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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19
THE HUNTERS AND
YOUR BOB WHITES
By NJ. NJ. Nice, Norman, Okla.

Would you allow men to come and shoot
your best pullets or your prize turkeys?
Toads are estimated to be worth $500 to
So 90 each to the farmer on account of the
injurious insects they eat. bob-White de-
stroys twenty-five times as many insects as
toad does in the course of year. That
would bring the worth of bobwhites to fab
ulous prices-as much as a fine cow or
good horse, but even if you put their value
as low as that of a toad-would you en-
courage strangers to carry off your best
poultry? FL
Bobwhites eat vast numbers of the most
injurious insects and weed seeds. Their
diet includes ragweed, smartWeed, morning
glory or bindweed, pigweed, crabgrass and
sunfower seeds. One quail was found to
have 1000 seeds of crabgrass in its crop
and another 1000 seeds during day. A
thousand seeds of ragweed were found in
the crop of one bobWhite. Three hundred
seeds of smartWeed were eaten at one meal
and $3.50 seeds during a day. Pigweed is
well liked by bobwhites. One bird had 400
seeds of this weed in its crop; tame bird
ate 900 seeds in one day.
Cotton farmers may consider the bob
whites as one of their best friends. 1t eats
the cotton worm, cotton boil worm and cot
ton boil weevil. Forty-seven of these dread
ed weevils were found in one QuaiPs crop
Grasshoppers, cut worms, army worms, bean
ZEAL DS6Cl6S, plant I1CSs ldIS6 Cn1QCl bugs,
ants striped cucumber beetles, corn bill
bugs and chinch bugs are among the injuri-
Gus insects devoured by bobWhites One
hundred chinch bugs were found in the crop
of one quail, and two tablespoonful Of these
pestiferOus creatures in another. A week
old bird ate 1926 lice in one day, while an
adult bird ate 5000. One days food for
another bobwhite consisted of 522 miscela-
neous insects and l 1000 grasshoppers.
By long series of tests On tame birds l
found that a bobWhite eats about seven
pounds of insects and ten pounds of weed
seeds in year, or rs, 900 insects and s.
600, 600 weed seeds. If you have a coVey of
a dozen quail on your farm they will help
you to the extent of 100000 insects and
60,000,000 weed seeds each year. Suppos-
ing, instead of letting this covey be shot,
you post your land, keep the birds safe from
hunters, cats and dogs, you might easily
have five coYeys the next year, and these
would eat 100000 insects and 100000
900 weed seeds. And as the insects would
be largely cotton pests, or wheat pests, or
garden pests, and the seeds ragweed, morn
ing glory, or others equally bad, can you
afford to let these birds be slaughtered?
If you care for the happy whistle and
sweet call notes of the bobwhite, if you
want to have your crops protected from
their worst enemies, and your weed pests
kept in check, post your land at once,
and enforce the signs. Bobwhtes are among
the most valuable assets on your farm.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19
Uncle Sam and John Bull.

Uncle Sam complained to John Bull of
the latter's unwarranted interference with
American products afoat in high seas des-
tined for neutral nations, for John Bull is
at war with other nations and not neu-
trail The British reply to the American pro-
test has been received by President Wilson,
and counter reply is being prepared. 1t
suffices to say for the present that the Brit
ish answer, alluded to above, is not as COM
pIetely satisfactory as could be desired. But
it is of a spirit or nature that affords evil
dence that Great Britain wants to act fairly,
and that in the outcome mutually salts
factory understanding will be reached.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19
Wanted: A Fool With Money.

The man Gutierrez, who for the moment
is posing as president of Mexico, sends out
word to the world that "the early and en-
tire pacification of Mexico is an assured
fact" The further statement is made that
the government of this Gutierrez wants to
sell 100000, 900 worth Of Mexican bonds
Gold or American greenbacks are yearned
for in exchange for these bonds. There
may be capital gullible enough to buy those
bonds and pay good money for them, but
we do not know where it is. Within
month after the money is paid over for this
issue another government" may arise in
Mexico, overthrow Gutierrez and outlaw the
bonds. All the fools are not dead yet, we
know but bond-buying fools are as scarce
as hens teeth Mexico will have to get in
a condition far different from that now ex-
listing in order to sell Mexican bonds to any
advantage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19
When It Is Over.

