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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
Echoes of the Past.

/ Alabama has new congressional district,
the Tenth. and two candidates have an
nounced their desire to represent the dis
trict. One is former Congressman Rich
mond P Hobson, erstwhile hero OF the
Merrimac" and the other is W. b. Bank
head, son of United States Senator John H.
Bankhead, of Alabama
The contest brings up memories OF the
past Before he was a senator John ID.
Bankhead was a representative. He and
Mr. Hobson lived in the same district Mr..
Hobson, fresh from his war experiences
and proudly wearing a newly manufactured
halo, entered the campaign against the vet
eran congressman, and was decisvely de-
feated but he came back the next time and
turned the tables by walloping Mr. Bank
head Nothing daunted, Mr. Bankhead, haY-
ing lost his seat in the lower house, aspired
to the higher one, and in a statewide pri-
mary led the field against number of the
most prominent politicians of Alabama.
Now Hobson and Bankhead's son are pit
ted against each other. Alabama and the
entire country will watch the fight with no
little interest
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
Madam Rurnor at Her Best

The most active lady in the world is
Madam RumOr. At this writing she is in her
glory, and is fairly out-doing herself in Mex
leo and along the Texas Mexican border.
Thus far she has managed to cause no little
degree of uneasiness on the part of American
citizens.
The trouble about the old lady in ques-
ton is that she is the biggest liar in the
world Her place of temporary or perma-
nent abode is as mysterious as she herself.
There are to be many more days Of the
expeditions mission in the land of the
tamale. Madam Rumor, during that time,
will assuredly lose no single opportunity to
manufacture fabrications of greater or less
degree. She will be on the job every hour
of the twenty-four, scampering hither and
yon for fresh fields of adventure. She has
no conscience, and is guided by no rules and
regulations.
If we will remember her characteristics
and her unreliability We shall have upper
turbed days and sleepful nights. Let us not
grasp at her assertions and clothe them in
the garments of truth, but, rather, wait for
her to prove each observation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
Ethics, Conscience and Humanity

Another chapter has been written in an
episode that has commanded countrywide
attention because of its sociological, per-
haps moral, interest. We have in mind the
action of the Chicago medical men in ex-
polling from the association in which he had
membership DR.. Haiselden. a Chicago ply
stefan who has far more notorety than he
possessed a year ago-more. perhaps, than
he might have ever possessed but for the
now historical case in which lie was lead
ing figure The recital of the action by his
brother physicians is printed elsewhere on
this page.
IT was Dr. Haiselden, it will be remem-
bered, who suggested the death of the lit
tie Bollinger baby, at Chicago He believed
it was merciful and right to let the infant
die, without pain, rather than to continue
efforts to prolong and save its life. "The
child is doomed he said, mo matter what
we do for it," 1t is of record that the un-
happy, sorely perplexed mother concurred
in the physicians view. The case, as said,
attracted worldwide interest. and the COM
ments and conclusions have been of widely
divergent and interesting character Now,
as a phase of the matter that must COM
mand as keen interest, comes the verdict
divergent and interesting character. Now,
for the learned and useful profession that
these medical men represent impels belief
that they must take up the Haiselden case
in serious and impartial spirit, keeping in
mind ethical and humanitarian cOnsidera-
tions, realizing what the effect of their judg-
ment must be- They condemn their col
league, declaring that in assuming to pass
on human life ne exceeded his authority and
prerogative as a physician.
1T is an interesting case with grave aspect
the question at issue being how far ply
stefan must go in effort to prolOng human
life Lay judgment will be more lenient
we are persuaded, than that of medical men
In the eyes of many critics the Chicago ply
sicians will appear as stressing a sentiment
radical in their views and demands. L
must be kept in mind, however that in fac
ing the duty of passing on the momentoui
question at issue the Chicago physicians haC
s centuries of tradition and practice behinC
them, as well as the ethical tenets of thei
cult. In justice to them we must believ'
that their judgment could hardly have beel
otherwise than adverse to DR.. Haiselden
e For consolation, if he seeks that, he vii
have to turn to sentiment. These cases,
crisis for the conscientious physician, hav
arisen in past and will continue to chal
sdenge conscience and judgment equally wit
ethical consideration. The medical profes
sion cannot with safety depart from it
tenets. The individual is ever liable to cor
front a crisis when his cause must be ind
vidual, guided by conscience.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
Do 1t Like a Man !!
From the Newman Herald.

