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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
Francisco Villa is just about the most
uncaptured marauder on the programme
The Reward of Merit.

The new owners OF the Boston team of
the National baseball league have just sign
ed 2 contract with George Stallings. Geor-
eian who has attained eminence in the base
hall profession. Mr.. StalIings will manage
the Bostonians for the next five years, and
his animal compensation will be 100000.
The figures are imposing. Few men earn
such salaries. If you doubt this name in
your own mind the men who you know are
earning as much. And many there will be
to say that the price is too high, and to ex-
claim commiseratingly that individuals OF
brains and real ability by the tens OF thous-
ands are not being paid in proportion,
But let us not forget that men generally
are paid salaries according to what they
are worth. Miracle Man" Stallings is
probably worth $4,000 a year to the men
who employ him-at least they believe MIN
to be: and other baseball artists like Hugh
Jennings and Ty Cobb draw large pay enyel-
opes because the men who pay their sala-
rfes are convinced they are entitld to such
compensation.
For baseball, mind you, is not philan-
thropic enterprise. There Is no charly
mixed with it, Baseball is a purely business
proposition with the men who own the con-
tending aggregations, and, as in all other
businesses, there is always room at the top.
1t is merely a question of merit, and OF that
merit receiving its financial due.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
NOT A POLITICAL ISSUE.

From the Savannah News.
Lynching is not political issue in Geor-
gia. 1t is folly for any thinking man to say
it is, for when he does say it he intimates
that some responsible candidate for office
is in favor of lynching, and everybody knows
there is no such candidate in Georgia, and
no likelihood of any. All candidates for
office are in favor of orderly trials instead
of mob violence. Does anybody think can
didate for governor, for example could carry
a single county in the state if he wrote a
pro-ynching plank into his platform? VI
course not Then, why all this talk about
lynching as an issue on which candidates
must declare themselves?" If a candidate
for sheriff in a county that had bad repu-
tation for lynching announced that in event
he was elected the boys" could lynch as
much as they pleased for all he cared
would he be elected? What folly to say ne
would. 1t is about time those misguided
Georgans who are thoughtlessly intimating
that perhaps some candidate is in favor OF
Ivnching would wake up to the real defni-
ton of a political issue.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
Back to the People -
From the Valdosta Times.

The Savannah Press has had a good deal
to say recently about what the governor
should do to stop mob violence in Georgia,
and the Press comes very near holding the
present governor to blame for the action of
the Marietta mob some time ago. Somebody
has asked the Press the direct question,
What should the governor do?" and the
Press says that it is fair question, and we
shall endeavor to reply to it,"
Then the Press writes a column and half
on the evils of lynching and of how the
mob-sprit spreads when once it starts. 1t
thinks that Lee, Worth and Early counties
are but echoes of Cobb. About the nearest
the Press comes to giving the remedy for
lynchings, or in showing how the governor
should stop them, is in it's statement that
the governor should make such a strong
expression of disapprOval of mobs that they
would not FORM or words to that effect.
1t thinks that members of mobs ought to be
punished.
After concluding the editorial in the Press
we find ourselves looking, not to the gov
ernor, but to the people-to the courts and
juries-grand and petit-fOr the remedy.
The governor of Georgia could not do more
than was done to find out who were the
Cobb county ''highbrows' that went across
the state and burglarized state prison to
put blood upon their own hands. The grand
jurors of the county diligently inquired into
the act and could find out nothing. The
same thing happened in Lee and Worth.
Similar things have happened in Chat
ham, where certain laws are 'winked at, "
and even high officials said they would not
be enforced. When some fanatics wanted
martial law declared in Chatham and were
criticsing a governor for not taking that
step to enforce prohibition the Times took
the position that the enforcement of law
in Chatham county was a matter for the
courts of that county; that the people there
should be allowed to administer their own
affairs. The most that the governor could
do is to try to create a wholesome public
sentiment in favor of law enforcement. We
believe that all of our governors have done
that None of them have stopped mob vio-
lence, and every administration has been
shocked by it.
Georgians need better educational ad-
vantages. The people mus be taught that
the slow process of legal procedure is the
safe way. They must learn to Judge not
that they be not Judged leaving the ad-
ministration of justice to the constituted Of
ficials. They must know that there is no
such thing as F'unwrtten law" and that the
end of efforts to conceive of such is anarchy,
confusion and disgrace to the state-a con-
dition in which no man is safe and brute
force is supreme.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
The African Gross
From the Utica SATURDAY. Globe.

