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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01
Public FiCkleneSS.

Kitchener. hero of Khartoum and hero
since those onerous days in the history OF
the British Isles; featured in song and story
by Kipling and others less illustrious; pop
! MAR when elevated to the war portfolio
at the beginning of the hOstilities with Ger
manv-this man was hailed for few days
! as a down and OUTER" and the press of his
| country prodded him relentlessly. He is and
has always been, they said, an organizer par
| excellence, but nothing more; he was not a
| fighter, and England needs fighter as never
before.
The newspapers on this side of the At
lantic are discussing the matter voluminous-
ly, and are differing widely in opinions as
to the why's and whereofs. The real truth is
simple to arrive at. 1t is another shining
example of public fckleness, which may be
seen in everything from baseball games to
wars between nations We have had plenty
of examples of it in this country, from the
time of George Washington, who was lin
bad" for a time during the early days of
the revolution. Some historians assert that
at one period of his operations Washington
seriouly considered resigning as command
er-in-chief of the continental forces because
of carping and capricious criticism.
Kitchener is merely going through the
fire. Ten years from today-maybe one year
from now-he may be Englands popular
hero again.
Mans ingratitude to mani Without
either defending or execrating Kitchener it
is we'll to remember that axiom.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01
Food For Warriors Thoughts

Writing over his own signature in the
Macon Telegraph, Mr.. c. c. Anderson dis
cusses from several angles the possibility
that the United States may go to war with
Germany. He does not find the prospect by
any means alluring. If war comes, he says:
ut means business will die, all bus
mess except that which has connection
with booming guns rafting rifles, roll
ing trains, sick, wounded and dying
soldiers, weeping mothers and starving
children. 1t means deSOlate homes,
where crepe hangs from the doorknob,
1t means the bereaved young mother
with her fatherless infants clinglng to
her skirts, going to the public stores
for her starving little ones. 1t means
the mansion, where the pride and hope
of the family, in the joy of young man
hood, buckles on his sword and joins
the countless throng at the front, to lay
his bones among the dead. 1t means
grief, anxiety, sorrow, heartbreaking
farewells, partings fOrevermore. Per-
chance it means plundered homes, stOl-
en- stock, requsitiOned provisions, burn
ed barns, homes destroyed, stolen farm
implements, slaughtered cattle, scatter
ed families in boundless wanderings
throughout the land nevermore to
meet in their once happy homes.
Mr.. Anderson's description is not only
we'll written but accurate. 1t is to be feared
that some of us who pirate most loudly OF
war and spend most time in explaining to
admiring compatriots why we should jump
on Germany and chastise her to within an
inch of her life-if We can-do not pause
to consider what war means.
Sober-minded male individuals abhor
fighting as they grow on toward manhoods
years. and sober-minded citizens of the Unit
ed States, mature men with minds capable
of conjecturing the future, are not anxious
to hear the tocsin sounded. There are many
better things, more profitable things, which
we can do with our time, talents and re-
sources.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01
That Libel Suit Verdict.

The trial which came on when Mr.. Barnes
sued Mr.. Roosevelt for libel is done with.
The verdict went TO the defendant, Mr.,
Roosevelt.
The country was not greatly concerned
as to the verdict, there having been a gen
eraI realization that it would go just as it
did 1t is extremely improbable that any
private citizen of the United States will ever
win in a lawsuit against an ex-president.
What the country was interested in was
the testimony adduced from the witness
stand during the trial. 1t was interesting
testimony and as instructive as interesting.
The public learned some things regarding
Mr.. Barnes which it had never known be-
fore, and some of those things were not
creditable to Mr.. Barnes; but no one had
suspected the New York boss of being
anything else except what the testimony
showed he was.
The public, however, learned of a number
of things regarding the former president
which were illuminatively new and novel.
Principally it learned that the Rough Riders
constant asseverations regarding his own
conscientious independence of thought and
political action were twaddle of the cheapest
kind. AS governor of New York and presi-
dent of the United States Mr.. Roosevelt,
though not exactly hired tool of the cor
porations, was their willing and anxious
servitor and in their behalf he rendered
valuable and highly appreciated service.
Figuratively, he sat at their feet. Some of
his most important appointments are now
shown to have come as a direct result of
their advice, this advice in some instances
amounting practically to commands-either
from corporation heads or from astute and
powerful politicians whose influence he
feared.
In the popular conception Mr.. Roosevelt's
one strongest virtue was his independence,
and now he has been shorn of that veil.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01
Birds and Millinery.
From the indianapolis News.

