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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
WILL. AIRSHIPS REVOLUTIONIZE
THE RURAL FREE MAIL DELIVERY

From the Farm and Fireside.
That the typical tin box with flag to indicate
the presence or absence of mail may be replaced
by net to catch the letters and packages dropped
from above by swift flying aerOplaneS is the gIst
of an article entitled Speed for Our Mails.
During a congressional hearing two or three
years ago. it says "a witness brought down on
himself ridicule by asserting that the airshlp
is likely TO be used day for transporting the
mails. But it is seriously proposed that on
certain routes between Offices separated by mount
aims or broad waters the aeroplane be used for
the purpose of saving time in the carrying of the
mails.
Speed is more important on many routes than
the ability to carry weight.
THE light motor-driven vehicle must have the
preference in serving rural routes wherever the
roads are so nearly perfect that they can be de-
pended upon to be passable every day The motor
cycle must to when this matter is con-
sdered. 1t is swifter than any other carriage eX-
cept the airship. 1t is cheap. 1t will carry more
weight than many rural carriers must bear. More
over it is legal.
POSTMASTER General BurlesOn has authorized
the use on rural mail routes of motorcycles with
side cars With the creation of good roads gaso-
lene and wheels will place who live on farms
rather remote from town almost as close to the
postofce as are those with offices in the tops Of
SkySCTapers in the city"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
The Human Heart
From Golfers Weekly.

The war has shown again the nnchanging cour-
age of mankind, and it has shown also their I'M
failing helpfulness. Behind the cruel meanness
of cOnquest-plotters, the muddling of demagOgues
and the corruption of political parasites see this
fundamental background, this world of the human
heart Ayiators honor their foes and take pains to
send home news of them. Soldiers of all races
have to be held back from facing certain death
in trying to aid their wounded comrades. A cap
tive German officer may revert to his attitude of
trained insoence, but in the trenches his are
his boys An Englishman in Red Cross work in
GallipOli writes:
THE nurses are tiptOp, and the orderes a reve-
lation. They are gentle and patient. The shat
tered and in many cases dying men cling to them
like frightened children, and they comfort and
soothe them like any woman. l did not think they
had it in them. They just an ordinary set of
ruffians in everyday life"
Add to this the endless accounts of unselfish de-
votion to others the part of the home popula-
tiOns now at war and you get clear vision of
what people Not what they may become I'M
der some system of evangelism or method of edu-
cation or hygienic discipline economic Utopia,
but what they are now, today, with all their i'm
projections that and harrass reformers If
a fairy gOdmOther could give this sad old world
one gift it might well be a magic to turn this
dumb love into power to establish the policies of
kingdoms and empires upon the unseliish fairness
and the helpfulness-unto-death that even now is
warm in the hearts of common men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
He Began Wrong.

The New Jersey farm hand who slew four mem
bers of his employers family his friend and him
self began at the wrong end Of his intentions. If
he had killed himself first there would have been
great deal less of a tragedy. About the only
thing commendable regarding his act is that when
he finished his wild debaueh of murder by COM
hitting suicide he saved the state of New Jersey
the expense of criminal trial and the probable ne
eessity Of having to commit another legal homicide
The man who commits murder and then suicide
Is not rational. He is crazed and mentally incom-
petent matter whether his insanity arises on the
spur Of the moment has been present for years.
But it would help considerably, when such
man contemplates taking the lives of others and
his own, if he would become mixed up to his
programme and begin on himself.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
The Sunset

What is a sunset? A few punches of mist hap
pen to sag down toward the ground anywhere from
8 to 80 miles away from where we stand; certain
rays from the sun, which intervening hills fields
hide from our eyes, strike these piles of vapor in
such a manner that certain prismatc effects are
produced. That is all that science has to say about
it. What says the poet, the artist, the seer, the
saint, the child? They say that a new world is
being revealed; they say that the windows Of
heaven are being opened; they say they behold al
Turing beauties. They declare thai by looking at
the sunset they find true answers 70 hard problems.
that they get strength for lfes work; patience for
its trials; that they find joy to offset lifes pain
they say that they find love to conquer lfes quar-
rels; they say they find hope and peace and joy
and Cod
What can the sneering scientist say to these
seers? Nothing. The blessings they get from the
sunset cannot be measured and located by his tapes
and chains, his theodilites, his angles his prisms
his barOmeters even his telescopes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
HabitatiOn Tax.