1t is seldom that The News loses
subscriber, but occasionally some Fellow
settles" what he owes the paper by
having it discontinued If you want to
stop your local paper do so like a man.
We will wish each other nothing but
good will if we part square. 1t is much
more manly to spend cent for postal
card to let US know you do not want the
paper than to let it run on until you
owe a dollar or so, and then rely on dis
lance to avoid payment. We don't
want you to have single copy if you
do not care for it. But don't neglect
the balance due. We must print the
paper every week, and pay the bills,
whether any cash comes in or not. 1t
costs us just the same, fair weather or
foul; that's one of the unpleasant con-
ditions of publishing-like farming.
The past two seasons have been a strain
both on our patience and our purse
Dawson News.
The Herald has had many depressing ex-
periences like that complained of by The
News. For example, We employed a col
lectOr short time ago to look after delin-
quents on the rural routes radiating from
Newman. He covered five routes at an act
ual expense to us of $21 His total collec-
tions amounted to $24.7O, yet the arrearages
due by the four hundred subscribers on these
routes aggregated nearly $500! On two of
the routes covered he did not collect one
dollar! Yet many of these people subscribe
for some cheap city paper that contains no
home news at all, and pay cash for it with
out Whimper; but let the home paper try
to collect a subscription account, after wait
ing two or three years for payment and all
sorts of excuses and subterfuges are re-
sorted to in an effort to evade the obliga-
ton.
The Herald feels that it is being treated
stability by many of its patrons who are in
arrears, and We are at loss to understand
the reason for such treatment. We work
hard, and give the people of Coweta good
paper, but our expenses are out of all pro-
portion to the profits derived from the bus
mess. The blank paper upon which the
Herald is printed costs $50 a month, and
other expenses are upon the same scale
yet We are carrying on our books today over
1000 in past due subscription accounts
made up of all small sums ranging from one
to three dollars. The only charitable ex-
PLANTATION is that because the amounts are
small our patrons have an idea that we can
get along somehow until it suits their con-
yenience to pay, failing to consider the in
convenience to which We are subjected in
consequence of non-payment of their dues.
1t is becoming more and more evident
that the only way the country papers can
hope to exist is to adopt the cash-in-advance
plan, and, remembering our late expert
ences, the Herald is strongly inclined to do
so. Working for nothing and boarding ones
self is not a very exhilarating pastime.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
Defends the Kiss.

An indignant Kentucky editor reSents the
recent publication in an Eastern paper the
statement: I'VE don't believe that kisses
from the lips of pretty girl taste as good
nowadays as they did twenty years ago"
and says:
We'll, by the dimpIe on Cupid's chin, if
that isn't rank treason and sacrilege to our
most cherished institution we'll eat the Office
towel! Taste as good as they did twenty
years ago! Why there never was time
from the instant when Adam and Eve col
laborated on the pristine kiss that one didn t
taste good. The silvery stars sang for joy
in the silent heavens until the golden mo
ment when the kiss was born. The rose
and the violet were noxious weeds and nee
tar was as fiat as circus lemonade until
the worlds first lovers felt the soul-stirring
thrill of that bubble of bliss-the kiss.
Taste as good as they did twenty years
a6o! Oh, benighted brother, they taste as
good now as they did when MOrdecai kissed
Esther, when Leander kissed Hero, when
Antony kissed Cleopatra, when Aucassin
kissed Nicollette, when Romeo kissed Juliet,
when Dante kissed Beatrice, when John AL
den kissed Priscilla, when Herman kissed
DorOthea-just as good, you sour-souled
sinner, as they did on that night of nights
a score of years ago when you and she were
darIings of the gods, and she held up to you
those quiVering rosebudS to let you sip the
honey they contained
'fDoes a kiss taste as good? Does it?
You know it does, durn your hide!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
War Cost Nations EmbrOiIed
S53,6II.S4 EUery Minute.

