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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26
GENERAL PRINCIPLES.

The war is two years and eleven months
nearer to the close than it was at its begin
ming August, 1914. Yesterdays proceedings
brought the war one full day nearer its fin
lsh To-day's developments will bring the
end another day nearer Peace cannot be
postponed indefinitely 1t will be difficult to
agree upon terms of peace. 1t will not be
so difficult as to find the ways and means
OF continuing the war indefinitely.
War experts say it is impossible to make
peace now Maybe so. There is another
thing that is impossible 1t is impossible for
the world to wage war perpetually on the
present scale. Therefore, peace will have
70 De made sooner or Later If all the bel
hgerents do not want it now upon available
Terms the time must come when all will be
aole TO get together upon what constitutes
practical peace. If little more weaken
ing OF the war resolution is needed it will
come with the passing of the days 1t must
not be overlooked that the coalition that
may be winning as well as the one that may
De losing must welcome the day when peace
can be attained
Nothing can be gained by trying to put
On the peace spectacle before the stage
SET for 1t. On the other hand, once the
setSlng is arranged no postponement neeC
n y reared on account Of trivialties.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26
The Ministry of Silence.
By DR.. Frank Crane.

What ministries are in silence! What
soft feathered angel wings fly about us in
the utter darkness! What stealthy fairies
bring us secret gifts. What treasures are
unfolded to us in the deep pit of solitude
AS we sit alone, and all sights and sounds
are away and the river of rest flows over
us in voluptuous flood, our follies leave
us, our vanities vanish, our callow judg-
ments ripen into sense, our sins flee (our
righteousness with them), and the great,
latent resources of our buried self rise up
within us; we touch the infinite, we even
penetrate into that mysterious fame where
dwells the brooding spirit of the One, and
small wonder if, when we emerge, our face
shines as if we had been on the Mount of
TRANSPORTATION.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26
LOOK WHAT'S HERE-sHE ovERALLs
Mrs. Gilbert in Salem Register.

Mrs. Gilbert in Salem Register.
We glimpsed display of feminine over
alls in a window display in a neighboring
town not long since and have gotten a pain
full bunch that the she-overall fad will have
its run-under the guise of utility Ye gods
Just think of spectacular foolshness being
copmitted in the name of laborl Rats! Of
course the overallettes have rubber in the
bottom of the legs (they will have to be
called that, for overall climbs" wouldn't do)
so they can be hitched up to show the usual
expanse of silk stockings. (Ye gods, again
Fashion talk faunts women's socks as an
additional threat.) "Khaki cool" which is
only 81 or S. a yard, would make real swell
georgette crepe blouse over girdle corset
she-trousers which could be worn with a
georgette crepe blouse over a girdle corset
and no underwear.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26
SENSIBLE vs.. sENSELEsS ECONOMY

Sensible economy should be practiced by
the American people. But there is wide
road between sensible and senseless econo-
my. For instance:
The industries and the business of the
country must. be kept running full blast.
Every person needing employment must be
given work. and to be able to do that the
out put of all industries must be consumed
There must be no decrease in production of
things we really need.
Waste and extravaganza should be stopp-
ed, of course, but thrift can be protected
without penuriOusness.
The nation must conserve its resources
now, not particularly for the sake of saving
more at this time than any other, but mere
ly that what we have hitherto wasted may
be used elsewhere, may go where it is need
ed.
Business should not feel any deleterious
effect, whatsoever. 1t should continue to
prosper. If we ever permit business to lag
we're in for disaster.
Don't fool yourself into believing that if
you abstain from satisfying your needs
you're helping the country. You're not.
You're throwing somebody out of job,
and if there are many folk like you many
people will be out of jobs
Be economical, but practice economy the
right way.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

1t is an interesting pen picture of the lady
member of congress that is printed on this
page of The News to-day, drawn by wo-
man who has recently seen and met Miss
jeanette Rankin, woman lawmaker. In her
picture of the lady from Montana she does
mot put the question that occurs to many
If woman is competent to sit and vote
as a member of congress are not women
gress? Or, for that matter, to vote for gov
ernor, United States senator and president,
and to hold those offices themselves? If not,
why not?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26
AN EXAMPLE TO GEORGIA.
From the Macon Telegraph.


