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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25
That Domination" Again.

The Northern republicans who are trying
to inject sectionalism into the present ma
tional campaign probably hoping that
those who hear their statements will not
care to go behind the scenes and see for
themselves what is going on and what has
taken place in the past. The record shows
that the committees of the congress just
ended lacked great deal of being domi-
mated by Southern members, has been
charged.
And there are other records. The last
time the house of representatives was in
control of the republicans what was the
geographical complexion of the committees?
There were sixty-two chairmanships and
they were so distributed as to give the
states east of the Allegheny mountains an
undue advantage, taking the population of
states and sections as a basis. Connect
cut, Vermont, Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire with something over per cent
of the nations population, had about 20 per
cent of the chairmanships.
Connecticut Vermont, Massachusetts,,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and
Pennsylvania, with 81 per cent of the pop
ulatl0n, were given more Chan oO per cent
of the chairmanships-33 out of 60, to be
exact.
These chairmanships included those of
the important committees ways and
means, foreign affairs, postOffce affairs,
banking and currency, rivers and harbors,
pensions, etc. Only six of the leading COM
mittee chairmanshipswen elsewhere-three
Of the six to Illinois, one to Iowa, one to
Minnesota and one to Kansas.
It appears that there has been DONNA
| ton of committees all right, all right; but
] that the domination did not take place I'M
der a democratic administration, and that
those who domineered were not from the
South.
There can be no harm in keeping the rec
ord straight as the campaign proceeds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25
Personal Liberty.

The fetish of personal liberty does not
obtain as it once did; or, rather, it is be-
ginning to be understood that personal lib
erty is not infrequently misnomer. Many
are the sins which have been committed in
its NAME and no few are still perpetrated
for that matter But there is now more
vivid realization that personal liberty is
offensive whenever it reaches that stage
where it interferes with the personal liberty
of some one else.
Nor do we hear so much growing and
angry protest as a result. We know now
that seeming intrusons along this line have
behind them naught except the larger meas
ure of public good For instance, in the
larger cities the jay walker was ordered to
desist from that practice for his own good
1t saved his limbs, maybe his life. He was
the one who benefited, but the automobilist
who must obey certain restrictions is taken
in hand in order that accidents and deaths
as a result of recklessness and carelessness
may be kept at minimum. The jay
walkers neglect affects him alone; the au-
tomobile drivers carelessness affects the
multitude.
NnSAGFcI OH OHlkSA VI IuC Ia" beAhS0
from a mans pocket pint of blind tiger
whiskey and from another pocket a loaded
revolver, the man in question often consid-
ers that his personal liberty has been cir
cumscribed. Perhaps at the moment of be-
ing searched he was entirely peaceable, but
that is no guarantee of what his humor or
his actions might have been an hour later
The rights of the individual must give
way to the rights of the greatest number of
individuals who go to make up the general
public. In the furtherance of the good of
the body polite we must, as individuals, be
willing to subserve now and then. What
ever is in its nature menace to the peace
and mental restfulness of the public must
be our first aim; then, when the public in
terest has been served, we may consider our
own.
Were it otherwise this would be chaotic
and eminently unsatisfactory existence.
Selfshness would quickly attain heights of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT almost unbelievable; it is,
in fact, because there is so much human
selfishness that unselfshness must be forced
upon US.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25
An old Acquaintance
Comes Again.

