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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
The Mail Order House
And the Local Merchant

We think the home merchant never had a
more sincere or constant champion than we
are. We have always and continuously adj
vocated patronage of the local merchant ex-
clusively, because we are quite certain that
the individual life and future of the COM
munity-not only the town and the people
who live in town, but the whole commu-
nity-is bound up in the fight of the home
merchant against the mail order house.
There are times, however, when we feel
that we are taking lot more interest in the
issue than the merchants themselves are.
Our interests are naturally bound up with
theirs, but after all it is the merchants them
selves who have the most at stake, and if
they choose to ignore the inroads of the
mail order houses why should we worry?
One little word tells the story of the sue
cessful methods of the mail order houses
advertising. Everlasting and continuous ad-
vertising. The sort of advertising that takes
no count of the cost so long as the results
are satisfactory; advertising that is difficult
to prepare and expensive to distribute.
Still, in view of these things, and with
the greatest advertising weapon in the world
at their command, there are many merchants
who will sit back and say, advertising don't
business" or they'll come in any buy from
me, anyway, when they want anything I
have" or "the ad costs too much money!
can't afford it," or thousand and one other
excuses familiar to the man who solicits
advertising for the local papers.
Don't pay? Man alive! Listen! If adver-
Using did not pay every mail order house in
the United States would be in the hands of
receivers in six months. Local merchants
have the means at hand-their local pa
pers-of covering their trade territory once
week with their message to their custom
ers at one-tenth-yes, one-twentieth-
proportionate cost to mail order people. Do
they use that weapon? In many cases they
do not. They prefer to sit back and say that
it don't pay, or that they can't afford it.
Listen again. The local newspapers are
just exactly what the home merchants make
them-no more, no less 1t is the home mer-
chants who must support them, and the pa
merchants in thousand different ways.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
Two Golden Days.


There are two days of the week upon
which and about which never worry, two
care-free days kept sacredly free from fear
and apprehension.
One of these is Yesterday. Yesterday
with all its cares and frets, with all its pains
and aches, all it's faults, its mistakes and
blunders, has passed beyond the reach of
my recall. / cannot undo an act that
wrought l cannot unsay a word that l said
on Yesterday. All that it holds of life, of
regret and sorrow, is in the hand of the
Mighty Love that can bring sweet waters
out of the bitterest desert-the love that
can make the wrong things right, that can
turn weeping into laughter, that can give
beauty for ashes, the garment of praise for
the spirit of heaveness, joy of the morning
for the woe of night.
ger, sweet and tender like the perfume of
roses, in the heart of the day that is gone
have nothing to do with Yesterday
And the other day | do not worry about
is Tomorrow. Tomorrow with all it's posi-
BILE Universities, its burdens, its perils, its
large promises and poor performances, its
failures and mistakes, is as far beyond the
reach of my mastery as its dead sister
Yesterday. Its sun will rise in roseate splen-
dor, or beyond mask of weeping clouds.
But it will rise. Until then the same love
and patience that held Yesterday and holds
Tomorrow shine with tender promise into
the heart of today. have no possession
in that unborn day of grace. All else is
in the infinite keeping of that Infinite Love
that holds for me the treasure of Yesterday,
the love that is higher than the stars, wider
than the sky, deeper than the seas.
There is left for myself, then, but one day
of the week-Today. Any man can fight
the battles of Today. Any woman can carry
the burdens of just one day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
For CONGRESS.

To the Voters of the Third Con-
gressional District: l hereby re-
spectfully announce my candidacy
for reelection as your representative
in the sixty-fifth (65th) congress
subject to the primary to be held on
Sept. 18th. During the short time |
have been your congressman | have
sincerely endeavored to serve you
faithfully, and if my efforts and rec,
ord meet with your approval l VIII
feel greatly honored and profoundly
grateful if you will give me your sup
port in the coming election. Coh-
gress has been in almost continuous
session since you elected me, ana
duty required me to stay here, which
prevented me from visiting you as
often as / wished The Ways ana
Means Committee is now daily Worh'
ing on a revenue measure; being Oh
that committee I must remain mere
until the new tax law is passed. As
soon as congress adjourns, or before
then if public business will permit mt me
to leave, expect to canvass the dis,
trict, meet the people personally. ana 7:
talk to them face to face, both lnul'
vidually and on the stump. IT re-elecE
ed / promise to discharge the duties
of the great Office with fidelity and ~
the best of my ability. From tns
depths of my heart thank you 1 To-
your past kindness to me. CordlalE
yours, CHARLES r. CRISP.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
That Suffrage Plank.
From the Houston (Texas) Post.

