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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
Keeping the Faith.

There is nothing to be said against the aims and
objects of the organization formed at Philadelphia
with William H. Taft as president, and having in
view the prevention of wars, or at least lessening
the danger of international conflicts. The League
for Peace doubt recognized the difficulties to be
encountered.
The plan would seem to be an improvement over
the ratification of separate peace treaties with vari
nations. Briefly, it contemplates that no nation
shall declare upon another merely because it
happens to be angered but that all iustifabe dis
putes shall go before board of Cancellation for
hearing adjudication and recommendation.
If all the great powers of the world shall be sig
natories to such an agreement it will unQuestiOna-
oily be the greatest factor making for peace ever
conceived. The trouble heretofore has been, as
evidenced by the beginning of the present European
conflict, that solemn written agreements count for
little once nation is determined upon a hOmicdal
course. Germany had signed such an agreement
years before, and, along with the other powers
which signed with her had agreed that under no
circumstances would she invade Belgium. There
were no ifs and ands" in that covenant The sig
natory powers were not to enter Belgium with an
armed force under any circumstances. When she
deemed it expedient to violate that agreement Ger
many did so with a sang froid that is principally
responsible for her present unpopularity in this
country and with the other neutral nations.
The plans of the League for Peace, however,
have evidently not failed to take this contingency
into consideration as it is provided that the sigma
tory powers shall use their economic and military
forces in compelling obedience Therefore, it
would that if all of the really great nations of
the earth see fit to sign an instrument like this
it will be decisive step in the direction of perma-
Dent peace
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
An Open Letter.

To the Georgia Senate and House COMMITTEES -,
Prohibition: - Gentlemen There is but one W. w
to lessen the sale of intoxicants-that is absolut
prohibition with affxes and suffixes of bnor ~
any form. To raise the revenue lost by tay ~
near beer outlaw all accounts, notes, mortgages %
other securities which not listed by each nos
ticular holder in the county in which the hoido,
lives or the security, if land, is situated on tb
date given for the return of taxes forbiddng tbo;
collection on the principle that he who refnsee ~
support the government has claim for the nro
lection of the government. Compel each bank DO
ing business in the state to furnish the tax aSOo
sor of the county in which it is situated the amount
of deposits and the owners thereof, in lien of
that compel the bank to pay for such deposits -
tax the average deposits in said bank as shown hv
the state bank examiners, allowing the several
banks to reimburse themselves for such paymants
by expense accounts against the individual dcnncit
ors. Abolish county boards of tax equalizers ana
instead have state tax rate experts, similar to ratio
experts employed by the railroad commission n
assess for taxation every species of property held
within the state, giving them access to all books n
corporations individuals ETC., within the stat
The county in which 1 reside (Randolph) am ner
suaded is in worse condition than other countos
of the state in the matter of unreturned securities
yet from cursory review of the mortgages return
ed by one group of holders in one district of tho
county and comparison with the clerk of Tho
courts books of mortgages and trust deeds of rnc
ord there was discovered difference of $176OO0
This only composed the holdings of not over fen
persons. If to that had been added the difference
in land values given in by this group and its fair
market value the difference would have been quite
a quarter of a million dollars. You can see from
this that with a proper return of securities the
deficit looming in your faces by wiping out near
beer would more than be met by rigid and fair
return of the hidden property of the state
Are you men who want to do their duties or are
you puppets staging for the gallery applause of
the unthinking? Respectfully
Cuthbert. Ca ANDREW P. RIvBs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
Innovations IN Church Work
Broom the Savannah News.

When the members of the Baptist church at
Jackson, Ga, decided to equip their new building
with swimming pool, gymnasium and a room
for Boy Scouts they took step that mas attracted
a great deal of attention throughout the state and
that apparently been generally approved Com
menting upon it the Monroe Advertiser said:
IF more of the churches of the state would
follow this excellent lead it would mean much
for the future religious life of this country
And the Moultrie Observer said:
The church that denies its members the
privilege of joining in amusements with the
ungodly without furnishing recreation and
amusements. that are innocent and wholesome
is lessening its chance to get the young people
and hold them
Just where the line should be drawn between the
legitimate work of the churches and worldly work
has been cause of dispute for a very long time,
but there is evidence plenty that gradually church
work is being made to include many features that
fifty years ago were far outside the line. Within
the memory of living persons many congregations
were shocked by proposal that they install a
piano in the place of the old foot-power organ, and
held up their hands in amazement at the sugges-
ton that the fiddle that instrument that sets the
feet to patting should be called to the duty of help
ing out the church choir. And now many churches
have full orchestras with brass wind instruments
aiding the tinkling cymbal and the pantive violin.
Whether not it be because of mans perverse-
ness he demands entertainment. Many persons in
the old days-and perhaps a few yet do SO-found
positive pleasure in the knowledge that they took
amusement and that their congregation was
content to worship God and serve humanity by
limiting the activities of their church to sermons
prayers and songs without the aid of musical in
struments. But the great majority of congregations
not satisfied to confne their church work
within these limits.
The innovations made by the Jackson church are
specially of interest because it usually is the big
city church that makes them, and but seldom
that in the smaller city. Has Jackson set an ex-
ample that will be followed by scores of churches
in the small cities, the towns and the rural sec
tons of Georgia? And if they do follow it will
there be very large increase in church member
attendance
in the number of stories of boys going wrong and
finding their amusement in forbidden places?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
The Wild Turkey.
From the indianapolis News.


