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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28
THE PEOPLES RULE.

The esteemed Dawson News, usually
fair and always interesting, is defend
ing the county unit system, being one
OF the few newspapers in Georgia that
sees anything worth commencing in the
Neill primary law.-Grifin News and
Sun.
Thank you. But we're not willing to con
cede your accuracy as to the county unit
We have pretty large list of exchanges
each one of which we look through every
week, and our observation is that compare
lively few of the newspapers of the state
have commented on the Neill law either one
way on the other. Those which have are
about equally divided for and against it.
Our contemporary, we opine, will not
deny that the people-the people of the
country counties-are very much in favor
of the county unit, which they look upon
as their safeguard their protection against
the combined votes of organizations in
the large cities and city mobs purposely
assembled in convention halls to applaud
while politicians, men mad with partisanship
and power, operate the steam roller, crush
the opposition and throttle the voice of the
minority
That the people want the county unit
has been demonstrated more than once in
a manner that should convince even our
Griffin contemporary. Two legislatures
passed the law-the one just adjourned by
the overwhelming majority of III to 40 in
the house and "a to in the senate, and
members who made speeches against it cast
their own votes for it with the explanation
that their people wanted it. Furthermore,
the governor who vetoed the same law a
year ago and made it an issue in his cam
paign for reelection was badly defeated
while the candidate who made it prominent
in his platform was overwhelmingly elect
ed. If this is not enough to satisfy our
brother as to the attitude of the people in
regard to this question we can give him
more.
With but one or two notable exceptions
party nominations have been made in Geor
gia under the county unit plan from time
immemorial and in our opinion it will be
long time before it viii again be otherwise
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28
THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR.

With this issue The Dawson News enters
upon its thirty-sixth year, all but five of
which it has been owned and edited by the
present publisher. The full import of this
brief statement is apparent only to readers
conversant with American journalism These
show that only one newspaper in three hun
dred lives more than one year, and that on
ly one in hundred lives more than five
years. Newspaper publishing, dependent as
it is on the favor and support of the public,
has been precarious business. The news
paper that attains its majority is remark
able, and the one that lives longer is ex-
ceptional, so the News entrance upon its
thirty-sixth year is an event worthy of COM
ment.
1t is difficult to realize that it was full
thirty years ago that the first issue of the
paper under the management of the writer
made its appearance. There is some senti-
ment in the thoughts that come to mind as
we write, but we shall not concede any time
to sentiment. There is in the thirty-fve
years existence of The News no secret of
longevity; our one effort has been to win
public favor and to retain it. This has been,
done by giving our readers a newspaper of
both quantity and quality, and of excellence
in typographical and press execution.
All who read or have read The News will
concede that it has utilized the years of its
life for progress, and it is hoped for use
fulness to its home town, section, state and
society. On these features The News is con-
tent to abide the judgment of those who
read, those who know it. Never once in its
thirty-fve years of existence has the paper
undertaken to exploit the public, or any
politician or public man. It has consistently
sought to promote the greatest good to the
greatest number, ''to inform, entertain and
teach highest moral and social principles. "
to protect the rights and freedom of the
people. Absolutely independent, doing its
own thinking and fearlessly expressing its
thoughts The News expects by merit to con-
tinue to unlatch the doors of the homes of
Terrell county and this section
In the plans and aspirations of the man |
agement the year and the years ahead are
hoped to be the most active, most marked |
by interest and usefulness the paper has
ever known. We regard The News as an
institution of Dawson, of Terrell county, of |
Southwest Georgia-an asset of society.
means to ends worth striving for-and it !
shall be our purpose to mark the thirty-sixth |
year by the advancement and progress which
have characterized each previous year of its
existence
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28
1000 Children Studying Latin;
500 Agriculture and Health
From the Progressive Farmer.