The Macon Telegraph has taken a peer
into the future-how far into it we do not
know, but would like to-and seen some
very interesting things that will happen. Il
tells us about them as follows:
When the war is over, that much-to-
be-desired consummaton, the terms of
peace will be dictated by the nation with
the most money, the most soldiers in
good condition, the most frst-class arma-
ment left and the most efficient fleet. And
of the four great powers now at each 9th
er's vitals on the continent the one that
comes out the least damaged will be,
potentially, the most prodigious military
power the world has ever known. And SO
it will remain during the years of physi-
cal activity which remain for it's sOldiery
mustered out at the close.
While it is true in this war that the
cost will be so terrific it will cripple in
many ways the winner as much as the
loser history mas shown that never has
any nation had so efficient and feared a
fighting machine as at the close of vic
torious war, no matter how arduous or
how long.
At the close of the War Between the
States after four years of internecine
strife, the most disrupting and weakening
of all, there was not a nation in the
world that would have thrown the gaunt-
let to the battle-scarred, toughened vet
Grams of Grant, no matter how fresh, how
we'll prepared, how eager the possible
opponent might have been. AS, witness
Napoleon III withdrawing his soldiers
from Mexico at word from Washington
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19
THE TALE BEARER.

Editor of The News: "a tale bearer sep
arateth very friends. Thou shalt not go up
and down as a tale-bearer among thy peo-
pie" Longstreet's Ransy Snifle is typical
of the whole tribe from Moses until now.
A coward himself he did at all times try to
keep up strife among brave men. Friendly
towards all he was an excresence on hui
manity, and an enemy to all decency. He
is not confined to any class or walk in life
Like sin, whose likeness he lives and wears,
he is found among all, from the men who
minister at Gods affairs to the scum who live
in the cutters of civilization. salesman
innocently mentions an honored mans name
in connection with his business. Ransy is
on hand, hears it, and when it is told by
him to the gentleman ''it has some truth in
it, but mixed and breWed with lies,' so that
its author would not recognize it. But a
murder follows; good woman is widowed,
an honorable man is slain by another honor
able man; grand jury indicts; a father is
bankrupted to protect son who, under the
impression that a fathers honor has been
impeached, has slain his fellow who never
dreamed of smirching another man, but
whose words "Ransy" has mangled to fill
his NAV of hatred towards all that is good.
But Ransy goes free to live upon the bounty
of one victim, whose confidence he has out
ragged under the guise of friendship. Times
of stress, like the one passing now, add
new recruits to Ransy's tribe. Men are idle
WHO IOI-uGIIy worked. lQIeQ6SS DG2SCS SILL
The sin OF tale-bearing is the easiest acquir-
ed, and seems the most profitable, for if by
chance whisper Of dishonesty or misplaced
confidence reaches an employers ears it
will create a vacancy and possibly a chance
for one more job for him who repeats what
he does not take time to investigate before
damning his fellows character. There are
several antidotes for this disease created by
the stress Of hard times and the parasite of
Ransy Snifties First, knowledge of God,
OF His oVershadowing love and mercies.
good sample is found in Isaiah 18th chapter.
1t will strengthen any man who Will pray
erfully and diligently master it's TRUTHS
d1l1gent seeking of ways by those who have
the means to employ labor of needed work
and the employment of the needy men in do
ing the work now. Lastly, a vigorous pros
ecution of Ransy's tribe, so that with the
winding up of the spring courts in Georgia
major portion of them will be improving
the public highways, for if the chronic va
grants black and white-are put to work,
including especially the white male vagrant
from g to rs, who frequents beer joints and
pool rooms, and whose mother and wife is
his sole support, as well as his banker,
who pays his fine when he is sent to the
lookup ''-Ransy Snifieism will take
rear seat, and truth and industry will -four
ISL as seldom before in our state
Cuthbert, Ga. ANDREW P. RIVES
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19
is THE INDIAN THE ORIGINAL MAN?

