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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
Decorated Rats.
From the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.

First YOU catch your rat Then you fit
him with a natty little red jacket, and turn
him loose to return to his accustomed
haunts. The other rats will become SO enW-
Gus that they will shun him and will hnally
move away to new homes. Such, at least
is the statement of the Massachusetts state
board of agriculture, which ought to know
for it has employed rat expert.
Another way to annoy rats is to tie bell
around the neck of one of them. The friends
and associates of the belled rat soon become
so irritated that they will run away in their
efforts to ostracise the offender The rat
with the bell will run away, too; for rats
do not love solitude.
A less agreeable attention is to paint rat
with tar The red jacket is offensive to rat
eyes, the bell is offensive to rat ears, the tar
is offensive to rat nOstrils The SENSITIVE
creatures will fee the tarred rat as II ne
were a pestilence.
These facts give an interesting insight IN
to rat character. Many observers have fall
ed to understand that rats are sensitive
Their general mode of life does not lead 10
such an estimate.
With the Massachusetts, wisdom in nina
one may be inclined to deal more len1enty
with the tale of Hamelin's pied piper
one red jacket or one little bell will BRING
about a rat exodus may it not be posSlDie
that some expert ratologists Of old did acF
ually discover the marching tune of the ro-
dents?
However that may be, there are human
tarians who will prefer the jacket or the
bell method to the old fashioned traps anu
poisOns And the cat can raise no JUST pIo
test; for in places where cats do their lull
duty there can be no need of persuasive
measures to accomplish the departure Oh
mans most unwelcome house guest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
A Strange Politician.
From the Savannah News.

Is it not remarkable that the holder OF
fat office should be among the loudest OF
those who are calling for a reduction or MS
income? The answer is that it is most re-
markable And yet there is man in ONCE
in New York who gets almost as much out
of the public's pockets as the president OF
the United States, but who wants that hne'
large income cut to $4,000 a year. The
office is that of sheriff of New York county
and the man who now has it is Max S. Grit
enhagen.
For the last nine years the fees OF the
office have averaged $44,70 a year, while
in addition there is an annual salary of $12,-
600. A job that pays $56,703 year is most
certainly a fat job. 1t is strange that the
people of New York county did not long ago
make it a less juicy political plum. II they
did not know that it was so fine they may
be said almost to have deserved to be made
TO pay the big salary and fees, because they
ought to know that the politicians are going
to make every office pay every cent that 1t
can be made to pay.
1t is most refreshing to find man who
not only does not try to conceal the let
that his office is a very fat one, put even
wants to divide with the public. A very
strange sort of office-holder he IS. What
fine thing it would be for New York 4 Ih'ce
we're more of the same kind there. And
what fine thing it would be for the whole
country if all pol teal job holders were
willing to accept a reasonable amount for
their services to the public and agreed to
turn all their receipts above that amount IN
to the public treasury.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
Dutch Treat is Good Logic.
From the Grand Rapids Herald.

The Anti-Treating League organized III
England by a church dignitary Is expected
to exert a powerful influence in promotln5
temperance among the troops preparing 10
20 to the front. The members are pledg9I
to refrain from buying drinks for any one
EXCEPT themselves. Apparently tAcfe IS no
il tention to turn the league into total ap-
stinence society, for the clerical founder 6uS-
gests that private hospitality in the nome
NAV continue as usual. From reports reach
ing this country Tommy Atkins evidently
was in danger of being overcome by TOO
much kindness on the part OF stay-at-home
patriots Everybody wanted to buy him
drink At the public houses his money was
no good. If no one else stood treat the 'anu-
lord was ready to ''set EN- up for the boys
in khaki The presence of soldiers in sa-
loon was drawing card and none need Lave
gone thirsty for lack of the price.
Treating essentially an Anglo-Saxon Gus
tom. has done much to spread habits OF IN
temperance Price Collier in his book on
the Germans tells US that the term "a Dutch
treat" has vital meaning in the fatherland,
where they go upon the sensible assumption
that the man who wants a drink should 90
his own paying, and it is considered just
as reasonable to present casually met &C
uuaintance with piece Of pie or a pair or
shoestrings as a glass Of beer. me treating
custom is based on false ideals of pol1teness
1t makes a man drink more than ne wants
or should have. An anti-treating society
among us should do more good in a year
than ton Of tracts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
Living at Home.
defeated.

