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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
AUCTION SALE AND WEDDING
MIXED BY A NEWSPAPER
From the Toccoa Record.

From the TOccoa Record.
We have seen many articles which
were pied in different newspapers,
and there have been occasions when
the articles were so mixed up that it
was time for nerve to be displayed by
a man connected with the paper to
meet those with whom the article
concerned.
Sometimes it has been a funeral
and baseball game, or a marriage;
in fact, sometimes articles have been
so mixed up that there was no
Strengthening them out. Sometimes
the mistakes have been found and
attempts to straighten things have
been made, but this usually ends in
a worse condition than when be-
gun.
The following evidence of the pied
printer, taken from a certain little
Georgia newspaper, shows how an
auction sale and a wedding got mix
ed:
civilian Smith, the only son of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Smith, and Miss
Lucy Anderson were disposed of at
my farm, one mile east, in the pres
ence of several guests, including two
mules and twelve head Of cattle. Rev.
Jackson tied the nuptia1 knot for the
parties, averaging 1850 pounds on
the hoof. The beautiful home of the
bride was decorated with one sulky
rake, one feed grinder and two sets
of work harness, and just before the
ceremony was pronounced the Men
del and Sons wedding march was
NV Onn Tarcpv pOu and ma
sheep, who carried a bunch of bri-
dial roses in her hand and was beau
tiful. She wore one light spring
wagon, two crates of apples, three
racks of hay and one grindstone of
muslin de sol and trimmed with
about one hundred bushels of spuds.
The bridal couple left yesterday on
an extended trip. Terms spot cash. !"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
More Cotton Advice.

The farmer who deliberately
plans to plant cotton again next
year needs a brain specialist to tell
him what to take.-Ashburn
Farmer.
The farmer is getting lots of ad-
vice these days, more than ever be-
fore. Everybody is telling him what
to do and how and when to do it.
There has been so much of it recent
ly-from both hired and voluntary
sources-that it is actually getting
to be tiresome. Our Moultrie con-
temporary, the Observer, is one paper
that has no cotton advice to give un-
til it is assured that a market for the
other things the farmer is urged to
produce is provided. AS the Observer
says, it is doubtful if dozen loads OF
meat or corn could be sold in Ash
burn-or any other Georgia town,
for that matter-today.
Until the farmer knows there is
ready market for the things he is told
to produce he may be expected to
continue to plant cotton, and will
show good sense in doing so. He
should be sure, however, to raise all
of the supplies that are consumed
on his farm and make cotton sur
plus crop,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
Uniforms for Women.
From the indianapolis News.

w. L. George, who is known as a
sociological surveyor of considerable
breadth of view, declares in the At
lantic Monthly that woman's dress
is a problem, at once profound and
menacing. full of intimations of so
cial decay, not far remote in its re-
actions from the spread of a dis
ease" Mr.. George, it might be in
ferred, belongs to that class of sOciO-
logical surveyors whose scratchings
of a serene surface anywhere dis
cover a hidden iniquity. His pres
ent investigation is no exception. He
ships his shears through a Paris
gown and strips to nakedness the
ugly germs of economical waste and
moral degeneration. And nothing,
says he, can mitigate these evils "un-
til woman is induced to view clothing
as does the modern man, until, name
ly, she decides to wear uniforms"
Among Mr.. Georges amazing dis
closures is his discovery that men
pay less for clothes than women.
There is a clear difference he
finds between the cost of women s
clothes and of mems" This is, how
ever, a mere detail of what he calls
"ghastly picture" Another detail
is this:
81 have private information of an
expenditure of $4,000 a year on
dress. One of $4,000 is reported
to me from America. I have seen a
bill for dress and lingerie alone in
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
COTTON FIFTY YEARS AGO.
From the New York Post.

However the extraordinary situa-
ton in our cotton trade is worked
out it is calling attention now to an
other sensational chapter in our cot
ton trade industry, which presents a
curious combination of contrast and
resemblance to the present position.
In this OneSrespect the problem of
the Southern planter in 1861 was
identical with his problem of 1914
that the outside market for his prod
uct was in large degree cut off.
The attitude of the South itself
was, however, widely different on the
two occasions. 1t was as convinced
in April, 1861, that the outside world
would have to buy it's cotton as the
Western farmers of this season were
convinced that Europe would have to
buy our wheat. American cotton was
considered a necessity of Europes
life. Europe would get it, and cotton
would finance the war. So positive
was this belief that the Confederate
government itself began by forbid
ding any shipment of its own cotton
to the Northern states.
We know what happened. The
Union government blockaded the
Southern ports. Europe had to do
without. At once the Southern plant
er was in a similar position to that
which he occupies today, but which,
in 1857 and the three succeeding
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
Beauty and the Ballot.
From the Savannah News.