The opening up of Africa is without par
allel in the history of the world. Inc DARK
Continent of Livingstone and Stanley has
rapidly yielded up its secrets to the intensive
and extensive exploratiO of the last half
century, but above all to the ever encroach-
ing and irresistible wave of European empire
building With the exception Of Abyssinia
and possibly Liberia, there is not foot OF
ground on the great continent that can be
called truly African. Africa is merely a
| patchwork of European colonies and de-
| Tendencies.
The exploration of the territories grabbed
| by the greedy nations has gone hand in
| hand with the determination of boundaries
and often preceded it. The selhshness OF
commerce has led to greater discoveries and
much more extended geographical knoWl-
edge than the altruistic idealistic conquestS
of the Jungle and the wilderness of Spoke
and Burton and their successors. The de-
mands of commerce and of empire nave sup
Dlemented and continued in expected fashion
the work of the mapmakers by giving to Al
RIGA direct means of communication across
the continent from east to west and from
north to south.
The work of railroad construction on
these great transcontinental lines has gone
on despite the war, and now comes the
news that the central route is entirely COM
pleted and that the Cape-to-Ca1ro line is
linked up with the exception of two com
Daratively short sections in Belgian Congo,
Like a huge cross of unequal arms these
two routes lie upon the map OF Africa, SYM
bols of enlightenment and civilization de-
spite their questionable origin.
The great central lakes and the naVlgable
waters of the Nile and Congo have been
made use of to reduce the railroad mileage
necessary for through communication. The
southern part of the Cape-to-Calro system,
the dream of Cecil Rhodes the great empire
builder of South Africa is in operating with
through trains from Cape Town to CambOVe,
in Congo a distance of 1888 miles. rms
leaves 1855 miles of rail to be LAID 10 reach
the Congo at Baykama, whence steamers run
to Stanleyville, a distance of 500 miles. Inc
other uncompleted section is from Stanley
willie to Lake Albert, distance of 34S miles.
From Lake Albert the route is by steamer
down the Nile to the railhead near hhaT-
tum where the Egyptian railroad takes the
traveller through to Cairo. me total dls-
lance exceeds 5000 miles.
The completed transcontlnental route
from east to west is by water and now lay
ing under contribution the Congo and Lu-
kuga rivers and Lake Tayganylka. All put
the last section of $50 miles through Ger
man East Africa from Lake Tanganyika to
the port of Dar-es-Salaam is in Belgian Con-
60 The total length of the route is 5000
miles
The war in Europe will decide the future
of Africa. No matter how the conflict ends
these wonderful achievements will remain
as stupendous monuments of an expansion
of empires without precedent except as the
result of great wars of conquest and or an
advance of civilization that has no parallel
in any like period of time
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
Help! Help!

Help to make the city better.
Help to make the city clean;
Don't be just a constant fretter.
Add some beauty to the scene:
You may not. indeed, be able
To erect a cleaning dome.
But clean up around your stable,
Beautify your little home.
Help 10 make the town attractive.
Help to stop the ones who sheer;
1t will pay you to be active,
Since your interests are here.
Would your backyard stand inspection?
What about the vacant lot?
Rubbish helps to spread detection,
Neatness brings the cheerful thought.
Help to make the city fairer.
You can do it if you try.
And you'll be a profit sharer
In the splendid bye and bye
Don't forget while you are grumbling
That you m ght do something more;
Let there be no future stumbling
Ger distractions at your door.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
Another WhiSkey TRACED
From the Savannah Press.

