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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
WHY ONLY WHEAT?

In fixing a minimum price of 50 bush
ell for wheat it was undoubtedly intended
to stimulate the production of that staple.
Climatic and soil conditions differ, and, as
they differ, some farmers can make profit
while others cannot Those who cannot make
a profit, however, are not compelled to ac-
cept minimum price-they can demand
more But, if they cannot get more there
is danger that they will turn their attention
to other products on which they know they
can make margin. Such products may or
may not be of advantage to the nation.
Besides, if the production of wheat which
is grown almost exclusively in the middlewest
and northwest, is to be stimulated why not
the growing of other farm products be en-
couraged? Other grains are equally as es-
sential. There are potatoes, beans, peas,
ETC., which enter largely into the food of the
nation. Then, there is cotton, grown by the
farmers of the South, which is a necessity
both to our own country and the allies. Why
should not the production of all these be en-
couraged by minimum prices? And is there
not danger of insufficient supply from the
very fact that production is not encouraged?
The more this price-fxing proposition is
analysed the more one is forced to the con-
clusion that if minimum price is fixed for
one product minimum prices should be fixed
for all to avoid the danger of insuficiency.
The time may come, if the war continues
long enough, when grains other than wheat
will be equally essential to military success.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
How the English Sparrow Was
Brought Over to America.

There are few people in this country who
do not denounce the English sparrow and
regret its introduction into this country. and
there are probably fewer still who know to
Whom the credit for its introduction is due.
Philadelphia claims to have been the first
city to take active means of Kidding the town
and the country round about of plague
OF caterplllars, span-worms, ETC., by sending
TO England for the tireless feeder and fi0ht
er known as the sparrow, and the little home
OF John Bardsley in suburban. PHILADELPHIA
is preserved as Sparrow Jacks" house.
Phlladelphlans who can recall the period
between 1860 and 1870, when the streets of
the city were shaded by thousands of mamie
trees reaching almost to the heart of the
city, will also recall the visitation of a
plague of "geometrides," "span-worms or
measurlng-worms, which infested the naanIes
The trees were stripped of their foliage. and
after other means failed William F. Smith
a councilman of the Twenty-second ward
In 1869, either sent or induced the council
10 send John W. Bardsley of Germantown
to England, to bring over a lot of sparrows
The number he brought over is disnuted
but the council passed bill paying for 600
pairs. Some of them were domiciled in the
mouse on Fifth street, and some in the home
OF Mr.. Bardsley, which, ever since that time
has been known as Sparrow Jacks" house
The .span-worm has vanished and the spar.
row mas renamed and the quaint little stone
mouse is treasured as a relic because of its
historic associations. This little old building
was standing at the time of the revolutions
and has been but little changed since. II
was here that the Englishman, John Bards-
ley, made his home after the civil war. He
was painter by trade and eager to. visit
his native home at the time that William F.
smith was councilman in Germantown. In
order to show his appreciation of the opnor-
tunIty to visit his old home in England Mr..
Bardsley brought back great number of
the sparrows, and it is believed that this was
the first introduction of the sparrow into
this country on any great scale.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
RING IN THE NEW.
Fashion again has spoken.

Dame tashlon again has spoken.
Women are to become slender Stocking
vistas are to be less distinct The stride is
to be shorter for the season, because the
skirt is a bit narrower.
1t is a period punctuated with delightful
exclamation on the part of women, of hoarse
outlaws and recrimination on the part of
men. 1t is mans duty, so it seems, to
mock the changing moods of the tickle dame
who is pictured as fixing the fashion.
And yet word is to be said in favor of
a change. One is prone to look on the
fckleness of fashion with an eye to lenence,
to applaud fall openings that ring in the
new, to welcome change just because it
is change.
When a flirting stocking becomes monot-
onous hide it. When a drab color appalls
illumine it. It's change, something to talk
about like the weather. If nature were
immutable what tiresome thing it would
be.
We scott at fashions fripperies, and we
take delight in following where this change
able dame leads. A paradox, it seems, yet
there you are. A new fall without new
fashions would be no fall at all. A new fall
without fall openings would be chicken pie
sans chicken. Why not be honest about it?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

