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The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1916-10-12
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other business.
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The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1916-10-12

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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06
Foolish Talk.

Much is being heard in tariff discussions
of an alleged probability that the warning
nations of Europe, as a preparation for t.
tanic trade war after the close of hostilities
are now engaged in piling up immense re-
serves of manufactured commodities with
which they will flood the United States.
Those who put forward such assertions dis
play very little of common sense and logic.
There can be scarcely a school child in the
United States who does not realize that the
TWO contending factions, as typifed by Ger
many on one hand and Great Britain on the
other, are too desperately busy with their
life and death needs to devote much time
and attention to attaining surplus of in
dustrial products.
The crying need of the hour with the bel
ligerent nations is, of course, munitions, and
every factory big and little, within their
domains is working day and night to provide
shot and shell for the men at the front
Every plant which could by the exercise OF
mechanical ingenuity be converted into
munitions factory has long ago undergone
that metamorphosis.
Men must not only shoot each other IN
the existing scheme of European life, but
they must live in order to shoot. They must
have food and clothing, for instance. Not
all of this food and clothing is being i'm
ported from the United States, and such
plants as cannot manufacture munitions are
manufacturing other vital necessities. The
commercial and industrial life of the powers
still goes on-sub- normally, to be sure; but
it goes on just the same, supplying essen
tials which grow more pitifully needful as
the days and weeks go by
Germany and Great Britain are in dis
tress. Leaders on both sides have been
frankly acknowledging it for some time.
Both nations need, as they have never need
ed before. every ounce of raw material and
every ton of machinery they possess, and
thew need it for their own exigencies. 10
turn aside from meeting those fearful needs
and begin, instead, an accumulation OF vast
stores of goods for future trade possibilities
would be not only poor economic theory
but it would spell an almost instantaneous
suicide in the great struggle now progress
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06
Remember the Horse.

The National Humane Society has issued
and circulated list of valuable suggestion:
having in view the welfare Of the horse
(Which includes the mulel, with especial re-
gard to the winter months which are now
upon US. Says the statement, in part:
Don't place a frozen bit in the
horses mouth.
Don't drive dull shod horses on slip
perry streets and roads, and don't abuse
horse that has fallen down.
Don't forget to blanket your horse or
provide comfortable quarters.
Don't whip a team pulling out OF
hole or rough place.
Don't stand horses facing stiff and
cold winds.
1t ought not to be necessary to call atten-
ton to these suggestions, but it is. The
horse is, perhaps, the most faithful of dumb
friends. He does prodigious tasks without
a murmur, for he has no means of regis
tering protest, if he would.
But the fact that nature has neglected to
provide him with means for articulate eX-
preston does not mean that he is without
rights, nor does not appreciate kindness. He
cannot seat himself in close proximity to
fireplace or stove when the cold becomes
oppressive. He must go on, and on, and on
at our command, if we so will. He cannot,
like the biped who has his life and comfort IN
hand, don heavy underwear and overcoat or
leave his task to hover around a fire.
There is something inately wrong with the
man who is Indifferent to the physical condi-
ton of his horse or other dumb animals.
There can be no heartier display of human
than that of the individual who
oauses now and then to consider that his
ourden-bearing equine companion is a Great
ire of flesh and blood, and needs protection
against the same ravages of cold and heat
md suffering which he himself must com
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06
Hogging 1t.

The current issue of the Cairo Messenger
prints a very refreshing and encouraging
item. 1t is to the effect that thirteen car
loads of hogs have been shipped to packing
houses from Grady county this season, and
several more will follow. In the course OF
its article our contemporary says:
The hog industry in Grady county has
grown to large proportions, and is still
growing, some sc, 900 hogs being raised
in the county this year. They are bring
ing into the county vast sums OF money,
and are helping to swell the farmers
bank accounts and help out each and
everyone.
Grady county is certainly "hogging' it, but
in the right way-a way that merits com
mendation and is worthy of emulation. This
Southwest Georgia county is one of the best,
most prosperous counties in the entire state,
and its people have never pinned their fort
une to a single crop, but have diversified,
lived at home and always had something to
sell that other people needed.
Grady county is one place where the boil
weevil is not causing the farmers sleepless
nights
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06
Are Fairs Becoming Corrupt

The following from the Buchanan Trib-
une is we'll worth considering:
Time was when our county fairs were
considered the best agricultural schools the
farmer ever had. In the past they were
places where the farmers could centralize
the very best from the field, the orchard, the
vineyard and the dairy They were headquar-
tiers of meeting points where the most mod
ern ideas on farming and stock raising could
be exchanged and discussed, thereby plac-
ing the people on higher and better plane,
agriculturally.
But how are they today? Why, they are
meeting places of the sharper, the gambler,
and the flim-fammer, and in recent years
when we go to a county fair we come back
home wondering whether or not they are
worth the price, and whether or not our
farmers should continue to foster them. 1t
seems that the tricksters have about swal-
lowed up the county fairs during the past
few years, and that they have about lived
out their days of usefulness.
The one recently held at Bremen was
made up largely of a gang of gamblers
the fellows who were out after getting some
thing for nothing, and in no instance have
we heard of them missing what they were
after.
And the most surprising thing of all was,
these gambling devices were allowed to run
at full sway, in strict violation of our state
laws, and under the very noses, as it were,
of the county and town authorities.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06
Just Think About 1t.