The doctrine of live at home is being
more and more impressed upon the people.
The farmers, or many of them, have made
up their minds and arranged their plans to
supply their own foodstuffs The manu-
facturers are catering more to home trade,
and this will result in keeping many thous-
ands of people at work and in keeping at
home millions of money which has hereto
fore gone elsewhere And what is true in
this respect of the nation and the country
is true of the state and the community
This is the day of the live-at-home trade
at-home movement, and what most of all is
gratifying to The News is that the people of
Southwest Georgia have awakened to the
Importance of it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
Purchasing Power of an Acre.

The federal department of agriculture has
Just issued a statement showing the purchas-
ing power of an acre of farm crops in 1913
as compared with 1909. While the price
per acre of several farm crops is shown to
have increased to some extent within the
five years the gain in price has not kept
pace with that of some of the necessities
used by the farmer.
The report shows that the purchasing
power of an acre of wheat in 1909 was SO
pounds of lard, while it was only 81 pounds
in 1918. In 1909 an acre of wheat would
buy 243 yards of calico, while in 1913 the
purchasing power was only 178 yards. For
ty-nine shoes could be purchased with the
proceeds of an acre of cotton in 1909 while
FIVE years later the buying strength had de-
creased three shoes. An acre Of corn in 1903
would buy 10 pounds of coffee, and only SO
pounds in 1913. Twenty-seven pairs of over
alls could be bought with the receipts from
one acre of cotton in 1909, while the pur-
chasing power in 1913 dropped to "a pairs.
An acre of wheat in 1909 would buy two
more pairs of brogan shoes than in 1913.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
Kentucky MOOnShinerS.

In the interesting people department of
the April American Magazine appears an ar.
ticle about Judge A. M. j. Cochran a federal
Judge who part of the time, sits in Breath
lit county, Kentucky-which, by the wav
is no longer bloody. However, thew stiI!
make lots of illicit liquor in Kentucky. and
these moonshiners are constantly up before
Judge Cochran, who, although Just iudpa
treats them like a father and tries TO make
them see that what they do is really wrong
and against the law. Following is an ey
tract from the article:
From eight O'Clock in the morning until
nearly six at night | sat in the court room
and watched the ragged, pathetic line of
moonshiners and bootleggers go by There
was no bitterness in their faces; rather thew
were perplexed, mystifed. Why should the
government 'parsecute them for making
their own corn into whiskey in their own
homes any more than for making their corn
into bread in their own ovens? Couldn't the
officers ever understand that the bad roads
made it impossible for them to get their
corn to market in any except liquid FORM
A few little dollars-what was that to the
big strong government? But when your
total family income for the year is only
seventy-ive dollars, and you see you com
going to waste
1T was wearisome business. They were
so awkward, so slow in their answers, so
childIike in their mental processes. The
Judge had told me in the morning that his
head ached terribly. Toward evening l ex-
pected to see his patience break his SELF
control explode in a burst of righteous wrath
upon their tedious dullness But no ex
plosion came Long after the lights were
on he sat there, and it was still:
"'Come up, Henry or Joe, you'll have to
sneak a little louder or Now, Jim, just tell
the Jury in your own way how that still
could be in your corn field for six months
and you not know it.
II have been in other federal court rooms
where the judge sat behind mahogany amid
cathedraI-like silence. There was only
plain oak desk in the Jackson county court
house-and no silence; all day long men
shufled in and out, while witnesses and ju-
rors lawyers and spectators alike spat with
studied precision upon the floor But there
was dignity just the same-and with it 4
wonderfully Transforming spirit OF kindl-
ness.
cover against some distressing criticisms
of the courts l like to place the picture of
that rude room in Bloody Breathitt, with
its friendly central figure at the simple desk.
"Ten thousand ragged, wide-eyed men and
boys have stood before Judge Cochran in the
past thirteen years mumbling their thread
bare pleas. And one might think, to hear
him calling their names that they were his
grown-up children and he the moonshiners
father instead of the moonshiners' judge
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
Biennial Sessions.