The following pathetic story makes the
round of the newspapers every few years.
We have printed it before, but the lesson is
so impressively taught that we publish it
again. 1t may have occurred or it might
occur in most towns where barrooms exist
A tramp asked for a free drink at a sa-
loom The request was granted, when
Young man present in the room suddenly
exclaimed:
"Stop make a speech. 1t is poor liquor
that doesn't loosen a mans tongue"
The tramp hastily swallowed the drink,
and as the liquor coursed through his blood
he Strengthened himself and stood upright
before the company of men with a grace
and dignity that all his rags and dirt could
not obscure.
gentlemen" he said, 81 look tonight at
YOU and myself, and it seems to me l look
upon the picture of my lost manhood. This
blOated face was once as young and hand
some as yours This shambling figure once
walked as proudly as yours; a man IN the
world of men. |, too, once had home and
friends and position. | had a wife and
dropped the priceless pearl of her honor
and self-respect in the wine cup and saw 1t
dissolve ! had children as sweet and love-
Nv as the flowers of spring, and saw them
fade and die under the blighting curse of a
drunken father | had a home where love
lighted the flames upon the altar and minis
tered before it and put out the holy fire and
darkness and desolation reigned in its stead
| had aspirations and ambitions that scared
as high as the morning stars and I strangled
them that | might be tortured with their
cries no more. To-day | am husband
without a wife, father without child, a
tramp with no home to call his own, man
IN whom every good impulse is dead, and all
swallowed up in the maelstrom of drink
The tramp ceased speaking. The glass
fell from his nerveless fingers and shivered
into thousand fragments on the floor
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25
Miss Autumn.

Miss Autumn in her golden land
Has wrapped her mist around the hills,
And with red lilies in her hand
Is dancing by her dulcet rills;
The autumn of her heart is wind
Of that free air which blows the pipe
Of festal through the woods behind
The orchards lush and mellow-ripe.
Miss Autumn of the twinkling eye
And red lips of the ruddy tune
Of morning where the dreams drift by\
Upon the shadowy wings of June
Her spirit is of fairy wales,
And of far land of smoke and flame,
And of the sapphire sea where sails
Enchanted ships without a name.
Miss Autumn An, sadness, too,
Is in her visage, as she feels
The conservation of that dew
Of purple that around her steals,
But Frightening where her banners float,
Again her red cheeks shine
In keeping with her coral throat
And lips of crimson wine.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25
Self reverence, self knowledge, self control,
These three alone lead life to sovereign
power. -IennySon.
lust The Other Way.

The Americas Times-Recorder has
discovered that the Southeastern is
more extensively advertised than the
state fair. The management of the
State fair evidently places advertising
matter without consideration of circu
lation or territory. The News and Sun
hasn't been favored with a line in
years-Griffin News and Sun.
We can't agree with our Griffin contem-
porary. From our viewpoint it is just the
other way For years The News has re-
ceived real money for advertising the state
fair. while the Atlanta fair has offered only
a free ticket for columns of free advertis-
ing-which we did not print. The Macon
fair is all right, and should be seen by all
Georgians- especially middle and south
Georgians the real agricultural sections of
the state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25
Side Tracked.

Side-tracked! Put on a branch road
That's what the Central railroad has done
with that portion of the Southwestern d.
vision between Smithville and Montgomery.
We still are allowed a sleeper, however We
are waiting to see if the Central will give
this division inferior service as regards pas
senger coaches.-Cuthbert Leader
To say that the patrons of the Central
railroad in this section of the state are dis
satisfied with the new arrangement is put
ting it mildly. They protest vigorously
against the change, and Dawson is ready to
Join other cities and towns affected in reg
istering with the officials of the road their
emphatic disapproval.
No section of country traversed by any
of its lines has contributed or now contrib
utes more to the prosperity of the Central
railroad than that which has just been side
tracked to a branch line, and the injustice
of this action is so apparent that we believe
they will see and undo their error.
CITY officials and boards of trade in the
territory affected should act promptly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25
Mysterious Marble Eagle.

On the broad top of a stony, rain-gullied
hill in middle Georgia there lies very large
eagle concerning which conflicting stories
are told. The one point that seems to be
certain is that the Indians left the eagle as
a legacy to the state.
A hundred years from now it will prob
ably be found lying on its back, with out
spread wings and tail, even as it lies to-day.
For it is made of quartz rocks so cunningly
placed that it would require pick in
strong mans hands to displace any one of
them.
The rocks lap and overlap in such man
ner as to represent feathers. No cement
holds them in position and the stones vary
in size, weighing from half pound to three
or four pounds The image rests on very
firm foundation, for the stone work extends
several feet into the ground.
Rough but fairly accurate measurements
of the bird show the length of the eagle
from the middle of the tail to the head to
be 1872 feet, and from tip to tip of out
spread wings 1913 feet The length of. the
beak is ten feet and the height of the body
at the center of the breast is ten feet. The
eagle lies with its head to the west.
Tradition does not give any satisfactory
explanation of the age or the meaning OF
the great stone mound. 1t may have had
religious significance to the red men who
built it and it may be the burial place of
some great chief. 1t is one of the most
mysterious and most interesting OF prehls-
toric monuments in the United States.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25
IaWleSSneSS.

