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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
AS CHRISTMAS APPROACHES.

In two weeks Christmas will be with the
world again-Christma which is always
looked forward to with happy anticipation
This year people are wondering Just how
they are going to feel about the advent of
the yuletide season, just how they are to
observe it in the best and most gracious spir-
it in view of unusual world conditions These
meditations are the result of sober and
Christian observation of events which ap-
pear to strike a stunning blow at the time
hOnored maxim of peace on earth and good
will to men 1t is regrettable that the chill
dren of men should feel the need of thu
grave reflections. However, it should be re-
membered you and |, in fact the vast body
of humanity, had nothing much to do with
the king of the European inferno It was
born of kingcraft, and many complex condi-
tons. 1t is in no wise a rebuke of the
Christmas spirit and back of that the gospel
of the Master, but rather great cry for
both of them. Christ did not preach war.
Then why not prepare for and celebrate
Christmas in the old way leaving out not
one of the ancient rites, emitting nothing
bells, tinsel Santa brotherly remembrance,
and above all a firm and gentle belief ard
hope that mother earth will soon turn from
the binding glare of conflict to that holy
radiance which shall point every heart to
true and lasting victory?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
A BIBLE IN EVERY KIT.

1t is difficult TO keep track of all the
drives so quickly does one succeed anoth-
err Now, it is the turn of the American
Bible Society, which has undertaken to raise
fund Of 100000 for the purpose of put
ting a Khaki bound testament in every
American soldiers kit. This is a worthy I'M
dertaking. 1t is in furtherance of the NOR
ale of the soldier. We are accustomed to
hearing a good deal of flippant talk about
religion and Bible reading, but there is lit
tie of that in the trenches or on the battle
fields where the soldier is confronted by
the eternal realities, and where Death is his
companion by day and by night 1t is nat
ural that the soldier should turn to the con-
ISOLATION of religion, and it is understand
able that his religion should fortify his
courage for the task he has in hand.
The American Bible Society is issuing a
specially bound testament for soldiers and
sailors, and by May 1st next win have print
ed and distributed in our first year of the
war 100000 of these books for our arm
ed forces. The society is now appealing fol-
funds to finance this work. "The govern
ment," it says, gives the soldier rifle, thu
Red Cross cares for his wounds, and WI
are furnishing him with the testament HI
needs all three"
Twenty-Five cents will provide a tesla
ment for one soldier. Abundant opportuni
ties viii be open to contribute to the funt
which is being sought Do not overlool
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
Those Good Old Days.
From the Greensboro Herald-Journal.

From the Greensboro Herald Journal
We are longing for the good old days
when one suit of clothes lasted year for
good wear, and two more for everyday wear.
Everybody worked ten hours a day. then
went to a shindig, and old and young danced
till the chickens quit their roost They had
no "brainstorms" or heart failure or ap-
pendicitis. Branstorms were cured with a
good hickory stick; heart failure was called
fits, and appendicitis was called bellyache.
They rolled the patient on barrel, or rubb-
ed him with hot brick; and no one knew
that he had vermiform dorficker that
was set to catch grape seed. We used to
eat soup and have sass" of all kinds; now
we eat fruit salad and consomme and have
biscuit made of baking powder that look
as if some one had sat on them. We had
bread with "rising" that smelled like a glue
factory when it was rising, but tasted bet
ter than anything made of self-rising flour
And if the girls chewed gum they had to
climb a sweet-gum tree and dig it out with
screw driver or tenpenny nail.
Progress doesn't always mean betterment.
Those pioneers were as happy as anybody
on earth. They needed less than a quarter
of the Injuries Of today and six times the
necessities. They took no stock in this
burned progressive democracy" the origi-
nal was good enough. A mans word was
his bond The women didn't know anything
about short dresses. or gowns with ribbon
for sleeves.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

Plenty of people, we have been told, are
now living who can recall the days when it
cost rs cents to carry letter from one part
of the country to the other That was in
the days of the stage coach before the rail
road came. After the iron horse got into
real working order the rate was lowered to
10 cents. In 1851 a Scent stamp would
carry letter across the continent In 1888
the rate was lowered to 2 cents and for
several years before the present war start
ed there was much discussion about reduc-
ing it to l cent. 1t is not likely the increase
to cents will last long after peace cones
again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
Modern Living.