Anti-suffragists charge that pretty
young girls are being exposed to the
wiles of designing men while being
used by suffrage leaders to advance
the cause of votes for women. They
say that at fairs, at race tracks and
on the street corners many misses
yet in their teens and as beWitching
as if they had just stepped from a
magazine cover are accosting perfect
ly strange men and engaging them in
conversation in the hope of advanc-
ing the cause. The supposedly awful
results of such methods are left to
the imagination. The charge of the
ants, however, is denied and some Of
the ammunition they formerly used
is being turned against them.
How this comes about is plain. The
suffragists merely answer the accu-
sation by pointing out that it has not
been very long since they were being
described as ugly, at least middle
aged, disappointed, yinegary women,
with short hair, big feet, heavy un-
derhung jaws, fierce eyes and badly
fitting clothing, and by saying that it
is hardly becoming in ants to find
fault with the suffrage workers if
instead of being such caricatures of
women they are now pretty, well
dressed and altogether pleasing to
the eye. Neutral observers will no
doubt expect to see every similar
charge refuted in the same way.
1t is agreed that there are three
principal methods used in efforts to
win men to the cause. One is the
English method, where hatchets,
torches, bricks and other implements
are used. Another contemplates the
use of arguments, the suffragists APP
pealing to the intelligence of men
with resistless logic. A third is call
ed the lure method" which consists
in LulIing mans reason to sleep while
he is tolled into the suffrage camp
by pretty smiles and tinkling laugh
ter, pleasant words, music and even
The first method is not likely to be
used in this country. The others will
be, and on the hundreds of thousands
of men in the next year or two they
will be tried. If one fails another
will be resorted to until the obstinate
male of the species becomes an ar
dent suffra gist. Looking at the
whole matter from this standpoint the
lure method would seem to have
unusual value. Certainly any man
would prefer to be led all smiles
into the enemy's camp than to be
driven into it by either overpowering
logic or flying bricks. If he must be
to the suffrage cause he
would prefer to be converted by the
smiles of a hOuri rather than by the
raucous quarreIing of a virago.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
The 0ne-Crop System,

The Progressive Farmer very
truthfully says that the present agri-
cultural troubles of the South are not
d2e to our crops, soils Or climate, but
TO a faulty system. Such a system
has always failed; not so much, how
ever because of reproduction, or
that all the eggs have been in one
basket. as that a one-crop system al
ways means poor soil and low crop
yields.
If We had a reasonable assurance
saws The Farmer, that every acre
r1an+ed in oats would produce fifty
"A sixtv bushels, every acre in corn
forty to fifty bushels, and every acre
in cotton a bale of 500 pounds we
could snap our fingers at six-cent
.cor4on. feeling confident of prosperity
- times of war as well as in times OF
neace. If our present troubles, what
ever hardships they may have in store
for rs. lead to a system Of agriculture
which will build up soil fertility th'
sacrifices may not be too great. Fo
one wear. or for even short tern
of years, cotton must sell for yer
low price"
No system which does not produc
a rich and productive soil can eve
protect US against times Ike these.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
" Unhappy at Home

An analysis of ,Z5O suicides in
big city showed that ninesy-eigft per
cent we're fiat or tenement dwellers.
Unhappy at home was the cause
of most of them.
1t proves that home is something
more than four walls and folding
bed. The man or woman with bit
of flower garden, chickens and sun
shine will have sma1 time to worry
himself or herself into a suicide s
grave.
In a fat one eats and sleeps. He
must find his amusement outside.
That often means trouble.
How many suicides do you read Of
in rural districts? How many farm
| ers have committed suicide?
We can't reduce suicides and di-
yorces until we get back to natural
living. And being natural means get
ting close to nature, closer to the
land.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08