Among the birds that are now disappearing from
the United States and soon to be classed with tn(
extinct passenger pigeon is the wild turkey, bird
that attracted high praise from Audubon and Ben
jamn Franklin; from the first for its irridescen
brliancy of plumage, and from the other because
OF its flesh.
No great number of years ago. before the Tor
ests had given way to the open fields wild tuI,
keys were abundant in Indiana, so much so tna'
various places in the state received names teSu'
flying to that fact. Among these are an island
the lower Wabash called Turkey Island and .
stream called Turkey Run.
The wild turkey is about Il feet long, anu
weighs about Is to 20 pounds. The plumaSe u
the male-the female is of more sombre colOIs-
is copper bronze with green and metallic reu5I
tions, the feathers margined with black. inc laa
feathers are chestnut, barred with black and tlpp
with wide black bar and companion oaI :"
white.
How this bird, the largest of the galInaCeou'
family on this continent, came to be called tu
key is unknown 1t is a native OF the "e''e 95s
hemisphere and was introduced into Europe .! Inv nv
Spaniards. 1t was first described by OWeuo NJ
1921 who speaks of it as having been taken i,or
Mexico to the neghboring island of CUBA anu w.
domesticated. 1t carried to England eal dotod
the sixteenth century and has been domeSuv~otic
nearly over the civilized world, but the d0m ro
bird has, it is said, degenerated from us piON
type in size beauty and delicacy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
Why Some Towns Grow.
From the Butler Herald.

The reason why some towns grow is because there
are men of push and energy in them who are not
afraid to spend time and money to boost their town
MES and establish factories, railroads, work
for public Improvements and use every means in
their power to induce people to locate in their
city. Wherever they go they tell Of the advantages
of their city, they write about them in every letter.
they send circulars and newspapers to all whom
they think they get to visit the city, and when
any one visits them treat him kindly that he
falls in love with them and their city at 1t
is enterprise and everyone pulling together that
makes progressive town, and don't let the fact
escape your memory
To hear every person saying something pleas
ane about it's people and it's interests is the surest
tractive to a stranger. One of the best ways in
which to make a attractive with that sort
Of attraction that will draw other people to it is
for every man and woman to have a pleasant
word for the people and the town generally. Talk
up your town if you would have others come to
you. Talk up your town if you would feel an
interest in it and have its people feel interest
in you. There is better way to do it. And
many a time little word of unpleasant refer
ence to something that does not exactly suit you
and not particularly concern YOU as to that mat
ter will turn a good mans influence away from
your town and may drive him away. At
your own freside talk up your town. Among your
neighbors talk up your town. When you come in
contact with strangers talk up the most potent
agency ever set in motion for helping your town.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
The Tobacco Trade.

The production in the United States of leaf to-
bacco averages something more than a billion
pounds year, and has value to the growers of
more than 500, 900, 000 An enormous quantity
is exported, considerably than third of the
production in normal years. for the sales of Ameri-
can tobacco abroad are excelled by only seven of
the many products America sends to other countries
These tobacco exports of ours exceed in value such
items as cotton manufactures electrical machinery,
paper and paper products and leather and leather
manufactures says the department of commerce.
The dislOcatiOn of trade resulting from the war
mas had its effect these tobacco sales, however,
Just as it has upon the exports of many other items
me sales of unmanufactured leaf have suffered
most and these sales represent the bulk of the
tobacco exports. In the first place, it is practically
impossible to ship leaf to some of the beligerents
at ALL and in the second place the factories in the
warning countries that are accessible are not taking
Vhelr usual supply of leaf, probably because sufi-
Gent labor cannot be spared to manufacture it.
Our manufactured tobacco is holding it's own in
spite Of the war. largely due to increasing demands
from the East and Oceana. In the actual war zone
the increased consumption by the men in the field
Is more than Offset by the economies necessarily
practced by non-combatants
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

