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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
The Lack of Crop Diversifcation.

The press is devoting considerable time and space
to discussion OF the continued failure OF the farm
ers of the South to properly diversity their crops
and to impressng the rewards which necessarily ac
company such Investigation. The Memphis Com
nercfaI-Appeal for instance, prints some statistical
figures relative to the per capita rural wealth. IN
some of the Southern states in order to draw NOR
al According to the figures Of the Memphis paper
this per capita is as follows: Tennessee $3.50, Ar
kansas 1925, Mississippi $302 Alabama $3.50, Geor-
gia 1925. Kentucky $500, North Carolina $922'
south Carolina SAG, Louisiana $2S6. The aver
age wealth per capita in Iowa is $3.50, in Hi
nois So 655 and in the United States 1924.
Georgia is unfortunate in this respect. Her per
capita wealth is only 1925, and her showing does
not look we'll when compared with those OF Iowa
and Illinois This however, is largely due to the
fact that Georgia has very large negro popula-
ton. but few Of whom own land or other prop
erty of any kind. But, a matter Of fact, there
is no real reason for such a wide margin between
Georgia on the one hand and Iowa and Illinois
on the other There is further than that no real
reason for any difference at all. The Creator made
Georgia soil productive and its climate favorable
to the growth of almost every product and its
agricultural lands are TILED and harvested by
farmers the equal in intelligence of those any
where in the country, with the one important eX-
cepHon that the Georgia farmer does not pay the
attention he should to proper Investigation. We
are not sufficiently sefsustaining. We spend tod
much Georgia money for the products of Iowa and
Ininos-products which we raise as success
fully in Georgia We unable to show the same
encouraging bank balances for the reason stated
We of Georgia have many natural advantages
over Iowa and Illinois. We can grow not only all
of the northern crops, but many which the people
there cannot grow successfully. The climate is
such that the working season is much longer in
some localities as here in South Georgia, extend
ing through the entire year. We have better sea
sons. We do not labor under the necessity of
erecting such costly farm houses and outbuildings
for protection against intense cold.
And yet, handicapped, the northern farming
states outstrip us in their per capita farming
wealth for the very simple reason they have learn
ed the lesson of living at home.
There is this encouraging feature far as Geor-
gia is concerned We are learning the lesson, and
there is coming day in the near future when our
per capita wealth. almost disgracefuly low
will march proudly into the ranks occupied by the
states of other sections.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

Strange that the greatest war in history should
also be the greatest crop year Nature smiles
though men die. The wonderful record harvest in
the United States is but fraction of the great
yield with which the earth has blessed humanity.
The International Institute of Agriculture, with
headquarters at Rome, has received reports from
nearly all the cereal producing countries indicating
largely increased yields and SURPRISES over the
quantities necessary for consumption. There is
visible a sufficient supply of cereals to meet the
probable demands of the entire world
In addition to a billion bushel crop Of wheat
three billion bushels of corn and billion and
half bushels of oats the United States is promised
record yields in almost every other crop this year
except cotton and potatoes The entire world shows
practically the same results.
Reports covering SO per cent of the worlds
production of wheat show that the harvest of 1915
is ia per cent over that of 1914, 1877 per cent
more than the average of the last five years, and
25.8 per cent above the average of the last ten
years.
Ninety-eight per cent of the worlds producing
area of rye shows that the yield of 1915 is 1O.5
per cent over that of 1914, 6.5 per cent over the
average of the last five years and 53 per cent more
than the average of the last ten years.
Ninety-eight per cent of the oats producing area
of the world shows yield of 1875 per cent over
1914, 1876 per cent over the average of the last
five years and 20 per cent above the average of
the last ten years.
The 1915 maize crop in 80 per cent of the pro
ducing area is 1912 per cent above last years, IA
per cent above the average of the last five years,
and g. per cent more than the average Of the last
ten years,
These prominent examples sufficient to dem
onstrate the bounty of Mother Earth this year, her
year of greatest travail. Rent and bleeding she
smiles through her tears, rebuke to human strife
yet a token of undyng hope, of the peace that
follows war of the eternal process which no mad
ness of human strife can halt destroy,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
Suffrage Lapboard Ladies.
From the New York Press.