Modern living is a complex affair, great
ly in contrast with the simple modes of
life of the earlier Americans and of their
immediate descendants. All the appliances
which have been inyented-notably during
the past generation-to give heightened
comfort to the home, and to make labor
easier, have added to this complexity of lv-
ing, and most materially to its cost. How
materially one would hardly believe until
he had studied the matter for himself and
discovered beyond question that today a
man cannot support wife and bring up one
child, living in comfortable and not at all
lavish manner, upon what his ancestors
would have considered sufficient to rear a
large family, He cannot do it on what it
cost his ancestors of only two generations
ago. AS men and women are educated and
taught to think for themselves they will
no longer follow blindly the lead of the
so-called fashionable" bell-wethers, but will
recognize the charm of independent modes
of thought and life, and will permit them
selves to live according to their own ideals
and in their own ways. They will see the
folly of attempting to initiate the methods
of the millionaire on the income of the av-
erage business or professional man, but will
live their own lives, happy in doing the
things which they really care to do instead
of the things which they do just because
somebody else does them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

The Butler Herald has Just completed it's
forty-second year of existence. In our ear
hest recollection of newspapers, when we
were 'deviling" in the Office of the Perry
Home Journal some years ago, the Herald,
then published by Russ & Benns, was one
of GeOrgia's best known and foremost week
lies. Charlie Benns, son of one of the then
editors and publishers, is now the talented
and popular editor and proprietor, and is
keeping the old paper up to its high standard
of excellence.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

reported discovery is that cotton burs
contain sufficient protein to make them val
liable for feed If true, it is important to
the farmers in the cotton belt 1t means an
other resource in stock feeding, and one
which seldom fails, even in. dry weather
Considering the fact that the cotton plant
furnishes clothes and food for men, and feed
for beasts, and that even its bur is valuable
one is inclined to say with Henry Grady,
what a wonderful plant it is"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
HELPING THE PUBLISHERS HELPS

From the Early County News
The business men Of Moultrie and Daw-
son. two of the Invest towns in Southwest
Georgia, are conducting trade at home
educational campaign through the advertis-
ing columns of their local newspaper Most
towns insist on the local paper doing this
sort of work at its own expense while the
publisher subsists on money obtained from
out-of-town advertising.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

The designation of Count Won Hertling as
"old fox' has been abundantly justified. In
responding to the Russian peace suggestion
he did not say it was unqualifedly good, but
with devilish cunning he limited that it look
ed ike good subject for debate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

The Richland News and The Lincolnton
Journal two of our most valued exchanges,
have recently installed linotypes, and greatly
improved their news service and mechanical
appearance. The News is more than glad to
see this evidence of enterprise and prosper
ity, and predicts for these able and indus
trious editors still greater things
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

Two hundred and six men in the United
States are paying taxes on incomes of at
to the revenue department. And probably
kicking not any more strenuously than the
man who is taxed only on shotgun and
a spawned horse.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
The PUBLISHER THE LOSER.

From the Hawkinsville News.
The Dawson News and the Sandersville
Progress, two of the best weeklies in the
state, are among the last to raise their sub
scription price from $1.00 to $3.50, Both
are well worth the price and more, too and
subscribers who pay for them and read them
will come much nearer getting the worth
Of their money than the publishers
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

In listing the publications that have VIC
lated the voluntary censorship in the print
ing of military information the war college
has included the Official Bulletin" by
George Creel the official censor Interest
in the Bulletin ought to perk up little now.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

1t is intimated that the next series of lib
erty bonds will be offered to the people of
the United States in February of next year,
and that not less than three billion dollars
will be asked for.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
A TIMELY WARMING