There have been shipped out of the
county the past year more food and
feedstuffs than have been shipped into
it. wholesale grocer informs The
News that not carload of oats, hay,
corn or meal has been brought to Daw-
son IN more than a year, whereas only
few years ago these commodities
could not be got fast enough, it requir-
ing 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.-Dawson News
If Terrell county can do that four-fifths
of the counties in Georgia can do the same
thing. Terrell county, though, is an excep-
ton IN other respects. The fact is recalled
that when cotton was the master of nearly
all agricultural thought Terrell went into
cotton-grOwing as earnestly as her people
have now gone into the production of other
crops. And the county held record Ex-
cept in Marlborough county, South Carroll
ma, Terrell grew more cotton per square
mile than any county in the cotton belt.
Along came the boil weevil scare and Ter
rell turned to other things. The result
shows that justification and the end hasn't
been long coming. Terrell is doing more
than Giving at home"
year ago the word came from Laurens
county, over in the direction of the other
side of South Georgia, that the people there
were not buying outside corn; they had
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26
The Religious Picnic Season.

Editor Dawson News: The protracted
meeting season is on, or, as DR.. John B.
McGehee phrased it, "the religious picnic
season." 1t is well. 1t serves several pur-
poses-it gets the folks together, makes
the gentleman to whom hell is hangman's
whip to hold the wretch in order-think on
his ways and quit some of his meannes for
awhile. He never reforms, BELONGING to the
class of whom Christ said "abides alone. !"
not having the spiritual germ that can die
and resurrect itself in another form, but
only the animal fear that flinches from
physical torture pictured as a "burning
hell" 1t helps the surrounding vegetation
to dig nut-grass, though you can't kill the
stuff; so soaring this predestnation to dam
nation gang makes the people with souls
take need and grow and help themselves
by helping mankind. And the 1.-THE system
Will have an airing.
good Lawyer, mindful of his clients
weak case, only let's the jury have what will
heIp his case and hides the balance from
them If he can. So with the 1.-THE brother
When tlthing was instituted, save the San
hedrin, which like the parliament of Eng
land served without pay, and until after the
Assyrian captivity was composed of the
hereditary heads of the twelve Jewish
tribes, presided over by the high priest. all
law, medicine and gospel resided within
and was performed by the priests. After the
Assyrian captivity the majority of this
nigh court was composed of the priests, and
it is well to note that the lawyers whom
Christ denounced were the ecclesiastical
lawyers Cd. D. we call them now, and not
the civil lawyers, and that the Sanhedrin
condemning the christians, three civil law
yers-JOseph of Arimathea, Nichodemus
and Paups tutor, Gamaliel-voted against
their prlestly colleagues, the other nine. and
did not consent unto the death of the Christ.
And the next time you hear lawyers de-
nOunced by some ignoramus remember the
tribe has always been for law, lawfully
administered, from the beginning of civil
government to date. But this is a diversion,
The 1.-THE of the Mosaic law meant that
that was given to the support of all por-
tions of society-law, medicine and preach
lng-so that it is lawful to 1.-THE your in
come and with this 1.-THE pay all needed
medical, legal, social and church obliga
lions, not just the church This is what the
apostle meant when he objected to putting
on the neck of the Gentiles "what we nor
our fathers were able to bear" this tithing)
at that time being even above the taxes
exacted, and this caused a new rule-'let
each one of you lay aside as God has pros
pered you" Let's get at "the meat of the
word which is able to save"
ANDREW P. RIVES.
A Connecticut negro gave as his reason
TAr
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26
CONVICTS, CRIME AND ROADS

The grand jury, in its recommends
ton that permanent repair gangs be
maintained in different sections of the
county, was along the right channel
but with heavy road construction opera
tons under way and shortage of con-
victs the county commissioners are find
ing it no easy task to handle the repair
work in the manner they would wish
-Americus Times-Recorder
If the Georgia counties are to main
tain the excellent roads many of them
have it will be found necessary to en-
gage paid labor to keep them in condi-
ton. The convict supply is very limit
ed in Georgia, and it is becoming more
so in the future.-Savannah Press.
Official figures show that the decrease in
the number of convicts in Georgia is not
near as much as newspaper publications
have lead many to believe
The annual report of the state prison com
mission, which has just been prepared fo,
the printer, shows that there are in the pen
itentiary 3,406 felony convicts against 3,582
year ago, and 1859 misdemeanor convicts
against 3,439 a year ago, total decrease
of 1,046. Practically one-third of this de-
crease is in the counties of Fulton, Chatham,
o1oo anu hichihohu, "here great many
persons convicted of misdemeanor offenses
are not being sent to the chaingang, but al
lowed to serve their sentences on probation
and are not accounted for in the prison
statistics. There has unquestionably been
some decrease in petty crime the last year
but when distributed among the 150-odd
counties of the state it is not enough by
any means to appreciably effect road work
ing. However, it would be we'll were it so.
for it would be far better to have less crime
even if the highways had to be cared for
under another system.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

There is hardly business in the country
that is not protesting the war tax. And this
is only the beginning; the worst is yet to
come. The present revenue bill is calcu-
lated to raise only billion and a half of
the several billions the government will have
to spend in this war. 1t is very probable
that before the thing is over the taxes
against which so many business men are
protesting so vigorously now will appear ex-
ceedingly mild by comparison.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26
SOME RAT TALE, THIS.

