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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
Educating the Negro.
From the Savannah Press.

The federal bureau of education has been
making an investigation of so years of edu-
catlonaI effort among the negroes in the
South and has submitted it's report to head
quarters in Washington
DIR. Thomas j. Jones, a specialist in the
bureau of education, made the report for
the bureau, after a very exhaustive re-
search.
The report says three-fourths of the g.
100000 negroes in the South live in rural
communities and that 100000 negroes are
engaged in agricultural pursuits. Neverthe-
less, the South does not produce enough
food for itself, drawing on the rest of the
country annually for farm products recently
estimated as worth $750,000,000.
The Investigators Lay great stress upon
the fact that the South fails to teach the
negroes industrial and agricultural pursuits.
DIR. Jones contends that although private
schools, largely supported by Northern con-
trlbutlOns and in some notable instances
founded and conducted by white men and
women from the South, have done a remark
able work and for years to come will re-
main an essential part of the movement to
develop the negroes in the South the great
burden of providing elementary training for
negroes must rest upon public school sys-
TENS OF the Southern states. There it must
always rest, he adds. In the half century
of emancipation illiteracy among the ne
groes has been reduced from a percentage
of more than 80 to about 30 To continue
this rapid Improvement in a races condi-
ton and make efficient the man power
through which the South must develop it's
vast resources in soil, mines and forests,
says DR.. Jones, teachers adequate for the
task, both in quantity and in quality, must
be produced.
There are very few people in the South
who have given thought to the subject who
are not convinced that the industrial train
ing of the negro should be the greatest work
done in his behalf But the trouble is to
a large extent, with the negro himself Those
who find their way to the colleges and the
universities do not care for the Industrial
training. They want to become Paul Lau-
renee Dunbars or Booker Washingtons They
prefer to drive the pen instead of being
taught to drive the mule. They would rather
become educators or professional men of
ordinary ability than to develop into first
class farmers who get the first melons or
the first bale of cotton to market in the
summer. 1t is urged by this commission
that efforts to develop first-class universities
for negroes be centered upon Howard Uni
versity at Washington, Fisk University at
Nashville and Meharry Medical College at
Nashville. We doubt if either of these in
stitutions is doing its share toward making
the colored youths of the South better
farmers or carpenters or bricklayers
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
MADE A. FINE IMPRESSION.

The Inauguration of Governor Dorsey was
unusually impressive by reason of its sim
plicity, and the earnest and businesslike
way in which the next executive assumed
the duties of the highest Office in the gift
of the people of the state.
To say that the inaugural address was
well received by the vast throng, who had
assembled in the state house, is to put it
mildly. 1t was brief, straight to the point,
and showed a grasp of the important prob
lens confronting the state government. 1t
impressed and treasured the people, if there
we're those who needed reinsurance, that
there was at the head of state a man of
ability, courage and constructive ideas.
We congratulate Governor Dorsey, and
tender him our sincere good wishes and cor
dial support.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
GIVING TO THE RED CROSS.

The American people have been asked TO
raise fund of 500, 100000 for the Red
Cross, and it is gratifying to know that
Dawson and Terrell county are responding
literally to this worthy cause
All ought to be volunteers in this service,
and every one can be- No American has any
right to talk about the difficulty of meeting
our war duties We have had no taste of
the real difficulties of war; we have not even
glimpsed them. When we think of what
other nations have suffered the matter of
giving few dollars should in truth, be a
simple, easy task
1t may be that America will be bled
white just as France has been, that the
wealth we have piled up will be expended
just as England's has been before the kali
ser's purpose to enslave the world is smash
ed forever. Let there be no talk of difficult
ty to-day. For many of us it may not be
convenient to make contribution to the
Red Cross fund. If it were convenient the
contribution would not have any vital
meaning. It's significance rests in the fact
that it is not convenient, that it may even
entail some denial
Everybody knows the work the Red Cross
performs work of mercy, of humanity
and Of tremendous practical consequence
As factor in winning the war the Red
Cross is only second to the army itself. But
it is not through its military efficiency the
Red Cross makes its great appeal. We pro
vide millions for the Red Cross because We
know that through that organization thou
sands of American boys will come home t.
waiting hearts and lives of usefulness WI
otherwise would have died
Don't think about how hard it is to give
Think rather of what a privilege it is tt
give-and give literally.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

