oat crop:
The eleven cotton states, including
Tennessee, in 1912 had 4,140,0OO
acres of oats on which they produced
something over 100000 bushels.
There are in these states over $780,
600 horses and mules. If we were
to figure only three pounds of oats
for each horse and mule per day for
three hundred days, with 81 pounds
of oats to the bushel, at the average
production per acre of each of these
states, it would require 7,898,OOO
acres to raise the necessary oats to
feed the mules and horses at this
small amount per day.
Louisiana only had 45, 900 acres
in oats in 1912. To feed her mules
and horses three pounds per day for
three hundred days would require
412,926 acres in oats.
Alabama had 1926, 900 acres in oats
in 1912, and to feed her horses and
mules the amount named. three
pounds per day for three hundred
DAYS. would require 571, S75 acres in
oats at the average production of the
state.
North Carolina had 100000 acres
in oats in 1912. At her average pro-
duction it would require 523. 125
acres in oats to produce a sufficient
amount to feed the horses and mules
as above pointed out.
In these figures no account is taxi
en- of the other uses of the oat crop,
feeding value of oat straw, etc. Oats
will without doubt be a good ash
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
THE IMPENDING SHORTAGE
IN THE MEAT SUPPLY

From the Dallas News.
The American Meat Packers As
ISOLATION made no prophecy when it
warned us against an impending
shortage in our meat supply. One
has only to visit the nearest butcher
shop to discover that what is pre-
dicted is a present actuality. A bet
ter prophecy would be to say that we
are threatened with meat famine,
with a deficit between supply and
demand so great that meat will be-
come a luxury with all save the
wealthy. This must result inevitably
if the war in Europe shall continue
long. Men are fed more meat when
they fight than when they work, a
circumstance which itself makes
sardonic commentary on warfare
And countries engaged in such a
war as that now being witnessed
produce less meat when they tight
than when they work. An increased
consumption and diminished pro-
duction can only result in making a
famine out of the existing shortage,
unless, to be sure, the farmers OF this
and other meat-producing countries,
induced by the opportunity presented
to them. shall go in for meat produc-
ton much more heavily than they
have in the past. Nothing can be
much surer than that for several
years at least meats of all kinds will
command a high price, and it fol-
lows as a corollary that all feedstutfs
will command cOrrespond1ngly
high price-if sold in the form OF
baa4 oDd OOrx and mutton
Here is an opportunity so unmis-
taxable and inviting that not even
paternalistic statesmen could consid-
err necessary a statute to thrust and
enforce it on the farmers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
WAR;.

General Sherman's monosyllabic
characterization of war is quoted
hippantly by many observers and up
on many occasions. Thomas Car
lyle's analysis of war fits the present
occasion like glove.
What is the net purpose and up
shot of war? To my own knowledge,
for example, there dwell and toll in
the British village of Drumdrudga
usually some 500 souls. From these
by certain natural enemies OF the
French there are successfully select
ed, during the French war, say thirty
able-bodied men. Dumdrudge, at her
own expense, has sucked and nursed
them; she has not without diff
ficulty and even sorrow fed them
up to manhood, and even train
ed them to crafts, so that one
can weave, another build, and
another hammer, and the weakest
can stand under thirty stone aVoir-
dupois. Nevertheless, amid much
weeping and swearing they are Sc
lected, all dressed in red, and shipped
away, at the public charges, some
1000 miles, or say only to the south
of Spain, and fed till wanted. And
now to that same spot, in the south
of Spain, are thirty similar French
artisans from a French Dumdrudge
in like manner vending, till at
length, after infinite effort, the two
parties come into actual juxtaposi-
ton, and thirty stands fronting thir-
ty. each with gun in his hand.
'Straightway the word fire! is
given, and they blow the souls out OF
one another, and in the place of sixty
brisk, useful craftsmen the world has
sixty dead carcasses which it must
bury. and anew shed tears for.
Had these men any quarrel? Busy
as the devil is, not the smallest. How,
then? Simpleton! Their governors
had fallen out, and instead of shoot
ing one another had the cunning to
make these poor blockheads shoot.
Alas. so it is in Deutschland, and
in all other lands. Louis
Vile Courier-Journal.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
Have You Seeded Your Oats?
BY Bradford Knapp Department Agriculture

crop also. At this date the demand
is good in this country and abroad
Figures could be given for the other
states, but these examples are sum-
cient
How is it in your state? DO you
raise enough oats to give your muieS
and horses a quarter or third OF
feed per day, to say nothing OF
full feed, for three hundred days!
In 1911 the commissioner OF agl-
culture of South Carolina estimated
that for the previous year the staLe
of South Carolina imported one MI III
lion dollars worth of oats. nc
Chamber of Commerce of Georgia o.
timated last winter that that sIaLe
purchased thirt,r-nine million dollars
worth of oats.
Some of the cotton acreage Gan
well be devoted to the raising OF 'Hi'
valuable crop.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-24
PLANT LIFE AND LOVE.

From the Atlantic Monthly.
We speak of the birds song in the
springtime, of the display of plumage
and the various antics in the court
ship of birds, as expressions of the
sex instincts. What should we say
of the following series of events in
the life of the little water plant, val
lisneria spiralis? The stamens and
entirely submerged in the water. The
female flower is attached to a long
stem which is coiled tightly. When
the flowers are ripe this stem I'M
coils and the flower rises to the sur
face of the water. The male flower
has no such coil, so it simply breaks
away from the stem, rises and floats
on the surface. Pollinat on is effected
there, the male flower floats away,
withers and dies. The stem of the
female flower coils up again, drawing
it down under the water, where the
fruit is perfected and the seed sOWn.
Chemical processes? Yes, but how
do they differ from the instructive act
OF an animal? To say that the in
stinct Of consciousness is lacking is
beside the mark, for such a state
ment can rest only upon the assump-
ton that plants are unconscious. The
unprejudiced observer must admit
that instructive activities appear in
both plants and animals, and like
similar responses to stimuli possess
essentially the same characteristics in
both. As for the instinct-cOnscious-
ness, if the observer considers fairly
the evidences upon which his admiS-
sion of consciousness in animals
rests he will find it easier to acknowl-
edge affective consciousness in plants
than to deny it or to disprove its ex-