An idle brains a funny thing
The devils workshop it must be;
And don't you think a slanderous tongue
Must be the devils workshops key?
Think about the countless people
That nasty tongue has filled
Full of heartaches and of Sorrows
Hearts that once with JOY had thrilled.
Maybe it's a piece of scandal
Just a harmful tale that's told.
1t will not harm his body, brother;
No, it only kills his soul.
l think know a cure for it
How wish that it could be
That when the devil makes a workshop
He'd forget to make the key.
Dawson, Ga. JOHN E. RIORDAN.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06
Woman Against Woman.
From the Memphis commercial-Appeal.

Since the days of the ancients woman has
been arrayed against woman-not openly,
perhaps, but in her heart of hearts There
have been lasting loves between women,
loves sincere and beautiful; and to contem-
plate woman's love for woman is a reverent
subject to consider.
But such loves are exceptional Women
may on the surface be intimate friends, but
scratch the flesh and the purring of the
tiger will be heard.
The Magdalene finds but little sympathy
in the hearts of her virtuous sisters. No
one knows like woman how to say things
that prick like pins, which burn like acid
and which leave scars that outlive a life
time.
"a man without religion" writes Miss
Evans, "is to be pitied, but a Goddess
woman is horror above all things"
The lowly Nazarene called upon the one
without guilt to cast the first stone. 1t was
He who took the part of the fallen sister,
yet how many are willing to follow His
Christian example to-day! The fallen
woman is looked upon with curiosity, but
when brought in touch with others of her
sex the prompting of her sisters heart is to
lift her skirts aside and let her pass without
a smile of sympathy.
Life is adjusted to the wants of the
stronger sex. There are plenty of torments
through life. Women are, or should be,
creatures of sympathy. They ought to be
more generous with each other There are
usually close friendships among women
which can be shattered in the fraction of q
second when a man crosses their path.
Friendships of lifetime have been de-
stroyed because of a man.
The best of women are invariably more
or less suspicious of each other. The best
of friends at times cannot help saying, with
softest smiles, the most cutting things.
When a woman desires most to hurt another
woman, like the subtle tabby she purrs the
loudest.
Some are so uncharitable as to think that
all women are bad, and yet there are Others
so credulous as to feel that all women are
good. All will grant her corporal frame
the more wonderful, but there will always
remain a doubt in the human mind as to
woman's fidelity to woman.
1t was Victor Hugo who sized up woman
in the trenchant sentence: Men are
womens playthings; woman is the devils"
Unkind, perhaps, but sometimes we are
persuaded to believe that the French philos-
opher, inconoclastic it may be true, was
right We have often heard of mans inhu-
mainly to man, but it is mild when com
pared to woman's inhumanity to woman.
The intuitions of woman are better and
reader than those of man. She decides
more quickly, too frequently without rea-
son, but any woman who is honest with her
self and is honest to others will candidly tell
you that the most dangerous acquaintance !
a married woman can make is female
confidant.
The world is a book of women. Whatever |
knowledge they may possess is more com
monty acquired by observation than by
reading.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06
Worlds Blind ,, 100000

If all the blind people in the world were
brought together they would form a city as
large as Chicago, or, possibly, Paris.
No one knows just how many blind people
there are, for in many of the countries
worst afflicted, China, Arabia Turkey in
Asia and North Africa, they do not care
enough about the blind even to count them.
Our census bureau, on the basis of ascer-
tanned figures covering about half the
worlds population, estimates the total num-
Der as over 100000. Egypt, Cyprus, For
mosa, Uganda, the Philippine Islands and
India, in the order named, suffer most among
the countries for which there are reports.
The United States ranks relatively lower
for the number of blind than all other coun-
tries save Belgium, Germany, the Neither
lands, Canada and New Zealand, yet we
have around 100000 cases, reports the ma
tional committee for the prevention of blind
ness. The worst of it is, fully half those
cases were once entirely unpreventable.
They tell US that the most frequent causes
of blindness in this country are "baby's sOre
eyes," trachoma, industrial accidents, i'm
proper lighting and wood alcohol poisoning.
Brooklyn officials recently discovered sew
eral hundred bottles of Italian cordial which
was about 40 per cent wood alcohol. There
was enough blindness in those bottles for
200 people.
So terrible is the menace of blindness and
impaired sight from trachmoa that irnmi-
grants who have it are absolutely prohibited
from landing in this country.
Within the last ten years nearly 12,000,7
900 aliens were examined at our immigrant
stations Almost $4,000 of them had trach-
oma and were consequently ordered de-
ported. At the same time in single year
over $4,000 cases of the disease were pre-
vented from embarking at foreign ports.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06
Pooling Themselves.