For several years The Dawson News has
advocated biennial sessions of the Georgia
legislature, and now we are gratihed to note
that number of the newspapers are
favoring a change from the annual meet
ings which put the state into a new turmoil
every summer. But few states retain the
old system of annual sessions, and it is be-
Iieved that within short time Georgia will
abandon them. Fewer sessions would save
the state large sums of money, and there
are many leading Georgians who believe
that less opportunity to disturb existing
laws and pass new ones would result in
public good.
Perhaps the people will yet prevail over
the politicians, and have Their will in tn s
matter carried into effect.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
HOW A HEN OCCUPIED HER
TIME CROSSING THE OCEAN

In the poultry department of the current
issue of Farm and Fireside B. F. w. Thorpe
writes an interesting article in which he
shows how Matching eggs must be most care
fully packed if they are to be shipped IN
fact he makes the suggestion that good
way to ship such valuable eggs is with
brooding hen sitting on them. Following is
a story he tells illustrating this point:
The plan of shipping the sitting hen and
her eggs in the same cOntAinCr has been
tried with a good degree Of success in few
instances that have come to my attention
One of these was a shipment from Europe
A pOultryman not wishing to assume the
long-range risk of sending his exceptionally
valuable eggs on two weeks ocean and
rail journey unattended decided to get de-
pendable broody hen well settled down to
work in a crate and ship the entire hatch1ne
outfit by express. This broOding-hen ship
ment reached New York with biddy snug
on the job. The crate was transferred to an
express car, and in little less than two
weeks reached it's destination without an egg
broken. Some days later a good hatch OF
vigorous chicks was the outcome of this ex-
pertinent after a voyage of about $500 miles
by land and water. This plan, l believe, is
a coming one for eggs of near-gold value.
A crate with a hen IN and on is danger
signal that counts "
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
Women and the Ballot.

The campaign for equal suffrage has not
made much progress in Georgia. There is
apparently a great deal more enthusiasm
among the women who oppose giving the
ballot to their sex. Significant of the stand
of the women of the state on the question is
the position of the Georgia congress of
Mothers who, when in session in Macon last
week, said: "Women of the South and of
Georgia have no business in politics. If
equal suffrage belongs anywhere it should
prevail in the North and West. Georgia
mothers, wives and sisters can best devote
their attention by looking after their
homes"
BY their stand these good women have let
it be known that they believe the place Of
all women is in the home rather than in the
field of politics.
Women who have nothing else to do but
pursue fads and fancies and indulge in the
various isms of the day may as well under
stand that Georgia will not soon lower the
standard of womanhood by abolishing sex
distinction in politics.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
OPERA BOUFFE WARFARE.

From the Washington Post.
The capture of German New Guinea by
the combined Australian and French meets
which numbered several big battle cruisers,
dreadnought and a few submarines, re-
minds me of the taking of Guam by the
battleships of the United States navy IN
1898" said X. A. Gillette Of New York. 1t
was in the nature of opera bouffe warfare to
send a big fleet of warships against force
not exceeding two officers and hundred
unframed natives l am told that the bat
tleships landed some 1000 soldiers in Ger
man New Guinea and New Britain, and that
they are still there, to remain until AFTER
the European war is over. Our own skirts
are not clear however. 1t may be remem-
bered that in 1898 battleships OF the united
States descended on the little island OF
Guam, then Spanish possession, and began
bombardment. The Spanish governor
thought he was the recipient of salute, and
they sent word to the American vessels re-
ouesting the loan of enough powder to reply.
When he was informed that our country mad
declared war against Spain and that our yes
sells were bombarding Guam, he replied that
at least the American officers would have the
courtesy to loan him enough ammunition to
make showing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
ANOTHER PEsTERED ABOUT EASTER.