From the Macon News.
Editor Rainey, of The Dawson News, SAYS
Sunday maps are about the only things which
have not been put under the war tax But
even at that YOU had better not snore loud
enough to call the governments attention
to it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
VELVET" FOR SOUTH GEORGIA

From the Moultrie Observer.
A Moultrie dealer has an order for five
cars Of velvet beans to go to Texas. We've
got EN- Poinp and coming now. Velvet beans
going and cattle coming.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
AN UNsoLVED MYSTERY

From the Cuthbert Leader
The Dawson News will increase its sub
scription price to S 80 ON January 1st How
the Raineys have afforded to publish so long
for Sl.00 such excellent paper is a mystery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

The wonder is not that so MANY people
die, but so many of them manage to live
with so little gray matter
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
HEAVENSI IISTENI

From the Columbus Ledger
Friend Foover's son has been operated on
for appendicitis, The doctors claim that
appendicitis is caused from over-eatinp Hoo
yer should begin an investigation at once,
beginning with the Hoover pantry
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

In your Christmas preparations don't for
get the Red Cross seals. These seals spell
peace, and good will, and good health.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

Conditions are rapidly being reversed A
Terrell county farmer has received injuries
from Texas for velvet beans.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
SIXTEEN PAG ES

At the present price it will soon be fash
ionable to wear cotton stockings
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

If Washington has anything calculated tn
jar the Russians loose from their sweet
dreams now is the time to let go of it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

Out in Oklahoma the food conservation
campaign promises to be made of real ser
vice to the people. 1t is proposed to see that
the dealer gives full weight, and the Gus
toner gets what he pays for.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

You cannot always guage a mans pa
triotism by the size of the liberty bond he
buys or the loudness Of his talk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

Congress has convened. Newspapers of the
country will now proceed to brush up on
their synonyms for dilatory, traitorOus and
stupid.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

So one of the former Cars daughters Is
on her way to America. Well, We'll be
glad to see her, and as far as that goes we'd
kind O. like to take slant at papa Nick,
too.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

Americas is making an effort to get an
army aviation camp, and we wish her mighty
well in the undertaking. Our neighbor al
ways was something of high flyer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

Most men seem to want the women to do
all the work, and let them do all the voting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

Any habit appears foolish and wasteful to
the fellow who has different habit.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

no sect may also will to fight" by being
drafted.
Married men who have homes, with a
wife or child dependent upon them. are
not to be given the privilege Of fighting IN
defence of home, wife or child in the con-
script army. The favored class is the
strong. the free and the young, who will
stand in France, as General Pershing de-
scribed the first contingent as standing,
physically fit and inspiring, fine, husky
Young fellows, with the glow Of energy.
GOOD health and physical vigor,' on their
wav to the trenches, in contrast with the
pitiful French cripples whom he visited.
The exemption boards vii! pass upon
the indispensabilty of the workers TO in
dustry at home The burden Of proving
that he is indispensable at home and there
fore ineligible for the high privilege is
curiously placed upon the drafted man.
AN affidavit from a mans employer is
expected 10 suffice, thus making the en-
piover the captain of a mans soul. NO
affidavit from the employe as to the eligi-
bilty of the employer has yet been sug-
cested. The debate as to what is "neces-
sary labor" has now opened, bond sales
men having so far proved the least dis
pensable.
Senator Calder's bill to have the draft
hased upon a states elgibles, and not
upon population, IS aimed to relieve states
that have large alien populations. Ala
hama. with l per cent Of alien population,
will otherwise send a disproportionately
small number of men, compared with New
York. Massachusetts, and Arizona, with
some 30 per cent of alien population. The
strength Of the Anglo-Saxon South in Con-
Cress almost assures the defeat Of such
an equalizing measure.
State life insurance for conscripted and
enlisted soldiers is proposed by Secre-
tary McAdoo, who hopes thus to protect
the families of the fighting forces. If the
state does not shoulder the burden alone,
then it will cooperate" with the life in
surance companies which have already
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08
Raising the Human Crop

