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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
Turkeys Unpopularity.

There may be various degrees of sympathy
for one side or the other in the herculean
war of nations progressing in Europe, but
on one point it seems there is remarkable
unanimity. Every man and his brother
wants to see Turkey licked to a frazzling
finish.
The reasons for this are twO-fold First
w. Turkeys national history has been of
most unprepossessing aspects since the mind
of man runneth backward. In the nostrlls
of respectable citizens of all nations, ire
spective of political or religious affiliations,
she has been a chronic stencil. Principal
among the causes for this has been the habit
of arising at intervals and slaughtering
few thousand Christians, more or less, to
show her dislike for their beliefs and her
contempt for the public opinion of the world.
Secondly, Turkey deliberately entered this
war without the shadow of an excuse, pre-
cipitating herself into a conflict which did
not affect her interests one way or the other
When the Ottoman ruler was hesitating
as to whether he should join forces with
the German emperor the Franco-English al
lies had a quiet, friendly little chat with
him through their accredited diplomatic rep
resentatives. What they said, in so many
words otherwise expressed, was this:
Now, don't act foolish; don't be what is
known, in the street vernacular, a 'buttin-
sky This is our own private little quarrel,
and we want the privilege of settling it
among ourselves. You haven't got darned
thing to do with it, and if you insist on nos
ing your way into the scrap we are going
to make you awfully, awfully sorry. Fur
thermore, we are going to have you eating
breakfast in standing position for many
moons to come"
And that is what is happening right along.
The so-called Terrible Turk" is no longer
terrible He is in disgrace. He has been
whipped already to within an inch of his
collective existence, and when the English
and French, through the Dardanelles, and
the Russian Black Sea fleet, through the
Bosporus, have battered their way to Con-
stantinople Turkey in Europe will be but
disreputable memory
1t is typical of American public opinion
that Quitting in" is considered execrable
form, whether the culprit be an individual
or a nation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
M'Adoo Not The South's Friend.

Mr. w P. G. Harding, the Birmingham
banker who was recently given lucrative
position on the federal reserve board, has
found an early use for his loyalty to those
who appointed him. Mr.. ]. L. Hughes, a
member of the Southern Society of Chicago,
wants to know what was done for the South
during the cotton crisis, and Mr.. Harding
undertakes to tell him.
The effort, however, is more ingenious
than enlightening. Mr.. Harding tells a vari-
ETY. of things without giving any satisfactory
information at all. He fails most signally
to show why the plentitude Of money which
poured from Washington went to the big
city banks, already waxed fat as gourmands,
and why practically none of it found it's way
to the little country banks, the ones which
really needed it, and where its presence
would have been productive OF some real
good. Some of the country banks did try
to get their legitimate share of the emer-
gency currency but found themselves conse-
quently beset by so much red tape and sense
less detail that they threw up their hands
in disgust, sadder but wiser little banks.
Whatever has been done toward saving
the situation in the South has been done
by the South itself-by it's farmers, mer-
chants and bankers working fraternally to-
gether for each others interests, and aided
here and there by an occasional large finan-
cial institution of the East which was both
sufficiently patriotic and far-sighted to aid
it's Southern customers
Mr.. Hardings perfervid defense Of Secre-
tary of the Treasury McAdoo is sufficiently
eloquent and verbose to arouse the gratitude
of that cabinet member; but it will not go
very far in this section There can be no
denying the unpleasant taste in the South's
collective mouth which has been left by Mr..
McAdoo's sustained attitude toward this
section ever since his induction into office.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
MIR. Gardner Grows Wearisome.