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Cato Sells has proved once more that
there is no satisfaction in the philosophy Oh
negation. He has declared, in his capacity
of commissioner of Indian affairs, that the
American Indian is not a Monaghan, but he
has not told US what the Indian is. the
mystery is as deep as ever, and it is doubt
full if it will be solved, to the satisfaction OF
ethnologists But the most interesting and
curious feature of the whole controversy is
the effort to prove that the American aDo-
rigines-if the Indians can be so descrlD-
ed-came to this continent from some other
part of the world. The Monaghan theorists
insist that he crossed over from Siberia by
way of the AIeutian Islands or Behring
Strait. But there are others who agree WITH
Mr.. Sells that the Indian is not cousin TO
the Chinese and insist that he came mere
from ancient Carthage or from Egypt, and
crossed over the spaces now covered by the
Atlantic ocean while the tabled continent OF
Atlantis was still rearing its mountain
chains above the sea. There are others who
assert that the Indian is a Greek, and still
others that he is of Welsh origin, and there
is a school of pseudo-thinkers who will ar
que 'till the COWS come home" in an effort
to prove that the red men are the descend
ants of the ten lost tribes Of Israel.
These ethnologists ought to be biologists
also, and then they would formulate what is
doubtless the correct theory. Certain geolo-
gists declare that the first land which emerg-
ed from the steaming waters of the inchoate
world are the Laurgentian hills north OF
Lake Superior; that Europe and Asia and
Africa and the isles of the sea were sub
merged when these American rocks first
glittered in the sun. There can be no men
without land to live on, and what is more
simple than to assume that the inhabited
world as we know it began here, that all
the migrations were from this continent to
the east and to the west, and that the I'M
grateful immigrants forgot the home Of
their ancestors, and in their vanity and con-
ceit have tried to demonstrate that they are
living in the ancient homestead of the race
and that it is the American Indians who
migrated and then forgot whence they came
Until some one proves to the contrary this
theory that America saw the birth of the
first man will do as we'll as any.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19
CUT 1T OUT.

Since Russia "cut out" vodka
l see no reason why
Our nation should not hide her face
If she don't "cut out" rye.
Since from each nations army
Old alcohol has gone
America should blush with shame
If she don't 'cut out" corn.
In prohi territory
Ger this land far and near
Disgrace upon "Old Glory
If we don't "cut out" beer.
This fact is forced upon Us
CAL sober minds that think
The flames of hell are on US
If we don't "cut out" drink.
Dawson, Ga. w. P. HORNADY.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19

decision of more than ordinary interest
and Importance to whiskey manufacturers
and dealers has just been rendered by the
supreme court of Georgia in a suit brought
by Cincinnati distiller against an Augusta
man. The principle is laid down by the
supreme court that when whskey is sold in
Georgia by concern outside the state pay
ment cannot be enforced through the courts.
Whiskey will still find its way in the state
and will still be paid for, but distllers who
supply the Georgia trade will doubtless Sc
lect their customers with great care.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19

All of Georgia feels an interest in Mayor
Jim Woodward, of Atlanta, who celebrated
his SEVENTEEN birthday Thursday and it still
a busting, hale and hearty man, who
watches zealously the welfare of his city and
makes it lively for those who oppose him.
Mayor Woodward has served Atlanta eigh-
teen years in official capacity, and although
he has reached the age where the Biblical
guide has placed the big black period no
one will gainsay that he is today the most
aggressive individual force in the political
life Of Georgia's capital city.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19
Consistent Refrenchment.
From the Fitzgerald Press.

By way of consistent retrenchment the
city council of Dawson has cut the salaries
OF all officers 20 per cent. We dare say
that their constituents have more intense
confidence in them since this act. It is
noted also that pastors of various churches,
where they can possibly do so-and many
OF them naturally can't-have volunteered
to reduce their salaries during 1915. 1t is
evident on every hand that rare spirit of
brotherly consideration prevails.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19

When the birds few southwark last fall
they found a new place of refuge in eighty
five thousand acres of swamp land in Louis
lana. The Rockefeller Foundation bought
the land for the exclusive use of the birds
1t is not far from Marsh Island. which Mrs.
Russell Sage bought for the same purpose
in 1912 The cost of the two tracts was
SS75. 600.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19

Suffering is broadcast through many of
the countries of poor old Europe Not only
are the people of Belgium and Poland by
thousands facing want and actually hun
cry, but thousands in France cannot be sure
today that they will eat tomorrow. And
now comes a story that he people of Con-
stantinople are at the point of starvation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19
NO JOBS WENT BEGGING.