The element of human anger, when ii
reaches certain confines, bursts uncontroll-
ably over those boundaries and wreaks Its
will. 1t matters not whether it be the an
GER of an individual or of an aggregation.
Lawlessness is lawlessness, whether Its
perpetrators reside in one section or an
other. There have been some unpleasant
lessons occurring in all sections of the
United States within the past few weeks
which teach that individuals are pretty
much the same kind here, there and every
where.
A Kansas mob, angered at a cause no
more cataclysmic than the condition OF It's
town streets, has run amuck, chased the
mavor and other designated officials out OF
the municipality, and liberated six prls-
oners.
Down South is held the lynching record.
As here in Georgia most of the victims
have been and will continue to be brutes
guilty of that one terrible crime which the
Southern white man insists must be pun
ished with death to the offender. He be-
lieves that the negro of this type should,
like rattlesnake, be put out of existence
as expedtiously as possible.
But there is no case on record where
mob composed of Georgians or any other
Southerners have run their mayor and po-
lice force out of town because the streets
did not meet the mob's idea of perfection
The lesson it teaches is that a man or a
body of men may usually be depended upon
to do foolish and often reprehensible things
whenever they get mad enough, whether
they be Georgians, Kansans or South Sea
Islanders.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

Governor Harris has appointed Hon. St.
Elmo Massengale, the well-known advertls-
ing agent of Atlanta and secretary of the
last state democratic committee, to the va
cancy in the Western and Atlantic railroad
commission caused by the death of the late
Judson Hand. Mr.. Massengale, by his
pluck energy and good business judgment
has built up one of the largest publicity
agencies in the United States, and is a
splendid and capable man. The News con-
graduates him on the high and responsible
position with which the governor has hon
ored him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

1t is a pleasure to know that the friends
of the late Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who went
down with the Lusitania, are to use the
money contributed for memorial to HIM
to erect handsome horse drinking toun-
tain in Newport. Mr.. Vanderbilt million
aire though he was, was thoughtful of and
kind to dumb animals, and his friends be-
lieve that some tribute like this would
please him best 1t speaks well for Mr.,
Vanderbilt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25
THE NERVE OF THEM.

From the Cuthbert Leader.
After butting up against the public for
years in the newspaper business our expert
ence inclines us to the belief that there are
persons with nerve sufficient to carry corn
in the ear to mill and ask the miller to shell
it for accommodation and then take out less
than the accustomed toll
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

Macon is to have a 100000 packing
plant, while Triton will be bit more mod
est and install one at cost of 100000.
CONGRATULATIONS to both of these enterpris-
ing and splendid Georgia towns Enter
prises of this kind will do more for the agrl-
cultural emancipation of the commonwealth
than anything else. 1t will beat the preach
ments of paid experts" away yonder
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

There are 114,OO0 lawyers in the United
States according to Elihu Root, perhaps the
greatest of them all, and the sage of the
American bar has come to the conclusion
that this is far too many. Good! Now all
we have to do is to convince the other
113 qQ9
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

The full dinner pail which has figured
in so many campaigns of the past has been
grabbed this year by the democratic man
ayers who have put into figures the number
of men employed and the wage income, and
mounted them in great posters. So many
men were never before at work in the
United States, and wages were never before
so high
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

Randolph Rose, of Chattanooga fame, has
opened number of buttermilk stands in
Atlanta, and Editor Shope, of the Dalton
Citizen, warns him that the first thing he
knows Uncle Asa Gambler, of coca cola
fame, will start an anti-buttermilk crusade.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

That there is a mutual understanding be-
tween the members of the universal
Ananias club can be clearly seen by com
pairing the dispatches about the various
deaths of Villa and the capture of the Bre-
men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25
TWO .FAvoRITE VEGETABLES.

