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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
AVICTORY WORTH WHILE.

Although at the last the issue was senti-
mental the defeat of the censorship clause
of the espionage bill will pass as a worth
the question was finally presented the con-
gress had to decide whether it would give
to the administration censorship regulation
that might be overworked, or whether no
legal censorship should be established Con-
gress decided to take no action believing
that the newspapers could be better trusted
TO apply voluntary censorship than the ad-
ministration could be trusted to enforce ar
bitrary control over publicity channels. In
way the vote against censorship was a vote
of confidence in the newspapers.
Evidently, in the first place, the espion-
age bill was conceived with mistaken idea
of a proper exercise of executive power in
war times. In effect it was proposed that con-
gress should delegate to the president and
his associates the power to suppress any ac-
tivities which they might decide to be mimi
cal to the military interests of the country.
Included in this sweeping grant was pow
er to punish newspapers for any sort of pub
LEGATION that might not meet with the APP
prevail of the censorship authorities In
many respects the bill was so drastic as to
amount to virtual suspension of the free
press and free speech guarantees of the
constitution. AS finally passed it specifies
the offenses which are to be penalized, and
omits the censorship clause altogether.
The newspapers of the United States are
now voluntarily observing regulations pre-
pared by press committee on public in
formation. These regulations suppress vari-
Gus classes Of news that would probably be
Of military value to the enemy. 1t may be
that in the future some newspapers will re-
fuse to cooperate with the government in
its effort to prevent publicity for facts that
might prove of service to the enemy. Any
fragrant otfense of that kind might be pun
ished under the general laws against giving
aid and comfort to the enemy
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
The Leading Soprano.
From the Omaha Times.

There is certain kind of unearthly
screening called fashionable singing"
Ever hear any of it? If not, you've missed
a treat. Just go into almost any city church
on Sunday morning and they'll give you
sample of it.
Here's how you viii know when it's COM
ing:
You'll see somebody go to the piano or
pipe organ and begin to claw over the KEYS
like puppy digging at a gopher hole Then
you'll see young lady march out on the
stage with her arms full of sheet music and
her face set like the time-cIock on a bank
vault. She stops and gazes over the audi
ence as sOlemnly as convict going to the
electric chair Then she unfoIds her music
and begins to pucker her mouth till it looks
like the blossom end of a shriveIed cucum-
Der. Everybody holds their breath. Some
thing awful is about to happen
Suddenly the young lady's mouth opens
like the nOse-end of tobacco pouch. and
you hear a noise that sounds like pulling a
yard of bologna sausage through tin horn.
Her eyes seem to bore through the cei1ing
like two left-handed gimlets, and her throat
works like frog swallowing a Junebug.
Her voice seems to have been made of Joints
and put together with brass rings, and it
rattles against her Adams apple like drag
ging log-cabin over a bridge
The audience leans forward and drinks it
in like a young catbird eating a worm. Of
course, nobody understands a word Of the
song; if they did the song would be a fail
ure. 1t would not be fashionable singing"
The only thing required of you is TO SIT
there like a chicken with the gapes and
drink it in. Let it run in at both ears and
ooze out through the pores Of your soul
The singer stops to get her breath, end
to wait for the audience to catch up The
organist hits the instrument in the face 4
few times like niger beating out peas,
and then they sail in again. Ljckity-split
they go, up and down the scale, IKE two
hound dogs after rabbit, and all the while
the expression on the singers face looks
like mixture of cramp collie toothache and
sneeze.
Once in awhile the jointed melody comes
in such volume that it almost jars the shin
giles loose, and then it fades away TIL it
sounds like the little end Of a cat-fght tap
ering off to nothing
And when it is all over you 90 home feel
ing like somebody had run a woodrasp over
your sore tooth. But it is the Fashion. YOU
know, and Fashion is a great old gal
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
CAN RELY ON THE FARMERS.

