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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
HORSES IN WAR.
From the Youths Companion.

From the Youths Companion.
When the war broke out certain humane
persons in England Immediately organized
the Blue Cross Society to care for wounded
or sick horses in the British service. Many
persons, both in this country and abroad,
sent money; but that money had either to
be returned or to be used for other pur-
poses, for the British government refused to
admit to the field of battle any one except
sworn English soldiers and officers. With
spies pushing their insidious way through
every loophole such precaution was neces-
sary; but the government announced that 1t
would itself care for its wounded horses to
the best of its ability.
Some people may remember that almost
the same thing occurred at the time OF the
Balkan war when veterinaries with their
medicine chests again and again arrived at
the docks ready to go to the front, but We're
turned back for exactly the same reason.
IT, as planned, the Peace Conference had
met last summer it would have received a
proposal concerning the welfare of animals
in war. The proposal had been drawn up
by the humane societies of the world, and
presented to the Interparliamentary Union,
which, in turn, was to present it to the Peace
Conference; but the war broke out before
the time set for the conference.
The horse has played part in war since
the earliest times He was old in military
service even in Jobs day:
He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in
his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed
men. He mocketh at fear, and is not af-
frighted; neither turneth he back from the
sword The culver rattleth against him,
the glittering spear and the shield. He
swalloth the ground with forceness and
rage; neither belieyeth he that it is the
sound of the trumpet. He saith among the
trumpets Hal ha! and he smelleth the bat
tie afar off, the thunder of the captains and
the shouting
How poorly has man repaid him! The
first record that mentions the special care of
Forses in war is that of the S. P. c. A. of
Paris in 1866, 1t has taken all the years
since then to get the present proposal formu-
lated, and now even that must wait.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
The Buy At Home Dollar.

Several towns in the South are trying,
with most interesting results, the experiment
of a Buy at Home Dollar" to show just
what a busy dollar will do if it stays in its
home town and keeps moving.
The originator of the idea took a dollar
hill and pasted it in blank book with the
request written in the book that each per-
son who received it note just what he spent
the dollar for and with whom. In twenty-tour
hours that one dollar had been spent nfty-
two times and had bought fifty-two different
articles. 1t had made a profit for ffty-two
persons. and was ready to start out and do
it all over.
In this connection the following comment
by the Montgomery Advertiser on plan it
has inaugurated to have the people of that
city buy at home and has already resulted
in several thousand pledges, is of interest:
conservative estimates place the amount OF
money that went out of Montgomery during
the year 1914 to foreign firms at over one
half million dollars, money that could have
been kept at home, for merchandise that
could have been bought from local dealers,
either direct or through them, which would
have made it possible for them to carry larg-
err stocks, sell on a smaller margin OF profit
and give employment to more people This
wear, if the pledges that have been signed
are kept, our business interests will show a
substantial growth and the bell of prosper
ity will begin to ring throughout this great
city,
All that the Montgomery paper says is
true, and it applies to Dawson as we'll. En-
tirely too much Dawson money goes to the
North and West for products and wares
which might be procured through Dawson
dealers. And too much goes to Macon and
Atlanta and other cities for merchandise
that could be bought in Dawson. There IS
every reason why we should trade at home.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
Mr.. Hardwick and the Ship Bill &.

The News is not an apOlogist for Senator
Hardwick, but it is only fair to him to say
that he is being subjected to undeserved
criticism for his attitude toward the admin
istration's ship purchase bill. 1t is only an
other form of ship subsidy, and those who
are inclined to heap harsh words upon him
will find it easier to convince the public that
Mr. Hardwick is inconsistent (having based
his candidacy on the plea that he was needed
in the senate to uphold the hands of the
president) than to prove that he is wrong in
his opposition to the measure.
Senator Hardwick made strong point in
defense of his position when, upon being
taken to task by his colleague for his posi-
ton, he cited President Wilson's veto of the
immigration bill as a precedent. AS the cur
rent issue of the Moultrie Observer points
out an overwhelming majority of dem
ocratic representatives favored the immi-
grafton bill as passed. but the president
saw fit to dissent and override the MAORI
ty The president gave as an excuse the
fact that the educational test of the immi-
grafton bill had never been passed on by
the people and was never embodied in
PARTY platform Senator HardWick points
to the fact that the question of govern
ment owned merchant marine has new
er been embodied in a party platform.
He denies that he has affiliated or caucused
with republicans or progressives in an eff
fort to defeat the ship purchase bill, though
ne calls attention to the fact that the admin
istration has sought the aid of both repuD-
licans and progressives in their effort to pass
the bill.
If Senator Hardwick thinks he is right
and his conscience is clear, which in the abb
sence of anything that tends to show to- the
contrary, must be accepted, he is to be APP
plauded for his independence. Fear of the
people should lay a very small part in deter
mining his action.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
Foretells Reduced Production.

