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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
GREAT DRY" FIGorel..
SOON Be LAUNCHED
lruIRTY- -FOUR STATES NEEDED
TO RATIFY AMENDMENT.
WET STATES AN OBJECT.

The passage by congress of the
prohibition amendment to the consti-
hutton is the preface to what will be
Npne Of the greatest political battles
In the history of the country. The
fght will center in those states now
wet and every effort will be put forth
Sby the dry advocates to swing enough
Of them into the dry column to carry
the federal amendment.
As the situation stands today 27
states have abolished liquor. These
and seven more are expected by the
prohibitionists to ratify the national
amendment, making "a of the neces-
sary sc. This would leave only two
states needed for ratification. The
seven states that are expected to
burn dry are Kentucky, Florida,
minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Texas and
Wyoming. In several of these the
legislatures are already pledged. In
the most of them, particularly Ohio,
kentucky and Texas, the liquor peo-
pie have admitted that only a slight
push will make the change from wet
10 dry. AS only legislatures may rati-
BY, the vets will make their stand in
the state assemblies.
The prohibition states that are ex-
spected to ratify the amendment are !:
alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colora-
DO, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi,
Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire,
New Mexico, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Utah, Virginia, Washington and West
Virginia.
The two needed dry states will have
T. be obtained from among the fol-
owing: California, Connecticut, Del
Aware, Illinois, Louisina, Missouri,
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylva-
nia, Rhode Island, Maryland, Massa-
&husetts, Vermont and Wisconsin.
Maryland, Delaware and Vermont
IRE regarded by advocates of prohi-
pition as likely to join the prohibi-
Fon list next year.
Big Fight Open Soon.
The first big fights of the prohibi-
Aonists viii probably be made in
New Jersey and New York. This
Month there is to be big temper
Ance rally in New York city, at which
lergymen of almost all denomina-
fons Will be present.
The weapon to be employed by vir-
Sually all of the societies is the car
boon. There will be addresses in
great numbers, but the colored pict-
Nre is to be exploited by millions of
copies. New magazines are to be
established to carry these cartoons,
snd vestibules of churches are to be
med with enlarged and artistic post
BIS.
This method of attack has been
qSed during the past year and a half,
and IS held to have eXerted far more
sprce than speeches and mass meet
Pgs. Some of the best cartoonists
"a the country are said to have been
Rgaged to aid in the dry campaign.
To meet the forces of prohibition
ne vets are dressing their ranks and
pllecting the sinews of war for the
~ ruggle. 1t viii be a battle royal.
OF since slavery days has America
#en such campaign as the one that
bon viii open.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
$15O,OOO PAID FOR TIMBER ON
LAND BOUGHT FOR soc ACRE
Big Deal in Turner County Includes
Last Body of Round Timber.

ASHBURN, Ga.-One of the larg-
est timber transactions of late years
was recently pulled off here, when
D. H. Davis, of Turner county, sold
to John R. Barfeld, of Dooly county,
the timber of 1850 acres of land ly-
ing north and northwest of Ashburn.
The consideration is said to have
been $150,000, 100000 of which
was paid cash down. About 165
acres of this land had been boxed
and cut over about seventeen years
ago.
This is the finest and possibly the
last body of round timber along the
line of the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad. When Mr.. Davis
bought this land and timber he paid
SO cents an acre for it. That would
be 1925 for the tract.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
SALMON CATCH WORTH
FORTY MILLION DOLLARS

Food added to the nations war
time storehouses by the 1917 catch
Of Alaska salmon was the largest
amount in the history of the terri
tory, and far exceeded in value that
OF any other season. The pack Of
canned salmon will aggregate $500
QUO cases, valued at $4,000, 900.
nearly twice the value of the record
catch in 1916. ~S- :
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
SNEEZED BEFORE THE FIRE;
MoURNS LOSS OF UPPER TEETH
Alabama Man Could Not Rescue Mo-
lars Before They Were Ruined.