The News is not going to run the risk
OF perhaps wearying the farmers and house
wives who read the paper by over-much ad-
vice, even as to suggestions as to what they
should do in the matter of crop planting
the nature of crops how much to plant
how to cultivate, ETC., etc The News knows
the farmers of Southwest Georgia fairly
well, and has confidence in their sound COM
mon sense. Every farmer in this section
who controls the acreage he handles and
many tenant farmers, understands the sit
uation and how it affects his own and the
country's interests, and we are willing to
trust him to do what is sensible and needed.
The News tries to print matter which it
believes will be of interest and value to
farmers in general, and this with an eye to
the situation, but, as said above, we do not
propose to go on the theory that the aver
age farmer stands in need of extra advice
from the rest of US. We believe our farmer
friends and neighbors are competent tc
Keep IN the middle of the road, to speak fig
uratively, and that they will plan anC
achieve with level heads and good results
III Is not meant to intimate that much Of
the expert information put at the dispose
OF farmers is not valuable, for it is. We car
cheerfully say to the farmers that the co
operation of the state college of agricul
lure and the state department of agricul
lure IN the pursuit Of farming merits ap
probation, The intelligent farmer will no
ignore these agencies of information. Blu
we say again that those of us who ar
not farmers need not fear to rely on tn
common sense and patriotism of those VIII
N are tillers of the soil
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
Peace, Purity and Love.

When mother earth is wrapped in silence
And everything is stiil
When the sun has hid behind the sunset
At the echo of His will;
When each little bird has wandered
To its respective nest,
IT'S then we lay aside our tong.
And seek the pleasure "rest."
An day we have been toiling,
For what reason some of us don't know.
But we hope that from each little task
Some great good may grow
Something that viii make someone.
Who is weary and sad,
Just forget all their troubles
And be so very, very glad
When we look back upon TODAY.
Oh that we might say,
Il have tried with all my might
Some of the wrongs to right
Of wrongs we can say,
There are an awful MANY"
But let's begin now to chase them away,
And soon we won't have any.
Then what glorious world we
Will all live in,
When peace and love forever
Shall blend
Where purity and grace 90
Hand in hand,
And goodness forever shall
Cover the land.
Dawson, Ga L. N. D.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
NOT IN TERRELL

''Will hunger Gomez" queries a contem-
porary, which says eff the people of this
country persist in living on the same ex-
travagant scale of former years we, as a
nation, will strike the rocks"
Well, hunger won't come, to any appre-
cable extent, to the people of Terrell coun-
ty. Never in the history of the county has
there been so much to eat in it. There are
more hogs and cows, and corn and hams
and bacon than ever before, and there
has just been harvested the largest and
best wheat crop the county has ever grown
There have been shipped out of the coun-
ty the past year more food and feedstuffs
than have been shipped into it. A wholesale
grocer informs The News that not a carload
of oats, hay, corn or meal has been brought
to Dawson in more than a year. whereas,
only a few years ago these commodities
could not be got fast enough, it requiring
several carloads of each a week to supply
the demand. No meal at all is now shipped
here, as jobbers buy from local mills that
grind Terrell county corn.
And this already very desirable condition
will be improved another year Never be-
fore were there as many acres planted to
corn and other food crops, to say nothing of
thousands of acres in peanuts and velvet
beans, with several local mills to convert
them into merchantable products and thus
enlarge the supply Of feedstuffs and in
crease the farmers bank account and add
to the independence and prosperity of the
people generally.
Great is Terrell county
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
Snake Farms.