In noting that the sale of fertilizer tags
during January of this year was 81 per cent
less than in January, 1914, the Triton Ca
zette says: THAT means that where hVe
tons of fertilizer were put on the market
last year only one ton was put on the mar
ket this year The depression during Janu-
airy may be followed by reaction during
February and March and the manufacture
of fertilizer pick up little, but as January
is the big month for the fertilizer men the
ground that is lost cannot be regained.
1t is the general opinion that the use OF
commercial fertilizer will be reduced fifty
per cent this year, and even more than that
in some sections. Terrell county has been
one of the heaviest users of guano of any
county in the state, and it is interesting and
significant to note that while heretofore the
railroads could not haul it to Dawson fast
enough at this season not single sack has
been shipped here this year.
1t means greatly reduced cotton produc-
ton
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
Halt Century of Progress.

Since 1850 the population of the United
States has more than quadrupled; there are
now more than 100,000,000 people in this
country.
During the past fifty years the foreign
commerce of the United States has grown
from $31S.OOO,O00 to $4,259, 100000, and
the per capita value of exports from $16.96
to $23.27.
The national wealth has increased from
S7.0OO,0OO, coo to $4,000, 900, 900.
The amount of money in circulation has
increased from $279, 100000 to $3,419,-
100000.
The value of farm property has increased
from $4,000, 100000 in 1850 to $41,000,-
100000 in 1910.
In 1850 there were 9,O21 miles of rail-
ways in operation in the United States and
today there are approximately 260,0 600
miles.
Tho yearly output of factories in 1859
was $1,OOO,OO0,OO0, and now it is over
$40, 900 ,oO0,O00
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
LAZY FARMERS, DON'T READ THIS.

The United States department OF agrlcult-
ure, the state boards and the experts all over
the country are urging the farmers of Amer
lea to cultivate every available acre during
the coming year The war in Europe as
sures the sale of almost everything that can
be raised. Every article that is exported to
feed the soldiers and the citizens and the
stock of Europe means just that much less
for home consumption; therefore, even with
big crops of everything the prices will be
high Ii it is not good crop year the farm
er will at least raise enough for home use
and will not have to pay the high prices that
will prevail. Utilize every available acre for
grain, grasses and vegetables. In many sec
lions farmers are urged to try double acre
age of potatoes. 1t should not be necessary,
under proper conditions, to import potatoes
into any agricultural county. Put the hens
and the turkeys TO work and give them
square deal. Raise pigs, cattle and horses
in as large numbers as the accommodations
Of the farm will justify, and any losses that
any farmer may have sustained last year will
be more than made good The war in Eu-
rope may last for months or years, but while
it continues there will be an active demand
for everything we produce. Should the war
end this week the nations engaged will need
all our surplus products for a year at least.
Take our advice, for once, and do not permit
good tillable land to lie idle in 1915.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
The Corn Weevil.