Victor Morawetz, a New York corporation law
yer, proposes a habitatiOn tax a means to force
each citizen to contribute to the government in
proportion to the luxury in which he lives and to
prevent taX-dodging. He would have every resi-
dent assessed on the basis of the value of the
house and land occupied as a dwelling, and would
also assess the resident the number of servants
employed. If the resident dwes in apartment
or hotel he would be required to pay tax upon
his proportOnate share of the valuation of the
entire building and the ground which it stands
Provision is made for having landlords and hotel
keepers make returns for their tenants. Mr.. Mora
wetz suggests that provision should be made IN
New York for a $4,000 exemption. No Occu-
plying dwelling costing less than that sum, would
be required to pay anything Mr.. Morawetz takes
the burden of taxation off the middle-class city
dweller and dumps it onto the shoulders of the
rich and the farmer. Every farmer would he re-
quired to pay according to the valuation of his
house and lot while the festive city dweers would
find some easy means of getting within the exmp-
ton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
A Lesson Hard To Learn.

Perhaps carelessness is the outstanding hulndn
characteristic. AT any rate, color is Tended TINS
theory when we consider that persons who go out
in ouest of game still kill themselves and kill
each other in spite of each preceding seasons dread
example.
The newspapers of Chicago kept account OF such
casualties up to last Tuesday, and their hSureS
show in eighteen states, ftynine killed and sixty
six wounded Most of the victims lost their lives
Because they insisted in dragging their guns
through and over impeding fences; and feat
ure that would be ludicrous were it not SO serious
is that score OF individuals were shot by feIlo"
hunters who mistOOk them for game.
The encouraging statement is that fewer were
slain and hurt than during the last season, and it
NAV be that those who a-huntng go are really
learning a few things except how not to aim
STRAIGHT
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
Reading and Gum.

Reading is longer intellectual exer-
else, but habit, like chewing gum
from sermon.
In ancient times, when liter-chure was chiseled
stone, worked in hierogdyphics tenn
pie or a throne, folks read for mental exercise for
cuture-and then some. Today do reading
like shop girl cheWs her gum.
When monks with much painstaking care il
Tuned the printed page initiated manuscripts so
rare doubtless all the rage; curiosties to-
day those pages white thumb, content to do our
reading like a shop girl chews her gum.
When Bibles valuable they had to chain
EN- down, and parties who could read would act
a if they owned the town. to write your name was
looked upon about like Kingdom Come-today we
do reading like a shop girl cheWs her gum
Though lots that's writ today is trash there's
much that can be found worth reading; though the
price is cheap books and newspapers abound; and
for the many millions now the printing presses
hum, and reading is habit-just the as
chewing gum.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
"Up Salt River "
Fom the Pittsburg Post.

up Salt River where all the defeated can
didates used to go. Apparently nobody naygates
that difficult and unlucky stream today
The term going up Salt river is very nearly
obsolete, yet for upward of a century and up to a
ing defeat.
The real Salt river is in Kentucky To get eghty
miles it winds around 100 miles. Once it was
filled with debris and natural Instructions max
ing it very difficult for even a rowboat to get I'D
stream. a Kentuckian first coined the political
phrase up Salt river
A democratic LOcOforo campaign hymn in 1910
directed against TippecanOe Harrison ran thus:
we are marching up Salt river, a sad and
gloomy band"
Voters gave the lie to that song at the presden-
tial election, when "TippecanOe and Tyler, too -
went bounding into office
The next year Congressman Duncan Of Ohio
said on the floor of the house: 1.-The federal party
has been dead for forty years For forty years
it has been rowing up Salt river"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
The DeSerter.