The editor of The News is deeply appre-
ciative of the many kind things his brethren
of the press have said of him and the paper
on its thirty-tifth anniversary. There are oc-
casions when words can't express ones feel
ings. and this is one of the times. Such kind
" sentiments and words of commentator
of our life-work from the fraternity with
whom we became identified before we reach
ed manhood's estate are priced beyond ex-
preston. They are the richest reward of all
our endeavors, and an inspiration for still
greater effort to make The News of service
to its own community and to the state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
The Newspaper SnapdoodIe.
From the Rochelle New Er.

oh, you have an easy "snap." remarked a
man to US the other day.
es, indeed, editing a newspaper is a
snap" We don't know of thing that is as
much of "snap" as editing a nonpariel
newspaper in a small plea town, unless if
would be editing two of them
You can work your head off irving TO
boost the town, but you can't get a grunt
out OF anybody else to boost-unless thew
nave some individual affair they want boost
ed-f you will do it free of charge.
II anybody in the community wants to
paw out anybody else its the newspapers
business to do the bawling and incidentally
be the goat" Yes, its a ''snap." If Won
don't believe it, just try it.
business is bad its because the editor
wants TOO much money for advertising. If
business is good the editor hasn't ANYTHING
TO DO with 1t anyway, for ''we've been here
so long everybody knows u.s." And also
knows that they are covered with moss.
Ii we print what pleases people that's orr
duty and we deserve no credit. If we print
what don't please them, we are a crouch and
you can stop my paper for / already take a.
city paper.
II we solicit an ad we are told that no one
ever mentioned the ad they had in the pa
per last winter. If we solicit Job printing
we are told that they have large quantity
on hand, and IN time we see letter heads
envelopes, statements, checks and all manner
OF printed matter that have been printed in
Atlanta, Savannah and other large cities.
BY getting it printed at home they might
save few dollars in the town and thus
cause some solicitor for some sweat print
shop to lose his position and keep his boss
from adding that much to his bank account
Yes, its "snap" to edit paper. Look
at the chance one has to learn things, where
railroad depots are mail order house IN
loading stations, where advertising is done
with music box to draw the crowds to
town, and real live wires tack signs on trees.
fences and sign boards, to inform automo-
bile tourists going from Oshkosh to ITALIA
poosa-f they see them-that we, have axle
grease for SALE
Yes, sir, its bigger "snap" to edit fly
speck of newspaper than for a preacher
to paint or print instead of pray, or doc
tor to patch roofs instead of persons, or
barber to saw instead of scrape 1t is in
deed, believe US, "snapdoodle."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
WAR, BONDS AND THRIFT.