The country as a whole is becoming heart
lily tired of the Nominations of Representa-
tive Gardner, of Massachusetts,. Believing
it to be an eficacious means of discredlt1ng
the present democratic administration Mr.
Gardner who is a republican, has for some
months past overworked his fountain pen
in a sadly futile and puerile effort to prove
the United States navy totally inadequate.
To hear Mr.. Gardner one would think our
navy nothing more than a gigantic scrap
heap which at public auction would bring
about enough ready cash for the purchase
of a one-horse Georgia farm.
For awhile no official attention was &C
corded the rambunctious gentleman from
Massachusetts. Finally, however, Mr..
Josephus Daniels secretary of the navy, I'M
Iimbered. In a lengthy reply, as digni1ed
as it was clear and convincing, he proceeded
to demonstrate how far Mr. Gardner had
shot from the mark He showed the capa-
bilitv and modernity of the nayy's equip
ment and personnel, and that there was
cause for neither dissatisfaction nor uneasi-
ness.
Everybody was convinced-everyone eX-
cent Mr.. Gardner The latter legislator con-
tents himself with the assertion that the
head of the navy evaded the issue and that
mis- reply was no reply at all.
Oh, well! These are hot summer days
and life is too humidity burdensome to be
come aggravated with such insectivOrous az
itators as the one from Massachusetts. We
Suggest to Mr.. Daniels that he allow him
to rave on and pay no further attention tc
his rumblings and growlngs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
Taxes Then and Now.

The Butts County Progress prints an arti-
Gle showing how taxes have increased within
recent years. Four instances are cited IN
the SOS. On 200 acres of land $1.45 taxes
were paid; $135 on another 200 acres;
81 O5 on so acres, and one John Andrews
in 1914 paid IS cents state and county taxes
on personal property, not having been
land owner at the time.
These figures are undoubtedly interest
ing. but it must be remembered that Mr.,
Andrews and others of that day and gener-
alton did not possess many assets and con-
veniences which they would have II they
were living now. Public improvements are
paid for by public taxation. They cost mon
ey, and the money must come from the peck
cts of those who are beneficiaries.
In town, as in country, taxes are enor-
mously higher; but we have things now
which we did not have then. They cause us
to enjoy greater safety of life and property
and to find life more worth the living.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
MAN AS THE PEACOCK.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
The Birmingham Age-Herald "hybomi-
mates" sartorical peacOckage. 1t believes
the present styles in mems clothing are lit
tie less than sensational" Taking note OF
an interview with a Birmingham man just
back from New York, where he saw men
dressed in a way that disguised him, the
Age-Herald says:
Going further, one is much inclined TO
exclaim, more power to him. and to att1x
an enthusiastic amen to his utterances. Inc
Birmingham paper deplores the money-lke
character so much in evidence among men
some young, some old-whO array them
selves in novelty patterns OF sk1n-tlgnt Mt
ting, becuffed trousers, corset-httlng coat,
and a hiatus of from four to six inches be-
tween trousers and shoe top, the same evil
IDENTIFY being intended to give ample display
to white silk hosiery.
THAT of itself is bad enough, but when by
way of climax there is added one of those
rear-boWed tall hats with marrow Dr1m, the
same being pulled down over the ears Oh
the wearer-weIl, no matter how much we
may believe in personal liberty we cannot
refrain from saying that such an outlandish
makeup is un-American and altogether too
utterly-too-to0.
''What this country needs is more real
men with red blood in their veins and WINS
kers instead of fuzz on their faces. These be
progressive. aggressive, MISUNDERSTANDING
most DAYS. and there is little room in this
work-a-day world for Algernon and others
of that type"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
The Rotation of Judges.

There is growing evidence that the mat
fer of rotating the superior court judges Will
he given attention in Georgia before great
while. In discussing this subject the Thom-
asyille Times Enterprise says:
The rotation of superior court judges
has been tried in other states, ana IL
works splendidly. People from North
Carolina affirm that this method is IN
vogue there, and has expedited court
procedure to a remarkably effective eX-
tent and is thoroughly satisfactory. III
has worked so well that the people
would not relinquish it for the older
method such as exists in Georgia.
In this state as our Thomasville contem-
porary says, ''the election of judges by the
neople necessarily injects politics into the
office. There is no question about this state
ment, and it is not made with any intention
of rejecting upon any particular judge or
upon them as a class 1t is fact, and it
cannot be avoided. This political effect is
often far-reaching in some instances. 1t is
bound to be a hindrance to the Judge and
to the conduct of the court at times"
Hon. D. c. Pickett, when in the legisla-
ture from Terrell county some years ago,
introduced bill to rotate the judges, but
the question was a new one at that time,
and the political opposition was too strong
for it to be made a law But sentiment in
favor of it is growing, and Georgia is sure
to have this reform before a great while.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11