Some people have been known to say III
IF you let liquor alone it will let you alonS
and that it is an invasion of personal TlsnII
to stop the sale of intoxicants on the grOul
that if a man does not want liquor he av'l
not have to get it.
AS a matter of fact, though, time aL.sl
time it has been clearly demonstrated Inal
liquor will not let those alone who do not ~
it, The greatest victims of liquor are u
often those who have never tasted II.
The Macon tragedy a few nights ago
another clear instance of the danger 'H
lies in whiskey to those who do not use
A sweet young woman, on the way noni
was slain in the street by bullet nred 10
lessly by a man infamed with liquor; d
mattered nothing to the rum soaked 10
crazed young man where the bullets ~
his pistol went. He was having the prov nj
ial good time" of the young man WHO
up with rum and proceeds to do the lo%L
OF course, he will have his apolosh
those who will say that he ought not 70
held strictly responsible for the lhuIu0
the innocent young woman because nc IA
intoxicated, because he did not kno"
he was doing. The excuse ought hol ~ M
permitted to stay the hand of the la" III NJ
Slightest degree. He knew when he put =.
pistol in his pocket and when ne Desan Nd
drinking of the whiskey that lnnalile ..,-on.
that he was liable to commit some q
offense against others. ant
Rum does not let the innocent anon inr,
because of that fact and the genera 20 q:
if does to society, it must eventually "A
other curses go. The girl lying deau IL AZ
con. the broken-hearted parents, lu ,rbd
tressed friends, will be added to thOse 4
have decreed that the end OF the
King Rum must draw to a clos0'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
EDITOR SIMMONS SAD PLIGHT.

From the Telfair Enterprise.
Says The Dawson News in recent
issue: These are gladstone days when
We country editor is at no loss for single
wrappers He gives three cheers for
the dear old Congressional Record each
succeeding press day
Only those who did not oppose their con-
gresham give three cheers for the dear old
Congressional Record each succeeding press
day" Some we know who saw fit to oppose
their congressman two years ago have not
only been dropped from the mailing list
of the Congressional Record, but do not get
any of those choice flower and garden seed
any more.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
A CHANGE is COMING.

From the Savannah Press.
The Dawson News says: accord
ing to a Leesburg Dispatch Judge q. A
Littlejohn, in charging the Lee county
grand jury. was most severe in con-
demnation of the recent lynching
there, and urged that body to use ev-
cry effort to punish the offenders and
help put a check to lawlessness in the
state The grand jury examined a
number of witnesses, announced their
efforts had been futile, and in their pre-
sentiments condemned lynching. 1t usu-
ally ends that way But it will be diff
ferent some time, and that not so long
away The public conscience is being
aroused against the horror of lynch law,
and the mob will then be dealt with
as it deserves.
The News, we believe, is very close to tn
political powers that be in this state, an
we are glad to see it is convinced that dill
ferent sentiment is to be aroused in Geor
gia. We hope this is so, and we join I'll
News in expressing the belief that it is
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
Are People Honest ?

Most people are regarded as honest until
they want to borrow money Then. perhaps
for the first time they are subjected to a
careful and unusual scrutiny which reveals
to the cautious possessor of capital verious
disuuieting weaknesses of character, real or
Imaginary Then, money will reply only
when collateral talks.
But that most people are really honest
is distinctly the experience of the Hebrew
Free Loan Society of New York the pecul-
lar nature of whose business is indicated lit
orally in its title 1t is a concern that builds
up "existencies." For twenty-four years II
has been engaged in the work of putting
people in distress upon their feet without the
loss of their self-respect. A few wealthy
Jews provided its original endowment and
the comparatively small amount of funds
required to keep it going. They are quite
satisfied with the results, and with the
knowledge they have gained Of humanity
unquestionable honesty when it gets any
thing like fair chance.
In 1915 the society loaned 1855. 140 with
out interest Although it was very trying
year for the poor the total losses amounted
to only five-eighths of one per cent In the
quarter of a century of its existence the socl
ETY. has received back over 81 per cent o
its loans from the borrowers, and has haC
to collect less than two per cent from tn'
endorsers. As to the endorsers, these I'M
portant factors of the scheme are dealt witt
principally and almost entirely on the bash
of character instead of collateral. Seventy
FIVE per cent of them have no Commercial
rating.
Are the people honest? 1t would seem SO
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
SKUNKS AND CATS
Fashion and War Bring Strange Resu,,,
The Sale and Wearing of Furs