His father and brother slain as they fought by
his side in the trenches the marks of which chung
to his trousers when he landed in New York de-
serter from the German forces has reached the
United States.
Desertion is a particularly reprehensible oifense
under military laws. 1t is crime punishable by
death.
Perhaps this is it should be. No nation at
war can afford to look lightly upon the offense Of
the man who lays down his gun.
And, yet there will be eXculpating thought
for the man who wearied in body and soul, sick
ened at sights which met his gaze intermnably as
one day succeeded another, his heart wrenched at
the sight of a dead father side of his posi-
ton and a dead brother on the other, casts can
teen and what the world calls patriotism to the
winds, and departs for new scenes where he may
witness something besides the steady flow of human
blood
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
So-CalIed odd" Whisky

Another blow to Colonel Bluegrass! The New
York health department, in one of its weekly pun,
letins, recently held that fine old WHISTLES anu
brandies' just harmful as cheap uranus 10
of liquors. Age apparently makes difference III
the harmful effects of whiskey.
The health department bases its conclusions On
the result of tests to determine the effects OF N
furious substances in Whiskey, such as fusel "a,
and fur-furol 1t found that cheap liquors
contained larger proportions of the two ingreui t
ents, but the department declared that IL IS NJ
fusel oil but ethyl alcohol that is injurious IN Wits
key.
High-grade brandies and aged WHISTLES con
tain almost as much of the deleterious ethyl alcO
hol as do the cheaper brands of liquor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
Tours Europe Yearly on Sis
From the CHRISTIAN Science Monthly.

1hO O"iiStl'uI oCISuC0 uOhUiAiJ'
Attention is being called to the record OF Balt
more street sweeper getting $12 week who ylslS
Europe annually. Earnng usually about sou
year he saves $115 with which he gets passage
and sustenance during nine weeks outing. IneIe
is no need of challenging the tale 1t is possible
assuming certain standards of living and travel
The record can be repeated by others, given lle
same desire and the same acceptance of what uI7
experiment involves Moreover, the case has GER
tain symbolic value preaching economy and spa.
tan rigor to many tourists who journey in POM
and luxury. But too much virtuous advice shou'u
not be based on exceptional a case. When NOR
street sweepers get nine weeks time of ana C@n
live, even as bachelors, S12 a week and saw
approximately $40 a month, then it will be tAeN
to generalize.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
y PITY IT'S TRUE.

From the Washington Reporter
Why the sudden conversion to the theory Of
"bird' conservation? These little silver-throatei
sOngsters have been making music for the world
since the dawn Of creation, yet they succeeded il
making Comparatively few friends until it found
that they contributed service toward the worlds
material prosperity. Alas! people want profits not
praise. People who give themselves to the service
of humanity generally referred to failures,
and until ideals undergo a change the world
viii demand cOin-nOt music
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
FOUND HER FURS, But

From the Richland News.
The South Georgia Progress reports that young
lady in a nearby town recently lost her furs, and
her best fellow dreamed that they had been stolen
and hid under certain barn. The couple decided to
90 to the barn and see if the dream was true On
approaching the spot they saw something that indI-
Gated the furs, and the young man proceeded to
reach under the barn to get them 1t was furs all
right. but the furs a live ''fumigatng sort OF
"streakedystrpedy' cat Guess that guy doesn't
want hunt any more furs
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

Americas big army of investors will fairly roll
in wealth in the next few months. Wall street
house estimates that December and January div-
dend and interest disbursements will reach the
enormous total of $3.50, 100000 and top of that
the profits to be divided, including wholesale and
retail firms are roughly put at $500 100000 Much
of this will go out in the Christmas and New Years
mail. Two million shareholders and partners will
get slices of this great melon.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
WHY WHEREFORE AND WHEREFORE WHY:

From the ElbertOn Star.
It is stated that gasoline alias Ford juice is
selling in Maryland from to cents a gallon, md
in Georgia from to % cents per gallon. 1t is
also stated that Hon VIM. J. Harris, member OF
the federal trade commission, has been in Georgia
for some time investigating the whyness of this
wherefore Wherefore the investigation? Also
why
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14
NOT PARTICULAR ABOUT THE DRESSING
from the Walton News.