Josh Tomlinson, who lives close to the Florida
line has a scheme to make million dollars, more
or less His plan is to train trout, tarpon, bass
and other game fish and sell them to owners of
summer resort hotels who desire to lure spOrtsmen
to their lakes. Josh now has, he reports, fine
bunch of young trained fish. He trains them to
leap from the water when a boat approaches, thus
exciting the ishermans desire, but to avoid all
hooks, lines and other dangerous implements, so
they will last longer. Once day they swim over
to the hotel and the proprietor feeds them-at east,
that's Josh's scheme.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

report is being printed that former Governor
Joseph NJ Brown will oppose Hon. Thos. w. Hard
wick for reelection to the United States senate.
The News does not know what credence is to be
placed in the report but if it is true the former gov
will give a good account of himself. He made
the race for the senate last year under adverse cir
cumstances, and unexpected conditions arose during
the campaign that operated against him very mate
rally. The people have confidence in his judgment
and sincerity, and many who have never supported
him have recently expressed desire for oppor-
tunity to honor him with their ballots
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

A member of the legislature, Mr. Elders of TAFT
nall, has introduced bill which glibly provides
for convention for the revision of the constitution
Incidentally it provides for the distribution of sixty
thousand dollars of the states money among the
delegates who shall compose this convention. OF
course if the constitution really in need Of med
ica and surgical attention sixty thousand dollars
would be a small to for its treatment, says
the Macon News. But it is not, and Mr.. Elders bill
will be promptly swated to death if the people get
a whack at it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
Those Songs of Yesterday.

We amt so awful up-to-date,
Ner don't pertend to be;
l guess, however, We can wait,
An bide little wee
Our square planners jest as good.
AS on our weddin' day;
No pianoller ever could
Such golden music play.
New-fangled songs may be more smart,
An may be all the rage,
But somehow they don't reach the heart
Like those of yester-age.
Kathleen Mavourneen,'' Bonnie Doom"
An Coming Thro' the Rye
And silver Threads o1d-fashioned tune
But one that cannot die.
Popular music? I'll admit
We're jest a leetle slow;
We wouldn't know the latest hit
From Mr.. Ziegfeld's show;
But annie Rooney" Sweet Marie
Comrades" After the Ball."
Retain the same charm as when we
First heard and loved them all.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
Mother
From the New YORK Mail.

1tv
Men still die for their country, and die as gIaol
they died in Rome or in the land OF Can tbeg
But it is not always of the fatherland eh@'
think when the death summons comes. . ths
Here is striking passage from story D pbij1
battlefield which was lately given to mIs' =; nar
Snowden, wife of the English labor leader IL p
lament, by officer at the front: dod
1t is not always the shrieks of the "ounu as
as they fall 1t is not the sight OF the uea ndad
they lie there, but it is the cry OF the "oun1 nm
boys calling for their mothers, and there " the
one to do anything for them. They are .van
boys of sixteen and seventeen, anu 81"
younger. They say, mother" or m sI- me
but in their agony all those boys eali IoI r. in
one who has given them the greatest cai0
their lives. - i'll
The greatest thing in the world comes n s5o oor
front in death. The mother country Is t La III
try of the mother, and it is the motherIa lpnts
it is her land. And at her freside tne % Bj
is calling for the dying boy as desperately -
boy calls for her. - lob
Yet women have no part in war, we are Vbs
The men bear all the burden. Is 1t true roh
an aggregate of heart-break between pD e. siss
and the son, the wife and the husband Inr
and brother, this gigantic massacre IN Eu''+
inficting upon the world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
Business Punches.
BY Bishop Warren Gambler.


Christianity is mOney-making, wealth-creating
religion.
For one, I'm tired of the reVoutonists who call
themselves reformers.
l cannot follow men who know no way to get
the rats out of the barn except by burning the
building to the ground.
1t is not big business but bad business we have
to fear
Our political probers produce more pus than
purity.
The commerce which has international out
look is but a step removed from the trade of buck
sters.
lowering over the field are thousands of those
black vultures which we call demagouges, and in
true buzzard fashion picking out first the eyes of
their victims to make sure of the carrion they
would deVour.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
Our Social Offenders.



Organized society views with tolerant aspect tbo
conduct OF individuals long as this conduct per-
sonal or collective does not violate the rules which
society has adopted for it's own safety comfort and
convenience. One seller of dope or one done fend
does not constitute much of menace, but when
they get so numerous to be counted nv the
Thousand something's got to be done This was
done by congress when it passed the present strn
gent FEDERAL law regulating the sale of narcotics
Dope, drink, poverty and discord are the major
causes OF broken laws and broken homes: thew
always have been and always will be until the
causes are removed, if this is possible And re-
nova! OF the cause is the chief remedy How to
oeaI ialry and effectively with people of this class
Is ana ever has been world problem. While some
OF the minor manifestations may be safely treated
with easy methods these should not apply always
humanity in the handling of criminals or criminal
tendencies need not imply mushy sentimentality
Honor methods in prisons and reformatories are
SOUND enough in theory but they should be carried
out with the full knowledge that the men thew arc
expected to help are in confinement because of dis
honorable acts. ~
Inc best honor method in prison is the prevalent
honor method outside of prison-humane treatment
ana equal and exact justice to all. But the woman
VINO has been committed 200 times to BlackweII's
island IN sixteen years might just well be allow
cd TO stay there since it is resort which seems to
please her right well.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