A story from Washington telling of raid
on bird haven islands in Hawaii calls atten-
ton to the brutality of plumage poachlng
and also to the remarkable change that has
been brought about in millinery. 1t look
many years to get the Mclean bill through
congress, but as soon as it became law
test cases were begun. These, however, nave
not affected the operations OF the statute,
and federal wardens all through the country
are endeavoring to protect the birds once
slaughtered for their feathers. Tine WhlJe
albatross has been the chief sufferer in Ha-
vail On Nihoa island dead birds were
found in heaps, with only the breast and
underfeathers torn away. To obtain snali
quantity of plumage the poachers mad
slaughtered hundreds. This was once com
paratively common practice. 1t was saio
that the market demanded feathers chiefly
for ornaments on women's hats. The de-
mand ultimately rested on the women.
1t is not known that any widespread move
ment to ban the use of plumage was under
way among the women themselves at the
time the Mclean bill was passed; probably
the majority of women were Indifferent, buy
ing their hats according to fashion. Thus
it really was fashion-or business itself
which required the slaughter of millions OF
birds Now that the supply has been large
ly cut off there are necessarily fewer mats
trimmed with stuffed birds or with rare
plumage. There are birds of paradise to
NC lOuuu anu P1OONOAJ 0O1AO OSAN'H'
majority of manufactured hats are devoid
of feather ornamentation. They certainly
have not suffered in beauty. Plumage never
was necessary to trim a hat, and as its use
becomes rarer the demand may be expect
ed to continue to diminish.
Already the birds have gained, and for
every single benefit the birds receive soc1-
ETY. receives two. The birds, as agricultur-
lists have often proved are the farmers al
lies They number among themselves some
nuisances, and some possess greedy and de-
structive appettes but most of the families
are to be found eating the seeds of noXious
weeds or aiding in the suppression of crop
eating insects. A country without bird
is almost as barren as one without tree.
Trees and birds go together. Protected from
the pot and plumage hunter the birds null
tiply rapidly. They have increased even IN
the Short time the migratory law has been
in effect.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01
A Friend to the South?
From the Triton Gazette.

The South did not expect any special ia
vors of a democratic administration al
though it voted consistently for fifty years
to bring democracy back into power. But
they did expect a square deal.
Cotton growing is the South's great indus
try; cotton is practically its only money
crop. The cotton growers thought last fall
the government would come to their relief
as it had gone to the relief of other indus
tries in time of trial and as it later went
to the relief of the cotton factors after the
crop had largely passed from the growers
hands.
During the fall, when so much was being
said about a market for cotton, good deal
of publicity was given to the fact that the
postoffice department had asked for bids for
cotton twine, to be substituted for jute. SO
"a. as is generally known shat is as far as
the substitution went.
Not only the postotfice department is not
trying to substitute homemade article for
an imported one, but we learn from recent
editorial in the Atlanta Constitution that it
contemplates replacing the cotton duck now
used for mail sacks with jute. A letter has
been mailed to mills manufacturing Jute
bags asking them for prices on bags suita-
Bile for mail-carrying purposes in lots from
1000 to 5000.
People the country over wholesale gro
GERS, mill men, feed and grain distributors,
even large retail dealers who use a great
deal Of wrapping tw1ne, have been trying to
broaden the market for cotton by substitute
ing cotton for jute in bags and twine, yet
here is the national government, with ma
jority of Southern men in the cabinet, reply
ing to the saying of two years ago that the
South was in the saddle" by asking manu-
facturers of a product imported from the
Philippines and Latin-American countries
for prices that it may be used instead of an
article produced exclusively in the South
that has proven entirely satisfactory.
Most remarkable of all in this singular
circumstance is that the head of the post
office department is a Southern man, whose
friendship and sympathies we should think
would be with the section in which he was
born and bred. It is not sympathy that the
South asks for, but she does expect square
deal.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01
Meat and Bread Crop S.