One wonders what may happen by way of polit-
cal propaganda one of these days when the chair
man of a national committee will not be chair
man at all, but a chairwoman. She will bring
along some ideas calculated to stagger the mascu-
line part of humanity accustomed to old style polit-
ical methods. Here in New York our women have
been giving some samples in the management OF
the suffrage campaign which calculated to make
the regular politicians rub their eyes One of them
has to do with Advertising
The anti-suffragists have been buying street car
cards in the subWays bearing arguments against
giving votes to the women. AT least the cards and
arguments are there. But the suffrage managers
have not been able to get their cards in the cars.
They have complained that the company cOntroll-
ing the advertising spaces discriminates against
them. IN any event their cards not on the car
walls.
So crafty scheme has been devised to present
the other side If they can't buy space the suffrage
women will have cards prepared with legends re-
futing the opposition arguments. One woman, one
nickel and card will finance the ladies' side
of the joint debate of the cardbOards.
'Lapboard ladies' they are called; woman
each car, carrying her card on her lap, riding
up and down the subway and displaying her leg
end with all the commanding impressiveness
pretty woman's personality add. Pennies will
do for the women, under this procedure, what dol
lars do for the opposition.
At least, the theory that the haven't
genius for the practical in politics is getting some
jolts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
Republican Gains.

1t will be a very optimistic democrat who can
gather satisfaction encouragement from the cleo
tons that held last week. New Jersey, the
presidents home state went republican, and the
control of the legislature passed from the demo-
Gratis into the hands Of that party.
In New York state the republicans elected the
Legislature, and gained congressman in district
in which a special election was held In New York
county and city Tammany was returned to power,
electing the district attorney the sheriff and other
prominent officials.
In Massachusetts the democratic governor was
defeated for reelection by large majority and the
republicans carried the elections Overwhelmingly in
PENNSYLVANIA
In Maryland the democrats won the goyernorship
by a small majority and in Kentucky, another
Southern state the election of governor is still
in doubt with the democratic candidate having an
apparent majority of only 585 votes. In Missis-
sipp the democrats carried the state By the usual
majority.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
The Smaller Duties of Life.

We are prone to forget that those who perform
the smaller duties of life and perform them we'll
are as much entitled to enconiums those who deal
with it's larger affairs and it is likely to be unre-
membered that others besides ourselves have du-
ties which are not invariably easy of performance.
Some bright, sunshiny day when you catch your
self Eliminating upon the hardships of your exist
ence and the advantages in and comfort en-
joyed by your neighbor consider for a moment the
carrier who delivers your paper every morning in
the year. Just at the time when the night is pre-
pairing to surrender it's sovereignty to the on-com-
ing dawn and you have turned your pillow for
another nap this indefatigable yOungster bounds
bright-eyed from a bed as snugly reposeful to him
yours is to you He prefers, of course, that the
skies be cloudless but if they he goes light
heartedly through the rain to do his duty to the
newspaper and to you If it is raining when you
draw aside your curtains the first gray streak
of dawn you know that somewhere along the
storms path he is making his determined way
toward your home in order that you may have
your paper Little it matters to him that the soak
ing rain has penetrated 10 his skin, that the
searching wind has numbed limbs. You are en-
titled to your paper and he is going that YOU
get it. He is the newspapers accredited agent,
and be both understands and appreciates his re-
sponsiblity.
All honor, then, to the future citizen-he may
boy He is entitled to your respect, and to a
kindly, encouraging word whenever you come il
contact with him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