ADMISSION, Ala.-The Rev. G. C.
Mcdowell, who was recently appoint
ed registrar for Calhoun county. is
mourning the loss of his upper teeth.
The registrar. like about dozen
other people in this section, has been
suffering from cold recently, and has
done a mans part in wheeling and
ssneezing. As he was sitting by the
hre ne sneezed and eoughed and his
upper plate of teeth shot out of his
mouth and landed in the CRATE. He
was unable to remove the teeth from
the flames before the were ruined.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
L NEED. NEARLY FIVE
.ILLION MUNITIoN WORKERS

me government viii need 4,8O0,-
workers for arsenals and muni-
plants during the present year,
prdlng to official estimates. 1t is
Punced that the wages will aver
$1,000 year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
DOLLARS is
PAID FOR EAR OF CORN
on Sweepstakes at a County Corr
Show in Missouri.

Show in Missouri.
One hundred dollars for an ear of
|rn does not mean that starvation
+ hit the corn belt. 1t means what
ls particular ear of corn is valued
that for seed.
This price was paid at the end of
perfect corn show in Pets county,
ISsouri, the other day. The ear of
Pm which secured the sweepstakes
fS grown by William Romig and
as sold for 500 at auction at the
.oSe of the show. Romig's prize ear
corn contained an even 1000
rams, 1t was perfect and will be
ken to Columbia, Mo-, for expert
ental purposes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
HALF A BILLION FOR
RAILROADS BEING CONTESTED
Validity of Administrator Rail-
road Bill Being Opposed.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-validity
of the proposal in the administra-
TONS railroad bill to appropriate
$5O0,000,000 to carry out govern
ment control of railroads was ques-
toned today before the senate inter
state commerce committee by Sena-
tor Underwood, as well as by some
members Of the committee.
They expressed the opinion that the
railroads were taken over as war
measure and that under the constitu-
ton appropriations for the support
Of armies are limited to two years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
PAINTS A GLOOMY
PICTURE U. S. IN WAR
M'CUMBER SEES ITALY CRUSH
ED, FRANCE ASSAULTED AND
ENGLAND TO BEAR BRUNT.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Senator
McCumber, of North Dakota, today
gave the senate a gloomy picture of
the position Of the United States and
her allies in emphasizing his plea for
radical speeding up of the ship build
ing program. He declared England
was now bearing the brunt of the
war and asked chow long can she
stand this strain?' The United
States must send 100000 troops to
balance the man power of the CEN
trail powers, he said, and 100000
would be needed to make the Ger
mans retreat.
Russia and Rumania are out of
the war;" asserted Senator McCum
Der ITALY is losing ground. France
is unable to make any Roadway. The
wall of opposition at the eastern end
of the battle line in continental Eu-
rope is crumbling. Who can say how
long Italy can or will withstand the
Teutonic pressure? Optismistic in
deed must be the man who will saw a
single year without additional sup
port. With Italy under the heel of
the conqueror, with France assailed
on the flank, who can prophesv that
that country will not quickly be
brought under the heel of the same
conqueror and England's army left
to battle against overwhelming num-
oers? This is delineating two things.
First, the exact situation as it now
is and, second, the possibilities of the
future, and it is presented with the
hope that we will at least partially
awaken to realization of what is
before u.s."
A Mistaken Idea.
Senator McCumber said the idea
that pointing out weaknesses dis
couraged the American people and
encouraged the enemy was a mistak-
en- one and declared that "we must
learn that lesson that boasting will
not win this war"
He said he was tired of HEARING
argument that Germany would be re-
duced to submission by starvation
and stated that the central powers
control three times as much territory
in Europe as does the allies.
Senator McCumber recommended
that the United States stop sending
soldiers to France now and use all
available tonnage for food for the
allies, stimulate efforts to attempt to
produce a ship immune to torpedo
attack and to make full and ade-
quate test of reinforced concrete yes
sells.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13

versal belief that even more comes from
other sources, from the people behind
the front lines, from their sympathy and
confidence. Even beyond this, morale
is due to fundamental spiritual reali-
ties, to the assurance that we are in
line with the will of God, and that on
this account there is absolute trust con-
corning the ultimate issue There is
no doubt that, as it has been well put
The better the man the better the sol
der because such one is sure that
he is doing right and is following the
light of truth. And so, in the long
run, the war viii be won by those at
home. But we must not only keep the
home fires burning; we must also keep
the church fires burning; and even
more than theses we must keep the
heart fires burning. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13
f3( DAD(Y'5V[VNl|
k,l fairy TALE
III s. hAN @AHhNpQNER
THE PARROT ACTOR.