1t is said that in some parts of the North
and West, where money is generally plent1-
full, it is no trouble now to borrow at very
low rate of interest, provided the money is
not to be used in the South.
We do not know whether this report IS
true or not, but if it is it displays on the
part of the money lenders in those sections
shortsighted policy that we hope will react
against them when times get normal and
financial conditions become more steady.
The South has been hit hardest OF any
section of the United States since the war
started, but that this section is ruined or
even partially paralyzed is a mistake that
will soon be realized by those tinanciers who
are inclined to discriminate against us.
We made the sad mistake last spring OF
figuring on twelve-cent cotton We bcdght
goods and loaned money and planted crops
on the supposition that our great money sta
pie would sell for a good price. OF course
we did not dream of the greatest war in the
history of the world, and we unwisely loaded
ourselves down with obligations that we
could not pay when the market for cotton
was closed
Thanks to the attitude of many of our
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
EFFECTS OF BEER CONDEMNED.

From the Newman Helald and Advertiser.
After twenty-five years of practice DR.. D.
S. Lungren, leading physician ana surgeon,
bae This 10 saw about beer: st is difficult
to find any part in the confirmed beer drink
er's machinery that is doing its work as II
should. This is why our life-cords snap on
like glass rods when disease or accldent gives
+bom a little hIow. Beer drinking shOrtens
life. This is not a mere opinion; it is
welI-settled, recognized fact. physicians
and insurance companies accept this as IN
questionably as any other undlsputeo IacI
af science The great English physicians de-
eide that the hearts action is increased IL
ner cent in its efforts to throw off alconol
introduced into the circulation. The result
is easily figured out. The natural Pu use.
heat is rs per minute. If we multiply TINS
by 60 an hour and "a hours day, and add
IL per cent. we find that the heart has been
compelled to do an extra work during tnat
time in throwing off the burden Oh rev
drinks equal to 1915 tons lifted one foot
high -
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11

One lives and learns. Reading that a fish
erman's net had pulled from the Ocmulgee
river at Macon one hundred boxes of Scotch
snuff, and taking this in conjunction with
published news reports that fish thereabout
had lately been noticed spending much of
their time on the waters surface, our per
spicacity naturally prompted the belief that
they were female fish who had merely risen
to the top in order to expectorate conven-
ientIy. Our thanks are due the Hawkins
Vile Dispatch and News for setting US
right-the fish came up to sneeze, thereby
avoiding dangerous interference with nav
igation nv blowing all the water out of the
river.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
The Price Paid for a Life.
BY Rose Clisby John.

When a man takes the solemn VOW ito
love. cherish in sickness and in health" a
wife does it's measureless significance aWak-
en- him to action? Does he not often enter
this sacred sphere with levity and UMPIRE
paredness of mind and heart, not realizing
that he takes a life of "a softer mood" into
his keeping which he will either make or
mar?
Trusting and loving him, she meets the
wears with courage and faith, bearing the
burden and the heat of the long day, for has
he not promised to love and provide for her?
Ever administering to the wants OF oth-
ers, surmounting obstacles, toiling on, sus-
tanned by hope she waits for the ful1llment
of the promise-the home she can call her
own. Often heartsick, lonely almost to de-
spair, still she clings to the hope that he will
remember.
Engrossed with his own pursuits, now
apart from hers, he no longer endeavors to
provide this home, but thinks anothers Will
do: that life is the same under all roofs.
He never realizes that woman's pride and
ambition, the best of her, is best awakened
in her own home, where she can evlnce her
individuality in taste, judgment and love
Far out beyond the world around her her
thoughts seek life, and travel through time
and space, teaching fOrbearance and endur-
ance. Mornings wear into evenings, and
the same still longing breaks her heart.
Her cheeks pale, eyes lose their brightness,
steps their elasticity yet unobserVed by MIN
she drifts away far far, no ''whistling down
hack alleys to the moon" will ever eaten
her.
Her life, colorless and dead, is spent apart
from the world that would have been so
much to her.
Whose hand gave the blow?
There floats no answer from out the dead
silence of the years, and she continues alone
with nothing to lose but life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
Help Things Along.