From the Walton County News
The Dawson News carries half col
umn editorial entitled Consider the
Skunk" The Alpharetta Free Press ad-
vocates sending a million of them
against the Germans. The skunk seems
to be in the limelight just now-The
Walton Tribune.
What posters most in our neck O. the
woods is the wharf rats. They say they are
of German descent. At any rate one of oul
neighbOrs lost choice ham, and if they car
chew Germans like they do ham the'd put
the submarine out of business before break
fast.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

The Savannah Press very truthfully says
corn bread is good enough for all three
meals, and it isn't such a big bit even if
we cut out wheat bread altogether" The
hue and cry on the part of newspapers and
public officials for the people to eat corn
bread and thus promote economy in wheat
would be amusing were it not so ridiculous
ly silly. The people, especially in the South,
have been eating corn bread all their lives.
Many of them eat it in preference to wheat
bread
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26
WHEN DOES THE BOIL WEEVIL
SULL? THE PATENTED CATCHERS

From the Pelham Journal
The effectiveness of the patented boil
weevil catchers seems to depend on whether
the weevil "sulls" and, if so, when? If he
sulks at the psychological moment and turns
loose when he sulks the catcher catches
him If he fails to sulk, or sulks at the
wrong moment or hangs on to the cotton
stalk when he is in this ugly mood, the
catcher rambles right along and leaves him
to recover his good humor and continue his
plan of puncturing. Some say he "sulls"
best at night and some say it is in the day-
time he shuts up his mentality and drops
when iostled. The catchers are contraptions
made to jostle the weevil and catch him if
he falls. If he hangs on, or if he falls too
soon or too late, the catcher doesn't catch.
Does the boil weevil ''sull' and, if so, when,
and does ne turn loose or grab when he takes
on his ugly mood?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

One abominablc and somewhat dangerous
extravaganza to which american business is
addicted has so far escaped notice and cen
sure. We refer to the inexcusable waste of
pins in new shirts. A new shirt may truth
fully be said to be sewn as with dragons
teeth. To extract them all is a laborious
task, which must be performed with exceed
ing care else anguish shall be your portion
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

Our old friend, the Georgia legislature,
will be with US now for fifty days. With
Kaiser Bill demanding some notice just at
this time they should understand that no
.affront is intended if their show fails to at
tract the attention heretofore given it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26
"NoNE ARE so BLIND" ETC.
From the Dalton Citizen.

From the Dalton Citizen.
And, Of course, if it will not do to
use our grain to make liquor for our
selves it would hardly do to send it to
England to make liquor for our allies
Dawson News.
The trouble, is the narrow visioned prohi-
bitionist who makes his living abusing his
fellowmen who disagrees with him won't see
the point, but it is there just the same
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26
CAN ANYBODY TELL?

From the LAGRANGE Graphic
After little experience with the
new war taxes you will have no furth-
err difficulty in taking your castor oil
Saskatchewan News.
After having paid the tax where will we
get the money with which to buy the castor
oil?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

Now, they're urging that sparrows be eat
en- to help out the food situation. Sparrow
pie would be as good as any other, but the
birds are so tiny that what they would con-
tribute to the food supply would not be
worth mentioning. The country is prolific
with silly suggestions
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

The Griffin News and Sun is patting Spald-
ing county on the back for buying 100000
of liberty bonds. Terrell, with no town near
as Large as Griffin, took 100000 of the
bonds. But that's not surprising. It's way
Terrell has of always keeping in front and
not thinking much about it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

The men with more income than they
need are to escape the surtax which they
could easily stand and it is to be transferred
instead to newspapers, For the first time
in their lives publishers as a class are re-
garded as swollen with wealth, although it
does not show up on their bank books.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

The women may still keep us guessing on
the age question. They did not have to reg
ister
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

1t is fortunate that Georgia is represented
in the United States senate at this time by
Two men who are true to the principles Of
democracy, and canno' be swept from their
feet by the prevailing hysteria, which would
go to any length--even autocratic govern
ment, if not held in check.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

Cotton selling at 25 cents pound. or
one hundred and twenty-five dollars bale !
Isn't that cheerful reading for the Georgia
farmer and all of US, full of confidence
for the future? 1t surely is.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

The McAdoo boom is probably one o.
those amusing diversions for keeping thu
people out of the dumps.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

When you are tempted to feel that there
is no use in trying it is time to call out the
reserves. Give your courage a shaking up,
summons your grit to the 'front.' and get
your eheerfulness in working order.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

Dispatches say the Germans have been
brought to the extremity of eating crows.
much Larger dish of that kind than any
they have yet had is now being prepared
for them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