There was no material difference between
the woman suffrage plank adopted by the
convention and the minority plank present
ed by Governor Ferguson and rejected by
the convention, except in one important
sense, viz: The plank adopted by the con-
vention was lacking in sincerity, whereas
the minority plank was a plain, courageous
statement of democratic principle.
Both planks recognized the right of the
states to deal with suffrage, but the plank
adopted by the convention recommended
the extension of the franchise to women
when, as a matter of fact the democratic
party as a party favors no such thing.
And it was presumptuous for national
convention to recommend" to the party in
the states when the delegates knew such
recommendation was not sincere and that it
was meant to hoodwink and not to blaze a
pathway of democratic endeavor.
1t would have been more courageous and
more in line with democratic traditions to
place the party absolutely right, as the mi
nority plank would have done.
1t is true some of the women who be-
sieged the convention see in the meaningless
concession made by the majority less OBJ
jectionable rebuff than the minority plank
would have implied, but the reports indi-
cate that the national leaders are disappoint-
ed and angry just the same, and are threat
ening the party with vengeance because
they were not accorded what was demanded.
So, after all, nothing was gained by skull
ing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
SheriT's Sale.

Georgia, Terrell County.-Wll DC
sold before the court house door ~
said county, on the first TUESDAY Ill
August, 1916, within the legal ho4a'
of sale, the following property w. w.
wit: All those town lots lying IN tns
city of Brentwood, Ga, said county
described as follows. Lots Nos .,
10, II and IL, the same being IN :ne
northeast corner at the intersectlOIJi
of johnson and Second streets, anu
formerly known as the Hotel FfOP
erty, and being bounded as follows,
On the west by Johnson street. Gn
the south by Second street, on t Tue
east by lands once belonging 10 III ii,
J. G. Wells estate, and on the nor.
by the property of the town OF bro ~
wood, containing one acre, more -
less, with all improvements tnere sUtg
Said land levied on as the propeag;
of P. W. Bridges to satisfy an excl ell
ton issued on the 29th day OF A 1n,r'
1914, from the City Court OF p& ~
son, in said county, in favor OF : "
Rundell and against the sald Tic
Bridges. This the 3rd day OF 1u'''
1916. ]. 2. TURNER. Sheriff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
The Iniquitous Fee System.

There is now pending in the Georgia leg
islature a bill to abolish the fee system, ano
it is somewhat surprising that he opposition
is formidable, perhaps strong enough to de-
feat it. The Columbus Enquirer-Sun in an
editorial advocating the passage of bill
to abolish the fee system in Muscogee county
says:
''We do not propose to waste the time
of our readers again in discussing the
iniouities of a system which permits
the state and the lesser civil divisions
to levy tribute in the nature of a com
mission paid out of fines collected for
Iaw-breaking, together with the latest
possibilities for distorting justice when
ever the high offices of this common
wealth should happen to fall into the
hands of those who would place reve-
nue. above every other proper consider
alton. Regardless of how free this COM
munity may have been from abuses this
system is iniquitous."
The News has for years advocated the
adjustment of the fee system of every de-
scription throughout Georgia, and it is to
be hoped the legislature can be induced to
do so. And the quicker the better.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
Russia Finds Herself.