years, was vastly worse. Relief meas.
ures were introduced by the Confed.
eracy, but they consisted only of buy.
ing cotton from the planters with ir.
redeemable paper money, and thu
pledging of that cotton for foreign
loan to which some trustful English
men subscribed. A committee With
power to agitate for the payment
of that loan is still I'm nominal exist
ence In London.
The outcome was peculiar. On thd
New York market cotton price had
advanced by 1864 to $3.50 a pound
or nearly twenty times the averagd
price of recent years. But in Central
Georgia, Alabama or Carolina II ID
safe to say that a planter could nod
have then sold his, cotton, even fod
this weeks low Southern prices. NOD
body knows what was the cotton prod
duction of the South in the civil war;
the probability is that the planters
turned in a body to raising corn,
which, at least, they could Themselves
consume.
Not the least striking sequel came
when the war was over and the en-
barge raised. There was no sudden
rush into cotton growing to mako
good the four-year shortage. It was
five years after Lees surrender be-
fore the country's total cotton crOI
came within a million bales of thH
crops Of 1859 and 1860.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
More Advice, Please.

Bring the bankers and the brokers'
Bring the engineers and stokers;
Bring all the politicians now extant;
Bring the butchers and the bakers,
And the hot tamale makers,
And let them tell the farmers what to plant.
Bring the and the plumbers.
And the derby-hatted drummers;
The carpenters and paper hangers too'
Bring the clergy and the laymen
Bring the merchants and the draymen,
And let em tell the farmers what to do.
Bring the nimble scribes who caper
Mid the crops they raise on paper
They never ploughed a furrow in their lives;
Bring the chronic pavement-hoppers,
Who are living off their peppers"
And those who supported by their wives
Let them mobilize their forces;
Bring from all the different sources
The people who have never reaped or soWn'
We would have them all together
And allow each fancy tether,
That their wisdom for dizziness may atone.
In conclusion let me mention
That we've the least intention
OF needing their advice their DEGREES;
We would tell the whole cabOodle,
By the grace of Yankee Doodle,
We're going to plant exactly what we please
WILL P. LOCKHART.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
Too Many Laws.

The country as a whole and no
doubt every state in it-particularIy
caorgia-suffers too much from law
making.
At the session of the American Bar
Association recently Senator Root
stated that in FIVE years, from 1909
to 1918 inclusive, congress and the
state legislatures passed 62,O14 laws.
No one knows how many thousands
and scores of thousands of laws were
in force in 1909, but the 62,O14 new
ones repealed many of those preVl-
ouslv in force, and amended many
more. with no end of resulting con-
fusion. Relatively few of the laws
are vicious enough to work harm in
directly, for they are unnecessary, in
consistent and impossible to enforce.
One thing that would help to keep
down useless legislation in Georgia
and at the same time save the state
considerable money would be bien-
NAL instead of annual sessions of the
general assembly. The Savannah
Morning News calls upon the weekly
papers of the state to line up with 1t
in favor of bringing about such
change. The Dawson News has been
an advocate of biennial sessions for
long time, and is now as heartily
in favor as ever of the legislature
meeting only once in every two years.
It would be economy and good sense.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08

Cured at one shop-$S5,OO IN !
months"
And he goes on piling it up UNI li
he gets into quite frenzy over L =.
whole affair. To woman's insane ~
sire to be clothed in fashions la'es
he attributes sins numerous ana 'a
rious, and all serious. And ne enu
the arrangement with the staIenl1Ia
that changes in fashion are a Id u
and hysteria, an advertisement, y
insult offered by wealth to poyeLt
DEGRADATION of women's QuaAvl1
which carries its own penalty III ~
form of growing mental basenesS'
Dressmakers, we fancy WIN
like Mr.. George. Nor is it llkely 'n1
their estimate of him will be any II
more friendly when they learn aDU
the remedy he proposes. Inc a.
form which he thinks will seIvs
substitute for the diverse gaIo
today can be had at totaI az
cost of $3.50. 1t is severely plan!
banishes lace and trimmings, sequiiII
paillettes, overlays of fimsleS to 5Is
nongee silk. chiffon, charmeuse' Iul
crepe de chine muslin. So at r Lea
he reads the list, and for good m Nh
ure adds jewelry to it. As for m,tt
merry, he gets that down to the P brj1gI
cal basis of $3.50 a hat, and SO i saae1
encourag ing smiles to men mi" MI
and paluitation of the heart TO - %.
lion rofiIipers And. finally, ne -.
luctantIy admits that women, ,s ",
all, might not wear the UNI! n1ons|
With that we agree. 1t SOUNDS
ible. and experience supports 80 IT,. al
is one thing to reform; 1t is qul''
other to uniform.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08