Press dispatches from Washington say the
first step toward financing the second INSTALL
ment of the liberty loan has been taken by
the treasury with the offering of $300,000,-
900 in treasury certificates of Indebtedness
1t is the largest block of such securities yet
offered. Economists of the later school have
come to look with suspicion if not with con-
tempt upon the efficiently advertised notion
that government debt is of itself good
thing; that a nice, fat debt helps to steady
a nation much as a sea anchor holds up the
nose of ship. The United States has come
pretty well away from the idea that the
only safe way to found currency system
is on the national liability.
What is left from those inheritances from
the civil war it is likely the present war will
sweep away. But in disallowing the axiom
one does not abolish the instance. There are
times when a national debt-some sorts of
national debts of tremendous benefit to
the nation America is going hugely into
debt at the present time. The necessity of
getting the immediate money must in the
last analysis override consideration of means.
The funds must be had, whether the spend
ing of them proves ultimately to enrich or
impoverish the people. In so far as it can
be done without blocking the bigger thing,
however, the United States might wisely
think upon the possibility of so directing its
money raising activities as to secure for
the people all of thesbenefts and few of the
disadvantages of being in debt as a nation.
This means bonds.
The most conspicuous example in history
of nation growing rich off its Indebtedness
was furnished by France after the browning
adventure-rather the uncrowning advent
ure-of the little Napoleon" Victorious
Prussia exacted from France the then rec
ord breaking cash indemnity of $1,O0O,OOO,-
600. France, PROSTATE, was expected to
struggle under the load for generations. But
France bonded the liability and sold bonds
to Frenchmen rich, Frenchmen poor and
Frenchmen of all degrees. The indemnity
speedily was paid The last German garri-
sons were withdrawn. But the debt had
merely been transferred. France still owed
the billion, but she owed it to the French.
Being already of a thrifty spirit, the French
man became thrifter. Finding bonds good,
ne bought other bonds. The peasant became
an investor in securities. And the national
prosperity born Of that impulse is still char
acteristic of France.
The experience of France points clearly
to the opportunity of America Not being
thrifty to start, Americans may profit even
more than Frenchmen did The distribution
OF government bonds among the country's
millions will be good both from the stand
point of present financial strategy and from
the point Of view of future effect IF tbs
average American can be made an investor
IN securities to anything like the extent thai
tne average Frenchman is our war debt may
oe OF benefit exactly in proportion to it
Size If, on the other hand, the American
y zoo insensible to his own betterment tx
react to the thrift stimulus the war deb
VIII be load with no compensating attach
ment
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
Dawson News Fills Its Mission
Worthily and Completely"
Jas. B. Nevin in the Atlanta Ceorgian.


With the very greatest sincerity and earn
estness of purpose | extend my congratula-
lions and best wishes to The Dawson News,
which has just celebrated its thirty-tfth
birthday
There isn't better newspaper anywhere,
in the city or rural sections 1t fills its mis-
sion as completely and as worthily as any
newspaper may hope to-far more worthily
than many do.
The News has been published weekly by
its present editor, E. L. Rainey, since its es-
Enlistment, third of century ago. 1t has
developed from small and more or less in
consequential fOur-page sheet into a beauti-
fully printed and splendidly edited weekly
of from eight pages upward.
1t handles the news squarely up to the
minute, and it carries an editorial page that
compares most favOrably with any know.
There isn't a department that is Stopped
or sighted in any degree. It is clean and
wholesome from start to finish 1t could not
be more carefully handled were it the great
est journal in the world. l mean that-The
News is just THAT sort of newspaper al
though it is only weekly.
| can not imagine happier lot or more
satisfactory status in life to have achieved
than that of the editor of this paper. He
has done truly constructive work; he has
wrought surely and we'll He has served a
and more to trust him and to believe him.
He deserves ALL of that too, and that's the
very BEST thing about it all.
Georgia has an unusually fine weekly
press. 1t compares most favorably with any
in the nation, and is far superior to that of
any state touching Georgia. Moreover, it
yields a powerful infuence-as it should.
1t more truly represents the heart and soul
of Georgia, perhaps, than anything else with
in her borders. 1t may be depended upon
to speak more nearly the exact truth of
opinion in the state than any other agency.
1t is true to ITSELF-that's why!
The editor of The Dawson News should
be a very happy and contented man. He has
accomplished about all there is in life worth
living for. He has the satisfaction of know
ing that his chosen work has been well and
worthily done. He can walk among his peo-
pie with his head erect and his heart un-
afraid. He has filled his sphere in a way
that fits him for emulation and example
May his newspaper enjoy many, many hap
Ply returns of its birthday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
POOR OLD PUBLIC SENTIMENT.

From the Savannah News.
The Augusta Chronicle is sure that pub
lie sentiment must be aroused if an imme-
date end is to be put to Illegal liquor traf-
tic in Augusta" Well, if public sentiment
can assimilate any more arousing than it
has had in Georgia for the last ten years on
the liquor question it's capacity will be far
beyond all expectations. There is not much
use in trying to arouse public sentiment if
ten years of talk, and politics. and Law max
ing and law breaking-all having to do with
whisky-have failed to arouse it. Under the
circumstances public sentiment if still un-
aroused, may be considered as very dead.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
ANOTHER SUFFRAGE SETBACK.