Lie is poisoning out in rural Denmark
poisoning IN the sunshine Of such favorable
educational influence. The question is wheth-
er life is poisoning out under the educa-
tlonal practices now in force here in the
South. Take the rural high schools of one
Southern state-using North Carolina as an
example, since that is the only state from
which we have been able to obtain figures
and what are the children studying? Ac-
cordlng to the latest reports 6,967 are study
ing Latin and only 636 are studying, agricul-
ture-and this in country high schools! Of
the 40 subjects listed more boys and girls
are studying Latin than are studying the IT.
erature of their own tongue! More than ten
times as many farm boys and girls are studv
ing Latin as are studying agriculture, the
work to which most of them will give their
future, or as are studying physiology. the
SCIENCE OF keeping their own bodies in
heaIth! subject like economies is taught
only TO 4O and music and singing enlist less
than 400, while nearly 1000 coniugate Latin
verbs and parse Latin sentences with no
prospect of ever going far enough with Latin
10 get any real culture from its literature.
IN the Joyous, buoyant life of rural Den
marx we have one picture-a picture of life
poisoning and bearing fruit under a high
school system that "sheds light on daiIv
lie" and emphasizes social features-Iect-
ures, debates, singing athletics! In our high
Schools children are porting over Latin books
ana gong back to work disheartened he
cause the schools "repressed their noble
rage and froze the genial current of the
soul"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28
AN OMNIBUS SITUATION IN CANADA
oRpo.ion Enforced Military Service Developments. of Grave Nature

Strong talk of French-Canadian secession
from the Dominion to form a separate col
ony or even a separate republic, shows how
the rift in the Canadian Lutte has been wild
ened by the cOnscription issue French-Can-
adams appear determined to make their on
posltlon 1eIt IN as strong manner as they
are able. At first sight saw the ENGLISH
Canadian papers, it seems difficult to under
stand the attitude of these children of Old
France, who might be expected to throw
themselves into the cause of their mother
land with enthusiasm in this hour of her
need but, they say, thanks to the complete
civil and religious liberty that Britain has
accorded to the inhabitants of the Province
OF Quebec they have preserved their French
characteristics while losing all sympathy with
France, whose anti-clericaI policy of recent
years has been anathema maranatha to these
devout sons of Mother church Indeed. the
Engllsh-speaking press of Canada tell us that
the Catholic clergy are, in part, responsible
for the attitude of the French Canadians:
ana there seems to be something in the
charge II the views of La Croix of Montreal,
Catholic weekly of large circulation. re-
fleet at all the clerical attitude 1t advo-
Gates the separation of the Providence of
Quebec from the rest of Canada, as a meas
ure of retaliation for the conscription issue.
and says
From being the pioneers of this beautiful
of
race which gpretends to be superior. but
which is nothing more than the modernized
products of the rapacious Jew. What adj
/ vantage, minimum though it be, have we got
from confederation?
eve have worked hard and it has all
gone to enrich the Anglo-Saxons. We are
already crushed by an enormous debt. and
today they wish to impose by force a law
as unconstitutional as it is anti-Canadian
which will send our sons and brothers To
the European butchery like so MANY cattle
And no one speaks of breaking this
odlous regime which binds us to the chariot
whees OF the conqueror. How sweet il
would be to live in Lower Canada. sepa
rated from Upper Canada-vet subject .,
at present to the British Grown"
Another of the Montreal papers also 9
French organ, Ideal Catholique. goes furth
/, err and openly breaches secession bv advo
eating a trench-speaking republic on thu
banks OF the st. Lawrence, which would b.
, IN the happy position of being able to i'm
pose taxes on the exports of Ontario passint
down the great river to the outside world
1t says:
In many quarters it is being asked wheth
er autonomy for Lower Canada could effect
Vely help the French-Canadians spreat
u through the English provinces of the Yves
e and Ontario
: Our voices under autonomy would be in
t dlsputably stronger because more independ
:, ent and Tess hampered by the shackles tina
our enemies might put upon us here b
threatening us with severe penalties if W
d dare to speak too loudly or too strongly.
n Is one of the numerous faults of the Emo
lIsh that they prefer to treat with a strang
power and accord to the power what If dc
l. mands when their own interests are 8
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28
White Men in The Tropics.

