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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
Fashion and-Limbs.

A Cedar Rapids newspaper comments
frankly and without reserve on the way
certain young women" expose their legs
in public places even in the coolest wealth
er. Not content with exhibiting the "am-
pie rotundity'' of the members in question,
the observant editor asserts, they permit
'glmpses of suffering goose fesh," presum-
ably because of the diaphanous texture of
the hosiery worn cts a great exhibit"
he unblushingly confesses, but he wonders
if the dear girls are compensated for their
sufferings by the attention they succeed in
attracting from the male of the species. He
fears that such notice as is bestowed upon
the show is unworthy, coming, as is quite
likely, from men least worth a woman's
while
But did not the distinguished Cedar Rap
IDS editor look? Surely. And if so dis
eliminating observer, not to say connoisseur,
should on occasion frankly contemplate
street displays in hosiery why is the as
sumption not warranted that other equally
chaste and respectable males may betimes
glance out the corner of an eye upon some
particularly alluring exhibit? Why not
confess IndC All men are CarreQ WIN the
same stick?
Aside from any question of morals which
may be involved in feminine contours, as
they are revealed on the streets, we join in
the wonderment as to why the women dc
it. One would think that consideration Of
comfort would impel women to lower thei1
skirts and wear thicker hosiery in colo
weather. And if comfort did not sugges
that course another thought is that self
respect ought to compel it. But fashion
seems to be the supreme law of women
some women-and what fashion DEGREES
done irrespective of either comfort or self
respect.
Young women who make such unwise ex
hibition of their charms in public do not
in all probability have correct knowledg
of the way they are regarded by thoughtfu
people They do not know how many pee
pie, including some men, blush for them i
che absence of their inclination to blus
for themselves. Many Of the glances whic
are directed toward them are mere glance
Of pity for their ignorance, contempt flo
5heir folly and amazement at the shallo,
vanity which tempts them, than they ar
chances of admiration.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
AS Expected.

After spending $4,000 of good United
States money the committee of congress
charged with the investigation of the
peace" note leak has finally determined
that no official of the government, or any
one directly connected with it, is responsible
for the premature publicity from which
Wall street spectators profted to the ex-
tent of many millions of dollars Notwith-
standing the disappearance of an important
telegram from one broker to another, and
a striking paraphrase of the document itself,
the committee has concluded that the re-
sponsible parties are some newspaper CORE
spondents who made a very remarkably
shrewd guess what was to happen. The
committee should have the formal thanks of
congress for such excellent work, and the
distinguished consideration of all whose
names were involved in the scandal.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
The Hog Industry in Terrell.

That from Terrell county farms and farms
| Immediately adjacent have been shipped
forty carloads of hogs to one packing con-
Germ during the last several months in indie
ative of the countrywide tendency of diver
sifcation.
Only few years ago Dawson was dis
tributing point for shipped meat. Every
week would see hundreds of farmers haul
ing away their wagonload of bacon with
which to feed their tenants, actually bring
ing in product which could have so easily
been produced and chalking up credits rath-
er than debts.
The price paid Terrell farmers for hogs
has been seven and one-half to eight cents
per pound, or about one thousand dollars
per carload, the several shipments aggregat-
ing about forty thousand dollars that has
been brought into the county from this one
source.
The hog industry will promote further di-
versifcation on the local farms Already
there are numbers of up-to-date livestock
farms in the county, and the fact that
many have found hog raising profitable will
cause an increase in the number. Much at
tention is also being given to the finer
grades of cattle, and profits from that source
is confidently anticipated
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
A Marvellous Highz0ay.

The roads built by the ancient Romans
were famous for their durability and the in
genulty of their construction, but nowhere
IN the world is to be found a roadway that
is at the same time so romantic or such a
marvel of construction as the Grand Trunk
road in India. A stately avenue of three
roads In one-the center is of hard metal,
the roads on each side ankle deep in silvery
dust--fringed by double rows of trees, it
runs for 400 miles through the vast north
ern plain which skirts the Himalayas from
Calcutta to far Peshawar, which keeps SEN
tlnel at the gate of Afghanistan. From hor-
lion to horizon it stretches like a broad
white ribbon, as seemingly straight as if
traced by gigantic ruler. Dotted along
its entire length are hundreds of wayside
rest houses, each with its arched and tur-
reted gateway.
For 5000 years the Himalayas have
looked down on this road and have seen it
as they see it today. 1t was the worlds
greatest highway before Rome was Graded.
Alexander the Great led the Greeks along
1t to the conquest of Northern India, and
Buddha himself took his daily walk along
1t centuries before the coming of Christ It
has seen hundreds of generations of men
come and go; yet today it is to the eye ex-
actly the same as in the long-gone years
when Nlveneh was a proud city and our
own ancestors cave dwellers
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
Cheering Someone On.
From the Baltimore SUN.