In these times of financial depres-
sion. when so many of our own peo-
nile are out of employment and 1t IS
impossible to get money to carry on
either commercial or farm enter
,risas it will be a mistake to settle
a lot of Belgians in Georgia. Be-
sides the injustice to them the bad
affect upon the state, in the matter OF
securing desirable immigrants in the
future. would be felt for years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
Thoughts Suggested to Mr.. Rives bv
a Visit to the Conference

Editor of The Dawson News: The
Masters suggestion to His disciples
to come apart and rest awhile" is
good advice to all men. Following
this advice | went to Dawson on Sat-
urday of the Methodist conference,
heard a splendid sermon on duty and
it's demands by baseball enthusiast,
and in the face of the fact that such
an assertion may subject me to
lynching at the hands of the clericals
of the South Georgia Conference
wish to say that there was more
thought provoking in Fishers SER
mon than in the bishops Sunday
morning. Fisher treated an old sub
ject in a new way. The bishop
threshed over old straw, hunting for
a chance grain of wheat; poked fun
at Christian Science, Judaism and
Catholicism; did some word-painting,
which was pleasing to the ear, and
gave no new ideas and provoked no
new lines of thought.
Saturday night was pleasantly
spent at the home of my friend, Mr..
c. NJ. Harris, of Herod. The place
and country has been made over since
my last visit. The lands have been
opened up, and the wilderness is
blossoming as the rose. This is man
hood in action-manhood developing
Gods handiwork. Farmers with
whom l talked were depressed
could not see ahead. No one had any
plans, and the best could offer and
the one I have followed in every time
of stress during my life is the one
given by my father. Here it is:
work as though all depended on
you, and pray as though all depended
on God"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08

Looking over the preacbo~-
Sunday l marked one thino t5a, ON
damned and lessened the HaT -,ol mas
tnls calling for good since the C GaUL
OF Christ. They make broad lay Iays
pnllacterles, and enlarge the bor S4eI !
OF their garments-all this tbo,.
that they may be seen of men ), N uo
marked hopeful sign. Tho h.o ou I
men-the men who think for tbany
selves, who lay the plans and -
the structures were CARRIED % 9 So
ness men. The little felIowsI D4Ii I
folks who are in the class Who n, 5,n :
one presiding elder asked his o - =
league if his son-in-law conld nro ooi-
said HE is a good singer :, e t5iI
class had on coats that naarl,, s,s
away with street sweepers haa +h o-1
been necessity for street cIoo NJ, :
imagine that Nicodemus Josonb .;
Arimathea and Gamaliel garbo5
themselves as business men. for tbog
had sense enough to understand ~
spiritual significance of the law on
the prophets and to apply them Il
and acknowledge the Christ but roil
phas and Annas wore the priestIJ
garb as that outward show, and theil
appointment by the Roman conouerl
or to the priesthood was their onlJ
title to authority or respect TbJ
little fellows of the South Georgia
Conference are their direct descend
ants in their calling, and their garb
is the only Distinguishing feature
about them.
A pleasant chat with my old friend
Will Smith, at his sons home and !
romp with child on the train conf
ing home was the desert to a verJ
acceptable mental feast ResDectl
fully, ANDREW P. RIVES.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
War To End When Machines Wear Out
Men Will Last Longer Than Implements of War
From the Scientific American.

crease in the size of the bore. Fro
sion, as it is called by artillerymen
is greatest in the large guns anl
least in the 0.30 rife. The big gum
which form the main batteries OF ou
warships and are emplaced in ou
coast Notifications can fire from l Il
to 250 rounds dependent upon Id
pressure and heat in the poWda
chamber) before they begin to loa
their accuracy.
The motor car is a highly deVe|
oped machine, which calls for car9I1
upkeep to maintain 1t in full en-
cheney. In ordinary commercial se1
vice the motor car and the automa
bile receive, as rule, consideraD
care and watchful maintenance.
the present war, however, the treal
ment of these vehicles must, in u
nature of things, be absolutely Dr9
tai, and the depreciation must
very rapid. Where are the repaa1
shops that can keep pace with tn1
depreciation, and how shall the neg
essarily enormous wastage OF the wa
be made good?
1t may we'll be that the fatigue 4
the machine rather than the WeaF1
ness of the man will hasten the CLOS
OF the present war.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08
WOULD BE GOOD MOVES.