Il am an actor" said the parrot
whose name was GREENE. II am on
the real stage and men and women and
boys and girls pay money, real money,
to come and see me! That's an honor
Tor you, great and glorious honor"
"Oh, WELL" said Greenie's compan-
Ion, whose name, as you may imagine,
was Mrs. Greene, you are very glad
to be an actor, but would you like to
act all the time? No. You would be-
come tired of It."
My dear Mrs. Greene, you are sim.
ply trying to comfort yourself because
you're not an actress. You are saying
that If one acted all the time one
would become tired of it."
And wouldn't your asked Mrs.
Greene.
ITO be sure" said GREENE. :
Then | was right" 49,
YES, you We're right"
"Hurrah," said Mrs. Greene.
"Ah, but-but," said GREENE, 'syou
are right, and yet you do not under
stand"
"Pray explain" said Mrs. Greene.
How can / be right and still not un-
derstand?"
Quite easily. Listen to me-"
I'm listening" said Mrs. Greene.
I'm all attention. My every scrap of
hearing Is directed toward you, so as
to heed what you have to say" For
Mrs. Greene tried to be very polite to
Greene. She admired him ire
mendously because he was an actor.
And she thought it was a great honor
for her to be his companion and wife.
She couldn't act; there couldn't be
two famous actors in the family, but
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13
A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of Men in Americas
Fighting Service.

When the steamer Actaeon was sunk
by German torpedo, the U. S. s. navy
armed guard commanding the guns on
this ship, gave splendid account of
itself. Among these men were Seaman
Henry f. Earl and Seaman Albert Fer
dlnand Samuelson, who at the time of
the torpedoing proceeded to their gun
stations before receiving orders. When
1T was finally found that the ship had
to be abandoned and the men had to
take to the boats, these two sailors
stood additional watch for the other
men in the boat who were too sick to
perform this duty. The boat was adrift
number of days but finally succeeded
in reaching shore. Earl enlisted in the
navy in 1916 in Worcester, Mass, Civ
ing as his next of kin, a sister, Minnie
Blossom Hammond, IA Union street,
Hopedale, Mass. Samuelson enlisted at
Minneapolis, February "a, 1917, his
mother being Mrs. Christine Samuelson,
3 loo Thirteenth avenue, Minneapolis,
MINI. M
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13
Coarse
Grain
Products

We are prepared to supply the New
England consumer in any quantity,
through their regular provision houses,
substitutes Of unequaled quality, in
Guiding Barber Milling Company's Rye
Flour; Quaker City Flour Mills Pure
Rye Flour; Washburn- Crosby Com
pany's Pure Barley Flour; Pillsbury's
Pure Barley Flour; National Oats Com
pany's Pure White Table Meal; Ma
tional Oats Company's Rolled Oats in
90-lb. sacks; Quaker Oats Company S
Rolled Oats in packages, all sizes;
American Hominy Company's Cream of
Maize, which has recently been made
a substitute; Topeka Flour Mills Com
pany's Fancy Corn Flour. Also our full
line Of goods manufactured at our Brat
tloboro plant, including Rye Meal,
White Bolted Corn Meal; Yellow Bolted
Corn Meal. We are installing machinery
TO manufacture White Corn Flour. We
place a guarantee back of cur goods
and solicit your valued business.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13
Congressman Greene.
(St. Adams Messenger