War is-well, just what General SbarDl
called it; and the place he named is fam
for it's queer devices. Thus it comes an
that because of the present titanic strn,l
even skunks and tomcats are involved
is this way: Lady Clara We're de Vera
has been accustomed to wrapping her Dali
throat in silver fox and seal, is now u
ting her money into hospitals. On the Il
trary, Mrs. John Smith, wife of an ammr1
ton maker, can afford to march pronj
up the street with a skunk skin draped al
her shoulder. All this became eviig
through the action of the buyers of tba
fur sale recently held in St. Louis. ii
don agents bought all the skunk skins M
could get.
Yes, lovely woman will continue to fold
the present fashion of showing her silke1
ankles below the extremity of fur-rimmI
skirts and also swathing her lovely throat
furs.
But even skunks fail to meet the demsI
of this period of extraordinary Requirement
So it is that old gray Tabby who has dol
by the fire, and black Thomas, who n
yowled outside underneath the windoI
were not safe. At the big fur sale 20d
skins of house cats were sold, so do NOT
surprised if self-constituted leaders of sd
ETY. dazzle the eyes of Main street pedes1
ans later on with the notified skins of ma
old alley prowlers, properly dyed and al
tored and draped over their 81 cbif1
waists.
Yep, tomcats and skunks are IT. WI
even the poor little kittens are not safe 4
there were many of their tiny hides sd
to adorn the forms and crafty the whin
of the gentler sex.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
rE THE WORN SHOULD TURN.

From the Albany Herald.
Atlanta printers have induced the city.
council of Atlanta to levy a Incense TAX Oh
S2o0 IN nonresident solicitors of printing.
This reminds us of the sea policy OF Eng
land-hog it aIT-and it is causing printers
in other towns and cities to call on their
respective municipal authorities to give them
ordinances in reprisal. Every town and Guy
in Georgia is regularly worked by solic-
itors representing Atlanta printers and the
Atlanta nrinters will have no right to com
plain if their own example is followed
throughout the state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
A TRUSTWORTHY OFFER.

From the Walton Tribune.
The Dawson News carries an adver-
tisement from an oil mill of that city
advising the farmers that it will install
machinery for extracting oil from pea
nuts and provide a market for them ii
they will agree to raise them in sutfi-
cient quantities. Moultrie Observer.
A praiseworthy offer upon the part OF the
Dawson MILL and one which We doubt not
would be duplicated by other mills should
the farmers agree to raise the peanuts IN
such quantities as to Justify the expendi-
ture.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
WORSE THAN NUISANCES.

From the Cuthbert Leader.
carnival company is in Dawson, and
after inspecting the various attractions Inc
Dawson News declares there is not sin
gle one of them that can conscientiously be
recommended as worthy of patronage. One
is termed indecent. Street fairs, as a rule,
are worse than nuisances, in oar Judgment,
iniuring the places in which they exhibit
morally and financially. We trust that no
s.lch aggregation will be allowed to exhibit
in Cuthbert.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
A DIFFERENT BOARD NOW DEMANDED

From the Hawkinsville News and Dispatch.
The Dawson News advocates putting wo-
men on school boards. There was time
when women were looked upon as being
fit only to serve on washboards, but the man
who holds to that idea now, if such fellow
exists. would be pointed out as a most ig-
norant and undesirable citizen if he should
let the fact be known
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
Southern Farm Tenacy.