From the Walton Tribune.
The Dawson News goes into ecstacies
over the onion. Next to cucumbers it is
our favorite fruit When we get to be a
landowner we are going to plant SIX acres
in cucumbers and four acres in onions.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25
THE CHICKEN.

From the Savannah Press.
The Lyons Progress has praise for the
hen. There is no doubt that a chicken is
valuable creature. AS the negro philoso-
pher said, eyer can eat i'm before he born
an after he daid."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

From the cambridge Democrat.
A little brains is all that it takes to
succeed, son. If you can make as ordinary
a thing as a commonplace house fly your
fame will be more enduring than Goliah's.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

The Iowa supreme court has handed
down decision that confession of a crime
on the part of husband does not consti-
tute grounds for divorce. To accept it
would be to make divorce as easy as lying.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

The Atlanta Journal has cut the acquain-
lance of its country contemporaries. We
are sorry for the Journal. It's going to
miss the best thing there is about being an
editor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

A full page advertisement in the Outlook
is addressed to democrats of the Andrew
Jackson type" Those democrats who are
still voting for Andrew Jackson will please
step out and be counted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

1t appears to have been case of the
president being satisfied with the middle
west, and the m. W. returning the compll-
ment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

There are $4,000 worth of calf skins for
sale in Russia, and everybody over here
would like to see them in shoes. But it is
q long. long way to Russia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

1t has been computed by some smooth
statistician that sitting of congress costs
the country $4,000 an hour. America is
certainly a great nation for Injuries.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25
October.
From Memphis Commercial-Appeal.

Why should not such perfect weather as
we are enjoying at present be a legitimate
subject Of conversation or an editorial?
The discussion of weather has long been
taboo, except to fill in conversational gaps
or to give farmers cause of complaint, but
who would complain of October weather
when
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

The Boston zoo snake that ate up half
sack of cement must have previously been
fed on the homemade pies" advertised by
restaurants.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

The barber who drank bottle of hair
tonic must not have been sure 1t would
make hair grow
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

The national campaign is running so
pleasantly that it almost makes one forget
1912
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

The boil weevil is going to have the fight
of it's life when he marshals his forces and
charges upon the Terrell county farmer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

Wheat bread is high in the United States
but it's out of sight in Europe
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

From the first light of morning, when
"dawn's deft hand is in the sky" and the
crest of the mountain is bathed in pale am
Der, through the glory of the golden day to
sunset when the western sky is riot of
color-during every moment of the day,
and at night when the harvest moon rises,
there is something wonderful in the
weather of October to talk about.
The month is the browning glory of the
year The SHOWS and frosts of winter, the
rains of spring and the heat of summer, all
will work well to make October perfect in
its mellow fruitfulness, conspiring with the
sun to ''load and bless with fruit the vines
that round the thatch leaves rum"
At this season each day invigorates, each
night recreates. Laboring people, weary
and worn with the heat of summer, find
their strength returning and their dropping
spirits revived. There is magic in the
weather of October, fairy magic that
brightens the eyes, makes the step elastic,
brings color to the pallid cheek and sends
the blood coursing joyously through the
veins.
Why not talk about the weather? Why
not rejoice in it? Why not be thankful for
the month, with its nights of delicious SUM
Der and its golden days of glorious health?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-25

Earth in all its splendor drest,
Queenly fair, she sits at rest,
While the deep, delicious day
Dreams it's happy life away"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-04
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS

Buffalo. - Speakers at Master
Brews' assn convention advised
brewers to combat prohibition by re-
ducing amount Of alcohol in beer.
Washington.-Maiority of 100000
inquiries received by new farm loan
board from city jewellers who want
to get back to land through farm loan
aid. y
New HaVen.-YaIe's honor roll
sophomore class includes three Chi
cago names: August Leisner, Melville
Washington Borders and Lewis L.
Macarthur.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-04