"E GOD for cannon" as Bismarck low
l. ingly characterized the human
crop for war, is about to be inventoried
and sorted with a will, most of the eX-
emption boards having been named, the
rigid rules of the draft having been an
nounced by the President, and an appre-
ciable advance having been made in the
mobilization of American manhood for
shipment to Europe. there to relieve the
human crop shortage.
The tremendous political advantage to
he gained through exemption boards with
power Of life and death over the voters is
illustrated by the outcry from Pennsyl-
yania against political tricks in exemp-
tion board appointments" A. Mitchell
Palmer bewais the capture of these life
boards, not by Germans, but by Republi-
cans. whom one Harrisburg newspaper re-
fers to as politicians of the most despca-
Die type" and whom Vance Mccormick,
the Democratic National chairman, CEN
suring Governor Brumbaugh, represents
as exempting all faithful party followers
because they have floating Kidneys
The conscrpt army will not be an un-
willing army if President Wilson can help
,, it, for in his recent announcement of draft
regulations he appeals for fairness, lest
those who desire to give their lives be side
tracked through favoritism in the draft.
Draft rules that expressly exempt GER
tain classes have been made public. Con-
gressmen and ministers of religion are dis
criminated against at the outset, even stu
dents in theological seminaries being
obliged TO confne their part in the great
war to summer courses in war oratory.
The Jealous care of the government that
none but the mentally and morally fit be
eligible to fight for democracy is shown
in the exclusion from this privilege of
"any person who has been convicted OF
felony and sentenced" Aliens who have
not taken out their first papers are to be
placed in the same class with ministers,
Congressmen and felons. Likewise Ger
mans, whether they have their first papers
or not. To confer the boon upon aliens
who have taken out their first papers
Federal statute is thought to be necessary,
and one may be forthcoming.
Religious scruples against killing count
against the citizen where he is "a men,
ber of a well recognized religious sect"
The sect that is not very well recognized
Is favored by eligibility, while the "con-
scientious objector" who is the property of
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08
Tinkering with Business

DIG BUSINESS is as perplexed as un-
ID certain and as helpless as paciist
family with six sons of draft age' The
splendid era of business, when Congresses
were as toys in the hands of the magnates
end every factor in American lite paid
homage to commerce and finance, has given
place to the era of the feudal armorer
again.
Yesterday the coal barons were whipped
and sent to bed by strange new lords at
Washington, to-day the once so dominant
railroads, whose charge was wont to be
all that the traffic will bear" are told
that they cannot raise their rates to save
their souls, and tomorrow the proud man.
ufacturers will be told that they cannot
get steel to make fytrap, spade or an
automobile.
One would infer from the lordly gestures
Of Congress and the inner Cabinet and the
cutter Cabinet that indeed all was over for
coal interest, steel interest and railroad
interest; that the great Chicago packers
we're as docile as contented COWS; that the
automobile manufacturers were resigned
to die nobly in their steel-starved plants,
and that the whole country was captlvated
by the sound of many dictatorial voices
from Washington.
But as a matter of fact one cannot an
nounce the enforcement Of these radical
measures. One cannot announce cheap
coal contract. One cannot even predicate
the cessation Of automobile manufacture
through the dearth of steel. Beer and
skttles are still enjoyed.
With bated breath 1OO,O0O,0OO people
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

equal suffrage when the prohibitionists
began TO describe him as "the one great
obstacle to prohibition
For the President did not like the role
of liquor dictator, which the Senate bill
originally framed for him, so he dictated
a new course for Congress-lifting the ban
off-beer. He does not hesitate 10 assume
the responsibility of telling those Senator'S
"who have been kind enough 70 consult
him that it would be "in the public inter-
est 10 eliminate those provisions from the
present measure" Which rebuke was
probably earned by those who tackled alb
solute prohibition as a rider on an emer-
gency food bill instead of presenting bone
dry legislation on its merits as separate
issue.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