From the Atlanta InnrnaI

What paradise of prosperity Georgi;
will be when we can say of every farming
community in the state what The Dawson
News says of Terrell county:
There have been shipped out of this
county during the past year more
toodstutfs and feedstuffs than have been
shipped into it. A wholesale grocer in
forms The News that not carload of
oats, hay, corn or meal has been brought
to Dawson in more than year, where
as only few years ago these COM
modltleS could not be got fast enough.
several carloads a week being requir-
ed to supply the demand. No meal
at all is now imported here, as
Jobbers buy from local mills that grind
Terrell county corn. And this already
desirable condition will be improved this
year. Never before 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, increase the
farmers bank account and add to the
independence and prosperity of the peo-
pie generally"
This record is the outgrowth of fertile re.
sources, with which the entire state is en-
doWed, plus human energy and enterprise
What Terrell county has done is attainable
in kind if not wholly in degree by every
county in the state. By every natural cir
cumstance Georgia is destined to be one of
Americas great centers of food production
it remains only to utilize the rich and album
dant opportunities.
That they are being utilized more and
more extensively is not to be questioned.
Georgia's corn crop last year amounted in
value to sixty-four million dollars, it's oat
crop to twelve million dollars, and its food
animal products to upwards of thirty-seven
million dollars. Of the states total agricul-
tural income of three hundred and forty
eight million, six hundred and eighty-four
thousand dollars almost one-half was made
up of field, truck and fruit crops and animal
products When the high prices of 1916
cotton are considered that record becomes
particularly impressive. Food production is
undoubtedly receiving a larger and larger
share of the planters attention, and as a
result our agricultural system is becoming
better balanced and in every way more eff
hcient. The increased acreage and diversity
of food crops has been followed quite nat
urally by marked development in animal in
austry: In hog production Georgia stands
seventh among the states; and its percent
age of increase in this item exceeds that of
any other state. Of all states having pig
clubs Georgia stands first, according to the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
ROAD MAINTENANCE.

One Of the greatest wastes of public
money that is being perpetrated to-day is
the building of country roads and then
abandoning them.
No county which engages in real road
building can afford to neglect road when
it has been constructed; yet that is practi-
cally what every county in Georgia is doing.
The fact of the matter is that the work is
just well under way when a road has been
finished
ID rarely happens that the initial work on
the road is done wisely There are a multi
tude of little things that later must be done
that the road may be in good condition Ruts
and holes are sure to form, and these must
be filed by dragging the road regularly OF
1t soon goes to pieces.
These things should be planned for anc
done Systematically if the improved roat
IS to do the fullest service, and this is tht
one thing that most county commissioner
are neglecting They become so imbued, fo
political reasons, with the idea of workin,
roads in every section of their county tina
they fail to properly maintain roads whel
they are constructed thereby causing
waste of millions of dollars to the peopl
S~ Of Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
A Printers Kiss.

He printed on her lips kiss,
And from his own confession
He thinks he has the proof to show
A very good impression.
-Yonkers Statesman
The maiden seemed to like the type,
And needing his petition,
She said she thought the time was ripe
To print large edition.
Youngstown Telegram.
Good Godr' we hear the maiden cry,
This is a glorious showing;
We hope the men have steam enough
To keep the presses going"
-Yonkers Statesman.
The presses, we've no doubt, viii 90,
And for a time surprising;
Most anything would 90, YOU know,
With this much advertising.
Houston Post.
He printed on her lips a kiss.
1t filed her with elation;
| ooh boyp the maiden cried,
This helps my circulation"
Beaumont Enterprise
| He printed on her lips a kiss,
1t was a soul inspirer:
| And by his form" she knew that he
Was no mere "stereotyper"
Houston Labor Journal
He printed on her lips kiss
And after he had done this trick
He had no thought of heavenly bliss.
For 'pop" appeared with a shooting stick
-Savannah Press
Twas only one kiss he wanted,
But found himself disappointed,
For thinking him not on the level
She gave them all to the devil.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
A VICTORY FOR THE DIsTILLERs?

From the Elberton Star.
The Star is not shouting itself hoarse
over the tax of $40 per bushel on grain for
distillers We very much fear that this tax
is a kind of victory for the distilers, who
are not reputed to be "overly'' honest when
it comes to manufacturing the various chem
zeal connections put off on sap-headed pur-
chasers of pure rye, pure corn, ct cetera
and so forth. We have an idea that great
deal of the whisky sold and drank is not
made from grain at all, but from chemicals
altogether There is this much in favor of
the use of such whisky, however-it will
soon thin out the ranks of customers, for
a man cannot drink such stuff long and live.
However, at last reports of vital statistics we
believe it was stated that two fools were
born every time one died If that is true, the
distillers can live in clover by raising the
price of their chemical concoctions to a
price that would Justify them in paying 500
per bUshel tax on grain to make it of, and
then not pay the tax. The distillers are not
fools, whatever else they may be. Their Gus
tomers-but, never mind
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

Giving away money was the important
business of the past week in American fnan-
cial and business circles. An elaborate vol
unteer organization undertook to raise
$1OO,OO0,O0O fund to finance the war relief
work of the American Red Cross. In prac-
tically every community, large or small, in
every state, the energies of prominent peo-
pie, men and women, were given to the
cause. 1t is gratifying to The News that
Dawson and Terrell county have had a part
in this benefcent enterprise.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
ENTERTAINING THE EDITORS