From the Triton Gazette.
Now somebody suggests a "buy-a-
bull" movement for the purpose of
improving live stock in Georgia.
Yes, and incorporate with it kill
the-tick' move and "plant-a-bale"
move and the Georgia farmers can
sit back in comfort and watch the
factions in Europe war as long as
they want to.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08

Noting the report OF white coon
in this section the Savannah News
remarks: Calhoun county claims
that it has produced a white raccoon,
and still there is no cry of nature
fake Col. Roosevelt does not have
to travel into Brazilian wiIds to find
strange fauna"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08

The rainfall of the past week was,
of course, marked by some disagree
able features, but the rain has its
advantages. 1t is good for the small
grain in the ground. In due time we
shall reap the benefit Of the rain ana
realize its good.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08

The CovingtOn News has entered
it's seventh volume. Editor R. F.
Taylor has made The News splsn-
did newspaper, and one that in every
respect is worthy of the good will and
patronage of the people of Covington
and Newton county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08

Won Kluck is not covering him
self with glory these latter days.
He is permitting Won HindeTburg
to monopUIize the limelight.-
Moultrie Observer.
Perfectly natural. General Won
Kluck was reported as dead month
or six weeks ago. Let us hope that
he has gone to glory.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08

When Bryan was defeated by Nc
Kinley in 1896 a Texas editor de-
clared he would not take drink I'M
til the Nebraskan was elected presi-
dent. The long drouth IS evidently
getting the better of him, and not be-
ing 8 camel he is now casting about
for means of bringing Mr.. Bryan TO
succeSs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08

Governor Colquitt did worse--or
better. just as one may view it
than Governor Blease in giving con-
victs their freedom on Thanksgiving
Day. The Texas executive liberated
1856, while the South Carolina gov
ernor grew weary of signing his
name to pardons when the door had
been opened to 101. 1t is blessed to
be merciful, but the criminal class
do not deserve 1t all.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08

The New Orleans Times-Picayune,
exceptionally competent and depend
able authority as to cotton matters,
estimates the American crop of 1914
at not less than 15,75O,OoO bales, in
round numbers. The reliability OF
the estimates in past years OF the
New Orleans paper impels accept
ance of its current forecast. If the
foreign war had not come could the
South have hoped to sell this crop
at profitable figures? The inevita-
believer priced cotton-would
have ensued even with world peace.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08

Be a good fellow to the extent Of
your ability Every little bit helps.
But be sure that the really needy
are helped first.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-12-08

The city council of Eufaula cut
their own salaries. How queer,
The Washington times., 1914-05-18
AMERICANS IN MEXICO;
MEXICANS HERE.

The manner in which Huerta's rep
resentative5 sent to the mediation
court have been received, entertained
and honcrcd upon their arrival at
the Capital of the United States may
not convince the MeXicans either Of
our good will or of orr sincere pur-
Eose. They may think that we
merely dissemhle with our cordial
reception while we dig pitfalls and
lay traps fDr them.
But they cannot fail to distinguish
the sharp contrast, whatever the
reason for it, between the treatment
of McXicans in The United States
and Americans ir Mexico. Here
rot only were the Huerta ENJOYS
warmly welcomed as official ennis
saIies. but Mexican residents of the
United States were as secure in their
safety and free in their privileges
as our own Americans.
This difference in national attitude
and action will not count for any
thing with Huerta or his people in
Mexico. IN their desperate circum-
stances they are not likely to give
thought TO anything of the kind. But
it will be very strange if Huerta's
ENJOYS do not realize the significance
of what it means for a Mexican OF
any degree to be in the United
States as against what it means for
IN American to be in Mexico at this
lime Of crisis while the two govern
ments stand with hands at their
swords hits.
1t will be very extraordinary if the
ENJOYS do not conclude-whether or
not they are able to govern them
selves by their convictions-that
there could be nothing more hopeless
than for them in the mediation pro-
ceedings 10 provoke this nation out
of its conSiderate restraint into
flows against Mexico.