Don't you mind about the triumphs,
Don't you worry after fame;
Don't you grieve about succeeding,
Let the future guard your name.
All the best in life's the simplest,
Love will last when wealth is gone;
Just be glad that you are living,
And keep cheering someone on.
Let your neighbors have the blossoms,
Let your comrades wear the crown;
Never mind the little setbacks,
Nor the blows that knock you down,
You'll be there when they're forgotten.
You'll be glad with youth and dawn,
If you just forget your troubles
And keep cheering someone on.
There's lot of sorrow round you,
Lots of lonesomeness and tears;
Lots of heartaches and of worry
Through the shadows of the years.
And the world needs more than triumphs
More than all the swords we've drawn
1t is hungering for the fellow
Who keeps cheering others on.
Let the wind around you whistle,
And the storms around you play;
You'll be here with Drawn and gristle
When the conquerors decay.
You'll be here in memories sweetened,
If the souls you've saved from pawn,
If you put aside the victories
And keep cheering someone on.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
PASS A LAW"

From the Macon Telegraph.
Of three great evils-whiskey, the
white plague, and corsets-the greatest
of these is corsets, asserts woman en-
envy of the small waist and tight-laced
hips, who is urging the Indiana legisla-
ture to pass a law prohibiting the man
ufacture and sale of the deadly things
in that state. Georgia has experienced
lot of freakish legislation, both accom-
plished and proposed. Now, who will
be the first to put the corset to rout in
our legislative halls?-Dawson News.
The world is growing better. Now. if en-
lightened public opinion will just force leg
islation against whooping cough, measles ant
scarlet fever, to say nothing of biting one.
finger nails, it will soon be an ideal country
to live in
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
KEEP YOUR EYES ON GEORGIA.
rom the Montgomery Advertiser:

From the Montgomery Advertiser:
1t is well to keep weather eye on Geor-
gia at all times; for Georgia is always in
teresting, more or less. A great state taken
by and large, but like other commonwealth
has its eccentricities. For example: A
Midwife man, rich in farm lands, announces
that he personally, single handed and alone
would be glad to bear the entire expense of
special session of the Georgia legislature
if that legislature will agree to pass a "bone
dry law for Georgia-provided the state
does not feel able to shoulder the expense.
Is the Midwife man a "Nipskillion?" Booth
Harrington describes a ''Nipskillion" as one
who has drunk all the liquor he wants and
doesn't want the other fellow to have any.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

Plenty of home-raised meat for 1917 is
the report that comes from South Georgia,
and also Middle Georgia and North Georgia.
All up and down the state the smokehouses
are full, and smoke wreaths are curling from
the hickory embers where hams and should
ers are being cured. Georgia may be short
on cotton for all future time, as the re-
suit of the boil weevils invasion, but there
will never again be dearth of hog and hom-
my as long as the doctrine of live at home
continues to be practiced throughout the
state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

The Americas Times Recorder has alb.
sorbed the South Georgia Progress, and the
latter excellent paper, which made game
fight, has, like numerous other newspaper
ventures, passed out Of existence. Again
is the fact emphasized that two newspapers
cannot exist in the smaller cities and towns.
The Times-Recorder covered the Americas
field thoroughly, and there was not room
for another newspaper. Americas will be
benefited, too, as the Times-Recorder can
and will be better newspaper.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

Is feedstuff to be bought for livestock?
Not in Terrell county, anyway. Yet, they
can't eat cotton, even if the weevil would
let it grow, so corn, velvet beans, peanuts,
oats, rape, peas and the like will be grown
in abundance. With these facts in mind we
readily see why Terrell county is going to
suffer less than the surrounding country
from the ravages of the boil weeviI She
has diversified in practical way, beginning
on the ground floor with the "porker" as the
foundation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

A "printless newspaper" in Vevay, Ind,
is daily telephone bulletin, which keeps
the population posted as to what is going on.
We have in Dawson several-some wear
skirts and some wear trousers-who have
tlat system beaten all hollow.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

Congress has voted 100000 for an in
vestigation of the high cost of food. Judging
tons by the federal government more good
would come from that huge fund if it were
invested in food for distribution among
the hungry.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
LIFE IN ATLANTA.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
Low-cut costumes, sport" skirts, arm
holes for sleeves, high heels, unlimited and
promiscuous misuse of the telephone, pict-
ure shows, problem" plays, trashy books,
gasoline, public dances, pistols, bullets, ma
ternity hospitals, jails, morgues, tears all
figure in correlation in the modern tendency
of the times.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

Along with livestock and corn, and wheat
and peanuts and velvet beans and pecans
and other crops, which are making this Sec
ton richer and more Independent than ever
before, put down tobacco as another star
crop in the new agricultural methods. Sta
tistics, recently compiled, show that two
thirds of the "Sumatra" wrappers used in
the entire United States are grown here in
Grand Old Southwest Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