From the Lyons Progress.
The past week has brought out
number of editorial comments regarding
Easter Sunday being this year on the
2Sth of March. The almanacs have it
scheduled for April 4th but we believe
that we note that Brother Jones, of the
Fitzgerald Press, Rainey, of The DaW
son News, McGill, of the Lyons Prog
ress, Stanford, of the Cuthbert Liberal
Enterprise, and Caruthers, of the Amer
icus Progress, and possibly others, have
figured that March 28th would be the
date for the wearing of the Sunday-go-
to meetin' s.-Richland News.
We confess that we got our information
from that very reliable Southwest Georgia
journal, The Dawson News So confident
were we that it was right about it that we
didn't even go to the trouble of looking in
our Doctor Bunkham's almanac to see if it
was correct sure huff. But since you men
toned it the fashion editor informs US that
we made a grievous error-a shameful err
ror that places this editor in the list as an
ignoramus as far as fashion and spring
dresses go. She says that March 28th is
Palm Sunday whatever that is, and that
Easter, that great day when they put EN-
on, is a week later. We accept this as cor
rect, and will try to have our last years
straw hat and seersucker ready for the great
day when it rolls around.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
True Functions of the Church
From the Atlantic Monthly.

In the opinion Of the believer in supeThat
ural religion, the imparting OF spiritual 40
sistance to man, whereby he may Dc uano
formed from a creature merely OF environ
ment, a mere product of the world, into
creature of spirituality, who SHARES W.
that Christ who Overcame the world, IS tls
true function of the church. AS a cure ~
the sordid selfishness of man, which IS ~
cause of all these social fester1ngs Wulon
social service seeks to mollify, supernae
uralism holds aloft a crucified CHRIST w
spised by the world but glOrifed by uoui
murdered by the world, but raised to eternai
life and alive forevermore. 1t Dlds nc I!,
touch His radiant personality, and from h Li5
derive strength to go out into the VIZ VIZ
and defy it, battle with it, master IL, FeNolc
tiOnize it 1t says to him, Here you tou ~
perfect humanity and manifest divlnlty. Wv
forth, and in Gods name let your lives snV o,
it, in your fearlessness, in transcenuent"tt
fire, in burning love that brooks neither CAM
nor injustice, in revolutionary zeal.
To a supeTnaturalist it seems tnlh5 ~
to admire, but rather to wax wratnful aDo'.,
that many churches, whose real purpose -
thus to SOW spiritual dynamite and 10 on
courage men to explode it, should be lo Jun
substituting for this a combination Oh In95
pert sociological teaching and usually MT
cent social settlement activity. one me- . -
as we'll admire the spectacle OF Joan VI - Is
forsaking her place at the head OF FRAME usa.
armies while she devoted her time 20 Hi'11
ing her soldiers hosiery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23

Georgia's $3,525,OOO of AZ per cent re-
funding bonds were bought by Asa G. Cand
Ter at a profit of $62,5OO to the state Gov
ernor slaton has reason to feel more than
satisfied with the result of his efforts to
make an advantageous sale of the bonds,
and the people of Georgia are gratified that
the state has citizen wealthy and patriotic
enough to buy them. The News heartily
congratulates both Governor Slaton and Mr.
Gambler.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
Mars on the Job.
BY Ray /. HOppman.

We roll in the clover when one war is
over and dream of perpetual peace we
boiler, by golly, Enough of this folly; the
roar of the cannon must cease" We talk of
disarming-the blessings of farming-the
price of a dreadnought and then-ker-
Dlunk! goes the bubble; a little more troub-
le-the nations are at it again. There's no
use in trying, in wailing or crying-a clever
old schemer is Mars. He goes to bed sleep
ing with one optic peeping-he opens afresh
the old scars The white feathered pigeon
will float like widgeon on oil-poured waters
of peace till Mars, with his scowl, will scare
the poor fowl and then take another long
lease He laughs at poor Andy, the Bonnie
Scott Dandy, and merrily chuckles at Bryan.
He roars at their chatter their talk doesn't
matter-he sticks like the green ivy vine.
We're coeksure to catch it, although the old
Ratchet is buried deep under the ground.
You can't get him worried; wherever it's
buried the old boy is hanging around. For
nations will battle and muskets will rattle
the white dove of peace waxeth sore But
just for the present we've got to look pleas
ent and bow down to Mars, god of war.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23

Billy Sunday says the question that stares
a man in the face more than any other is,
Where am I going?" However, Billy does
not appear to be puzzled for an answer. He
has been doing pretty well in Philadelphia,
and when a delegation called on him some
days ago to urge that he make a season in
New York city he put them off until 1917,
all open dates up to that time being filled.
The ex-balI player evidently has a good
booking agent, and from reports of the
financial results of his meetings he gets good
sharing terms.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
The Buzzard an Issue.