One reaSon-an important one-Why
white races are unable to live in the tropics
is that they have not enough sweat glands.
The sweat glands are the refrigerating APP
paratus of the body; they draw water from
the blood and pour it out upon the surface
of the skin, where its evaporation keeps the
temperature of the body down. That is why
we make person with fever perspire pro-
fusely-it lowers the temperature. In draw
ing off the water the sweat glands draw off
also many impurities from the blood, but
their most important function is the regu-
latlon of the temperature of the blood
Two University of Chicago students, Ell
bert Clark and Rushkin H. Llamon, made
a count of the sweat glands in the several
races in the Philippine islands. This they
have just published.
Their report shows that for every cent?
meter of the skin area on the fingers white
Americans have SGT; Filipinos, 653: Moros.
684; adult Negritos, 709; Hindus, 1888, and
Negrito youths and children $50.
AS all the sweat glands are fully formed
at birth and their number remains the same
throughout life the greater number found
among the Negrito youth is no doubt due
to corresponding difference in size of indi-
viduals; as the body grows the skin area
increases and the glands become more dis
persed.
1t is evident that 100 sweat glands will
pour out nearly 27 per cent more perspira-
ton than will 558; therefore there will be
~ per cent. more evaporation and so the
Negrlto is comparatively comfortable in a
tropical heat that the white man finds al
most unbearable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28
GERMANY MUST PAY

The so-called peace movements, all of
which with almost one accord propose that
everybody quit fighting and leave matters
as they were and are now, are very much
out of order. A "peace without annexation
and without indemnity may sound like Iof-
ty music to the ears of some people, but the
hiss of Satan is in it to every honest hater
of German infamy.
Germany must make restoration. Ger
many has danced the dance of death in
many lands, and Germany must pay the fd-
der Germany has levied indemnities upon
Belgian cities She must pay back every
penny Of those thefts with interest. Every
dollar Of German destruction in Belgium,
Serbia and Rumania must be made good by
Germany. There are debts innumerable
which Germany can never pay, but such
debts as money can discharge Germany
must pay. There can be no peace on any
other terms, for peace on any other terms
would be in effect surrender to Germany.
The world demands restoration. Ger
many may call it retribution. That is i'm
material But Germany must pay.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

stake rather than to concede the slightest
justice to a people with whom they live and
whom the English in their foolish pride
would like to make base slaves.
Free in our actions, fearing no more the
Anglo-SaX0n raHcOr, we could easily, under
the regime of Lower Canada, make the ma
Jorlty IN Ontario listen to reason.
owe should have for this purpose some
excellent means; the tariff, the customs du.
ties, and the right of passage through our
territory by our river and our RAILWAYS
which we could, if need be, refuse to Upper
Canada.
The time is come to change our tactics.
to build no more upon the shifting sand.
but upon solid rock and to build struct-
ure which will resist alike the blows of time
and the attacks of our enemies"
The cry of revolution is raised by another
French paper of the Province of Quebec,
La Llberte, which says that CONSUMPTION has
shattered the confederation, and it proceeds
Our rights, our laws, and our autonomy
are running away like water. What will we
be! Whittier are we going? On what basis
can we work to take back that which is ours ?
Have we become a thing instead of being
some one? After nearly sixty years of rn-
ceaslng strife must we become, without a
name, unit without personality? We think
not. We must rise. Who will rise first ?''
The issue is serious, believes the London
Saturday Review, which remarks:
ut is no use shutting our eyes to the
fact that there is rift within the Dominion
lutte, which, unless frmness is shown, may
easily widen into something disastrously
like civil war. The Catholics of Quebec will
not agree to conscription, because they will
not admit they have part or lot in this
war. They are led by Sir Wilfred Laurier.
1T IS sad to see great career like Lau-
rler's sink in cloud of clerical bigotry and
parochial selfishness.
'Those Canadian soldiers fighting in the
war, who have suffered so heavily may, on
their return, make the French-Canadians paw
| for their Sinking. Tt is a terrible prospect
which can only be avoided by frmness on
the part of the Imperial and Domonon gov.
! eminent"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28
A GRAVE. SITUATION.