love to study my fellow men,
To sit and watch them hurry about,
To guess and wonder and guess a3an
And try to figure their motives out;
But better l love to sit
And watch and study myself a Bit
love to feel as the wheels go round
Away inside my Uranium thick
think OF my soul till, I'll be bound,
| almost fancy hear it tick.
| sit and wonder about it all
Till last spring seems to have been next fall.
I sit and wonder why am
Instead OF being my neighbOr, Smith;
And whether | am human, and, ii so, why,
And whether this living's joke or a myth;
And whence came all this machinery
That whizzes and Zips inside of me.
| wonder why was put right here
Instead of Venus maybe Mars
There were plenty of folks without me, that's clear
So why for one more did they drop the bars!
But the bars being down for my entrance in
Then how did it happen l wasn't a twin?
And why did they make it so hard to find
My proper place meath the sky's big cup?
And why was | given this restless mind
That hurries along till l can't keep up?
Why Will it not stop at my mild request
Just stop for a minute and give me rest?
And so I sit and wonder and think
Of the way my thought like q stream goes by,
And wonder if I'm on frenzy's brink
Or whether all men are the same as 1?
But most of all l wonder-do your
What makes wonder the way do.
From Judge.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
The Terrell County Fair.

Tho rarreu County Fair which will open in Daw-
.or tomorrow promises to be the best that has yet
been held.
There will be shown in attractive and instruct
i've form everything grown on the farm, an aggre-
gate in variety as great as can be grown by any
other county in the state
The number and variety of cattle hogs and Ter
rell county grown mules will be more than worth
seeing. 49,
THE amusement features will also be Of the BEST
and the hospitality of the fair association ana peo
ME of Dawson generally will be cordially EXTENDED
to every visitor.
Every man, woman and chld IN IerIeH 'oU"''
sbond encourage the fair with his or her presence
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
EAT ONIONS AND LIVE HONG.

From the Utica Saturday Globe.
Eight persons out of every ten eat too much, and
thereby die too early. Nine persons out of every
ten eat too much meat and thereby suffer in health
and pocket.
And nowadays nine persons out Of every ten-for
financial if not stomachic reasOns-are searching
for a substitute for meat. The substitute is-On-
ions.
Regular onion eaters rarely if ever fall i'll from
infectious diseases, and they are singulary immune
from practically all ailments
Onions, too are a grand specific for the COM
pleXon. They should be boiled whole in milk
drink the latter-or steamed, and eaten with bread
and butter and cheese. Then they make a satisfy
ing and nutritious meal which you do brain
work or manual labor. Try onions The taste and
aftersmeIl? A mouthful of hot coffee takes away
both.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
Price of Chinese Babies.
From the Philadelphia North American.

From far-off Canton, China, comes a photograph
showing just how a real Chinese baby, bought for
20 cents and clothed, educated and fed for S.
year. looks with a real Irish handle to its name.
Though Sister Marie de Loures an American
who has charge of seven queueless Chinese and
who sent their picture to the Rev. DIR. William
Garrigan, didn't say anything about it in her let
ter it is altogether probable that every of the
outfit has been nicknamed by this time. Their
names are Patrick, Bridget, Teresa, Margaret John,
Mary and Johanna.
Five of the youngsters in the photograph are
the property of a Philadelphia woman. The whole
quintet cost her $685. and she expects to retain the
children until maturity by paying S. year each
for their support The entire crbful will probably
be settled down into married life before they are
IA years old.
Sister Marie had 500 Chinese children in the
Immaculate Conception house at Canton, and 80
per cent of them are girls. Many of these have
been rescued from rivers, where they thrown
by their poor mothers and others were bought. Boy
babies cost more than girls, some Of them bringing
as high as so cents.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
That S All.

please state to the court exactly what you did
between and o'clock Wednesday morning.
said lawyer to q delicate looking little woman in
the witness box.
We'll" she said after a moments reflection, Il
washed my two children and got them ready for
school, and seWed a button JOhnnys coat, and
mended a rent in NelIie's dress Then l tidied up
my sitting room and made two beds, and watered
my plants and glanced over the morning paper
Then I busted my parlor and set things to rights
in it, and washed some lamp chimneys and combed
my baby's hair, and sewed button one of her
little shoes; then I swept my outside steps and
brushed and put away the children's Sunday Clothes
and wrote a to Johnny's teacher asking her
to excuse him for not being at school on Friday.
fast table and gave the grOcer's boy order, and
then l sat down and rested a few minutes before
the clock struck 8. That's all"
"AIl!' said the dazed lawyer Excuse me, your
honor, / must get my breath before I call the next
witness"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
ONE OF OUR GREATEST TROUBLES.