Discussing the absence from the meetings
of the Georgia Press Association, which is
soon to convene in annual session at Thorn
asville, of many of the well-known editors
of the state Editor Allen, of the Moultrie
Observer, says:
"The convention is not run to appeal
to lot of editors. There are doubtless
many of them who do not like the plan
OF free entertainment in homes. They
would enjoy the trips more if they were
permitted to pay their expenses at ho-
tells and be relieved of the sense of obi
cation to families that entertain them
by making sacrifices"
Editor Shope, of the Dalton Citizen, en-
dorses Editor Aliens observations, and adds
"Allen has made clear statement of
the case. For one, the editor of the
Citizen does not care to attend meet
ings of the association and be entertain
ed in private home. Not that he fails
to appreciate the hospitality of kindly
disposed people, but he can but resent
the idea of being treated like a mendi-
cant. No one objects to being enter
tanned by cOngenial people in their hos
pitable homes where there is a real
friendship, but to be assigned to a
home among strangers is quite another
the host. If the visitor were staying at
a public house he would feel free to
go and come as he likes without in
convenlencing anyone. We believe the
Georgia Weekly Press Association
should get away from the old system of
being entertained"
Another point, and one that well deserves
consideration, made by our Dalton con-
temporary is that frequent interlopers
have pushed themselves into the association
to further some kind of scheme or ism that
no one else is interested in-something alb
solutely foreign to the best interests of the
association.
The News has been a member of the
Georgia Press Association since it's organi-
cation years ago, and we have long felt as
do Editors Allen and Shope; in fact, while
duly approaching the generous, whole-heart-
ed hospitality of the good people where the
editors have met from year to year we have
not attended some of the meetings for the
reasons stated above.
The Georgia Press Association is a body
of splendid men and women, and we are
sure that the approaching meeting will not
NC al d JuLheI' 4here VIII De work, ana OF
a helpful nature, done-dscussions and in
terchange of views and experiences that
will be of benefit to the craft and to the
state. This is a time when the usefulness
of the press will be more than ever in evil
dence.
We hope to get to Thomasville, for
there will be men there, veterans of the |
press, whom we long have known and for
whom we have genuine affection.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
Happy In Terrell.
From the Savannah Press.

There have been shipped out of the
county the past year more food and
feedstuffs than have been shipped into
it. A wholesale grocer informs The
News that not carload of oats, hay
corn or meal has been brought to Daw-
son in more than year, whereas, only
a 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 this prosperity keeps on Terrell count
will be again as happy as she used to b
when she paid all her expenses out of tn
profits of liquor dispensary, and had n
tax levy to bother with.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
SUMMARIZING A FARMER.
From the Albany Herald.

IIULLI LIIV kAIUdHy HtIdIu.
When the Lee County Journal found that
print paper was costing twice as much
as formerly and that other expenses had in
creased in something like the same proper
ton, announcement was made that the sub
scription price would be advanced from 81
to $3.50 year. A farmer subscriber there
upon stopped his paper, and Editor Pruett
finds the incident sufficient provocation for
the following bit of satire: "Mr.--
wrote us few days ago to stop his paper
because we raised the subscription. price to
$3.50. He doesn't believe in high prices.
and is willing to take 1Oc per pound for his
cotton and 60c per bushel for his corn (pro-
vided he has any to se1). He doesn't see
the good of newspapers, anyway"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
SWAT THE FOOD PIRATES.

From the Dalton Citizen.
When the Americans left Constan-
tinople necessaries of life were still OBJ
tainable, but the prices charged for
them were exceedingly high, which is
not radically different from the situa-
ton found by the travellers when they
reached their own country-Dawson
News.
Foods in this country cost more than in
Europe, and bread in Canada costs so per
cent. less than in America. And yet we are
told there are no food gamblers manipulate
ing the markets, and we see the sorry spec.
tacle of a few United States senators block
ing the food control bills.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
THE TAG TAX FUND.