1t is an interesting coincidence that right
now Great Britain and Canada are confront
ing, in the great self-governing Dominion,
a condition that is akin to the alleged dis
content in sections of our own country, but
on scale of such magnitude and grave i'm
port that the outbreaks here pale into in
significance by comparison. Sections of Can
ada are opposed to the draft that is pro-
posed there. 1t is a situation so grave that
one may well believe it calls for solicitude
in England as we'll as in Canada.
We are reprinting on this page some ex
pressions from Canadian newspapers thai
serve to throw light on the situation. We
had not suspected that such discomfort exist
ed in Canada, and on such scale. The ex
tracts reprinted are well worth reading, fo-
the reading should serve to arouse salts
faction and even qualification that, Will,
we may have isolated instances of discon
tent, we shall be happily spared the need o
having to deal with discomfort as grave a
that in Canada
What the outcome in the sister countr
will be is yet to develop, but it may be hor
ed and believed that the Dominion author
ties will exercise wisdom and tolerance i
the policy they pursue. There will be fe'
drum-head court martials and summary ex,
cutions, as at Dublin and elsewhere in Irt
land
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

1t is said that the authorities of one city,
alert to abolish the restricted district, have
had photographs taken of every woman who
dwelt and piled her vocation in that dis
trict-a means of prosecution if the woman
does not leave. Now, is it likely that those
city authorities will proceed to secure the
photos of all the men who go to the district,
and made it possible for the women to dwell
there? Hardly, my masters! There was new
er a time when sauce for the goose was
sauce for the gander.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

John Corrigan writes to the Atlanta Con-
stitution that Woodrow Wilson put sweet po-
tatoes on the army menu. Washington dis
patches had previously announced that Jack
Brown, Georgia's commissioner of agricul-
ture, and Lem Jackson, of the state market
bureau, did it. Any way, they were the
first to take the matter up and get the
Georgia congressman busy and here's hur-
rah for Jack and Lem.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

representative Mccormick, of Illinois, in
a public statement calls attention to the
dictatorial powers which have been conferr-
ed upon the president. What the exact
purpose of the statement may be can only
be coniectured, yet reading between the
lines one does not have to hunt very hard
to discover at least warning There is in
the popular mind danger in one-man pow
er, no matter how carefully power is used
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

The streets were thronged Saturday by
one of the old-time "befo' de wah" crowds.
Automobiles, buggies and wagons were lin
ed up thick along the curbs, and the mer-
chants were given about all they could do
to take care of the trade. A good deal of
cotton came in, and rolls of money were
passing around pretty freely. All signs
point to a season of old-time prosperity for
Terrell county
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

1t is announced that Franc Mangum, one
of the best known and most capable editors
of the state, is coming to Southwest Georgia
as editor and manager of the Americas
Times-Recorder. That's good for Americas
and surrounding section, and we trust Edi-
tor Mangum will find his new home and
work both pleasant and profitable The
News extends him a cordial welcome as a
neighbor, and to the best part of Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

Some of our younger editorial brethren
believe just at this time the sword is might
Ter than the pen, and will forsake the sane
tum for the trenches. Among them are Jack
Perryman, of the Talbotton New Era, and
Brown Tyler, of the Conyers Times. Hav-
ing served their country we'll in peace we
are sure they will illustrate it in time of
war.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

Mr.. Herbert Hoover, the food admfnistra-
tor, has about as big a job on his hands as
a man ever tackled. For success he has got
to depend on US. The supplies are in our
own hands, and we've got to manage our
own supplies so that Uncle Sam can put
some on the plates of the allies It is wo-
mans job, primarily, this business of saving
food Every woman in charge of a house
hold is food administrator. The success
| of Hoover depends on you, madam on how
well you do your part.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28
TOO BIC A HURRY.