The newspapers of Georgia are having
considerable to say by way of calling atten-
ton to the need of diversified crops, and the
Atlanta Constitution points out that this
state is importing meat at the rate of a mill
lion dollars worth a month
The sheer folly of such huge importations
requires no argument to demonstrate. Time
and again this has been brought home to
the farmers of Georgia, and never more
acutely than during the present economic
crisis.
Cotton has been, is, and for all time will
continue to be the one great staple crop of
the South-the ready money" crop; but he
who, acting upon the subtle allurements of
that basis, has devoted himself with prac-
teal exclusiveness to that crop has finan-
cially sOrrowed as an inevitable and quickly
following result,
Per contra, the Georgia farmer who, hav-
ing cotton has had along with it a plethora
of corn, wheat, alfalfa and oats; of cows,
butter, buttermilk and sweet milk; of hens,
fryers and eggs; of hams, shoulders, back
bones and spareribs; of vegetables from a
big garden-this Georgia farmer has had
good reason to be a philosophizing optimist
during pessimistic days when his neighbor-
ing agriculturist was beseeching the banks
for money wherewith to purchase food for
his stock and sustenance for his wife and
babies.
The News has not been one of those news
papers which have been attempting to direct
the farming methods of rural subscribers
from it's editorial rooms; but We confidently
predict that those farming methods, in
Southwest Georgia, are going to be upon a
eaner and safer basis henceforth, and per-
haps forever.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01
Square Dealing is Needed

There would be far greater reason w.
members of congress and of state leglSI%
lures to be proud of their records II inc
were only as tenderly sOlcitous for the -
terests of other persons on the public pg,
roll and of the public as they are for tn5n
own, but it is customary for the men VIZ W.
make the laws under which the puD!lT,o
money is spent to see to it that the legl5l"
tors are cared for first, and then the oInG -
less influential public servants are pau =
the legislators remember to make the heS0
sary appropriations. 1t happens so OLE To-
that some public employees, faithful ana u If
serving, are not paid promptly and FUZZY 'n"
the people are irritated.
A recent instance was the failure OF c9 ~
gress to make a sufficient appropriation IN
the charwomen whose duty it is to SUI
and clean the rooms in government DuLI ~
ings in 500 cities of the country ana mnn
get salaries of $50 a month and up. Betweobb
now and July LIST, it is said in dlspatt;1l
from Washington, these 1000 women W.,
have to be laid off eight days because Nv Nv
gress didn't appropriate the money 70 Pr 70
them Congress took particular pains N
provide for the salaries of its members o." &c
of their secretaries and the liberal Ill F5aed
of it's members. Some members even Ia ~
a great cutlery when it was proposed 10 " IN
them for every day they failed to appe@l IN, n
their seats while congress was IN session -
less they were unavoidaIbly kept away
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01
Governor Brown Did 1t.