The Moultrie Observer doesn't believe in ere
ating useless offices OF the movement to have
a state highway department with a number of gooC
salaries attached it says:
We are in favor of highway commission if
it means better roads. 1t seems, however, that
the needs might be met by adding depart
ment of good roads to of the state depart
ments already in existence, and putting a
petent road in charge. One man, who is
real road builder and not politician, would
accomplish more than a commission will
conplish
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

After the is Germany and England will
both be surprised to find how little they have to be
proud of in their insolen treatment of the smaller
and more helpless neutral nations, like the Scand-
navian countries; the with her submarines, the
other by her interference with commerce
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

The Georgia editors will meet in annual conven-
ton at Eastman today, and after being entertained
royalty there and at McRae and Helena a day or two
will go to the seashore for dip. The editor Of
The News had made arrangements to be with
them but circumstances that required his presence
elsewhere arose almost at the last minute. There
are no harder workers than the newspaper boys
and they richly deserve this annual outing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

Alabama papers disregard the poker rule that
three of kind" beat two pairs when they stack
up their legislative brothers against Georgias.
Georgia has three brothers, the Arnolds represent
ing three different counties in the legislature Ala
bama tries to beat that by having two pairs of
brothers in the house the Carmichaels and the
Elites.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
MOVED AND SECONDED.

From the Ocilla Star
Oh that some member of the present Legislature
would introduce law to take out of the Legislature
these annual fights city courts and boards ii
county commissioners. The man who will stabil-
these two institutions and take them out of local
politics will deserve to have his written high
in the list of statesmen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

The Confederate veteran may never again at
tempt to subdue enemy but he hasn't forgot how
to put down a reasonable amount of edibles. The
delegates to the recent convention at Richmond con-
sumed 600 Virginia hams, 900 gallons of Bruins
wick stew and smoked $4,000 cigars.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

The little town of Lawrenceville in Gwinnett
county, resolved to clean up" and offered prizes
to the boys who would bring in the most old tin
cans collected from the streets Louis Hagood won
first prize with $500 cans; Riley Cakes brought
in $500, and dozen two others gathered up
from a thousand to a hundred each. And Law
renceyille looked a lot better next day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

The Butts County Progress has absorbed its COM
petitor, the Jackson Argus. Editor Jones and the
people of Jackson and Butts county all to be
congratulated for it means better, more useful
and prosperous newspaper. Jackson, like nine
tenths of the others, is one-paper town.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

Some deliver into statistics has been figuring as to
how many preceding births it took to bring one
into the world since the birth of Christ. His fig
ures are 3O,295, O17, 4SO, 1874, 976,457. They do
not correspond with our own computations but it is
too hot to enter into any argument about it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
Immigration and Insanity.

Dr. Henry Smith Williams, of New York, asks
whether we importing insanity into this couh-
try Then he answers his own question athrma-
lively.
Inasmuch as Doctor Williams is admittedly one
of the foremost alienists in the United States his
opinion will carry weight He has statistics of asy
lums and immigration stations, and uses them
convincingly The population of our insane hospi-
tails represents 1857 native whites per 1000 ma
tive whites in the country, whereas foreign-born
whites show 405.3 insane per the same proportion
OF total population. There are in these asylums--
among our native whites-62.3 individuals of for
eign or mixed birth per 600 of total population
as against 56.3 of native parentage.
Using these facts text this eminent specialist
sounds cry of alarm against the certainty that
born to detectives among the immigrants, and he
says that it is high time something effective was
being done a preventive. There should be a
more careful detention, exclusion and deportation
of untitled immigrants-men and women who are
mentally and physically unsound, and who should
not be allowed to bequeath to the United States an
offspring of the same caliber. Doctor Williams
AYERS that it little matters how the desired end is
to be accomplished but he thinks no one will dis
agree with him in his belief that more careful
policy in this respect will nure benefcently 20 The
America of the future and her ctizenry
No one will argue with the New York aenist
immigration and it's bearing upon the men and
women who must populate the United States in the
next generation and each succeeding consti-
tute a problem serious as it is large.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

Consider, too, the meek and Iowly cotton seed.
Remember the time when you could have all of them
you wanted gratis, and confer favor coincidentay
by hauling them away from the gnnery? Last
year the cotton seed were responsible for $3.50 OOO
900 worth of products