A big surprise is the valuation of the es-
tate of the late j. L. Hand of Pelham, who
was reputed to be easily worth million
dollars or more, at three hundred and few
thousand dollars. Reports of tremendously
big fortunes and fabulous incomes are al
ways highly exaggerated. The figure 4 run
through them will generally get the real
truth
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

Now that congress has enacted measure
that will make every dry state "bone dry"
the fellow with thirst will not have a
chance to deal with the mail order house
and the bootlegger. Other good effects, it
is hoped, will be the driving of anti-saloon
league agitators out of business and silenc-
ing time-serving politicians.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

The recent leak investigation, including
fee of $4,000 for Lawyer Whipple, cost
$4,000. The net result for the people was
the finding by the committee that there
was leak.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

A great deal has been said about the
increase in the price of paper. But 'that
amt alp the trouble of the printer. Ev-
cry time the manufacturers showed the
price up a notch they showed the quality
of the stuff down, and now it has reached
a condition that would make patient old
Ben Franklin himself relapse from his anti
profanity philosophy. 1t has no color any
more, and is so fiimsy that breath of air
badly strains it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

Forced to readjust their business meth
DDS, because of the high cost of paper and
other print supplies, practically every news
paper in Georgia, both daily and weekly,
has adopted the cash in advance system of
handling subscriptions, raised advertising
rates and in most instances the price of
subscription.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
GOING OUT AND COMING IN.

From the South Georgia Progress.
The Richland News asserted with justif-
able pride that some eighteen cars of corn
had been shipped from that community with
in week. On cross examination at the
hands of the Southwest Georgian, however,
the News man was forced to admit that
about the same number of cars came in
during the week referred to, only that com
ing in was enclosed in bottles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

Governor Harris made an investigation
on his own hook and discovered that there
were only seven instead of forty-seven
lynchings in Georgia last year, as had been
widely published. Georgia, it seems, has
been outrageously lied upon, and the hys-
terra of some of our own newspapers is
largely responsible for it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

every man his own gardener" is not
ouly good slogan, but suggests a practical
way to pull down the high cost of living,
az well as spelling health and added years
for the man who handles the hoe and the
Ssade
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

The extra sessionists have not yet sue
ceeded in pulling the wool entirely over
Uncle Mats eyes,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

Everybody who got worked up over the
reports of Villas death is now supposed to
get wildly excited over the rumor that Villa
has gone to Japan to enter into an anti
American alliance with the mikado.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

Pet appellations being applied to each
other by the belligerents sound more like
the beginning of good fight than the end
Of one
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

If the new legislature really makes it
'(oone dry" some of those fellows who make
3 living out of jaw-bone prohibition will
get hungry.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

The bakers propose to turn their plants
over to Uncle Sam in case of war Which
proves that the baker is thoroughbred.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06
THEY WERE SOME LUxURIANT.

From the Americas Progress.
Many farmers in Terrell and Lee coun-
ties engaged tobacco expert to show them
how to raise the crop He worked well for
time, collected S. per acre from each of
his employers and suddenly went away,
probably to other and greener fields, if there
be any.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

]. Barleycorn finds trouble threatening
from so many directions that it must seem
useless to essay a defense against any par
ticular attack.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

New York is to be Enclosed in forty-mile
rings of impregnability. But at that Wall
street will not be safe place for the av-
erage man.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-03-06

The surest way to check the high prices
of food products is for everybody to stop
eating, but there are very few who are will
ing to try the experiment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-17
THOUSANDS ATTEND
 ORP HANS PICNIC
Annual Event for East Lake Orphanage Big
 Success

Thousands of Birmingham's citizens visited East Lake park yesterday, where the annual picnic for the benefit of the East Lake Orphans home was held. An immense barbecue dinner was served al clock to the large crowd.
 At about Il o'clock the picnicers began arriving at the park and after an hour and a half the park was surging with those who attended. After the barbecue dinner, games and contests were begun among them being racing, swimming and dancing. Music was also furnished tho crowd.
 The receipts from the annual benefit picnics are the chief support of the Or phan's home and Birmingham responded generously yesterday. The home takes care of needy children 0f all denomina- tions. Expenses during the past year have been unusually large, it has been said, as both clothing and food must be provided for the children.
 The committee on the picnic had all the details worked out in such way that the occasion was success and all the arrangements were carried out smoothly.
 The various attractions in the park di- vided their receipts for the day with the orphans, and this together with the pro ceeds from the tickets sold netted neat sum for the cause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-17
IMPORTANT RULING
 ON CAR SERVICE
Subcommittee Held Impor- tant Meeting and Discussed
 Switching Orders