Russia is finding itself in the great war.
Military, industrially and probably politi-
cally it will emerge from the struggle with
renewed power and consciousness. The
great colossus has awakened. 1t has begun
to realize its immense powers, it's enormous
resources, its national soul. To greater
extent than ever before its people are united
and the sense of national consciousness per-
vades them from the highest to the lowest
from the general to the private.
While the war will impose enormous bur-
dens on the various belligerents it will have
some compensating effect on Russia. It has
helped the great empire to find itself; it has
established brotherhood among the Rus
slams which never existed before; it has
shown the finer spirit of the nation, and it
will make Russia stronger and nobler in
f1uence in the world than ever the past has
known. Nevermore will Russia settle back
into benumbing lethargy. With her quick
ened consciousness, with her great spiritual
ity, with her awakened powers, with the
national consciousness unified and solidifed,
Russia will take new place in world affairs
after the war commensurate with her great
bulk and vast population. The chrysalis
stage has passed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
Spare Us, Please.
From the Triton Gazette.

Now the Legislature is monkeying with
the primary election law again, and we are
threatened with an amendment under which
a second primary will be necessary where
neither candidate receives ma ority vote.
In mercy spare US from any more pri-
maries or elections. Perhaps our present
law is defective; if so remedy the defects,
but let US have no second primaries. We
have too many elections now. They disrupt
business and interfere with 'the worship of
the Lord and the peaceful pursuit of happi-
ness" More are. not only unnecessary, but
would be harmful and expensive. Let us
have no additions; we have troubles enough
now.
If more than two candidates offer for an
Office and neither receives a majority of the
votes cast let the man with the highest plu-
rality have the nomination. We are oppos-
ed first, last and all the time to any more
primaries or elections. Instead of more let's
dispense with some we now have.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
Respect For Law.
From the Savannah Press.

Ex-Governor Jos. M. Brown has recent
written a very interesting card to the AT
lanta Constitution dealing with the question
of drunkenness and murder In the cours
of it he said:
In conclusion | will say that l note
that each of the four candidates for
governor has pledged himself to see
that the new prohibition law is enforc-
ed but that not one of them has given a
like pledge as to the law against muir
der. And yet no man has charged that
the man who was convicted of the MUIR
der of Mary Phagan was drunk when he
committed that crime; no person has
charged that STRIPPING was drunk when
at about midnight he assassinated Cor
net in the latter's home in the country
in Harris county; no person has charg-
ed that the Archer brothers were drunk
when one night they atrociOusly muir
dered two lone women of unblemished
character at their home in the country
in Cherokee county; no person has
charged that the Rawlings boys were
drunk when they murdered the little
boy and girl in Lowndes county, and
then attempted to crown their Infamous
crime by burning the house in which
the father and sister of their victims
were sheltered; no person has charged
that Dr. McNaughton and Mrs. God
bee were drunk when the murders of
which they were found guilty were COM
mitted. Alcoholic liquor was not re-
sponsible for many of the murders
which have stained the record of this
state. In fact, as have just Indicated
it was entirely lacking as even factor
in the most repulsive murders l can re-
call.
The ex-governor is not against the enforce
ment of the prohibition law, but he think
we should not make this paramount issu
in Georgia. There are other laws that ar
just as often violated and with more deadl
effect, as he has shown. We need highe
respect for many laws in the state, and tina
which says, ''Thou shalt not kill" is one o
them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
COIOneLS and PSendO-COIOneLS
From the Minneapolis Journal.

When a man has reached a certain stage
of local importance, certain mental and
physical ponderosity, it has been the Ameri-
can custom to apply to him the honorable
title of Colonel"
Some men are born colonies. Their APP
pearance and habits of mind call for and
merit the title, and it is granted by unani-
nous consent The primary of public opin-
ion hands down its decision. Colonel that
marked man is, and colonel will he re-
main, in Office or out, in public favor or in
disgrace. The title runs with the man.
But now comes certain sect of super
colonies in the state of Georgia, who are at
tempting to restrict the title to those "justly
by ''justly entitled to it, they mean those
actually appointed colonies "who have sur
vived the war between the states and the
Spanish-American war, the colonies active
and retired of the national guard and regu-
lar army and the colonies of the governors
staff"
These real colonies, as they consider them
selves, have been writing to the Georgia
newspapers asking them to use little dis
erection in the use of the title and calling
attention to some of the pseudo-colonels.
Meantime the natural born colonies, the
colonies de grace, so to speak, those who
have acquired the title by popular usage
and have been addressed as colonel unchal-
lenged for years, are up in arms against this
attempt to deprive them of their birthright
Every American in whatever section will
look with suspicion upon any attempt in
whatever quarter of the union to tamper
with the right of popular judgment in the
matter of colonies.
The colonel, like the poet, is not made
He is born.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19