1t would seem odd to buy 3 piece of
ground and start a snake farm, but there is
money in snake culture. The snake season
has just opened in Arizona and Texas and
Northern Mexico. Some persons may not
know that there are ranches in the great
southwestern part of the United States
whose business is fattening rattlesnakes and
other reptiles for market. The market for
these creatures is an active one, including
museum proprietors, circus men, side-show
actors, geological devotees, and also chem
ists who are after the various snake poi
sons.
The best known of the snake ranches. the
Armstrong ranch, near Brownsville, Texas,
consists of ten acres of land surrounded by
high, smooth board fence, the fence being
constructed in a manner to prevent the es-
cape of any wriggling wanderer. In this
enclosure are pens for different classes of
reptiles, each of the pens holding at least
1000 snakes. A fat RATHER will bring more
money than lean one, for snakes are sold
by the pound. Consequently, the snake
rancher's work is to make his charges com
Portable, and fatten them to the extent of
his ability. Then, when the buyer comes
along, or writes for his shipment, the snake
poison is scientifically extracted from the
boarders who are about to leave the farm,
their poison being kept in bottles for chem
lists and physicians; and the rattIers go
forth to their new home and new expert
ences as harmless as pet canaries.
1t is surprising how intelligent and af-
fectionate these snakes become when their
poison has been discharged and their fangs
and poison bag extracted. They are as do
Gle as kittens then, and it is a fact that
many of the so-called snake charmers of
the museum or circus become as devotedIy
attached to these bright-eyed gentle crea-
lures as men and women in the ordinary
walks of life are fond of their dogs or other
household pets
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
The Negro In The North.

The following very interesting article is
an editorial from recent issue of the Chi
cago Tribune, rank republican sheet which
has, more than any other newspaper, berat-
ed the South because of the negro:
BLACK MAN STAY SOUTH!
"They say down south that ringers are
all right in their place. but where is that
place? South? At Memphis Tenn, negro
was recently burned alive North? At East
ST. Louis, ILL.,, negroes are mobbed, beaten
and run out of town.
eve taunt the south with race prejudice
when it burns a bad Niger but just see
how the northerners detest even good Mig
gers! The real race prejudice is ours Our
very philanthropists betray it. They say to
black man, God bless you, goodbye
whereas the south says '-- you come
here! or put it this way: The northerner is
a great friend of THE negro but not of A
negro; the southerner is a friend of A ne
gro and not of THE negro.
Prof. Munsterberg once described the
race as passive at every turn of fortune
yet within the last year negroes by the thou
sands have actively undertaken to find
place for themselves. They have come
north. 1t was a huge mistake They escape
barbarous punishment for their occasional
crimes while winning no appreciation for
their habitual virtues. They are disliked
When their presence becomes burden, as
at East st. Louis, they are abused.
sit is on these terms only that they enjoy
the longed for liberties of the north-its
social equality, for instance. But do they
really enjoy that? Our observation goes to
show that the negro is happiest when the
white race asserts its superiority, provided
that sympathy and understanding accom-
pany the assertion. Not long ago a Virgin
ian noticed very gloomy black porter in
a northern hotel, and learning that the ne
gro had come from Virginia, said, You --
black fool, go back to Virginia. The
reply revealed much: %, Cunnel, denis de
fust kind wuds OATS been spoken to me since
all come up noffv
Southerners insist that the niger must
be kept down They enforce the color line.
Yet they will work side by side with me-
groes, befriend them in adversely and over
look their minor failings. They do not hate
negroes. In their hearts they like them.
Said Dooley: Pm naught throubled whin the
naygur IS amongst his oppressors, Hinnessy,
what throubles me is whin he falls into til
hands iv his liberatorsT
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
WORK FOR THE REFORMER.

From the Lyons Progress.
Let no one suffer under the delusion that
with the. passage of the "bone-dry' law
there will be nothing else for the profess
sional reformer to do Let no one forget
that the people of Georgia are spending
twice as much money to-day for coca-ccla
and other soft drinks as they ever spent for
whisky. If this is not job for the reform
er we don't know why And there's cigar
cite smoking, tobacco chewing, snuff dip
ping, corset wearing, joy riding on Sunday.
and divers other evils that are growing all
of which demand the early attention of the
legislature and congress. Congress and the
legislature have a perfect right to regulate
or prohibit these evils and will probably do
so within the next few years There is al
ready on foot a campaign against cigarettes
and coca-cola, which will likely occupy the
attention of the next legislature A bill is
now before the Indiana legislature which
prohibits the wearing of corsets in the Hoo
sier state. Bills are pending in several states
which prohibit tobacco chewing and snuff
dipping. Those who believe the passage of
the "bonedry' law legislated the reformer
out of job are going to find out that they
are badly mistaken
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
THE WHITE HOUSE PICKETs.