The defeat of woman suffrage in Maine
by vote of more than two to one may OF
may not foreshadow the result in New York
which will hold similar election on Novem-
Der 9th. If the suffrage captains of Maine
had any doubt as to victory they at least
were not prepared for a defeat that partook
of slaughter
Nevertheless, the outcome in Maine is in
line with suffrage results of the last few
years. Since 1913 the tide has been running
strongly against suffrage extension. Eight
Massachusetts,, New York, New Jer-
sey, Nebraska, the two Dakotas, Ohio and
Pennsylvania-have voted it down Last
year, however, Rhode Island gave woman
the same degree of suffrage proposed in the
bill which Maine has rejected And this
year the legislatures of three states-Okla-
homa, Michigan and South Dakota-propos-
ed constitutional amendments for full suf-
frage for women which will be voted on next
year In Georgia this summer the legislature
overwhelmingly defeated similar proposed
amendment.
It is to be noted, too, that leaders of both
of the old parties are in favor of giving the
ballot to women. Just few days before the
election President Wilson urged Maine dem
ocrats to support the proposal, the redoubt-
able Colonel declared women should vote,
not as matter of privilege, but as matter
of right, Governor Whitman, of New York,
and Mayor Mitchell ranged themselves on
the suffrage side, and Dudley Field Malone
shattered democratic tradition by resign
ing his job as collector of the port of New
York because President Wilson hadn't treat
ed the white house pickets with the courtesy
the gallant Malone deemed their due. Never
theless, the big fact which stands out above
all others is that after forty years of hard
work Maine suffragists have met defeat that
is decisive.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
BEST OF ALL.

A Georgia girl in Tennessee
Was kind enough to wish for me
To take Lookout Mountain view
wrote her these words, which are true.
I've stood on Lookouts Hottest peak.
And heard those murmuring waters speak
AS they came round the "Moccasin Bend"
And glided on their seward trend
I've seen the city from that height,
Electric lamps all burning bright,
And by the old zig-zag incline
The ocean was made almost divine
I've looked upon the Great Divide"
Whose waters flow to either side
Of this great Western hemisphere.
And in two oceans disappear
I've stood on top of old "Pike's Peak"
Took in the scenes at Cripple Creek"
Saw old Mount Hood" from Council
Crest"
And other grand sights in the West.
There's old "Mount Hector's" crystal stream
Which forms the Kicking Horse" dream
Of beauty plunging down the steep
For miles, and then it goes to sleep
The mount of ice which forms the cap
Of giant ranges on the map
In Canada's great rugged hills,
The heart and brain with wonder fills
Weeks in our nations heart I've spent
Looked from that famous monument
Saw where the currency was made
TO carry on our country's trade.
I've been upon the oceans wave
Spent hours In the Mammoth Cave"
But of all these there's not one thing
So wonderful as Indian Spring.
Dawson, Ga. W. P. HORNADY.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
SOUTH GEORGIA TO THE FRONT.

From the Moultrie Observer.
The Pelham Journal tells of a local man
who brought near two hundred head of hogs
up from Florida to be fattened and market
ed from his farm near Pelham. Several
South Georgia papers have recently told of
the importation of cattle from Texas to be
fed and marketed from bean fields to the
packing houses of this section. And thus
we become the center of the livestock bust
ness of the South. The section that has the
most feed is bound to be the livestock CEN
ter and we have it right here
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
BEWARE OF PEDDLERS.

A peddler who was selling toothpicks with
out license has been arrested, and suspicious
that he might be German agent the tooth
picks were tested for poison. 1t may seem
almost hysterical, this fear of German activ-
ity, but there is no act of German manevo-
lence which service for the fatherland does
not glorify, according to German teaching.
People should beware of strange peddlers.
For more reasons than one it is always best
to buy your goods at home, at established
places. Especially at this time don't run
the risk of introducing into your family
diseases and death 'made in Germany"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
AMT 1T, THOUGH?

