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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
Preparedness in Terrell.

A dispatch says the Albany Chamber OF
Commerce and the Retail Merchants Asso-
citation will unite to defray the expenses OF
committee of three who will be sent to the
boil weevil sections of Mississippi, Texas
and Louisiana with view to studying the
conditions there, that Dougherty and neigh
boring counties may be able to avoid some
of the costly mistakes made in many sec
tions as to the pest
Several delegations of farmers, bankers
and merchants of Dawson and Terrell coun-
ty have visited the boil weevil sections of the
west during the past two or three years, and
destructive insect and made considerable
preparation toward meeting the new condi-
tions the pest will make necessary. They
are diversifying their crops as never be-
fore, and on every farm attention IS being
given to hog and cattle raising; in fact,
the farm on which there are registered stock
hogs and cattle is by no means the eXcep-
ton.
Terrell has heretofore led as the greatest
cotton producing county of the state, and
now she is rapidly forging to that position as
the county most Independent of the western
and grain bin. Evidence of this
is found in an interview given by Mr..
Charles J. Haden, of the state chamber of
commerce, printed elsewhere in this issue OF
The News, in which he points to what has
been and is being done in Terrell as an
object lesson of what intelligent diversiti-
cation will accomplish.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
Russia'S Far Sweep.

The Russian bear is fighting with more
strength than ever. The grand dukes army
only waited to be well equipped, and then
struck with telling effect.
Russian soldiers, says the New York
Times, "are now holding more of the iron
ring around Germany than all the rest of
the entente together, nearly two miles for
one. They are holding one front of 700
miles in the east. That is their own. They
are driving wedge through the Turkish
empire, and may even penetrate Mesopo-
tarnia from the north. And now they will
take part in the great decision on the west
ern front"
1t is now conceded that Russia will more
affect the outcome of the war than any 9TH
er nation, and consequently she will have
greater influence in the peace council.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
Sleeps With Windows Open
From the Progressive Farmer.

Uncle John dropped into the Progressive
Farmer office the other morning, went over
to the subscription department and asked
how much it would take to pay linn year
ahead, and rather ostentatjously, we
thought, pulled out a check book. Sold
some cotton yistiddy," he said, AN put the
pro-seeds in the bank-fust time in my life
I've felt lack business man, paying debts
by check. The town storekeepers have been
gittin' all my money before, but this year
it's pure NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and inder-
pendence you know, an part of it's gone
in the bank to the credit of your Uncle John
& CO..
The talk then turned upon a rather re-
markable topic-the weather and the frost
we had the night before; whereupon Uncle
John opened up ITS mighty quare to me- -
he said, "why lots of folks who would raise
Cain if they had to eat spilled vittles or eat
a plate of vittles after somebody else had
half ct it up will still go right on sleepin
in rooms with all the fresh air shet out
breathin' air that's rally as badly spilled as
last months cookin', and like ez not breath
in the same air somebody else in the same
room had already used
Here the old man stopped a minute and
laughed. ''Well, I was a-sayin' it's mighty
quare to me now he resumed, smiling
''but the fact is I used to be fool enough
to talk about bad night air myself till my
youngest boy began studyin' some kind O.
high-jeans at school. Plain dern foolishness
is what I called his new-fangled notions at
fust, but last fall he got us to experiment
in with leaving the winders h'isted in cold
weather same as summer. Even then I
didn't wanter give in an never let on that
the boy knowed moren I did erbout it, but
his ma jest come an said she wus surprised
how much better she felt when she woke up
o. mornin 's-never no headaches ner nothin
o. the kind--so I jest owned up that I felt
spryer myself and that I was dog-gone glad
had boy that goin' to know more'n his
daddy ever did. Fac is, if some of us hadn't
ever learned more'n our daddies knowed
we'd all be p1owin with crooked sticks now
an Twin on parched corn"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
Teaching Thrift.

Some educators assert that teaching of
thrift to children is exclusively the task of
their guardians. Why should this be so any
more than instruction in honesty, industry
and self-respect? It surely increases the
self-respeet of the person who has learned
to save money, because that person to GER
tain degree has mastered the inclination to
humor a vanity, appetite or passion. Much
of the money we spend upon ourselves Is
to these ends. Macdonald says, ''To have
what we want is riches, but to be able to do
without is power Money is not the big
gest thing in the world, yet it is not to be
despised.
1t is true that many children in school do
not have any income with which to start a
savings account unless their parents or
guardians pay them a small wage for SER
vices and stipulate that part of it must
90 into a savings account. The schools can
not compel children to save money, but they
can teach the young the advantage of so
doing They can instruct pupils how old
line life insurance premiums are construct
ed and why an endowment policy issued by
a reliable insurance company is a good saw
ings account for young people. The schools
can show young people why it is not good
business to take a chance with all of ones
money in a private business enterprise OIL
to invest it in the stock of some bushes:
enterprise that is an experiment. 1t car
suggest that they place half their net earn
fngs in some conservative investment, a saw
ings account or an endowment policy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
The Next County Fair.