From the Walton News
A lot of women are like some Thanksgiving
turkeys-too much white meat and not enough
dressing.-Dawson News.
And, still, you must bear in mind that good
many folks partial to white meat. When it
comes to turkey chicken we'll take it every time
dressing or dressing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

The United States deputy marshals of the North
ern district of Georgia placed on salaries on
December first. This means that the federal fee
system, which has been operative for years and
which has been condemned and abolished in all but
a few districts is thing of the past here. 1t is an
example that Georgia could well follow. The evils
of the fee system are wel-known to every informed
person.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

The French military authorities have just issued
a circular warning nurses not to 1irt with their
patients. One hospital has gone a step further
discharging all young and attractive nurses and
replacing them with elderly maidens. The tenn
perature of the patients of this particular hospital
certainly no longer rises at the sight of their nurses
That's taking a mean advantage of a sick and help
less fellow.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

The citizen who owns property in this town or
who expects to continue to make his home here
and then indulges in knocking reminds US OF the
fellow who invented the kicking machine to use
on himself. He goes about cussn and kicking,
and is damaging his own interests as much as any
ones.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

The Georgia delegation in congress, according to
Washington dispatch, lukewarm toward the
Administrations preparedness programme. They
evidently believe that there be too much OF
even a good thing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

Uncle Andy Carnegie again rises to announce
his conviction that the world is getting better Per-
haps Uncle Andy's optimism which is commend
able enough is partly because he is not getting
any poorer as he marches down old ages deep
decIiyities.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

The big newspapers are predicting that more
republican than democratic congressman will vote
for the presidents policy Of preparedness. That
remains to be Congressman always ought
to do what they think is best for the country, but
they usually proceed upon the theory that what
is best for the party is best for the country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

Even in dry states the concoctors of Christ
cakes will very likely manage to secure a lit
tie of the famous ingredient without which no
Christmas cake is entirely respectable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

The Georgia congressman all got good commit
tee assignments This due very largely to
the efforts and influence of Congressman Crisp, of
this district, who is a member of the ways and
means committee the most important committee
of congress, and which has the appointment OF
members on the other committees.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

It is figured that 100000 automobiles are in
the United States. Anyway. Terrell county has her
share of them, whether the figures are really accu-
rate or not.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

Georgia will soon be dry, and the Atlanta saloon
keeper who tackled up a sign on his place OF bust
ness reading. Don't ask us what going to
do after January 1st what are you going TO do?
has at least asked pointed question.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

The girl who packs her little powder rag along
with her wherever she goes may know but a min
imum of war and politics but she is an indefati-
gable exponent of preparedness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

The trenches in France are now equipped with
steam heat and electric lights but, at that we are
glad that we may exercise our right of remaining
here in grand old Southwest Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

The scientists having averred that there is
no doubt regarding the existence of canals on
Mars we are patiently awaiting the intelligence Of
a few slides Even canals must be consistent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-12-14

Editor r. Y Beckham is now in charge of the
Laurens County Citizen. Mr.. Beckham is one Of
Georgias best newspaper men, and has already
made decided Improvement in the Citizen. We
more than wish him we'll
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-28
9 WHAT IS A WIDOW"
PUZZLES ATTORNEY
Especial to Times-Recorder.)