We do have some hot days, few of them,
when the good old summer time" is on
good old Southwest Georgia. Being truth
full by nature, we must admit that. But
there are many places where it is warmer
ibid you ever summer in Macon or Angus
ta?) and how rare are our sun prostrations
in Georgia. The past week has brought some
of those torrid days, when the usual relia-
BILE gulf breeze was off somewhere on lark,
and little or no breeze. But even hot wealth
err has its compensation for Georgia. Doesn't
the warm sunshine develop cotton? In fact,
if we only seek to find it there is ever cause
for content and gratitude.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
Mother ShiptOn'S Prophecy

Mother Symptoms prophecy is almost for
gotten except by antiquarians. 1t was first
published in 1641. 1t must be confessed that
the greater part of it has already been full
filed. 1t has no doubt caused good many
to think of things they would have never
thought of had they not been written. 1t
is copied from an old newspaper clipping
printed 25 years or more ago. These are
Mother Symptoms words:
Carriages without horses shall go,
And accidents fill the world with woe.
Around the world thoughts shall fly
In the twinkling of an eye.
Water shall yet many wonders do,
Now strange, shall yet be true.
The world upside down shall be,
And gold found at the root of a tree.
Through hills man shall ride,
And no horse or ass be at his side.
Under the water men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk
In the air men shall be seen,
In white. in black and green.
Iron in the water shall float
As, easy as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found and shown
In land that's now not known.
Fire and water shall wonders do;
England shall at last admit a jew
The world TO an end will come
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
For Congress-

To the voters of the TIKI
gressional District of Georo-io oOA,
hereby announce my candidsc1
election as your Representative from rUn
the Third Congressional Distr;c rtO ot
Georgia to the Sixty-ffth ConSroSUsl
subject to the primary to held Son'
TEMPER II, 1916, and respectfullv op
llclt your support to this position n
nominated and elected | PLEDGE nv -
self and the best energies | am ca nS
bic OF exerting to your every inf pr
est, and especially to procure '' f.,
you: -U
1. The cooperation of the N.
tlonal government with the several
states to the enforcement of tba;r
prohibition laws to the extent of d..
nylng application for license to man
ufacture or sell intoxicating Ionory
IN such states, and the procuremsrs
of such necessary changes as will
prohibit the shipment of intoxicatina
liquors in prohibited territory. and
will earnestly advocate every local
measure that will tend to procure for
the whole people national prohibition
z. will support such rural credit
Legislation as will actually give to the
farmers of our country the relief frat
loans of money
has been so often promised bv max
ing available to them, with good Sc
curity on land or cotton, long time
loans of money at low rates of inter
est, such loans to be made directly
by the government to the farmers.
3. | will favor a sufficiently
equipped army and navy to command
peace at home and respect abroad
and the manufacture of our navy
and army equipment by the govern
ment.
4. The restriction of immigration
at least to the extent of requiring
immigrants to register, giving all in.
formation necessary as to their pre-
vious lives, and the signing of q
pledge that within three months at.
ter entering our country they will
become citizens in a legal way.
5. A complete separation of all
affairs of church and state.
6. The extension of the rural free
delivery system and the improve
ment of the parcel post system to
the end that the rural districts
throughout the country may be bene-
flied thereby.
I purpose to conduct my campaign
on a high plane. I do not desire to
be elected on the dement's of Others,
but on my merits alone.
My campaign headquarters will be
at Americas, Ga, where my secretary
or l will be glad to welcome and ad.
wise with friends at all times, and, il
elected by the good people of this dis
trict, l promise to faithfully dis
charge the duties of this great office
with fidelity to your every interest
Respectfully, T. G. HUDSON.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
Poor Little Rich Girl.