If we didn't know to the contrary we would
believe that the editor of the Macon Tele-
Graph had been a candidate for office. Hear
him:
Running for office is the most decelv-
ing thing on earth. There are men OF
the soundest judgment about affairs IN
general even about themselves, ordl-
narily, who lose all their wits when they
get into a contest for pollt1cal prefer
ment. They imagine every man VINO
smiles at them in passing, who non-com-
mittally wishes them WELL who observes
customary social amenities in the aver
age degree, is going to vote Tor them.
The awakening is generally very sad
tn the candidate who finds that only his
nersonal friends have voted for him ana,
that they did it only because they were
such close friends.
The optimism of candidate usually OBJ
scures his Judgment If the voter whose suf-
frage is sought treats the anxious one courte-
ouslv and pleasantly and does not jar him
ont the front door with an abrupt mo" he Is
Immediately marked down in little book as
one of the chest people," though in reality ne
has made no promise and is under no obhga-
ton. Then, when election day comes around
and Mr.. Voter exercises the right and priv
ilege of voting for the vile and underhanded
opposition. the misguided and optimistic one
Immediately wakes exceedingly wroth and
characterzes him as monumental liar and
worse than a horse thief. But such is poll
tics-when the average candidate is de
feated.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

Grain of all varieties is scarce in the
United States this year-far more so than
a year ago. We are going to neeG bread
in this country next year, and it will cost
far more than now-and its cost is bur
den now If the congress has the constitu-
tional power to prohibit the expectation Of
grain not another bushel of our grain should
leave this country until we see what the
grain yield of 1917 is.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06
Awaited With Keen Interest.

That there will be an early ruling by the
United States supreme court upon the valid
ity of the Adamson (eight hour) law is a
development that is viewed with general sat
isfaction To obviate the menace of rail
road strike the congress, at the request of
President Wilson, enacted the Adamson law.
1t STAYED off the strike, but there has been
doubt from the outset as to the validity of
the measure. 1t suited the men of the four
brotherhoods, of course, but it is general
knowledge that public opinion, as whole,
viewed the legislation with distrust and APP
prehension. 1t may have averted a general
strike. The public will await the action of
the supreme court with interest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06
HOW ABOUT THE FELLOW
WHO TALKS OF "FEENAWNCE?

From the Dalton Citizen.
We are willing to bust hamestring
if need be to think we'll of our fellow
man, but when we run across one that
says "cawn't" and 'lawf" we just sim
ply can't put it across, that's all there is
to it-Macon Telegraph.
Well, he is almost the limit, but how about
the fellow you played hull-gull, hide and seek
and such like games with who goes off for a
spell and then comes back and begins to hand
you out ither and nither when he doesn't
know any bitter than to say, II have saw"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06
WAKE UP, FELLOWS!

From the Fort Gaines Georgian.
Now is a good time for few fellows with
a little money, small pile of gray matter
and whole lot of "git-up-and-git" to start
something in Fort Gaines and make husky
bank roll out of it. Use your confounded
head little for something besides a hat
rack. Wake up You're not mule nor
a burr-head, nor yet a numbskull. All in the
world that's the matter with you is your
brains added as result of too much ''set-
ting"-you're wearing corns in place where
thew ought not to be. Think it over.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

From the cambridge Post-Searchlight.
Talking with country school teacher
few DAYS ago he remarked that our
children were over-schooled and under-edu-
Gated by the modern or so-called progressive
methods employed by the average town
teacher. Bud, did you know that man has
sized up the situation exactly? They are
taught to sing, to dance, to draw, to elocute,
to piroot, and when they get through the
common school grade they can't figure the
odd cents on a load of taters.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

Macons new million dollar railroad ter
minal station was opened Friday. The new
station is one of the biggest things that has
happened to the Central City in long time,
and its occupancy is an event of statewide
interest. 1t is a credit, too, to all concerned.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