Gustrial manufacturers for peace markets
be able to get steel? If not. building trades
will suffer, real estate will receive a set
back, the automobile industry will be fiat
on its back and, in common opinion, the
devil will be to pay. Business as usual
without steel may be rather rickety.
The railroad gloon has not been dis
PEELED. The Interstate Commerce Com
missions decision denying the plea for
ID per cent horizontal raise in rates and
throwing a sop of per cent to the East
ern lines left the railroad interests dis
gruntled, and railroad stocks slumped ma
terialy. In fact, pessimism IS Just now
the adopted mood of the rails, though they
at least are assured a continuance Of busi-
ness. Shifting from peace basis to
war basis must be an easy acrobatlc feat
for a railroad compared with manufact-
urer of baby carriages or hearses.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

gaze at Washington. And they hear
family row between Secretaries Baker and
Lane, radical and conservative, on an issue
of coal prices. Brave lads Secretary OF
the Interior Lane told the coal barons who
agreed upon So ton at the mines for
bituminous coal for the government, this
Is indeed patriotism ut is eXtortion"
vociferated Secretary Of War Baker next
day. II said patriotism ~ said Lane, rais-
ing his voice. "And | said eXtortlon!
retorted Baker, pleasantly. President Will
son. leaning toward Baker, has calmed the
difference for the moment. Whether 1t is
wiser to haggle over prices and not get the
goods than it is to pay fat prices and pro-
ceed to war is the point Of dispute. The
coal barons are of the latter opinion. The
New York Central gets coal for 81 ton.
Food control and prohibition wrangllng
have delayed the taxation programme
Some Of the Senators favor graduated
impost on excess profits ranging from II
70 35 per cent. Other Senator'S favor rais-
ing most of the war expenses by bond Is
sues. so that interest may relieve some OF
the distress Of wealth. Congressman
Rainey. pleading that S1,8OO 100000
should be raised by taxation, calls the Sen
ate bill a "rich mans BILL
Senator Reed, Of Missouri, charges that
certain members Of the national boards
favor themselves in war contracts, notably
the Aluminium Company Of America Of
which Arthur B. Davis is the head, while
he serves As chairman Of the sub-commit-
tee which buys aluminium for the govern
nent. In such case Mr.. Davis's company
would have 10 be excepted from comments
upon Uncertainties Of business and tne
"surrender Of big business"
Another Federal economy" is ADVERTISED
IN the price secured for the copper supply
Some unkind critics point out that the
copper producers have recouped thcm-
selves for their patriotic sacrifice by ad-
vancing the price Of copper proportion
a,clv 10 individual consumers. Steel now
ever. il the dominant item. VIII the IN
New-York tribune., 1917-07-08

regulation. the regulating being done by
the milk companies, which have boosted
the price now that pasturage is plentiful,
the increase in two months amounting to
80 per cent. No dealer was obliged TO tell
his customers that milk was not available,
So presumably the cows were turned into
war babies" gratuitously. The farmers
Get an average price of Az cents per
Quart. while the companies get an average
price of llls cents. Who is the profiteer?
This challenge from the Borden and
Sheffield companies has not been accepted
bv the nation Neither has any food chal-
lenge. When the food stringency becomes
50 extreme that rationing will have to be
lesorted to in order to prevent waste, some
PEOPLE that now have no milk expect to
get milk, which will show some Of the
merits of famine.
Some such issue has been raised by the
leading suffragsts, among them Mrs.
Henry Wade Rogers, their National treas
urer. She defends the housewife against
the charge of waste and hurls back at Mr..
Hoover his demand for food conservation
ir the kitchen, informing him that waste
lies in the distribution, because "only 20
per cent of the crop reaches the kitchen y
Other suffragists decry the idea that the
housewives are in a position to save food
from waste. because many Of the families
are now insufiiciently nourished, while
cooking corn or other cereals in the home
is impossible because of the cost of gas
and the loss of time to the working wife
The "buck is then passed" to the homes
Of the well-to-do, "who have no intention