There is something compellingly lovely
about the announcement that Miss Lolita
Armour of Chicago, has enlisted as train
ed nurse and awaits only orders from Wash
/ ing to proceed to the Mexican frontier II
is as if, healed, she would repay her debt tc
humanity by passing along the healing touch
! to others.
There is something compellingly human in
her determination to give, not only OF her
ample means but of her skill and sympathy
Rather more than in the case of most rich
girls does the generous impulse of Miss Ar
mour appeal to us. There is something
about the person who has known weakness
and illness and incapacity which those lack
who had birthright of utter health.
For the only previous time Miss Armour
name figured prominently in public prints
was when she was changed from helpless
cripple to strong child by the magic touch
of Dr. Adolph Lorenz, the great Austrian
surgeon.
1t must be fourteen years since little Lo-
lita Armour, pampered heiress to the Ar
mour millions piled up in Chicago packing
houses, was laid on an operating table in
Armour, while the wonderful surgeon from
Vienna, brought across the ocean at fabu-
lous cost, made the amazing readjustment
of a congenital displacement of the right hip
bone.
Lolita Armour began life in a rosewood
and beveled glass incubator. Delicate, her
little body twisted, she lacked the one thing
her wealthy parents could not buy-health.
Famous doctors shook their heads and the
little 5-year-old seemed fated to go through
life without the use of her feet.
Then Mr.. Armour found Dr. Lorenz and
offered him a small fortune if he would cure
his daughter. The world then heard of the
poor little rich girl who might have every
thing money could buy, but not the power
to walk DR.. Lorenz came from Vienna and
performed his "bloodless operation"
Silence prevailed in the Armour house
hold while the great surgeon was at work.
The small patient was given an anesthetic
and strapped down to an operating table.
Then the doctor with his strong, skillful
hands forced the dislocated femur down into
its proper socket by expert manipulation.
A happy smile sprang to the fathers face
as he heard the sharp click which told him
the bone had slipped into place.
When the cast was taken off Lolita was
sent to Vienna for the doctor to teach her
to walk. After a year had passed she could
walk little without the harness of leather
and iron which she had been forced to wear.
But her cure was slow. Several times she
from Vienna only to be forced to
go back to her doctor There she was put
through a course of physical exercises to
mend the halt in her steps.
This is the girl who at 10, with millions
at her disposal, is offering herself, body and
soul, for the work of healing. The girl who
started out to go through life in a wheel
chair becomes an army nurse. The sympa-
thy and love which the public showed for
the poor, little, helpless, rich girl she re-
turns. Out of her thankfulness to humanity
for releasing her from bondage she offers
herself to relieve suffering in others.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
NEARER HEAVEN

A little nearer heaven
When within our hearts the dove
Of the peace of simple living
Sings the litany of love,
When the anger and the hatred
Have been purged and put away
And we walk path of sunshine
Through a summer holiday.
A little nearer heaven,
Near it's beauty and its light,
When our souls are full of kindness
And we feel and act Alright;
When the passions that degrade US
Burn to ashes and we live
In the laughter of forgetting,
And forgetting, we forgive.
A little nearer heaven,
When we've done some tender thing,
Helped another heart to blossom,
And another soul to sing;
When we've turned our strength to duty
And in duty's love been born
To the gladness of the sunshine
And the sweetness of the morn.
A little nearer heaven,
When we turn from doubt to roam
To the gates of life's affection
And the lilied dreams of home;
When the calm o'ertakes the tempest
And the sunshine once again,
Cleans the canker from our natures
And turns creatures into men.
A little nearer heaven,
When we make this earth place
Where the blossoms of affection
Glow in all their tender grace;
When we strive with all our being
To make all around US seem
Like the gardens of that heaven
Where the eyes of beauty dream.
-Folger McKinsey.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-19
For Solicitor General

To the Voters of the PatahI. a.;
cult: Thanking you for vou ula Cir,
consideration, hereby anno Tpr past
candidacy for reelection to tbo IN my
of Solicitor General of the D. once
Circuit, subject to the action al asa1la
next Democratic primary ~ IL The
elected l promise a continnot y re-
my best efforts in faithfully dis"bao Of
ing the duties of the office ''S Vg
I respectfully, B. T. CAS IT1FS