tSt. Adams Messenger.
Vermont in the past has had a way
of sending men to the United States
Congress who have assumed positions of
influence in the national councils which
have given this little commonwealth nor e
of place in affairs of state than its size
from the standpoint of population would
warrant. This is a fact that has frequent
ly been commented upon by political
students, and it is well known to those
OF us at home.
There are many signs that we are fol-
lowing in the same path and that Con.
gresham Frank J.. Greene is taking his
place among the leaders at the capital,
position won by close application to
work and by the exercise of the good
common sense which characterized his
editorial work in this state In the Boston
Transcript there recently appeared an
estimate OF Congressman Greene which
viii bafmost pleasing to his many friends
back home. In speaking of men who
would command the complete confidence
of the Republican electorate (of the
nation) if placed in charge of the CON
kgresssonal campaigns, The Transcript
says:
Col. Frank /. Greene of Vermont is
another. He is an experienced soldier
of the National Guard, and although his
present title was gained as a member OF
the staff of the governor of Vermont,
he served in the National Guard for IL
years up to 1900, and during the war with
| Spain was mustered into the United
States service as captain of Company b
of the First Infantry, Vermont Volun-
teers. He has been delegate to the
| Republican national convention and
served as chairman of the Republican
state convention of Vermont in 1914
| Since his party went into the minority
| Colonel Greene has worked effectively
| for his state, even with the Democratic
| administration and he has supported
ali measures relating to the war proposed
| by the President"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13

me Reformer ID on sale every evening
Dy the following news dealers:
VIZ sraStleboro, Brattleboro News Co, C..
w. cleveland. 8. L Purinton (Estey.
ville), Brooks. House Pharmacy. Allen's
South Main Street.
West 6rattleboro, ]. L. Stockwell.
last Oummerston, M. E. Brown
quincy. IA. G. Williams
Newfsne. N. M Batchelder.
Iownshend. G. w. Cutler.
West Townshend, C. ri. Grout.
Jamaica, r. j. Daggett.
South Londonderry, F. n. TYLER
South Vernon, r. r BufYum.
Northneld. Mass. Thompson Bros
Streeter - W.
Hlnsdae. NJ. H., W. Fl. Lyman.
Bellows = lls, Depot Restaurant
windsor. VT, Windsor Restaurant.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13

them the power to buy food and
clothes and houses and automobiles
that is, if they get enough for such
things. But anyway they can buy all
sorts Of things in the shops with
money. from crackers to scotland
many useless things as well, such as
stockings and shoes.
"But am above money. I scorn it |!
/ neither ask for it, nor do I get it !!
They know I don't like it! It's fool
ish jingling hard stuff that people often
work themselves almost frantic and
wild in order to get.
II receive salary and It's the low
est one paid to any actor, and yet am
applauded and clapped, and they all
like me-and I'm one of the company.
/ talk cleverly and I whistle through
one whole act Of the play-the last
and most important act. I receive
crackers, water, seed, and little cake
for you and for me as my salary. Moth
ing hard and cold and silly like money.
I'm above itr
'Oh, see." said Mrs. Greene. "But
still money has its uses, for people
have to pay money In order to see
you. You wouldn't be applauded and
clapped and considered so smart IL 1t
weren't for that. iehisln 4nf eas,npt Z
You're nice, bright Mrs. Parrot.
and a good wife for clever actor"
said Mr.. GREENE admiringly.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13
Claims Dandruf Will
Cause Badness

If you have dandruff you must get
rid of it quick-it's positively danger.
Gus and will surely ruin yoar hair if
you don IT,
Dandruffy heads mean ia I'd. brittle
gray, scraggly hair that finally dies and
falls out-new hair will not grow
then you arc bald and nothing can hclp
you.
The only sure way to abolish aandruff
for good is TO destroy the ~orm that
causes it. To do this quickly. surely
and safely and at little expense, there
is nothing so effective as Partisan Sage.
which You can get from Wilfrs d +. Root
and good druggists everywhere. 1t is
guaranteed TO Danish dardruff, stop
itching scalp and falling hair. and pro-
motesa new growth, or the cost, small
as tits, will be refunded.
Partisan Sage is scientific prepare
ton that supplies all hair needs-an
antiseptic liquor neither sticky nor
greasy, easy to apply, and delicately
perfumcd.
If YOU want beautiful, soft, thick lns-
trous hair, and lots of it b. all means
use Partisan sage. Do t Il ,lay-bepin
tonighf-a little attention now insures
abundant hair for years to comes-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13