A recent item in the local columns of The
News said the management of the county
fair promise to have bigger and better
fair in Dawson this fall than ever. 1t is a
determination that we heartily commend.
Terrell county is not satisfied to rest on
the laures achieved in her former fairs, but
is determined that the next one shall be
even better than any of its predecessors.
This is going to be especially true of the
live stock department. The people of this
section are beginning to realize the al
most limitless possibilities of hog and cattle
raising, and we are confident that especial
care and attention will be bestowed on this
interesting and profitable feature of farm
life, both during the fair and afterwards.
Let's go about the arrangements for at
tractive exhibits while there is yet plenty
of time. An early start means better eX-
hibits, and more of them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
The ReVeiIle.

Hank! | hear the tramp of thousands,
And of armed men the hum;
Lo, nations hosts have gathered
Round the quick alarming drum
Saying, Come,
Freemen, come
Ere your heritage be wasted" said the quick
alarming drum.
'Let me of my heart take counsel;
War is not of life the sum;
VINO shall stay and reap the harvest
When the autumn days shall Gomez"
But the drum
Echoed, "Come!
Death shall reap the drawer harvest" and
the solemn sounding drum.
"What if, mid the lannon's thunder,
When my brothers fall around me,
Should my heart grow cold and dumb?"
But the drum
Answered come!
Better there in death united than in life a
recreant-comep ~
Thus they answered-hoping, fearing,
Some in faith, and doubling some,
Till a trumpet voice proclaiming,
Said. "My chosen people GOMEZ
Then the drum
Lo! was dumb,
For the great heart of the nation, throbbing,
answered, Lord, we come"
BRET HARTE
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
This Favored Section.

The News has always believed and has
frequently said that Southwest Georgia is
the one section of the country on which the
fates have smiled most benignly in matters
agricultural.
And with each recurring year comes fresh
evidence of how true this is. In Southwest
Georgia as this is written rain is needed,
and all of us will be glad when the long dry
spell is broken; but the corn and cotton look
good, the former being knee high, green and
productive, the latter clean and promising.
There are good stands of healthy cotton. 1t
has been chopped and sided, and is we'll on
the way to a bountiful harvest. In other
parts of Georgia and practically the entire
cotton belt the crops are not up, and In
many places they cannot be replanted on &C
count of the drouth In parts of Texas and
Oklahoma as high as $40 per ton is being
paid for cotton seed for replanting purposes,
and the wall of the pessimist is in the air.
Optimism reigns here. The pessimists are
so few that no one knows their hiding
places.
Great is Southwest Georgia-great in the
past great now, great in the days ahead!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
By Idah McGlone Gibson.

Chevy Chase, Md.-No ammunition, but
plenty of powder! That's the situation at
the Chevy Chase service camp-the great
feminine preparedness" outpouring from
all parts of the United States, mostly girls
between IS and 80.
There is plenty of powder, said A pref
ty girl would not go into any kind of bat
tie nowadays without the wherewithal to rub
the shine off her nose, and l saw at least 20
of them do it in the first few hours of their
visit to the camp.
But as soon as they donned the uniform
powder and makeup were forgotten, and
they looked quite as well without it.
"Set up exercises" and course in caring
for the sick and wounded will be their fort
une here. They will also have to do the en-
tire work of the camp, cooking the meals
and keeping the tent clean.
l saw three gray-haired women in the
camp. The women take themselves very Sc
riously, much more so than did the men at
Plattsburg and other camps of the same sort
On the opening day they lined themselves
up in the staring sun and 80 in the shade,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
More Powder Their Noses Than in
Their Rifles as DebutantS Parade for the President

and stood at attention for nearly an hour
before the president and Mrs. Wilson made
their appearance.
For some inscrutable reason an escort of
men from the regulars were lined up with
their backs to the sun, while these girls who
had probably never been so uncomfortable
in their lives faced it-and did not hear
murmur.
There are 800 women in the camp, mostly
recruited from the class of wealth and leis-
ure. All listened with great attention to
President Wilson's speech, in which he con-
graduated them upon their exhibition of pa
triotism. He said they were making sacri-
fees of themselves, and they really are
One stunning looking girl who, before she
donned her khaki uniform, was elegantly
dressed, told me that she had washed dishes
and peeled potatoes all the morning-some-
thing she had never done before in her life.
The Chevy Chase service camp will make
for something even greater than prepared
ness. 1t will make for democracy, and as
the president said in his speech of welcome,
it will make each one understand that she
is more than an individual, that she is a unit
OF the greatest country on earth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
Old County Unit.
From the Triton Gazette.