1t is not hard to discern the time when
the issues of prohibition and woman suf-
frage, as national questions, will be settled
What movement then will claim public
thought, impel public interest? Watch the
growth and aggressiveness of the socialist
movement 1t will give the American people
material for thought-mayhap for action.
The. socialist movement has made great
progress in absorbing the proletariat, and
will make a good finish. 1t will capture the
bourgeoise here, as it did in France.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

The middleman may, and probably does,
contribute his part to the high cost of food,
but he is not responsible for the entire in
crease by any means. In this immediate
vicinity, moreover, the food question is not
the only source of interest in connection
with the high cost of living. Increased
prices of -four, bacon, potatoes and eggs
heavy enough to be disturbing to the house
holder-almost pale into insignifcance in
comparison with the increased prices of
shoes, for instance. And the increased prices
of shoes are not chargeable entirely to the
retailer or wholesaler, but rather to the man
ufacturer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

Tom Watson has been tried again, and the
result is what was generally expected-his
acquittal and lot of good advertising. How
ever much one may disagree with and dis
approve of Watson's methods the continued
haling him into court on the same charge
will impress one as not far removed from
persecution.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

President Wilson's proposed peace over
lures are said to be arousing considerable
interest in Austria. As matter of fact, if
the truth were known, anything that sounds
like peace will probably arouse considerable
interest in all of the warning nations
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

While cooperating with the consumers in
their fight against the high price of flour the
members of the National Association of Mas
ter Bakers do not fail to warn the public
about another advance on bread which is to
take place January LIST.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

If the DUPONT Powder Company does not
really know what to do with its 100000
profits there is many charitable institution
in this country that would gladly give some
hints to the DUPONT people how to dispose
of their burden, and so save Delaware.
"Gas" Addicks and the DuPonts are too
much for one small state
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

That politics makes strange bed fellows
has been exemplified to peculiar degree up
in Floyd county. Seab Wright, author of the
state prohibition law, and John Bale, intro
Queer of statewide local option law, will
both be members from that county of the
next legislature And they ran on the same
ticket on a local issue.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

The erudite paragrapher of the Chicago
News, after rejecting that it took man 1000
years to discover that he could get his shirt
on without putting it over his head, is in
clined to doubt whether the human race is
so wonderfully progressive after all.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06
ANOTHER INDICTMENT
AGAINST THE BOIL WEEVIL

From the cambridge Democrat.
That pesky little boil weevil is now being
charged with offenses other than ravaging
the cotton crop. The latest sprung on him
is that he is a recruiting agent, and in
measure responsible for the negro exodus.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

The Daren Gazette Honestly believes that
Georgia can get along very comfortably for
the next two years without any politics"
Well, when did Georgia ever do such thing?
And would Georgia be Georgia without poll
tics in two years?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

Shippers blame the railroads for the car
shortage; railroads blame the shippers. The
consuming public may not be quite sure
where the blame is, but it knows the effects
of the car shortage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

Thanksgiving Day has some and gone.
Lucky is the family that could afford tur-
KEY. Our gobbler roasted high.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

Would wooden shoes be much more un-
comfortable than derby hats?" asks an eX-
change. Well, if you wear them on the head
they will be.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

Think of it, children! In four weeks San
ia Claus will make his calls. An information
committee should post him, so that he will
not miss a single home.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

Instead of taking and losing the same
trenches, why don't the respective armies on
the Somme exchange trenches and save the
Yoan2
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

If huge expenditures will make navy the
United States is scheduled for top notcher.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

If those twelve Chicagoans succeed in lv-
ing on Scent meals for two weeks they will
greatly oblige sundry citizens of this munic-
ipality by passing the recipe along.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

Now that Japan has established wireless
communication with the United States it
seems in order for Dick Pearson Hobson to
STAGE another spasm.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

A bride always thinks her husband clever
because he married her.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

The Chicago moving picture owner who
charged two potatoes for admission must
think all his patrons are wealthy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

The SLOWLY rising temperature" predic
ton is bound to enhance the popularity o
the weather man.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

1t looks as if the price of eggs will soon
be as high as that of potatoes
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

A man is a great thing upon the earth
and through eternity; but every jot of the
greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
Walt Whitman.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

With pleasant company, after pleas
ant ride beneath pleasant skies and smil-
ing sunshine that painted the highway
with prismatic glory-the usual mellow
Southwest Georgia autumn-we enjoyed
the delights of regular old fashioned
sugar ''biling" at the farm of Messrs.
Charles and James Wheeler.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06
ovER-scHooLED, UNDER-EDUcATED

Villa will have to be shot again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

Well bet that our friend Davis, of the
Thomasville Press was out counting the 9TH
er night Not much else could inspire the
following:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-06

If we didn't know to the contrary we would
believe that the editor of the Macon Tele-
oranb had been a candidate for office. Hear