While exact figures showing the cost of
the war will not be compiled until after it
has come to a close yet estimates have been
made by the current Popular Science Month
ly which show what a great destroyer of
wealth it is. The best estimate is that up
to January 1st not less than $1,000, O0O,-
900 had been expended in direct prosecu-
ton of warfare, says the Brooklyn Eagle.
This incomprehensible sum averages ST.
200 ,772 day since war began and does not
take into consideration the billions of dol
lars worth of property wiped out in the
countries invaded and through the deaths
of millions of workers For each minute
of the day the nations at war are obliged
to pay out $53 ,61164 Imagining this to
be in gold and put into bags having a ca
pacity of fifty pounds each it would re-
quire the services of probably three soldiers
to carry each minutes monetary needs. U.s.
ing the best available data at the time of
writing it is costing S12, 1OO.6S gold to kill
a man.
Fortunately the warning nations are not
obliged to gather together the forty billions
and transport it at one time to the front.
If they did it would require fifteen trains
of seventy cars each, and one of ffty-seven,
each car being of the tifty-ton pattern used
in hauling coal from the Pennsylvania mines
to tidewater at New York harbor. The
weight of the gold would be 55, 440 tons.
Even if it were desired to do this there is
not enough visible gold in the world to per-
NIT it.
But let US suppose there were forty bill
lions of gold in the hands of mankind, and
that through some gigantic financial opera
ton it had reached America and been coin
ed into double eagles. There would be, if
the gold were alleged with other metal to
the usual degree of fneness, 2,222, 222, 22O
of them, enough to cover the site of the
Woodwork building to a depth of seven feet
oIoC. g. I1nvr Ns.r,4
of the building, $50 feet, and twenty-five
feet square. If placed on edge and face to
face they would form a roll 3,653.42 miles
long. This roll would extend from New
York to a point in the Pacific ocean about
500 miles west of San Francisco. Or, TAX
ing their diameter at 1916 inches, they
would pave a boulevard 351 feet wide ex"
tending from one end of the Island of Man
haitian to the other, a distance Of thirteen
miles. And if all these gold pieces were
laid fiat in a single row, edge to edge, they
would extend 43.S41.12 miles around the
wastcoat of the globe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
ExDeL Doctor Who Passed
on Human Life

Countrywide interest has been aroused by
the Observation-Disclosures episode at Chicago,
the fact that the physician passed on the life
of an infant. The latest developments in
this matter are given in the following dis
patch from Chicago:
Chicago.-Dr. Harry J. Haiselden was
dropped by the Chicago Medical Society at
its meeting in the Hotel Sherman Tuesday
night. DR.. Haiselden was not present, but
several of his friends spoke in his behalf
before the executive council of the society
sustained the ethical relations committee IN
its recommendation that he be dropped.
The charges against DR.. Haiselden grew
out of the baby Bollinger case. The sur
geon, in charge Of the American hospital,
refused to operate on the baby to try to
save its life on the ground that the infant
was defective, and that it would be better
for the human race to let it die.
The Chicago Medical Society charged that
he passed Judgment on a human life where
he had no authority, and also that he was
unethical in writing a book on the Bollin-
ger baby. His signed articles on the case
were considered unethical in that they were
personal advertising.
Dr. Haiselden will have two chances to
appeal He can take his case to the State
Society and from there to the American
Medical Society. If he asks for a reconsid-
Grafton of the case from the Chicago Society
it will be granted, according to the sentiment
expressed at the meeting. The members of
the society said he would be given every
chance to explain his actions and to clear
his name of the charges against him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
Remembrance.

The new can never effaee the old,
For always in our thoughts the old love
clings,
And always in our hearts when all is told
Remembrance sings.
Scenes of our busy lives may change and
shift,
Yet with an inner vision we decry
Some quiet landscape where the green hills
lift
To meet the sky.
Some house that made our home through
happy years
Some mother heart of love, unfailing
Some room that held the deepest hopes and
fears
Then grim Today may grip US. gaunt and
bold,
And bend US with the weight of things
Yet deep in the heart of each, when all is
told,
Remembrance sings. ELAINOR HULL.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
Swats the Stray Chicken.