All, here is our old and tired acquaint-
ance, County Unit, with US again! Much
abused in off years, cussed and discussed for
things it did not do, you would think old
County Unit would pass from the ken of
man. But not so.
Two years ago, after the strenuous and
somewhat boisterous convention of 1914,
when old County Unit threw into the polit-
ical discard the man who had received the
largest vote in the primary and elected a
man who had received minority vote there
was free prediction made that the day for
the passing of County Unit in Georgia had
arrived-that it would never be heard from
again in state primaries. But not so.
Before the Macon convention we were
told that the county unit rule would be abol-
ished and the second primary plan adopted.
But the second primary plan has been car
ried off with the garbage, and County Unit
rules again.
The funny part of it is that the man Coun-
ty Unit elected wanted to get rid of it, while
the crowd old County Unit sent to the I'M
dertaker two years ago crowned County
Unit king again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
BOIL wEEVIL KNOWS NO LIMITS.

From the Birmingham Ledger
In discussing how far north the boil wee
vii will go one intelligent theory is about as
good as another, but it is reasonable that
the bug will go to the northernmost cotton
field. The bug thrives on heat, and snow
doesn't kill him From Texas to our side
of the Tennessee river he has come and
fourished He is not subject to disease, and
neither birds nor fowls will eat him. He is
a persistent evil. Wherever cotton will grow
this weevil can live and like the Goths and
Turks he doesn't know the way back; Where
he stops he stays, as long as people raise
cotton for him. No doubt he will learn to
eat other food when there is no cotton, but
so far he wants no other. The weevil recog-
nizes no limits to his travels.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
THRIFT VS.. DRIFT.

From the Crescent News.
Young man, you had better save some of
the money you are foolishly spending now.
You can't fool the world-people know you
are not rich. Fine clothes and lot of
pocket change will only hold friends until
your money is gone. Stop and think on your
wav-whither are you drifting? And what
will you be when you get there? Be con-
sistent and live within your means; by so do
lasting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

Mr.. Henry Ford, apostle of peace and
manufacturer of motor vehicles, is quoted as
saying-when in New York the other day
It's joke to be running me in the prefer
entail primaries as candidate for the pres
idency." Mr.. Ford is as candid as he is
courageous, sympathetic and rich But
many of the people look upon the matter
much more seriously than does Mr.. Ford
himself. The large vote he has received in
several states in the Middle West represents
the feeling against the expenditure of great
sums for preparedness and making this a
military nation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
Economy in Paper.

A coming revolution in the appearance of
American newspapers is foreshadowed by
suggestion that found favor at the recent
annual convention of the Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. The paper shortage
was the crucial subject of discussion, and
it was expected that some definite pro-
nouncement would be made on the advisa-
bility of increasing the price or reducing
the size of the newspapers to meet the scar
city of printing material However the assoc
citation contented itself with a general re-
solve to employ every method of saving, even
to the cutting down of margins. Imagine
the crudity and ugliness of our familiar and
favorite sheets minus the background of the
comforting and alternating margin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
BELONGS TO THE WHOLE STATE.

From the Forsyth Advertiser
G. Persons, of Talbotton," and we rise to
remark that his name is &c. Ogden" and
that his home is Forsyth Monroe county,
Georgia" He's one of our distinguished
citizens, and we refuse to have him switch
ed all over Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

The large crowd of highly interested indi-
viduals who attended the sale of thorough
bred cattle in Dawson last week is unmis-
takably indicative of the quickened interest
being manifested by the agricultruists of
this section. Besides the large number of
Terrell farmers there were at least two hun
dred here from other counties. The raising
of live stock has come as a promising indus
try, and come to stay.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

The early closing of the retail stores of
Dawson during the summer months has be-
gun 1t is to be hoped the Dawson public
will cooperate with the merchants in this
movement, for it will prove most helpful
one all around. During the long days Of
the hot season the clerks are in much need
of at least this much recreation, and they
will undoubtedly appreciate it if their
friends and customers will bear in mind the
closing hours and act accordingly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

The state department of agriculture is
planning to take a census of the hogs in
Middle Georgia, and the Savannah Press
gives timely caution to the enumerators that
their work will require both discrimination
and diplomacy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

Now here comes Mr.. Secretary of War
Baker and wants congress to give four and
a half million dollars just to instruct civil
ians who will attend the various military
encampments this summer. The cost of ad-
ministering every branch of government is
growing by leaps and bounds, and the man
who foots the bills-pays the taxes-is new
err considered Not snap of the finger is
given for him except as a taX-bearing ami
NAL
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
A VERY STRANGE PRESUMPTION.