The subcommittee on car service, with offices in the Chamber of Com merce, held a very important meeting when they assembled all of the audi tors of the various lines in this dis trict in Birmingham and fought out the question of delay in switching or der routine.
 The final decision of the meeting after an all-day session was to allow the loader to issue shipping instruc- tions to switching line. attaching a copy of the instructions to the car. which will immediately start the car moving without having to wait for the bill of lading to be issued Through this process by the time the car has reached the carrier line yards the bill of lading has been issued and the car can be ordered out two to three ten away from the shipping point prior to the change. The delay has hereto fore been from. two to three days on each outgoing car
 The auditors attending were Dam eron Black, Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic. Atlanta; J. F. Shepherd, as- sfstant general auditor Illinois Central, Chicago; George Becker Louisville and Nashville, Louisville Ky; F. C. Freeburg, freight accountant Frisco St. Louis. J. A. Robinson, freight rev. enue account, Southern, Washingto D. C.; F. B. Winslow, Birmingham Southern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-17
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Date of Caldwell Hotel Fire

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 I read with much interest the article in this mornings Age-Herald relating to the Caldwell hotel fire. If left to me I would decide in favor of the Birming- ham man. despite the fact that it would appear that the statement of MT. J. M. Caldwell ought to be final. During the summer of 1892 I lived with my parents on farm near what is now the town of Porter. My father had been to town on business and on his return brought the news of the fire, relating conver- sation with Dr. Caldwell at the time. The matter was further impressed on my mind by the fact that the building across the street owned by Maj. J. w. Johnston, father of Mary Johnston the authoress was burned at the same time. The building was occupied by Stowers Furniture company, and the Perry-Ma- son-Brown Shoe company. At the time of the Caldwell fire the old Panorama building. an odd shaped sheet iron af- Twenty street and First avenue. A little further down the purported 'firSt building in Birmingham was then being used as a blacksmith shop. I think by a man named Lloyd. Next came the News office, a little one-story she'd like building, and then the Steiner bank, built in 1890 and 1S91 a skyscraper for those days. Very respectfully.
 J.R. SHIFT.
 6436 Woodlawn ave, August Is, 1917.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-17
PARKER ID INSPECT GREAT WATERWAYS
 OF SOUTH ALABAMA
Assistant Secretary of the Interior to Inspect States Streams for TranspOr-
 tation Development

The committee in charge of the enter tainment planned for the visit of Walter Parker, the assistant of Secretary of In- terior Redfield, announced yesterday that Mir. Parker will be in Birmingham on next Tuesday, instead of on Monday, as was at first announced He will spend the day here and will be taken over the in dustrial district and shown all the sights of the city. A banquet will be given in his honor at the Tutwiler Tuesday night and an informal luncheon Tuesday at noon in the cafe of the Civic association.
 The trip of MT. Parker to inspect Ala bama's streams and water power will be- gin Monday at Mobile. A big jobbers' convention is being held there that will take up the question of increasing water transportation, which MT. Parker will at tend. Tuesday morning MT. Parker will come to Birmingham. Wednesday morn ing the party win leave for Cordova and take a private launch for Tuscaloosa. Thursday morning the party will go to Montgomery, where the day will be spent. Thursday and Friday the party will be in Selma and Demopolis.
 The three great rivers of south Ala bama, the Warrior, the Alabama and the Tombigbee, will be inspected. Estimates of the water possibilities of the entire state will be gathered and carried to Washington.
 United States Chief of Engineers Black has specially detailed A. A. Poland, a government engineer, to accompany MT. Parker on his trip. All the government engineers along the route have been asked to give all the aid they can to the party
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-17
MRS. HENRY WOOD
 MAKES STATEMENT

Charged with driving her automobile at speed in excess of the limit pro- vided by the city ordinances, Mrs. Henry Wood of Ensley, was fined $5 in the re- corder's court yesterday morning. Mrs Wood stated last night that the arrest and subsequent fine was very unjust and bitterly denied that she violated any of the traffic ordinances of which she stated she was familiar. She was stopped Wednesday morning by Motorcycle Off, cer Drake. and refused at that time to either sign bond or give her name and was later taken to the city hall where the bond was signed.
 T had done nothing to be arrested for and in my indignation I refused to sign the bond,' said Mrs. Wood. There was no evidence against me except that of the officer and the court chose to take his word against mine The facts of the case are that as I was rounding the cor ner of Sixteenth street and Third avenue the policeman nearly ran into my ma chine. I told him he ought to be more careful and drove away. I was astounded when he followed me up and stated he would have to put me under bond for speeding, and declined to sign bond. l really believe he was peeved by being reprimanded by woman.
 At the trial the officer swore that I was driving at speed of 45 miles an hour and that I ran by a street car with the gates open. This statement I positively denied and do yet. If this were the case, it seems to me that an officer actuated from sense of duty. would have preferred more serious charge than that of exceeding the speed limit"