From the Early County News.
The Dawson News thus shows up the
righteousness of news censorship:
"Cheer up! The navy or the navy's
press agent or somebody is still on the
job. An unnamed American steamer
which arrived at an unnamed port at a
date which is not given reports that it
may have sunk an unidentified subma-
rine in unnamed waters, under circum-
stances that cannot at this time be re-
vealed"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

In seven cases out of ten where a woman
goes to life of sin you can be safe in as
Stunning that some man is more responsible
than the woman. But does society, does the
church, does the law, does anybody visit the
penalty on the woman as on the man? No,
indeed; and that's the truth, the whole truth
and naught but the truth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

The Daily Triton Gazette is three years
old Born amidst troublous times, at the
outbreak of the great war, it has weathered
the stress of the times, and steadily grown
stronger and better. The Gazette has long
been a large factor in the growth and de-
velopment of South Georgia, and The News
hopes for our contemporary and Editor Her
ring many more years of usefulness and
prosperity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

The papers report that the exemption ac-
corded to rich young married man on the
ground that his family was dependent was
revoked when another young man volunteer
ed to support the wife during the rich young
mans absence at the front Ha!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

After an almost endless stretch of red
tape and hair splitting the federal authori-
ties have at last approved the projects sub
mitted by the Georgia highway commission.
1t is a matter of note, however, that these
projects are the first to be approved in any
of the Southern states
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

The second liberty loan will be advertis-
ed, but whether in the newspapers or some
other way has not been decided by the sec
rotary of the treasury. If the Hon. McAdoo
would like some expert advice as to the best
advertising medium he will have no diff
Guilty getting it, All he'll have to do is to
consult any successful business house
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

According to Mr.. Hoover the public
should be prepared to pay still higher prices
for meat. As we understand it, the farmer
must be prevented from manipulating the
price of cereals from which bread is made,
but the packers must be permitted to do
anything they want to do with the price of
livestock
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

Perusal of an article in London news
paper on food prices in England discloses
the fact that prices in that country, with
but one or two exceptions, are lower than
in the United States. When it is taken into
consideration that England has to import a
large portion of her foodstuffs the lower
prices there are all the more remarkable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

Mr.. Byram, who began his career as a
round house call boy, has succeeded as pres
ident of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul railroad Mr.. Earling, who was once a
telegrapher. This fact contains the unusual
tabloid sermon. which has no reference
whatever to the respective events of start
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

But who can say the Moscow conference
had no practical results if it was influential
in prying loan of $5,OOO,OOO,OOO rubles
out of Uncle Sam?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

Billy Sundays New York tabernacle is be-
ing torn down, and the lumber is to be util-
lied in the construction of a dance hall
Well, we'll! Maybe Billy took his departure
too soon.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

Almost every town has men who hunt for
trouble, but here in Dawson we have few
fellows who go around to troubles front
door and dare it to come out
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

In expecting every man to do his duty
it means also to include the man whose duty
it is to shut up.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

And John Frost doubtless feels that the
farmer who builds silo isn't exactly play
ing fair.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

couple of Valdosta boys lassoed a
snake. Some of the Valdosta fellers that go
to Jacksonville frequently would probably
like to do likewise.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-11-29
GARDNER TO BE TAKEN
TO RILEY FOR TRIAL

Frank Gardner, charged with
stealing motor cars has been turned
over to Riley county for trial on the
charge of stealing the car from that
county identified here. The sheriff
cf Riley will come here for him to-
night. In the meanwhile scores of
letters asking about stolen cars are
being received by the officers here
and 1t is likely that other stolen cars
will be located. Two have already
been identified by their owners and
taken home, one to Gorham, Kan,
and one to Manhattan.
If Gardner is acquitted in Riley
county he will be taken to Russell
county. If he is convicted, when
the term is served, Russell county
still has a chance to place him on
trial.
Sheriff Sherman received a letter
from Oklahoma stating that 1t was
thought that Gardner was wanted
there on the charge of stealing cars.
The description was not the same,
however.