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 2S-The ques-
ton of What is a widow" has got the
goat of Attorney General Warren
Grice.
The attorney general had thought
that he had analysed, defined and pars-
ed the word to the satisfaction of ev-
cry ordinary in the state, but they
keep on writing him to give new cir
cumstances and family history and
ask rs she a widow or amt she?"
It's all on account of the new child
labor law. 1t specifies that no child
between IL and IA years of age may
work in factories or places Of amuse-
ment unless a widowed mother is de-
pendent upon the child's wages.
Naturally the question of whether
a divorced woman is widow came up.
The attorney general ruled that she
was not And then today came this
"Is a woman whose first husband has
died and who married again, wants her
children by her first marriage to work
in mill because Husband No. 2 can
not support herr"
That's a knotty one. But the at
torney general ruled that no woman
who is now married can be widow,
support or no support. He did not
suggest that an AK well used might
solve the difficulty and return the wo-
man to the widowhood class.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-28
St. GEORGES FEELS SHOCK OF
MONTHS CEASELESS FIGHTING

die or be wounded The very heapE
of debris seem animated by the desire
to carry further the destruction GE
which they are the result
At night also one hears the nces
SAINT coughing of the French African
and Anglo-Indian troops, who seem I'M
able to stand the rigors OF the cnza z1EEl
damp climate of Flanders
On the outskirts OF the village stanSx
little house, upon whose door have
been chalked the words s@FranctfreIE-
already disposed Of" Nus far FrEsH
the door lies the body OF a man wiiEh
the fingers still about the, hand1e ST
an open umbrella FA
The dyke giving access TO tkE naxFss
would not hold the bodies OF those whB
have died in the effort to either tzkE
or re-take this island In tire 'R9HEEiRr.
ton lake."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-28

operative work is being done through
the Georgia Sunday School association
which is an organization representing
the Sunday schools of various denom-
nations of the state. 1t stands fer CO.
operation, not union; its conventions
and institutes discuss methods of
work; not church doctrines. 1t is the
only organization in the state which
aims to help every Sunday school.
The affairs of the association are
managed by an executive committee of
45 Christian business men from the
different denominations. The officers
of the association are DR.. Joseph w.
Broughton, Atlanta, president; A. H.
Merry, Augusta; W. B. Stubs, Sa-
vannah; w. c. Vereen, Moultrie, vice
presidents; ]. ]. Cobb, Macon, chair
man of executive committee; J. V.
Wellborn, Atlanta, treasurer; D. W.
Sims, Atlanta, general secretary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-28
BROOKS INDUSTRIAL CLUB
TO MARKET BROOKS HAMS
Especial to Times-Recorder.)


QUITMAN, Ga, Jan. 27.-The Brooks
County Industrial club has solved the
problem of the matter of marketing the
products of the farmers and takes hold
irst of all of the Brooks county coun-
ry hams. 1t is estimated that there
will be produced by the farmers Of
Brooks county this year for sale some
hing like one million pounds of first
trade Brooks county hams. From all
Indications the best grade hams this
year will bring from thirty to thirty
i've cents per pound.
The recent adoption by the Indus
rial club of Standardization rules for
The producing of Brooks county hams
has set apart the first grade ham quite
above the average country ham. The
farmers are striving hard to get all
their hams into the first grade as they
are guaranteed about FIVE cents per
pound more for all that rate first grade
than for the second grade.
As soon as the marketing Of the ham
product of the county is complete the
organization will begin work prepar-
ing for the handling of all the other
products of the county The products
will not be handled directly for the far
mer, but through the wholesale houses
of Quitman, but by relieving them of
the product, the club will place these
houses in position to buy rapidly for
cash every bit of the farmers product
of the county.
Orders are pouring in to the club
from all parts of the country for the
Brooks county country ham, one mail
this week bringing orders for several
hundred pounds from as far north as
New York and as far west as Kansas
City. The Industrial club has passed
resolutions urging the Georgia cham
mer of commerce to take hold actively
of the marketing of the farm product
of Georgia this year, and it is believ-
ed that they will do so.