Cant the autoist stop his car, look
up and down the track. and listen for a
train before ctossing?" asks contem-
porary.
Yes, he can if he wants to; and often it
would be very wise thing to do Of course
it would require thirty seconds time, and
the average autoist hasn't the time to spare
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

The German prisoners taken by Mile.
Butchareff's battalion are said to have been
greatly chagrined when they learned the sex
of their captors. Great Scott! How they
would have felt if they had been captured
by the male Russiansl
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

Three billion bushels of corn (3,1OO,OOO,-
900 bushels, to be exact) is the promise of
the corn crop of the United States this year.
Southwest Georgia is contributing her share
fort
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28
WOULDN'T 1T BE GREAT?

From the Dalton Citizen.
The Savannah Press thinks the legis-
lature is frittering away time Well, let
EN- fritter It is harmless pastime, and
it's doing the state good service in not
passing unnecessary laws.-Dawson
News
All of which argument goes to prove that
what the Legislature ought to do is to pass
biennial session bill and go home.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

The brewers, distillers, bootleggers and
other members of the ancient regime are
fleeing before Field Marshal Won Prohibition
like Russian socialists. They are hoping for
some miracle to step in and trip the field
marshal up. There isn't chance. The
booze profteers have got to fight or jump off
the earth. Their gable about personal lib
erty and revenue is old, moth-eaten stuff.
They've got to meet Won Prohibition with the
same weapons he uses. They've got to show
the horrible effects of total abstinence
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

And the best way, of course, to prevent
incompetent friends of competent politicians
will be to join the ranks promptly and quail
fly for the shoulder straps yourself
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

Of course the overwhelming number who
are seeking exemption from the draft are
very indignant at Senator Hardwick for be-
heving Americans should not be forced to
fight in Europe, and will show their dispIeas-
ure by voting against him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28
WE HAVE, BROTHER.

From the Bainbridge Searchlight
The most amusing thing in the world is
to watch some fellow or woman that has
Just moved from the country and took a
fly into town "ceeciety." The stunts they
pull and the antics they cut would make q
horse laugh. Have you ever noticed them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

Every now and then you meet up with a
person whose breath argues there are GASES
in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

Now that they have become distinguish
ed enough to attract the attention of the
cornerers there can be no question that they
are properly pronounced "tom-ah-toes"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

Congressman Kitchen classes all autorno-
biles as Injuries. Evidently, the congress
man has had no experience with the bumpy
kind.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

The cheapest man in town is the fellow
who is always asking the lord to save the
country, and doesn't do thing himself.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

The prejudice against the saloon has not
wholly died out. The pool room seems to
have inherited quite bit of it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

Some bathing suits, as it were, are some
suits.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

The report that summers backbone is
broken may be correct, but September, it
should be remembered, often puts up a hot
finish.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

Time for the ''dear creatures" to begin
worrying over what fall styles are going to
be.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-28

Some people are merely chewing their bit
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-01-29

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At . taA1o aEttatieally decorated
With INK carnations - centetDtece.
81 pink roe 1askees nIled With can
dieo, thirteen places were ct. Pink
paDoe capo and candy sticks were h
vofs ct each place. IT either end ol
tAo table . birthday cake, burning
joyously with eleven candles On one
end and eight on the other. heighten-
"a the festivities.
All sorts Of boyish games were
played and IN NEGATIVE for the winner
Of each was . prize. A Jolly good
time was enjoyed BY the little boys,
Nrs. N1ver and Ars. Thompson lend
ing their aid to the fun. 4 number 81
pretty birthday gifts were received BY
the young hosts.
Among the little guests were Frank
lin and RAYMOND Fitzgerald. Leon
and Browning Waite, Carl ReeD. How
ard Armstrong. Wayne Dale. Eric
Wehner. Baird Rogers, Marion Titus
and Scheffel Wright.