From the Sandersville Georgian.
The Dawson News thinks that enforcement of
the laws have is wiser than constructing laby-
rinth of that sometimes make the old
ones ncOmprehensibe. One of the greatest troub-
les we have to endure is the fippant disregard
for the laws by so many people. There are com
paratively few who will always do right be-
cause they know it is right. Laws not passed
for the protection of society against those who do
not have proper regard for the right
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
The Costly Cattle Tick.
From the Savannah News.

According TO the Jesup Sentinel it costs @Oo cot
than the customary freight rate to get OF cag
tie from Wayne county to an unnamed l-.,1a-
simply because of necessary quarantine toa771nle
tons aimed at the cattle tick. Here is an nave
of the tax money many Georgia cattle ralseIS not
to pay because of the ugly little pest Bnt tbis
the whole tax by any means. For addeu If +he
cost must be the depreciation in the Vaiu9 al IS
cattle that support ticks The tick-free an ~ man
more valuable in every way from nose to LaA rore
the tick-infested animal The hide is WoIl ,i+- Of
the meat weighs more and is richer, the qu''i #
the milk is better and the quantity 3Ied,ls cow
better healthier animal all round When zen Ter
is free of ticks the food it eats builds ~ nds
it is pestered by ticks some of the food II tbers
it's way into them. 1t is remarkable lH"
still is a tick in all Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

The farmers of Terrell county are preparing to
wage the right kind of warfare against the boil
weeviI one that means certain victory. AS already
reported by The News, three carloads of pure-bred
shorthom cattle have recently been brought to the
county by progressive farmers for breeding pur-
poses, and at the State Fair in Macon last week
near all OF a car load of high-bred cattle We're
bought by Terrell farmers at prices ranging from
1925 to $725 ahead. If would prosper longer
Terrell must surrender her place as the banner
cotton county of Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

The Cleveland Plain Dealer invites its readers to
cease perusal of the war news and contemplate the
information that Observation-Disclosures
phenatidin mets at 1856 degrees centigrade and the
Houston Post says it supposes the information is
correct but that it hasn't any NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
laminacetparaphe Well we haven't noted
the presence of any this locality, either but
bound to be here Terrell county being able to pro-
duce anything that any state county can.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
BUT WILL WE?

From the Albany Herald.
What the boil weevil did to Alabama is in
teresting history, but what it is going to do
to Georgia is more interesting as a prophecy
based upon the experience of Alabama, is a
g. timely observation by the Savannah Press.
1t has been put up to to profit by their
mistakes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

Prospects seem better for earlier adjourn
ment of the legislature than was expected when
it convened. The assembly was criticised for vast
ing lot of time during the regular session, and
the disposition of everybody now seems to be to
hew to the line and get much done as posi-
BILE Once prohibition is settled and out of the
way a couple of weeks hard work should dispose
of the other important matters before the delib-
erative body, and the legislators are looking for
ward hopefully to being back with their families
by the end of November.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09