From the New York World.
When Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait, as head
of the National Woman Suffrage association.
urged the leaders of the national woman's
party to withdraw their pickets from the
White House gates she appealed to their
common sense. Their fiat refusal the more
proves their wrong headedness.
Having started wrong, by sticking it out
they seem to think their conduct is sub
timely heroic. $50 to Washington and pick
ct if you have to sacrifice the shoes on your
feet" is their silly advice to women who
are sacrificing woman suffrage.
Nothing more ridiculous or futile has been
attempted in the name of suffrage than this
campaign to harass the president Day after
day the banner bearers stand at their posts
The federal amendment that congress was
to be dragooned into passing is no further
advanced than it was six months ago when
the woman's party conceived the magnificent
project of wasting its followers time and
money in farcial performance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
A RAW DEAL TO NEWSPAPERS.

From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
When the government places a tax on
newspaper advertising will it pay the news
papers for the column after column of adj
vertising they give the government daily?
Of course, the newspapers are willing to
help the government in every way they can,
but why should they be made to pay tax on
their advertising unless other lines of bust
ness are going to be taxed on the amount
of business they do? The advertising is the
chief source Of income of the newspaper.
Why should the newspapers be called upon
to bear this burden if others are not includ-
ed? Probably no other institution does more
for the government than the newspapers,
and yet they seem to be getting a pretty
raw deal at the hands of congress.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
SECRETS OF THE WASTE BASKET.

If the local newspaper should some day
print the contents of the waste basket there
would certainly be a riot in the homes of
most of its readers. There would be ar
rests in many directions, shotguns in others,
and trouble all around. But the patron
never sees the waste basket; he only
chances at the printed pages, and growls
if there is one letter upside down, or one
name happens to be wrong; frowns because
ehe editor did not take his advice about
things, and he is generally disgruntled. He
knows his share of the waste basket, but
if he could see the contributions to that re-
ceptacle he would be thankful for the ex-
5stence of a man who does not print all he
knows, and to temper that which he does
print.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
Tell the Editor.
From the VaIdosta Times.

from the NatdoSta lines.
The newspaper man is blamed for whole
lot of things he can't help, such as using
partiality in mentioning visitors, giving news
about some folks and leaving others out.
He simply prints all the news he can find.
Some people inform him about such things
and others do not. An editor should not be
expected to know the names and residences
of all your uncles, aunts and cousins, even
if he should see them get off the train. Tell
us about it. It's news that makes the news
paper, and every man, woman and child can
be associate editor if they only will. Never
apologize when YOU give this bit of informa-
ton, for if there lives one so dead that he
has lost appreciation for such favors he is
dead indeed to every virtue that imparts
value to a newspaper.
1t is unfortunately true that some of the
most worthy and most deserving people fail
to receive proper attention by the press be-
cause of their unwillingness to make known
the facts about themselves, even while GER
tain of the undeserving succeed in keeping
themselves in print all the time. These re-
suits cannot be prevented in all cases by the
publisher. There is only one way to prevent
this injustice, and that way is to tell the
editor. Do not be squeamish' BECAUSE some
body else is otherwise.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
DRIVING THE NEGRO OUT.