According to the Macon News a bill lift
ing the mantel of legal protection from the
turkey buzZard will be introduced in the
legislature by the representative from john
son county.
This bird, ''the scavenger of the skies,
so long regarded as useful as destroyer OF
carrion, is now denounced as a carrier OF
germs and as a menace to the health of
man. beast and fowls, says our Macon con-
temporary.
There has been more or less anathema-
tizing the buzzard in public print recently,
bat this bird is not without friends or de-
tenders. One of them is the Jacksonville
CFla.) Times Union which asserts that the
buzzard is not a carrier Of cholera germs
among hogs, and presents facts to show
that it would be impossible for cholera
germ to pass through the digestive organ
of buzzard and still be able to start
something"
Representative Pickett of Terrell county
announced two years ago that he would in
troduce bill providing for the extermina-
ton of the buzzard, but thought better of it
and changed his mind. But it seems the
making of the buzzard an issue in Georgia
was only deferred, and the politicians will
soon be sounding public opinion and taking
sides
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23

Mr. R. H. Kent, the demonstration agent
in Terrell county is now busy trying to get
a list of prizes for members of the corn club,
and he should be encouraged and aided in
his work The attractiveness of the pre-
miums will have much to do with the sue
cess of the club work Dawson should take
more interest in the boys and girls of the
county who are raising corn and pigs and
canning fruits ad vegetables.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
WON'T TRUST A Dogs NOSE.

From the Triton Gazette.
Judge Russell preached a sermon in the
decision that put the court of appeals on
record as placing no trust in dogs nose
if the animal has been chasing rabbits Law
for the man, law for the dog. Take the man
of good Judgment and fairly well-balanced
mind and let him chase around a few years
after jack-o-lanterns and the products OF
somebody's fool imagination and his view
point becomes perverted The dog that
chases rabbits is no longer to be trusted as
a bloodhound and the man that allows MS
mind debased to little things can no longer
be trusted to follow the trail to higher
ideals
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23

: Mr.. Farmer if you have been saying that
timothy hay or any other shipped hay is bet
ter than peavine and sorghum hay, we'll cur
ed and properly baled. it is time for you TO
quit making walking advertisement Tor
the shipped hay, for you have been telling a
mistake. There is no better hay than the
Georgia raised peayine hay properly cured,
and stock like it better than any hay grown
and can work on it without any other feed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
GETTING PRETTY THIN.

From the Moultrie Observer.
The local paper is generally expected to
lead in the preaching about trading at nome,
and yet the paper is deserted at the 1rst
APPEARANCE of dull business and allowed 10
sink or swim as best it can. the doctTlne
If trading at home gets to be pretty thin
stuff when the local merchants cease to BUY
new goods and cease to invite the pubic
through the medium of the local paper TO
trade in their stores.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23

The job of awaiting for the warning pow
ers seems to be safer than awaiting for exhi-
bition purposes. The war birdman flies out
and flies back again and he manages to
make the trip safely, but the exhibition
birdman tries the thrillers, the dips and
the dives and sooner or later is a victim of
his own recklessness, Lincoln Beachey is
the last to pay the penalty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23

The cash system started on September
1st 1913. by Dawson firm has reached
as far as Memphis, Tenn, where 1t mas peen
adopted by wholesale people. This system
will help thousands of merchants and lnol-
viduals who would buy more than necessary
when having it charged.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
THE LAY OF THE CACKLE.

The Goldfish lays a million eggs,
While the helpful hen lays one;
But the goldfish does not cackle
To inform us what she's done.
And so We scorn the Goldfish coy,
But the helpful hen we prize;
Which indicates to thoughtful minds
It pays to advertise.
-Kellogg's SQUARE Dealer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23

The wide popularity of the Gambler high
BALI is emphasized by the fact that us pro-
prietor has bought three and hall mlliloh
dollars of state bonds. It's amazing the
fortune five-cent drink has produced