Reports are to the effect that the little
black corn weeVils are eating up grain all
over the state Annual losses amounting in
the aggregate to millions of dollars are di-
rectly attributable to this pest, but by the
use of carbon bisulphide, which may be OBJ
tanned at almost any drug store, these losses
may be largely prevented.
Roughly estimated, it requires from 10
to 25 pounds of carbon bisulphide for each
1000 cubic feet of space in the grain crib,
the quantity being more exactly determined
by the tightness of the crib. If the crib is
very much open probably Is pounds for each
1000 cubic feet will be required, whereas
ten pounds will do if it is tightly closed
For cribs containing less than 1000 cubic
feet the amount used should be reduced in
proportion.
DR.. w. E. Kinds, of the Alabama expert
ment station, who has done extensive work
on the corn weevi, gives the following as
the best method of using carbon bisulphide:
Level off the surface of the corn and pre-
pare small holes about one foot deep by
pulling out the ears at intervals of three to
four feet apart each way. Divide the liquid
to be applied among these holes. Begin at
the side farthest from and work toward the
door. Pour the liquid directly onto the
corn-it will not hurt it either for feed or
for seed-and fill in the holes Immediately
with corn to confne the fumes as much as
possible. Close the door tightly and quickly.
Leave the room closed at least twenty-four
hours. No harm will be done if left indefi-
nitely. Fumigation is much more effective
during warm weather partly because of
more rapid evaporation and partly because
insects are then more active and, therefore
more susceptible to it. 1t is better to start
the treatment at 1920 a. m. rather than at
night both on account of having light and
also higher temperature. A second and
stronger treatment should be given it after
a week or two if the first was not satisfacto-
rily effective Ordinarily one treatment in
the fall and possibly another in March or
April will be sufficient to protect the corn.
Prompt and thorough treatment is most
OrOffah1a
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
THE TYRANNY OF THE PRESENT.

From the Youths Companion.
We are all creatures of moods Even the
strongest have their moments of unaccount-
able depression as Of unaccOuntable gay
ety-moments when it takes immense eff
fort to perform the ordinary actions of life,
and an effort still more immense to believe
that they are worth performing. Very
strong, healthy, we'll balanced men get
the grippe, and like the child who has been
denied q toy see the world all black and
empty.
The present is enormous in its hold on us,
and trivial circumstances have momentary
but overwhelming significance. a dull day,
a heavy fog, close south wind-especially
when we wanted sunshine-seem to take the
sparkle even out of cur thoughts, seem to
make what we hoped would be solid pleas
ure stale, fiat and unpaltable." No man
was more constitutionally optimistic than
Emerson; few men were less visited by the
powers of melancholy and darkness; yet
even Emerson could write of the vast debil-
ity'' that some of US know so we'll as shat
tering and undermining all courage and all
hope.
A great help at such times is wise use of
the imagination. Imagination is bad mas
ter, but q significant servant. Always to be
dreaming of what we might do means little
done; always to be dreaming of things we
might have breeds not satisfaction, but dis
content. But the other side of it is the
constant realization that things might be
much worse than they are, that they have
been better, and will be better again. Imag-
nation is the surest and best protector
against the tyranny of the present.
When everything goes wrong and you feel
discouraged, or in the still worse moods
when nothing has really gone wrong, and
you know it, and yet the tears come, and
you have no hone and no vigOr and no en-
ergy, try to make even a little use Of that
eosA F-,T
that you have felt so before and have ceased
to feel so, have even looked back with gay
contempt on such unwarranted misery With
the imagination of pleasant things and sure
delights to come as a guide and comforter
slip away from the clutch of the tyrannous
present. Like many other monsters, it is
more easily tricked and lodged than openly
combatted
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
Coming to Corn Meal.
From the Macon Telegraph.