There seems to be small interest in base
ball this year. The rifle ball and the can
non ball are more in the thoughts of the
people
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

Governor Harris will retire from office
next Saturday. The old soldier and chris
tian statesman will carry with him into pri-
vate life the affection and good will of all
the people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

The Telfair Enterprise wants the legis-
lature to suppress the pistol toter. The gun
and the bottle are the deadliest combina-
ton in America.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

There is no reason why honest. necessar,
business should falter now Pessimsn
never won anything
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

When law is so unreasonable that nine
ty per cent. of the people break it, it is no
a law but nuisance
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

The Red Cross! It's worthy of your hes
efforts, your most cordial friendship. Hell
the good work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

When conservatism is losing ground rad
icalism rarely fails to come to the rescue.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

The Savannah Press notes another 10y of
Georgia summer; watermelons are moving
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

Four more days and it will be Governor
Hugh Dorsey. In the prime of manhood,
well-poised and able he will give the state
a splendid administration.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

The great canal of China is 2,1O0 miles
long. It's the worlds longest
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-26

Connecticut negro gave as his reason
for exemption one wife and thirty-three
children.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-07
NetUs From
The
Grades
n Patriotic Poem" Takes
First Prize For Best Essay

"a Poem y Thelma Van Dusen the Kaey school
took first prize in this weeks contest with Henry MCNabb
Coqulard school second Ihema poem crisp and 50
appropriate the times that it given the prize though we do
encourage the children send poetry We called upon the
services OF several judges to decide upon the first prizes this week
they all so very good
For subject viii take How Learned Lesson"
The of The prize winners and the ESSAYS taking the first
three prizes in this weeks contest follows: First prize
cash Thema Van Duen kaey school, second prize soc cash.
Henry McNabb Coquad school, third prize two tickets to the
OTpheum Elizabeth LyCzynka Laurel school, fourth prize two
tickets to The LaSae Seymour WebeTger, Perley school, fifth
prize tickets Auditorium Charles Shng ST. Pack
SCHOOL, Honorable mention Gladys Lafn Susie Cresho Helen
Vargas Fanny Waggoner Clara Hudson Irene Clark Esther
Johnson Katherine JankoWSk Herbert Merrill Pauline Finley
Anna Tokach Haley school, Henry stark Mildred Bradley Cecil
Alexander Esther erh Vera Wright Gertrude Granger Anna
ROSenfet Frank BOSCc Rudolph Bedna Laurel school, Marie
Wagner Ahela Smith, Rhea HouSer Mary K Roberts, Elsie
Lind Junior Hckey Levi Lind Abraham Schankeman Fred
Schultz Kathryn Fitzgerald Franklin school, Marian Bachelor
Harriet Archambeau Nena Bradley Elizabeth Sykes James Fritz
Earl Toeger Geneviee Bodge Kenneth Miller Kenneth Begh
Jessie NtScher John Redel Irene H. Hoehne William Barth
Vema Clark Thelma Sawyer Carl WadlOw, James O. GreneT
Fern Davidson Reynolds Metz Beuah Briese Anna Chsman,
Eva Esep Herman Hertel Charles CULLEN, Wilson Elliott Hda
Ravy Dorothy ayted Vernon ArChambeau COqulard school,
Baker Bertha Kelley Alice Kubiak Eta Oser Charles
Ryan Louis MunChow, Della CleghOm Mildred Hefzg Edward
Kubak Sylvester Daous Frank Draney Harold Shafed Per
school,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-07

The seven-A's had an arithmetic
test Thursday morning
The boys and girls are making
color charts for drawing.
They are learning the poem, TO
the F'ringed Gentian." by William
Cullen Bryant.
The seven-B manual training elias
have started % make wooden post
card boxes.
In domestic science the girls MADE
! poacheG eggs on toast.
The seven-B's are also making
color charts for drawing
The six-A's had an arithmetic tes-
wednesday forenoon
The six-B's are making designs
from flowers and putting them IN
| booklets.
The fifth grade IN history have
finished studying about John and
Sebastian Cabot and viii now study
about De Leon and De Soto.
Fire escapes are being put on Tie
west side Of the building
The four-A's had their first draw
( ing lesson wednesday afternoon
Hereafter Miss Rittinger VIII con-
duct ali drawing classes for the four
As
The four-B's have box OF diff
ferent kinds Of bird egg. which
they will use for nature study work.
In the three-A room Mrs Roberts.
Mrs. Perry. Mrs. Refs. Mrs. Kerr and
Mrs. Toyne were visitors during the
| past week.
The three-B's are making color
charts In drawing
In the two-A and .xo-B the al-
pills have used much origiualtr u
dressing tho twig dolls with icavcs.