From the Triton Gazette.
The city council of Dawson starts off the
New Year with retrenchment in earnest
The salaries of all officers were cut 90 per
cent from the mayor down. And judging
from the statement in The News that there
was a lively scrimmage for many of the Of
fees until the council met in caucus and
made a decision there was no scarcity of
men willing to accept the reduced salaries.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19

Judge Speer is on the job again, and now
seems content to be just an ordinary, good
judge He insists, too, that he doesn't need
any help, and is opposed to the bill to create
another judgeship for his district.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19

Almost anyone can find fault, criticise,
denounce. To see the good and commend
it; to make all living things around you
consciously or unconsciously glad because
you are alive-this demands something in
a man that is akin to genius, to greatness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19

The Brunswick News says Governor Sla-
ton is right in his advocacy of a state aud
itor for Georgia We agree with the Bruins
wick paper, and hope the governor will sue
coed in his efforts. A state auditor was ad-
vocated by Hon. Joe Hall, of Bib, during
the many years he was a member of the
legislature.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19

Our Alabama neighbors are as full of poll
tics as a Dutchman is of beer They are
already picking out candidates for governor
in 1919.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19

The farmer who has wheat and oats and
corn next fall is a man who will be indie
pendent and have money in the bank.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19

Many a man in this county is getting
ready to make extraordinary effort this year
to make a living at home, and we have an
idea that they are going to succeed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19

The clouds are rolling by as to the indus
trial and business situation. Not as fast,
perhaps, as we would desire, but the change
for the better is apparent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19

Alabama is going to make another effort
to sober up.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-28
CHARGED WITH MURDER.

convicted f stood before the judge be sentenced
The Judge prisoner the bar have anything to
of death shall be passed ycu prisoners
reply God rows tried reform but as long the sa
loon in pathway weak diseased will match
against fearful consuming agnzng appetite for liquor For
town without oon for year was sober man.
for wife and children happy and our little home
paradise of those who signed the against
cutting attorney this and the judge who sits on this bench all
the 9oon BY their and influence saloons
opened and they have made what You egazd the saloon
that made dunard and murderer and guilty with
before God and man for the murder Of my wife.
MR. VOTER Are going to vote for the saloon? Any
charged with murder other crime caused by the saloon and drink
may than you If you have voted for the saoo
you been guilty the patty who committed the
other crime drink? You be the jury try him. If
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-28

will your remember Mr. Bryan Te
loon the first policeman looks for criminals and the
where he expects to find virtue"
Mr. VOTER Do want the saloon? why2 spent
in them which could be better spent elsewhere? spent
them which would do more good spent otherwise?
Do boys good habits there that will good men?
wv mothers and happier by having oang
and drinking places tempt their husbands brothers
waste their time and and themselves physical efficiency
mental and moral ability? Is there defense the liquor element
or its claim?
MR. VOTER Get alone by yourself yourself all your
appee and think of nothing but the saloon think of the good
has come from any and if find need for it
Then think the harm has DONE the cost has been
tax payer the detuon misery destruction of efficiency and
destitute homes Then your tells you every
in Ohio will do that the Prohibition Amendment be Yes
and the Stability League Amendment all NO.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-28
A Question of Compensation.

Supreme right in
the United Ses Crowley Christensen s. &c. Liquor interests claim
compelled
inefficient it has produced? For the
Should
of
other
owives, mother andch
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-28
SALOON REVENUE
and the Liquor 7 ak.