Few are aware that there is con-
stitutional provision requiring the gov
ernor of Georgia to submit to the gem
eral assembly each year statement
of the reprieves, pardons and commuta-
lions granted by him, and his reasons
therefor.
1t is stated that in recent years thls
section of the constitution has become
a dead letter But the News hopes to
see its revival with the inauguration OF
Governor Nat E. Harris who, as IS
well known, is devoted to the princ1-
pies and mandates of the constitution
Macon News.
Our esteemed contemporary is somewhat
in error here 1t will find, if it cares to dc
so. that Governor Joe Brown did this very
thing. Governor Brown was always meth
odical, painstaking and thorough in the
administration of the affairs of his office and
he did not fail to properly account to the
people of Georgia for his stewardship in ev-
cry particular
So far as we recall however, his prede-
cessOrs neglected to do so; nor have his sue
cessors followed the praiseworthy precedent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

According to this authority they are:
Laurens county, annual crop value,
$4,314,518; Burke, $4,187316; Sum
ter S3,9SS,769; BullOch, $3,817,985;
Houston, $3,703,413.
These figures include cotton, corn,
wheat, oats, hay and forage, vegeta-
bles, fruits, nuts and some tobacco, as
well as all other incidental smaller
crops.
This is a complimentary showing for the
five Georgia counties named, and because of
that showing they are deserving of congrat-
ulation. The News does congratulate them,
nor would we detract for a moment from
the proud display of figures when We re-
spectfuIly submit that there is another Geor-
gia county which unquestionably should have
a place in the sun-which in actual reality
ranks right along with Laurens, Burke, Sum-
ter, Bulloch and Houston. That county is
Terrell.
1t must be pointed out that the gross val
ne of products as above given represents the
agricultural efforts of five of the largest
counties in Georgia, if not in the South.
Terrell, on the contrary, is one of the states
smaller counties, albeit one of the foremost
in effective farming results.
The News has not exact figures on it's desk
at this writing; but we believe we are quite
safe in the assertion that Georgia does not
contain a county more agriculturally pro-
life, versatile and productive than Terrell,
area considered.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01
A Local Question.
From the Macon Telegraph.


General Hancock, when running for the
presidency, said the tariff was local ques
ion. The following from The Dawson News
seems to point to the conclusion that the
women in certain states regard prohibition
IS a local matter. The Dawson News says:
Those advocates who so persistently
point to the ultra moral effect which
woman's vote would have in politics
municipal, state or natiOnal-must find
themselves considerably disconnected
by some events which are transporting
in these parIous times.
California, an equal suffrage state,
where the female vote plays big part
in the aggregate, has effectuaIy down.
ed statewide prohibition.
Nevada once rid herself of her obnoX-
ious six months residence clause of her
divorce laws, and relegate1 to the past
a particularly evil form of betting on
horse races. She has now taken both
of these measures and placed them
again on her statute books, and the
accomplishment was by the grace of
the ballots cast by women.
Coming down to municipal affairs,
there is the shining example of Reno,
Nevadas most famous city, which re-
Gently held an election to decide wheth-
er it would be wide open or moral.
The wide open ticket won by a sub
stantial majority, due to the equal SUI
frage privilege"
Western states expose the fallacy of at
empting to have their example set before
is as a reason for universal suffrage The
election in Chicago also teaches lesson
The women rallied to the wide OPEN can
Iidata
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

ct should be remembered that since our
last encounter with a really formidable enc
my science has lessened distances and has
revolutionized methods of warfare says the
Atlanta Journal, with which we cannot who'll
ly agree. The revolutiOnizing in methods is
admitted; but modern methods have little
to do with a 3,OOO-mile distance from the
enemy, which the United States possesses
ZeppeIins, biplanes, monoplanes and sea-
planes are not practicable for that distance
are, in fact, impossible.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

Somebody has been disturbing the quiz
etude of the Macon News paragrapher, else
why this? Whenever a woman cannot
think of anything else to do she gets the
broom and sweeps around the chair where
father is reading"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

The Macon News has it straight that the
bow-limbed ladies are not favorable to the
short -Thomasville Enterprise.
1t is a crooked subject, and we must see
more before We can venture into the dis
cussion.-Dawson News. Look it up and
let us know.-Macon News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