From the Macon Telegraph.
The Telegraph has continually urged that
the high price of -four should cause but lit
tie inconvenience, and in fact bring the
American people to much-needed apprecia-
ton of one of our greatest products. Corn
is a cereal that can be grown anywhere in
the Union, and the food dishes that can be
made from it's meal are illimitable, nutri-
tious and tasteful
1t is the original American product of the
fields. and we believe that this talk about
corn consumption causing pellagra is all
poppycock The Philadelphia Evening Ledg-
e. takes up the larger idea:
THE war in Europe is likely to teach
the Europeans the value OF corn meal as
human food. The demand for it has al
ready boosted the price of corn in the
American markets, and it is likely to boost
it still higher. This is unfortunate for
the domestic consumers of corn bread and
boiled mush, but there will be cOmpensa-
tions. After the war is over the Euro
peans who have eaten corn and found it
good will continue to eat it, and the fields
of waving corn on the American farms
will be transformed into gold mines. The
yellow kernels will CLINT with the real lus-
tire of wealth. But even though corn meal
is dearer than it was few weeks ago it
it is still cheaper than wheat -four. Neces-
sity may teach some Americans that they
can reduce the cost of living, even now,
by using more corn meal. And that will
be another form in which the compensa-
ton will manifest ITSELF
Georgia can grow corn as well as any state
can. This has been proven time and again.
1t should all be grown here, as far as our
home consumption is concerned, and GER
tainly Georgia cooks can serve it irreproach-
ably.
The corn-fed hog is the best there is; the
# iS iuS q 6 SnDprl9-
tive Look up your corn meal recipes in
your cook books and learn of the somewhat
forgotten possibilities of this rival of the
wheat We may be forced to it before long,
so better learn to love it for it's own sake
now rather than of necessity later.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
The U. S. A.
By Raw /. Hoppman.

I'm doggone glad I'm living in old Uncle
Sans domain-this land Of milk and honey
and the bumper crops of grain. l wouldn' t
live in Europe for the wages Of prince
t. live across the water, why, man must be
a quiace They're busy lodging cannon
balls and sabre thrusts, and such. Will l
live where the aeroplanes are dropping
bombs? Not much! l think too much Of
this old hide of mine to take chance-and
live in England, Germany, Austria or France.
Let all who will reside in London grand or
gay Paree This good old land of Uncle
Sans coed enough for me. Let all who will
eat weiners in Vienna or Berlin. I'd rather
look from outside than peep outside from
within. I'd rather live, my hearties, where
the eaden pills don't whiz and scare you to
standstill as you go about your biz I'd
rather live, my brothers, where the cannon
balls don't smash the prunes into the gravy
and the milk into the hash. ! sit within my
cosy room and read about the war, and
thank my stars I'm living where the leaden
rain don't pour. We kick about the politics.
the price of beef and say that this old land
of Uncle Sans has surely had its day
But when we think of other folks across the
briny deep we're glad we're living here you
bet, and wake up from our sleep. Believe
me, friends, the Stars and Stripes are good
enough for me-I'm glad I'm separated from
Dame Europe by the sea.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
A Wealth Of Crops.

Iowa has wrested from Texas the title Of
banner crop state the thirteen principal
crops grown last year being valued at $751;
$50, 900, according to the Agricultural Out
look, which has just been issued by the fed
eral department of agriculture. Illinois
crops were worth $319,565 900, while Texas
comes third with $2SS, 900. Decrease
in the value of cotton was the cause of the
smaller value of Texas crops.
Kansas with $2S7, 1862 900 is fourth, Ne
braska with S21O,O99 900 fifth. and Ohio
with $2O7, $4,000 sixth
Other states crop values are: Georgia,
S155,167,O0O North Carolina, $124,91S,-
600; Alabama, $114,255,O 900; Tennessee,
$1O6,456,OO0; South Carolina, $1O1,373,-
600; Mississippi, 500, $4,000; Louisiana,
$67,767,OOO, and Florida, s19, 100000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
Who Runs the Papers?

In a neighboring county a clergyman took
the editor of the local paper to task because
the editor accepted a certain advertising con-
tract. The good man forgot that for years
the editor had given freely of his space to
help the church; had printed columns OF
notices of services meetings, suppers, enter
tainments and lectures all free. In donat-
ing this space the editor had given more
than the equivalent of cash. He had given
publicity, and thus had done more to support
the church and pay the minister's salary
than any three members of the church had
done. An editor has but two sources of in
come, his subscr ption list and his space
Yet, in this case, when he sold his space ne
lost a subscriber. Of course no one need
subscribe to a paper unless he wishes to 40
so, but no subscriber should want to dictate
to the editor as to what he should publish.
Many editors will not accept certain lines OF
advertising. Other editors cannot AFFORD
perhaps, to be so independent Business
conditions often govern these matters
A rich and prosperous Philadelphia week
ly of national circulation for years de-
clined the advertisements of cigarette manu-
facturers. Business has fallen off lately for
many OF the big magazines. Now that paper
is accepting cigarette advertising. Perhaps
the editor needs the money, and who shall
blame him if he sells his space to the cigar
cite manufacturing company? Golfers too
we hear. is letting down the bars just lit
tie. That's all right Let them down lit
tie further, as long as takers and grafters
and swindlers are kept out. No one can run
paper to please everyone, be that paper Dl5
or little 1t is the EDITORS paper, and 1t is
his living. He is the one who should judge
what should and should not be published
in its columns.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16