The people Of OHIO spend annually $llO-
100000 with the breWeries, dlstilleries and
saloon keepers and they give back 10 our
state and local government $6,3OO,OOO in
taxes and keep the other $1O3, 100000 and
then ask what will become Of Ohio should
the voters stop such ruinous policy. What
would you think Of a man who wanted you
to give him $11 90 saying he would give you
back 63 cents?
Because Ohio spends $11O,OOOOOO per
year for booze, she must spend other mil
lions to take care Of the product Of booze.
The tax payer must build and maintain at
great cost, public institutions, such as
Penitentiaries, Jalls, Aims Houses, Work
Houses, Asylums, Inf1rmaries, and other
places; a large percentage of the cost and
maintenance thereof is paid by tax payers.
Cincinnati is considered Ohios dampest
city. That city is headquarters for a num-
Der Of state liquor organizations, including
the Home Rule Association and Stability
League Association.
Cincinnati receives 100000 a year
from her saloons. Cincinnati has a bonded
indebtedness Of more than $6O,OOOOOO or
a bonded indebtedness Of $165 for each mar,
woman and child, while Prohibition Kansas,
without cent CfHquor revenue, has bond
ed Indebtedness of less than ten cents for
each man, woman and child.
In Cleveland there is bonded indebt-
edness of $43, 100000; Columbus SIG, ,OOO,-
900; Toledo $1O,oOO,OOO. They are saloon
centers. Here in Ohio, six hundred Of the
eight hundred cities and towns do not per-
nit saloons and gladly do without the sa-
loon revenue.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-28
OUR GOVERNMENT

the Home the Church the School TIE
LIQUOR destroys the school,
corrupts ballot Cincinnati exampIe.)
No saoon attracted railroad factory school
ny the saloon has done and is still doing much fill the ja
hrspas asylumS graves. -
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-28

of $O would buy 900 vecent loav bread AS
the population Ohio OO the states drink bills would
nsh loaf of bread dv of he wear
after such distribution there would be S balance
This drink bill of would build 55 900 homes costing
each zach from the Ohio River Lake Erie each
year The $11O 100000 autos at ST. 900 would stretch
out 416 miles, allowing rect for each machine would
twice Ohio from the river to the lake Do you think
would Ohio November and such
waste? Then Yes the Prohibition Amendment
and Mo- on the Stability League Amendment.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-28
The Army Of the Unemployed.

He the
of without
his he will
should Prohibition it
ewes dieres destroy the efficiency
who product.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-28
Mr.. Merchant and Mr.. Farmer

dollar The of the dollar he spends
for booze, the less left of t. what SELL
spending not better to
the legitimate trade that will taxable property
the efficiency of those who
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-28
ruth About the Home
Rule Amendment.

The scope Of power of this Amendment
has never been decided upon by the Court
of Appeals or the Supreme Court So no
one knows what a scope and effect these
courts will fnallyput upon this Amendment.
In the case up before the Court it said 'The
question is not whaG is the meaning and
scope of the Amendment. That is a mooted
question here and must be reserved for con-
crete cases arising under the Amendment"
TheDry Forces believed in 1914 and now
believe that this Amendment would jeopar-
die other temperance laws in addition to
destroying County Option.
If the Prohibition Amendment would
lose and the Stability League Amendment
carry at this election, the power and scope
Of the Liquor Forces would depend upon
the power and scope given them by the Su-
preme Courts decision on the effect and
scope Of the Home Rule Amendment
The Dry Forces could not propose any new
Amendments to restrict the liquor business for six
years. If the Supreme Court should decide the
Home Rule Amendment to give the liquor interests
the right to open saloons in townships without
municipality also allow them the right to sell to
minors and open their saloons on Sunday, the hands
of all influence opposing the liquor interests would
be entirely tied for the next six years and the liquor
interests could do as they please.
Mr.. VOTER You know what the conditions
would be in the State of Ohio and would you want
them? n ..
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-28
VOTE YES" FOR PROHIBITION
AND mo" ON THE STABILITY
LEAGUE AMENDMENT. .

Of the twentyfour who circulated the Stability
League Petition in this county, nineteen were sa-
loon keepers, four we're bartenders and one an ex-
saloon keeper in a,dry town.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-28
LIQUOR AND LABOR.

dollar cents For every
foroth laborss j
invested the booze business this country invested
LABORING distlerie
family and buy home
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-28
ORIO'S DRINK BILL

SyIumS and graves.