From the Savannah News.
Cordele, in Crisp county, has a most re-
markable prohibition ordinance, with the
provision, according to a dispatch to the
Morning News, that it shall be the presump-
ton of the court that if any persons are seen
upon the streets or alleys of the city under
the influence of liquor the same was pur-
chased from blind tiger within the corpor-
ate limits of the city," and a purchaser from
a blind tiger is subject to a fine, just as is
the seller. Why the presumption should be
that the purchase was made from blind
tiger is difficult to understand, when it is
remembered that the law permits a man to
get at one time as much as half-gallon of
the strongest whisky made, provided he gets
it outside the state, and half gallon of
some WHISTLES would make any man drunk.
Surely the Cordele citizen who imbibes too
freely and gets out into the street after
wards should be presumed to have obtained
his liquor legally, as long as the law permits
him to get enough at one time to deprive
him of his soberness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

Senator Hoke Smith is reported to be
among the very large number of senators
who oppose the confirmation of Mr.. Bran
deis as a supreme court justice. In the opin-
ion of The News this is the most unfortunate
appointment the president has made.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
CAN'T LAUGH AT ANYBODY.

From the Dalton Citizen
The Dawson News thinks Germany is
laughing at us because of the diplomatic
correspondence we have passed with her
Mavbe so, but we doubt it. Things are too
serious in Germany just now for her to be
LAUGHING very much at ANYBODY or any,
thing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

Washington has written Germany another
note asking her to be good, and resumed the
policy of watchful waiting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17
YOU OUGHT TO KNOW.

From the Americas Progress
"Women of the South beautify Dixie
highway" is a headline in The Dawson
News Don't they beautify most anything
they take to, from man on up?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

There's difference. The boy who will
industriously spade up half the garden for
fish bait becomes Immediately unfit physical
ly when asked to prepare the soil for small
lettuce bed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

If that garment makers strike is prolong-
ed it NAV reduce the already abbreviated
feminine costume to a mere girdle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

The boil weevil can't stand diet of hay
and grain and beef and bacon. Remember
that, Mr.. Farmer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

Editor Isadore elders sprightly Fitzger-
aid Enterprise is not making its accustomed
visits to this sanctum. Wherefore, esteem
ed brother?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

Henry Ford can't hope to run as well as
his automobiles, for they run everywhere.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

If Judge Lambdin makes a practice Of
giving Jurors DRAINS jury service in the
United States court will become the most
popular public duty in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

The voter who can't find suitable candl-
date among the present and prospective as
pirants for governor is hard to please They
are a splendid bunch of Georgians.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

Georgia is no doubt dryer than it eve1
was before, but, at that, the sight of wabbly
legs is not infrequent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

Germany seems to have lost the germ OF
harmony.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

over not even wish bone" will survive to
indicate the Turkey that once was.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

With four candidates canvassing the state
for governor the "welkin will ring" in Geor-
gia as it hasn't in long time before.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

A Kentucky judge has decided that man
can't recover for being kicked by a mule.
Well, hardly, if the mule has anything like
a fair chance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

"Wolf of Wall street convicted" we read
What, just one?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

We notice that the fellow who works for
his blessings gets them faster than the fell
low who sits around and waits on Provi-
dence.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

The total normal production and con-
sumption Of sugar in all of the world has
passed 4O,OO0,OOO,OOO pounds, equal in
weight to about 75O,OOO,O0 bushels of
wheat Although the United States contains
not more than fifteenth of the worlds
population it consumes one-ffth of the an
nual sugar production. AS beautiful women
are lovers of candy the deduction is obvious.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

1t was merely riot and not a revolution
in Ireland, some of the newspapers are say
ing. The distinction has no interest to the
leaders who have been shot for participation
in the affair.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

A field full of gubernatorial candidates is
not a bad thing. 1t will bring to the voters
attention and knowledge wider information
and deeper insight into state matters, and
will keep down factionalism and bad feeling.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

president Wilson went to the circus, in
vested in bag of peanuts and laughed at
the clowns" says press dispatch. Nothing
remarkable in that. We've done the same
thing many times, and expect to do it again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-05-17

As paper is so high and hard to get why
not suspend the Congressional Record? We
can all find something else to start the fires,
and get along without it.