believe the speeders will cease being menace to
life and limb.
Be for your home town first, last and always
Boost every enterprise that tends toward an upward
movement This is what makes a town what IS
known as a live wire 1t brings more wide-aWake
citizens to your town to boost for it,
Patriotism is a desirable attribute, but we fancy
that the British maids who being asked to mar
ry armIess and Iegless specimens of returning SOL
ders will bak at the request to show theirs in this
manner.
The fact that young John Rockefeller has been
saying nice things about his dad isn't hard to I'M
derstand. Any time the old gentleman presents
us with $34,00O,O0O we will praise his name our
self
News dispatches carry the information that a
large reunion of the Sprinkle family, which was to
have been held at Logansport, Ind, was postponed
on account of rain.
The English say the Germans getting ready
to quit 1t would be equally as interesting to know
when the English will get ready to begin.
If all of the contending factions in the war are
experiencing nothing but victories as one is led to
believe by the dispatches who is losing?
Among others who know something about pre-
paredness is the citizen who orders interstate sup
plies of drnkables.
We've seen the fur-topped shoes, but are unable
to speak except as to hearsay regarding the fur
topped stockings.
One advantage of not being president of the Unit
ed States is that you can do your counting with less
publicity.
You may joke at the Russians and pun II
you WILL but their fighting ability sticks with them
still
What principally interests the dear things about
the presidents marriage is what the bride will wear
Occasionally you run across an individual whose
idea of prodigious liberaIty is to give advice.
Some mems idea Of personal liberty is to sit on
the front porch in undershirt.
The average wooer, as well as the president, is
an expert on watchful waiting.
Some of these days common sense may prevail in
fashions of dress
The allies are finding Greece pretty slippery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

From the Early County News
Under the caption Enforcement Not More
Laws The Dawson News puts the situation in
nutshell, and no doubt expresses the sentiment of
a great many Georgians who believe that have
enough laws, but not the proper enforcement.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

Statistics show that in one month 372 persons
were killed in the United States in automobile ac-
cidents most of the deaths being due to speeding.
But even with these figures before them we do not
believe the speeders will cease being menace to
life and limb
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

The tide of immigration has turned, More aliens
are departing from this country than are arriv-
ing Washington announces that 41,733 foreign
ers quilted shores during period in which only
27.413 arrived. Are they taking their hyphens
home or have they inverted them? 1t is a singu-
lar thing that America is the only country where
hyphens are fashionable and citizens boast of their
foreign character.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

Be for your home town first, last and always
Boost every enterprise that tends toward an upward
movement This is what makes town what IS
known as a live wire. 1t brings more Wlde-aWake
citizens to your town to boost for it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
ALREADY ENOUGH laws.

From the Walton News.
Editor Rainey, of The Dawson News, makes the
timely statement that what Georgia needs is the
enforcement OF her present laws, not a parcel of
new ones. We rather agree with HIM.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

Those papers that are insnuating that Governor
Harris will soon resign are doing him a great
injustice. Such thing has never entered the gov
ernors mind. He will not only serve out his term,
but will be re-elected-n all probability without
opposition. The governor was never more vigor-
Gus mentally and is now in splendid physical con
ditiOn.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
KNOWS WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT.

From the NashViIIe Herald.
MIR. J. IsOm Davis says you make more money
accidentally in South Georgia than you nten-
tionaly in North Georgia, where he came from.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09
THE WADING is GOOD. TOO.

From the Butler Herald.
Hon. Tom Hudson has already announced that
he will oppose Congressman Crisp next year. while
Emmett Shaws candidacy is a possibility. Wade
in fellows, the waters fine
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

Patriotism is a desirable attribute but we fancy
that the British maids who are being asked to mar
ry armess and legless specimens OF returning SOL
ders will bak at the request to show theirs in TINS
manner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

Alas! the good old mint julep days will soon be
over What the legislators do not consume them
selves they will prohibit the other fellow from
having
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

Many man admires hard work only when he
secs the other fellow doing it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

John Paul Jones has been rejected for a place in
the Hall of Fame because the judges catalOgued
him as a soldier of fortune. All right, but if our
recollection serves Alright J. P considerable
of the soldier part, albeit he did his fighting on the
water If his name is not of sufficient lustre for
a place on flames scroll may respectfully in
quire of those in charge just what is required?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-09

If the Panama ditch doesn't quit its unpleasant
habit of filing with dirt it Will soon nave US ask
ing "Why is q canal?'