If things don't just seem to suit YOU
And the worli seems kinder wrong
What's the matter with your Doostln
Just to help the thing along!
Cause if things should stop a-goln'
We'd be in sorry plight;
Just keep that horn a-blowln'-
Boost 'er up with all your might.
If YOU know some fellows failin's
Just forget EN-, cause you know
That same fellow has good points
Them's the ones you want to show;
Cast your loaves out on the waters,
THEY'LL come back" a saying true;
Maybe they will come back buttered
When some fellow boosts for you.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
KICKING THE PROSTATE SOUTH.
From the Laurens County Herald.

good friends in the North and South. whose
patience and leniency under most trying cir.
cumstances will never be forgotten, We have
pulled through in better shape than wo
thought would be possible. True, we have
had more failures than we would have had
if conditions had been normal, but perbans
in many instances business houses that gave
up had been skating en- thin ice for SOM
time, and would have eventually closed nm
war or no war.
The crisis through which we have passed
however, has been the most valuable lesson
that we have ever learned. Habits of indi.
vdual and collective economy have been
forced upon all of us, and we predict that
within twelve months the South will be in
better financial shape than it ever was #
cotton can be sold next fall for ten and
eleven cents a pound thousands of farmers
and business men who are now striving M
make both ends meet and to keep their af
fairs going will realize more net profit than
they have enjoyed in many a year. The
debts incurred this year will be only nomi-
nal as compared with what they usually are
and next fall millions of dollars of old obi
cations will be wiped out entirely.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
Doping the Soil.
or a nation

Advocating crop diversifcation E.
j. Watson, South Carolina commission
er of agriculture, said to the Southern
Commercial Secretaries at MuscOgee
that the South's soil has been too long
doctored with manufactured fertilizers,
and no longer responded to that treat
ment.
Mr. Watson is eminently correct. If the
farmers of Georgia and other Southern
states had spent within late years half as
much time and money in intelligent intro
spection and Investigation, especially in the
planting of heterogeneous vegetation, as they
have in the constant doping" of their soil
they would have been intellectually better off
in many ways today-notably in their bank
balances.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
Waist Line Shifts Up
and Down Like Mercury
Mary had little waist
Where nature made it grow,
And everywhere the fashion went
The waist was sure to go.

No wonder it perplexes. No sooner does
one fashion authority announce that the en-
pire waistline ordained by Josephine is the
thing to strive for than another and equally
important authority says that the waist
should be exactly where we are fond of say
ing nature placed it.
The French designers we're capricious in
February. They held out no straight path
to follow. They seemed to be as unsettled
in their minds where to put the waistllne
once and for all as the women are who now
try to do the correct thing. OF course, the
novelty is in the fact that it is slightly I'M
reasonable to believe that it has kept its
place. Possibly nature placed it in one
spot-though of that there is a strong
doubt-but various fashions have so twisted
and tortured it that it may have escaped its
tormentors; maybe there is no waistline on
modern woman.
No one knows who discovered the slight
ridge in a woman's figure, then exploited it
and offered it a victim to mans art, and
therefore laid the fortunes of the corset
makers, created disease, sowed the seeds of
envy jealousy and spite, and led women
into the ways of error.
But it was that Queen of France, born in
Italy, of subtle and cruel race, Catherine
de Medici, who instigated the massacre of ST.
Bartholomew, who invented the small waist
She pulled her own into a measurement of
do likewise. Was it jealousy of her tricky
beautiful and slim daughter-n-law Mary
Stuart, that caused her to think of so severe
a punishment for herself and those around
her. a torture that would supposedly add to
the grace of her figure? Who knows? The
ways of women, queens and commoners, are
past finding out.
Well, it's a long, long way back to the tor
turing of the Huguenots and the torturing of
the figure, but it is a practice in which wo-
men have INDUCED every few decades No
inundation of common sense has lasted long
enough to keep them from supreme folly
in the name of dress every once in awhile
The serious trouble today is first to find
the place to put the waistline, and then get
it there. But you can't catch the mercury
when it is registering a storm, and at pres
ent the racing up and down of the fashiona-
BILE waistline is like unto it.
After one has seen several hundred new
frocks with as many waistlines one feels
nervously inclined to cry out, Keep still,
will you, and let one get good look. One
comes home in a frame of mind that most
men have after hearing the war argued for
three hours. They long for kimOnos to be in
fashion (the women, not the mem, and
therefore Danish the racing waistline to the
limbo of dead fashions.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
Typical American Romance