Making a comparison of the apportion-
ment of the state automobile tag tax fund
among certain of the counties the Wilkes
County News says:
Wilkes county gets $1,O93.84 as her
portion, while Monroe county gets ST.
831.24. Oglethorpe gets $1,066.O4. Lin
coin $45f.27, Ebert 1,4O6.13. Accord
ing to these figures Wilkes has less
mileage than either Monroe or Ebert
There must be some mistake in the
mileage of the above named counties,
since Wilkes and Oglethorpe are quite
as large in area as Monroe and Ebert,
and the matter should have the atten-
ton of our representatives at the next
session of the legislature. Fair play is
all we want.
As the Macon Telegraph says, argument
over the distribution Of this fund isn't new
It's as old as the first act, and is going to
continue in some phase just as long as the
distribution is made as now. Terrell, which
is perhaps an average county in area, re-
ceived only $674.O0 of this fund, whereas
received nearly twice that amount. Says the
Telegraph
AS matter of cold fact, the money
derived from administration of a state
automobile regulation is a state fund.
The legislature doped out the broken
dose system of peddling the fund around
among the counties in such way that
no earthly good can possibly come out
of its expenditure in any county
in Georgia. Even in Wilkes, or Mon
roe, or 0glethorpe, or Lincoln,
where the distribution was liberal above
the average, not one of these got
enough of the money to improve a
piece of county road long enough to
get good mornings exercise on by
taking a walk over it before breakfast
Moreover, it is a matter of common re-
port that the fund Georgia raises from
the sale of automobile tags and doses
out through a political medicine drop
per doesn't always find its way TO the
use which the courts have ruled it must
go to be legal, but that in many in
stances it goes into the general fund of
the county"
The Telegraph is right 1t is doubtless
true that very few of the dollars derived
from the automobile tag tax is ever devoted
to the building of roads. 1t is also true tina
the tax, under the present law is unevenl,
distributed. The legislature, when the ta
was levied, saw only the fact that thei
counties would get few dollars of tn
money, and apparently gave no thought t
seeing that it was justly appOrtioned. i A
: it is, every county measures its own roa
mileage, and draws from the fund accord
t ingly. If the money is to continue to b
r distributed to the counties the legislator
should take steps to see that the road mile
d age Of each county is correctly ascertainet
d and each one receive the exact amount t
e which it is entitled Until that is done tt
s present confusion, injustice and dissatisfa
r ton will continue
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

Representative Turner, of Brooks, wants
short session of the legislature. 1t is i'm
possible ut will take forty-four days to get
down to work and then the remaining six
days will be necessary to run through the
half-baked legislation" says the Moultrie
Observer That is the history of Georgia
legislatures, and this one will not be an ex-
ception.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

1t may be a little late, but The News
wants to say that the Dawson bankers. and
indeed the bankers of the county, did their
part in buying and helping others to buy
the liberty bonds. The cooperation of the
banks was essential in this patriotic work.
and, as we all knew would be the case. the
banks came up to their share of the work
right creditably.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

If the United States congress would take
from its members the right of ''franking"
innumerable speeches (Which were never de-
livered) to the people back home there
would be saved to the government very
large sum to add to the war fund.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

A Stacker truthfully observes contem-
porary, is also man who uses gasoline in
stead of paying his debts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

There is a real paralysis present in the
man who will fake an injury and permit
doctors to stick pins into him in order to
establish the lack of sensation. The paraly-
sis isn't exactly physical, however
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

The recent death of Mr.. James R. Gray,
editor of the Atlanta Journal, removes from
the ranks of journalism one of the ablest
and most fearless, as well as one of the most
aggressive editors in the southland. More of
his kind are needed to give direction to pub
lie ouiDiOn
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

One would gather the impression from
the European news notes that nearly all
princesses have been gay lovers, and that
their wardrobes, when offered for sale, prov
ed invariably to contain all sorts of inter
esting things.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

The large sums of excellent United States
coin now going to the relief of friendly
belligerents in Europe have attracted con-
siderable attention in Mexico, and willing
ness from President Carranza to become an
ally may be expected
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

The fact that we have too much law is
one reason why such a large percentage of
the statutes are not observed and enforced.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

There may be some good socialists, says
the Albany Herald, "but we must confess
we have never known one" Maybe there
are, but we'll have to be shown. All we
have any knowledge of are good hell raisers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

After all, why is the man who gouges the
public for foodstuffs in this strenuous pc
Rod any worse than the man who gouges
the public for some other necessity? Swat
the gouger.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

lot of valuable food and considerable
amount of that Monday morning feeling
might be saved by cutting all the special
trimmings of the big Sunday dinner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03
cANDIED YAM VS.. FRANKFuRTER.

From the Macon News.
Terrell county is planting an abundance
of sweet potatoes. 1t is our plain duty to
combat the frankfurter with the candied
yam.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

In Washington it is just one commission
after another, and more taxes
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

Uncle Sam has no trouble getting rid of
his change. Since the beginning of the war
England has borrowed two billion dollars
of it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

In our enthusiasm in other lines of en-
deavor let US not forget the Importance o
good roads
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

Though he didn't get anywhere near fair
start the Southwest Georgia farmer is going
to make good crops this year
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

Speaking of selective matrimonial con
scription, what's new about that?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-07-03

Old Boil Weevil is rapidly taking posses
sion of the situation, and is going to make
those farmers who planted large cotton
acreage sorry.