The authorities of the town of Royston,
up in North Georgia, have taken a whack
at the chicken proposition. They've made it
a Enable offense for any owner of chicken
to permit it to run at large after neighbor
has complained of the depredations of such
chicken on his or her flower bed or garden
truck. Now, we agree with the Elberton
Star that the authorities should go step
further and make it a punishable offense for
anybody to get their feelings hurt about
complaints of the depredatiOns of chickens.
If there is anything of its size that can do
more damage or cause as much bad feeling
between neighbors than an old twenty-five
cents hen with a streak of industry run
ming through her toes we don't know what
it is.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
THE FLOWERS OF THE SEA.

From the Washington Star.
Like the land the sea has its flowers, but
the most brilliant of the marine flowers
bloom not upon plants, but upon animals.
The living corals of tropical seas present a
display of floral beauty that in richness and
vividness of color and variety and grace of
form rivals the splendor of a garden of flow
ers. The resemblance to Blossoms is so COM
plete that some persons find it difficult to
believe that the brilliant display contains no
element of plant life but is wholly animal
in its organization.
Among the sea animals that bloom as If
they were plants are included, besides cor
ais, the sea anemone and the sea cucum-
ber 1t has been remarked that the birds
and butterflies of the upper world are re-
placed by fishes of curious forms and fash
ing colors which dart about among the ami
NAL flowers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

when every farmer in the South shall
eat bread from his own fields and meat from
his own pastures, disturbed by no creditor,
enslaved in no debt, shall sit amid his teem-
ing gardens and orchards, and vineyards,
and diaries, and barnyards, pitching his own
crops in his own wisdom and growing them
in independence, making cotton his clean
surplus and selling it in his own time, and
in his chosen market, and not at a MASTER
bidding-getting his pay in cash and not
in receipted mortgage that discharges his
debt, but does not restore his freedom
then shall be the breaking of the fullness
OF our day
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

If faith can remove mountains then Ter
rell countys faith in herself should defeat
the boil weeyil. But Terrell county must
rely on work rather than faith, and in sew
eral ways she is already ahead OF some 9TH
err counties where the weevil has appeared.
In the first place, long distance farming has
already gone out of date, and owners are
raising their own supplies and some to
sell. They are beating the weevil to it,
by raising more cattle and hogs and food
stuffs
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

The local chapter of Daughters of the Con-
federacy are to be congratulated on the Sc
lection of Hon. Ogden Persons, president of
the state senate as Memorial
Mr.. Persons is one of the ablest and most
popular of the younger public men OF Geor-
gM, and is imbued with all the glorious SEN
timents and loyal to all the noble traditions
of the South, and will pay eloquent and ten
der tribute to the valor and heroism of the
men and women of the sixties
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

Equal suffrage law or no law the dear
women are coming into their own in Geor-
gia. Miss Ruth Purcell, the charming and
talented editress of the Gainesville Advance,
has been elected by the Franklin county
democrats a delegate to the state conven-
ton at Macon in May. AS the first woman
ever accorded this distinction in Georgia
Sister Purcell will be given a seat of honor,
and showed marked attention in the pow
WOW of the politicians.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

The Mexican situation is watched with
many misgivings as to the outcome OF the
arrangement with Carranza. The distinc-
ton between the first chief" whom the ad-
ministration took by the seat of his breaches
and lifted into power as at were, and the
bandit Villa is hard to discern, and little
concealment is made of the expectation that
the American forces in Mexico will find
themselves in a vice between the. CarraEza
and Villa forces, both making common cruse
against the "Gringoes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
Terrell Keeps the Lead.