The News prints on this page a very il
Eliminating and interesting editorial from
that long-distance friend of the negro and
apostle of race equality, the Chicago Trib-
une, Ga newspaper which more than any
other has heaped abuse upon and maligned
the South in which it advises the black man
to stay in the South where he is understood
and has friends The editorial was sug-
gested by the recent riots in Cincinnati,
New York and st. Louis, where angry mobs
surged through the streets with all the fury
of unbridled race hatred and vindictiveness,
wounding, Staying, intimidating and using
other arts neither soft nor persuasive to
convince the negro that he is not wanted
in the North. AS the Macon News says:
cit is a pitiful and revolving specta-
Gle, but it is a striking illustration of
the kind of welcome the negro may eX-
pect in those centers to which the mis-
chievous labor agent would send him
and has sent him by thousands
'"The lesson will not be lost on the ne
groes of the South. Most of them know
full WELL down in their hearts, that
they have no friends such as the South
ern people"
The negro, so long misIed by agitators
and meddlers far away from them, are now
learning that their real friends are the
Southern people. Another thing they must
and will learn is that the future well
fare and progress Of the black race depends
not upon mans laws and the false promise
of social equality but upon the fitness of the
race to undertake responsibilities and per-
form them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12
Censorship,
From the Savannah Press.

Official announcement of the safe ar
rival at Russian port of Mr.. Root and
his associates is the first intimation that
the American people have had, through
their newspapers, that the members of
the mission to Russia had left the Unit
ed States. The strictest enforcement
of a censorship law could accomplish
no more in the way of suppressing I'M
wise publication of fact than the press
of this country has done in this matter
of its own free will.-New York Times.
The newspapers of the United States
worthy of being called newspapers, respect
the wishes of the government in
with the present war situation
The press may be depended upon to keep the
secrets of the nation safely
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12

The happiness of this world cannot be
measured by mere fieeting pIeasures-the
vanishing intoxication of a moment. To be-
lieve so is grievous error. Human joy re-
poses in obedience to natural and spiritual
laws in always feeling glad for things that
contribute to the common g1adness; in feel
ing grief and resentment for the things that
nurture the misery and blindness of man
kind. 1t is just as important to hate lie
as it is to love a flower.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12

Up to date congress has gone no further
toward real food control than to provide
for some Investigations and Surveys" at
a cost of good many million dollars. This
is one of the favorite congressional cures.
but a remedy that cannot cure.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12

The person who is disposed to be against
something should be careful to select some
thing that he can be against without bump
ing into the laws of the United States of
America. Although congress has been pref
ty busy lately quite a number of things are
still left in the category.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12

If every man, woman or child took his
or her per capita share of the loan each
would have q $40 bond at the conclusion
Of the distribution. AS only those who have
managed to keep somewhat ahead of the
high cost of living are going to subscribe,
however, you should not worry about being
asked to take less than the whole $50 for
which you have subscribed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12

1t may be interesting to figure the value
of Georgia's cotton crop at the present mar
ket price of twenty-five cents pound But
the farmers will not get that price for their
cotton. Under the system of trading IN fu-
lures the price Of cotton is always down
when the farmers have cotton, and up when
they haven't any cotton. This is one thing
the war may help to remedy. The farmers
are entitled to reasonable profit on their
proucts, something they seldom have COTTON
before.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12

The legislature will convene two weeks
from to-day, and on the Saturday following
Governor-elect Dorsey will be inaugurated.
1t viii be a plain, unostentatious Inaugural
ton without fuss or feathers, and The News
predicts for the state one of the best admin
istrations in its history Mr. Dorsey is Just
plain Georgia folk with recognized ability,
unquestioned backbone, and plenty of horse
sense.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12

Some of the boys who protested against
conserving the corn by shutting off the
manufacture of bourbon would be willing to
compromise on an arrangement that would
enable man and beast to eat the corn now
devoted to the manufacture of collar stiff
ening material.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12

Personal appearance is something which
no one but genius can afford to overlook
Some people may be so brilliant that they
can afford to ignore this important factor
of success, but the average individual is
obliged to take it into account Personal APP
pearance goes a long way; too long, per
haps, but it has to be reckoned with. Other
things being equal the man or woman Of
attractive appearance will generally leave q
shabby competitor far behind
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-12

For that matter the anti-draft talk of
1917, such as it is and what there is of it,
seems pretty tame by comparison with the
anti-draft riots of 1862. If the anti-draft
spouters of to-day have any doubt about the
sticking qualities of the draft it might pay
them to look up what happened to the riot
ers of the early CO.'S.