The York, Penn, chamber of commerce
offered a prize for the best essay written on
the subject, what has York done for me?"
A young Russian won the prize by the simple
narrative of his own life-story, a story graph
ically given of the up-climbing from OPP
pressiVe circumstances on to plane OF
bright outlook and good promise.
1t is story inspiring and full OF meaH-
ing for many reasons, one of which is it's sim
pie humanity and another that it is typical
of every American town. There is scarcely
a town large enough to be called such that
does not boast just such cases of success
over circumstances which would paralyze
and crush characters who are without that
mysterious outreaching of hope and faith to
the kindly and protective qualities or des-
tiny.
The story begins with peddling thread and
buttons from door to door, and bending
over the sizzling iron in tailor shop.
1t is very much the kind of submerged
and almost unillumined life of Morris Rosen-
field depicted in his Songs of the Ghetto,
SAYS the Philadelphia Ledger. 'But, says
the plucky Russian lad, God always creates
the remedy before the Sickness and in
stead of becoming a troublesome, shame
full, desolated tramp he came to see that
there was more in the world than three
meals day and a pitched battle for a Nv
ing.
This boy made romance out of education
He discovered that names of patriots ana tne
traditions of the republic are more than VAIN
formulate and an empty resounding nomen-
clature. He learned to dream out his dreams
in English words and terms of American
institutions and today he is preparing to 40
for his country in return for the things MS
country has done for him We again quote
the Public Ledger:
By the sympathy he has found ana
bv his own unremitting improvement OF
the chances offered he is becoming a
citizen of the type his country values
at more than a money prize, medal
or "a ribbon to stick in his coat he
has the faith of one
Who sees through mold the rose unfold
The soul through blood and tears.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11
THE PRIVATE BILL.

From the Savannah Press.
The restless legislator is now tram-
inc his net bill and getting ready to
start something when the legislature
gets down to it's annual grind-Butts
County Progress. 49,
The private bill is the greatest drawback
TO legislation in Georgia. Every member OF
the legislature seems to think it is up 10 MIN
to put in pet measure Tor soneDouy OF
tHing And the result is the real work is
DELAYED.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11

1t seems that Japan is taking advantage
of the circumstances produced by the Euro
pean war to assert it's demands on China.
The European nations are too deeply involV-
ed to be able to demonstrate with Japan, and
the United States is so burdened with neu-
trail responsibilities that it is handicapped
to handle the situation alone.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11

Somebody's inconsiderate hound pup has
been trying to digest the seat of the Macon
Telegraph mans trousers. He deposeth to
this extent in retrospecton: "Gink that
started that old business about the hair of
the dog being good for the bit place ought to
be made to try it right straight along for a
week"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11

Another Atlanta horse thief stole the
harness off horse the other night. We
are going to SWIM on to our pants
the next time we go there.-Walton
Tribune.
Brother Camps trousers must be fear
full and wonderful concoction
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11

And now complaint has been filed re-
,garding alleged shell making in Milwaukee.
Evidently something else beside the famous
amber fluid may be destined to make Mil
waukee famous.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11

Seven million bales of cotton have been
shipped to foreign countries in the last nine
months in spite of the unusual conditions
which prevailed since the outbreak of the
war.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-11

If Mr.. A. w. Brabham, of Olar, S. c.,
who is experimenting in an effort to produce
black cotton, succeeds in his Burbankistic
idea what is to prevent the next enterprising
genius from growing striped hosiery and
fancy four-in-hands?