cupy first place among the counties of
the Empire State of the South in the
value of her agricultural products?-
Dublin Citizen.
Well, We can't say. Bu- being one of the
very largest agricultural counties, if not the
largest, in the state, and having productive
soil and live farmers who know how to make
it respond to intelligent cultivation, Lau-
ems should continue to occupy high place
in the value of it's farm products. But she
can hardly hope to rival Terrell as the ban
ner agricultural county of Georgia. This
county according to the figures of the Unit
ed States government has produced, with
the exception of one county in another state,
more cotton per square mile than any coun-
ty in the United States. We have yielded
that distinction, however, and, as producers
of hay, grain, meat, cattle and other neces-
sary products, intend to occupy the same
supremacy we held as growers of cotton.
That this county is making progress in that
direction is evidenced by the fact that not a
carload of feed stuff for man or beast has
been shipped here this year. Can our friends
over in the good county of Laurens say as
much?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
HARRANGUEs CAN'T CHANGE LOGIC

From the Elberton Star.
The people of Georgia are paying four and
one-half per cent on money invested in the
state railroad, and are receiving two and
one-half per cent dividends, and the road is
not taxed either. They should get cheaper
money, higher rent, or hurry out of a los
ing proposition. All the harrangues to the
dear people cannot change the logic of these
facts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
JOY RIDING AND TEMPERANCE.

From the Columbia IS. c. State.
Now the scientific gents or some of them,
are predicting that alcohol will come into
general use as a fuel for automobiles-in
which event the gallon month will be
amended.
JOy-riding will never cease.
When alcohol shall be too useful and too
valuable to burn in the cylinders of bipeds
we shall have a temperate world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

A press dispatch says the fertilizer sales
in the section around Columbus are less
than last year. That is not true in Terrell
county Here our farmers have already
bought twice as much guano as they did in
1915. 1t seems they are going to make a
last big effort to raise good crop of the
staple before the boil weevil interferes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

Swat the fly! One swat now is worth a
countless number of swats in the antt-fy
campaign month hence. Brooms, traps
and swatters-set them all to work to Grad
icate the pest before the season of propa-
CATION is far advanced. Flies, like mOsqui-
toes, are valuable to humanity only when
they are dead.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

The voice of the Peerless One can't be
heard from Texas to the Georgia sea coast,
else Brother Dick Grubb would not have
printed this in his Darien Gazette:
ITO his credit we would say that Mr..
Bryan is not breaking the peace by
making a loud noise at present"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

Carranza's request, the bewhiskered
gent whom we took by the seat of his pants
and lifted into the presidency of Mexico,
that the United States now be patient shows
that whatever else he may need his system
can get along for the present without a
nerve tonic.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

Suggestions recently made that in case of
war the enemy might easily capture Boston
will probably result in preparedness in the
way of bean repositories at the Massachu-
sets metropolis. Boston might not mind
paying tribute of a few billion dollars, but
she is not going to surrender her immortal
beans if she can avoid it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

The national house of representatives, by
going on record as opposed to any reduc-
ton in mileage perquisites, showed that
when preparedness is buttered on the proper
side the congressman know what they are
for, all right enough.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
Notice Debtors and Creditors.

Georgia, Terrell County.-All cred
itors of tn eestate of Mrs. M. ]. Sim
mons, deceased, are hereby requested
to render in an account of their de-
mands. This March 18th. 1915. H.
A. WILKINSON, Administrator of
the Estate of Mrs. NJ. J. Simmons.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

County Treasurer B. B. Perry held in
high esteem by all who know him, continues
seriously i'll at his home in this city. If the
loving hopes of friends could affect the Sit
uation his early and complete restoration
to health would be assured.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

We have never been able to see wisdom
and justice in all our dealings of the past
four years with the Mexicans, but we are
persuaded that the president has meant
we'll. He has been actuated by patriotic
purposes, and in the emergencies that have
developed he will have the sympathy and
support of his cOuntrymen
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05
COMMON EDITORIAL COMPLAINT.

From the Marion Star.
You may knock this paper all you please
if you pay for the privilege. The man we
hate is the fellow who knocks us on credit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-05

The end of Lent is coming, and with it
the Easter bonnet-as tetchy as ever Du'
how could it be otherwise?