With reference to the discussion now Occu-
plying so much editorial space in the newspa-
pers, especially those in the South as re-
CARDS farm tenancy and the matter of rural
credits an interesting table is being printed
showing conditions as they exist
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

1t will be understood, of course, that in a
great portion of the South the percentage
of negro tenants is large-although not so
large as might be imagined, for the reason
that great many negro farm Iaborers are
wage hands, and the number of white farm
ers who would be directly and greatly bene-
fitted by the proper kind of arrangements as
to rural credits is large enough to make such
a measure desirable
Without a doubt the Southern agricultur-
alist needs cheaper money and means Of pro-
curing it without embarrassment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

San Franscico women are said to be put
ting their feet on the bar rails right along
That hardly strikes us as the most desirable
thing in the world; but maybe it is their
idea of equal rights, and We are not going
to be the first to swear out an injunction.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

Governor Harris has said to DR.. Hardman,
in effect, IF you think l am too old and
feeble to be governor of Georgia | now in
vite you to go with me before the people of
Georgia in a series of joint debates and let
the people decide the question for them
selves" That's a challenge the Doctor can
not get around, but he has not yet signified
his acceptance of it. If there are any joint
debates the distinguished disputants are
hereby urged to stage one of their verbal
bombard ments in Dawson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

judge in New Jersey sent man to jail
because he refused to quit chewing tobacco
in the court room, says the Selma Times.
Here the right to chew tobacco in the court
room has never been challenged, and very
little embargo is placed on the promiscuous
distribution of the juice when said chewing
is under way.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
WERE SONS AND DAUGHTERS.

From the Valdosta Times.
prisoner at the state farm has written
Commissioner Rainey to find out how the
human race was propagated if Adam and
Eve had only two children, and both of them
were sons. We leave the question to Rainey
and the 'brethren"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

News of the death of Mr.. Dan G. Hughes,
assistant commissioner of agriculture, last
Wednesday came as a shock, as few knew
that he was i'll. Mr.. Hughes was son or
Congressman D. NJ. Hughes. He was most
likeable man, and his death is deplored by
a wide circle of friends and acquaintance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

Billy Sunday is out in new philippe
against the man who spends his time grab
bling dollars, but most of us who have been
keeping up with Billy's perigrinations had
been under the impression that as a dollar
grabber he has been VIGOROUSLY successful.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

An evangelist is telling his congregations
that the place of future punishment will
be no summer resort. From what we have
heard of it, however, we suspect there will
be some rather warm conditions exist
ing for the diversion of visitors
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
A SENSIBLE QUESTION.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Irwin Cobb says Mexican chile con
carne" was named for an Irishman What
we want to know is who in thunder was the
stuff made for?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
HOW NICE OF HARRY.

From the Darien Gazette
We are rather pleased with the conduct OF
Harry Thaw since his freedom from the asy-
lum and his lawyers. He is keeping per-
fectly quiet; hasn't taken to the lecture plat
form or the stage, and is not writing book.
Good fellow, that.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

Goldberg. the cartoonist, is said to be re-
ceiving a straight salary of $50, 900 year.
The world is wagging along right merrly,
and the dear people are still willing to pay
big price for the privilege of laughing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

Iloyd-George says England has just begun
to fight. England has said this so often
since the war started that it has become
laughable Why not either fight or at least
coin q new phrase.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

Queen WiIhelmina has the mumps, but
the popular ruler ought to be thanktul that
she has nothing more than swollen Jaws 10
contend with at a time when monarchs eV-
erywhere are getting theirs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

1t was another piece of legislative incon-
sistency to change the terms of county Off
GERS from two to four years on the ground
that there were too many elections, and
leave the terms of the governor and other
state officials at two years. State officials
in view of what has been done for county
officials should be given four-year terms
also. and there should be no opposition to
bill to that effect which Mr.. Fowler. of
Bibb, will introduce in the legislature next
summer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23
\ SORRY SIGHT.

/ From the Memphis COmmerciaI-Appeal.
Just now and then you run across New
Years resolution. but it is frayed at the
edges and down at the heel.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

And now the bird dopeists are saying
the dove is in reality a hrst-class scrapper.
This discovery will entail much extra work
on the peace-at-any-price enthusiasts IN
looking up a new emblem,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

Evidently Uncle Andy Carnegie still has
some money to give away under conditions
which appeal to him. He has been reelected
president of the New York peace society.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-23

Colonel House IS still perambulatinE
around in Europe-sort OF a continuous
house-movfng, as it we're.