keen. 1t is the first time they have
clashed. Z
The first Chicago prep league foot
ball games will be played Oct. IA, &C
cording to the schedule issued by Of
ficials. The schedule follows;
NORTHERN DIVISION
Lightweights
Oct. 14-Crane at flake View, Lane
at Sem, Marshall at Tilden.
Oct. q - Sem at Crane, Lake
View at TiIden, Marshall at Lane.
Oct. 26-Crane at Marshall, Sem
at Lake View, Tilden at Lane.
Nov. Lame at Crane, Lake View
at Marshall, Tilden at Sem.
Nov. 11-Crane at Tilden, Lane at
Lake View, Sem at Marshall.
HeaYyweights w..
Oct 14-Crane at Lake View, Lane
at Sem, Marshall at Austin.
Oct. Il - Sem at Crane, Lake
View at Austin, Marshall at Lane.
Oct. 28-Crane at Marshall, Sem
at Lake View, Austin at Lane.
Nov. Lame at Crane, Lake View
at Marshall, Austin at Sem.
NV 41-O4CA at EAhOIA4A5 44e1AAC at
Lake View, Sem at Marshall.
SOUTHERN DIVISION
HeaVyweights
Oct. 14-Morgan Park at Engle-
wood, Harrison at Phillips, Bowen at
Hyde Park.
Oct. 21-Philips at Morgan Park,
Englewood at Hyde Park; Bowen at
Harrison.
Oct. 28-Morgan Park at Bowen,
Phillips at EnglewOod, Hyde Park at
Harrison.
Nov. Harrison at Morgan Park,
Englewood at Bowen, Hyde Park at
Phillips,
Nov. II - Morgan Park at Hyde
Park, Harrison at EnglewoOd, Phil
lips at Bowen.
LghtWeights
Oct. 14-Morgan Park at Parker,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-04

Phillips at Parker, Hyde Park at Har-'
riSOn.
Nov. 4-Hsrrison at Morgan Park,
Parker at Bowen, Hyde Park at Phil
lips.
Nov. II - Morgan Park at Hyde
Park, Harrison at Parker, Phillips at
Bowen. O..
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-04
WOMAN SUICIDES TO CORRECT
LONE OF GODS MISTAKES"

Leaving a note explaining that she
knew best and was Just correcting
one of Gods mistakes" Mrs. Mabel
J. Reed Committed suicide in her
room at the Hotel Raleigh, N. Dear
born street, Tuesday. She stood in
front of her mirror, took accurate
aim and fired one shot through her
breast.
Faithlessness in her friends and a.
little trouble in home affairs are be-
lieVed to have caused the act. A
letter from the dead woman's moth
er, who lives at St. Cloud, Fla, read,
in part, as follows:
my Dearest, My Only Own
Daughter: Mothers heart is break
ing down in the southland, away
from all she loves and no one to love
and be Kind to her and no money to
get away to see those she loves. Oh,
my poor old crippled knees, l ask you
to forgive whatever your imagine l
have done. Ma loves her darling
Mabel above everything and would
give all the future just to see you
once more"
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1916-06-23
need COOK STOVE and
HALF BUSHEL OF PEANUTS
Fargo Y. M. C. A. Camping Facilities
Are in Need of Those Two
Items just Now.

Wanted: "a cook stove and a half
bushel of peanuts That is the cry
at the Y. M. c. A. as this is all that
is needed to make the boys camp a
complete success. The old cook stove
has been declared an outlaw by Ben
ME Parker, the tried, faithful and ac-
complished camp cook. Secretary
Shields has an idea that in the back
room of somebody's home there is a
good old cook stove that will fill the
bill, and that somebody will step for
ward and offer it for the boys camp.
The peanut problem has always
been taken care of by H. H. Wheelock
who is now in the east. The boys are
wondering If they are going to get
their half bushel of unshelled peanuts,
which is a treat that has been handed
down to the camp boys for the last
nine or ten years
Up to a few days ago one of the
most knotty problems was still to be
solved, and the question was con-
stantly being asked around the Y. M
G. A. will Bennie the famous camp
cook, be on the job?" Bennie. the
cook, has been located in Jamestown
and Mr.. Goodwin, secretary of the
Jamestown association, has closed the
deal. and Bennie writes that he will
be on hand and says that he would
rather cook for the Y. M. C.. A. boys
than any people on earth. But he
insists on a stove that will bake bis
cults, and so it's cook stove and
peanuts