On last Tuesday Moultrie was host to
the editors of the state, who were invited
there to see the new hundred thousand dol
lar packing plant that is doing so much to
reyolutionize the farm methods of Southwest
Georgia and the other industries and evl-
dence OF. progress in that hustling and tArlV-
ing wiregrass metropolis. The scribes were'
of course, royalty entertained. The editor
of The News regrets that his duties were
such that he could not be present.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16

The passing of the gentle soul of Fanny
Crosby the blind hymn writer, has brought
sadness to many who knew her not so much
through personal contact but because of the
good she did in the world with the talents
with which God endowed her. One cannot
think Of her and her passing without using
one of the opening stanzas of probably her
best known hymn to express the hope that
she is indeed
safe in the arms of Jesus,
Safe on His gentle breast"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16

Saint Valentines Day, which has become
a modern holiday devoted to the wiles and
whims of Cupid. was observed Sunday. The
origin of the day was the outgrowth Of
pagan custom, a fact that many do not know.
It was the feast of one of the gods, in honor
of the god of Pan, and later observed by the
ancients of Rome AID Greece.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16

Cotton exports through the port OF Gal
weston are heavier than at any other time
this season Exports are rapidly cutting
into the stocks, for the exports Of the last
four weeks have daily exceeded the receipts
at the port.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16

1t seems to be assured that Hon. William
j. Harris, director of the census, will be APP
pointed by the president as the Southern
member of the National Trades Commission.
Mr.. Harris is an able and popular man, and
his Georgia friends are more than gratihed
at this evidence of appreciation by Mr.. Viii
SON
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
THERE ARE OTHER GRAND BABIES
ON the Commerce News

From the Commerce News.
Wilson is not the only man in the world
who has a fine grandson. All over this land
there are young mothers who have little
boys Just born that are as handsome and
sugary as Wilson's little grandson, and never
line has appeared in the papers about these
little boys
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16

An organized campaign for the diversif-
cation of crops is a good movement ana
should be encouraged, but in the meantime
every farmer should conduct practical d.
versifcation campaign all his own.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16

The Macon News notes as an item of polit-
ical interest that Senator Hardwick and Tom
Watson are both opposing the ship purchase
bill
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16

Lord Kitchener is wondering how he is go
ing to find guns for that new army he is
training. Easy, old top-take them from
the enemy
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16

It is easy to own an automobile these
days. All you have to do is to find bushel
of wheat and make the exchange.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-05

SUMNER RESORTS.
Observation-Disclosures water Can.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-05
DEAL BEACH.

DEAL BEACH. y. j, Sept. 4--For the
finals in the play for the John +. Shan
ley memorial Gun large galleries OF en-
thuslasts are following the players on
the golf links here. To-day's pro-
ramm also includes the semi-fnais
for the William Ottman cups. qualify
ing round for club championship. eigh-
teen holes medal play. scratch. eight
to qualify eighteen holes match play
handicap against par. thrce-quarters
Of handicap allowed. first round TO
count, Glasses \ and Il.
Last evening the annual barn dance
at Hathaway Inn was held In the casino
OF the hotel and attracted about 500
dancers from this and ne%ighboring re-
sorts. overalls and Bingham dresses
predominated. also cowhide boots and
sunbonnets.
Arrivals from New York this week
at the hotels include
Hathaway Inn. F.. Murphy, q. T.
Graham. Mira w. A. George, Miss
Louise Trimble, j. c. Carton. J. Ii. Sea-
nan
Deal Inn-Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Bender, Mr.. and Mrs. j.. NJ. Harris,
Arthur Harris. Mrs. NJ. A. spleck6