In holding humane week." under the
auspices of the American Humane Assocla-
ton, Philadelphia overlooked an opportunity
by not inviting the commander of the tor
pedo boat which sent the Lusitania to the
hOttOm.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

The carefully guarded secret of the Macon
Telegraph Photographer is no longer a skele-
ton. Zone of the worst things about being
poverty STRICKEN he declaims, is having
it get out on you
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

What has become of the old fashioned
mother who believed that the Oldest daugh-
ter should be married frst?--Macon News.
In some instances she's trying to beat the
0. d. to it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

It makes us right nervous, the way some
of these photographers keep on saying de
ducted'' for "deduced."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

Savannah, Macon, Quitman and other
Georgia towns are putting on gala occasions.
Let's not forget to- hold our county fair
again
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

China probably feels like saying to Japan
eff you want anything you don't see just
ask for it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

Brethren Of the press, from what they say,
are looking forward to the forthcoming
press association gathering at Eastman with
an unusual degree Of anticipation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

The president is getting rather blas'
about this grandfathering stunt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

The latest crop of sweet girl graduates i:
now eXtant
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01
Terrell Belongs in the List.

The national census bureau has given out
figures showing the five richest counties in
Georgia from an agricultural standpoint.
According to this authority they are:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

Well all agree that it's summer time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

Motifs Trespasers will be prosecuted
to the full extent of 2 mongrel dogs
which amt never ben overly soshule to
strangers and 1 dubblebarl shotgun
which amt loaded with sofypillars,
dam if l amt getting tired of this he'll
raisin, on my property.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-01

English need not be grammatical to be
understandable and effective as to results
1t is said that no trespassers have been pes
terng the Cape Cod farmer who posted the
following notice on his premises:
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02

The statement is an outright abandonment of the hitherto much derided watchful and waiting policy of the present administration in regard to Mexico and is expected to meet with the approval of the American people The press of the country have realized for long time that tn conditions in Mexico were acute, and the various diplomatic represen- tatives at Washington have been urging that it was the duty of this country to intervene, not only to protect the lives and property of neutrals, but also to bring sort of order out of the chaos that has been existing in that distracted country. The Presidents policy, outlined in the statement is the answer to these requests, and it is believed in official and diplomatic circles that the admins
 tration has served notice of a new and vigorous policy to supplant the old watchful waiting game. Wilson is undoubtedly prepared to proceed to carry
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02
TALLER DIES AT
 H ] M [ | N
 FRISCO

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2.-Joseph P. Haller. the pioneer salmon Cannery operator of the Boring Sea died here today. Haller was the first man to demonstrate the immense richness Of the salmon fisheries in Bristol Bay, and his entrance into that field was followed by many others. until today the canneries of Boring Sea, are turn ing out more canned fish than any other part of Alaska HaEler was manager of the North Alaska Salmon Company at the time he died, and was we'll known to many Alaskans, and leading figure in the fishing industry.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.-The text of the warning issued by President Wilson to the Mexican leaders has been made public. The state ment says: "The people of Mexico starving, and without the means of preserving ife and the govern ment of the United States cannot stand indiferently to one side. The United States cannot pursue a course of actions which demands nothing for it's neighborng people, refuses to serve those neigh bors in their necessity publicly and very solemnly call upon the leaders of the different factions in Mexico to get together and act promptly for the relief and redemption of their prostrate country If they cannot bury their differences and unite within
 short time, this government will be constrained to decide what means will be empliyed by the United States to help Mexico save herself and serve her peoples
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-02

Special Times By Associated Press
 WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.-Prcsident Wilson in his conference with the German ambas- sador Von Bernstorf this morning. elucidated fully the position of the United States in regard to the Lusitania controversy. The executive declared to the ambassador that this country was determined to hold Germany accountable for the loss of over one hundred American lives on the Lusitania The visit of Benstorff was friendly, and the discussion was entirely cordial Wilson has already commenced the composition of the second note to Germany. Bern