A good number of Americans have
wondered whether so responsible and
carefully spoken an authority as Minis
ter Brand Whitlock would confirm the
stories of the bestial Hun atrocities in
Belgium, but already readers of his
serial, Belgium Crushed Under the Iron
Heel of Germany, know that he does so
without reserve. There is no escape
from the conclusion that cold -blooded
scientific and murderous system of ter
rorization has from the outset been
deliberately ordered by the highest Ger
man authorities and deliberately exc
cuted by officers and men alike.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13

with four candidates for the Repub
mean nomination for United States SEN
ator In New Hampshire and similar
number seeking the Republican nomi-
nation for lieutenant governor in Mas
"achnsetts it can hardly be said that
polltics is adjourned in New Eng
land. Harry Black of Newport has
come out as an avowed candidate for
secretary of state in Vermont, but lit.
tie is said about seekers for other of
fees
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE

Inc other mite pop stayed up neerl,
All mite working ont puzzle in the paper
anu TINS morning a letter came for hin
and he opened 1t vile we was eating brek
INST, saying to ma, Herray, 1 accept youl
congratulations.
Wat abouts sed ma
I'm prize winner, sed pop, all my life
my secret ambition has bin to win a prize
and now at last virtue has bin rewarded
., aren't you lucky watts the prize. sed
ma.
I'm not lucky, I'm talented, and the prize
Is an crier for 10 dolers werth of mer-
chandlse, good at 'eny department store,
sed pop.
., Hent that jest too lucky, | meen
talented. III take the order down town
with me this AFTERNOON and get you sum-
thing reel nice for it, sed ma.
he ideer does you credit, scd pop.
And to mite wen he came home ma SGD
to him, Well, Willyum, l bet you cant
CESS wat | got for your prize.
We'll it awt to be sumthing pritty fine
considering the fack that / lost a cupple
hours sleep over that puzzle, is it a Sc.
gar humidcre. sed pop.
No, seds ma, mulch better than that
Well, perhaps segar humidore wood
ent be so mulch for 3 hours loss of sleep
after all, sed pop, is it set of safet,
ra2ofsg
tess agen, sei ma.
Better than that sed pop.
Mntch, sed ma, and pop sed, Well, come
to think of it, hours loss of sleep is toe
mulch to pay for jest a set Of razors
however, that's all can think of Jest now
Its the most bewtifll pair of tablecloths
, sed ma.
Now, Pawleen. this is no time for joak.
ing, sed pop.
vi corse not, I'm not joaking, waite till
you see them, sed ma
II ever ssae them they'll be torn into
1000 shreds, tatters and understandable
! fragments, hours loss OF big stron,
mans sleep for a pair of tablecloths. n.
SIR. not on your life, sed pop loud as eny
thing
Shh- Willyum. think Of the nayhars
all rite. all rite, III ivchange them to
mrr-o for meerchum nine. aad ma.
iadys size or mans s.zes Sod non.
wy. mans Of conrse. I don't bleeve
there's eny sutch thing as a ,advs size
pipe, sed ma. and pom started to reel
the paper, saying. Tablecloths, to him
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13

The appointment of James H. Hustis
as federal director of the New Eng
land railroads is approved everywhere
that the man is known. Mr.. Hustis has
been contested with three big systems
which serve New England. He has
been at the head of the Boston & AL
bany, of the New York Central sys-
tenn; operating manager of the New
Haven, and president of the Boston &
Maine, of which he is now receiver. He
has been informed that he can call
upon the government for all the funds
needed to rehabilitate the Boston &
Maine 1.-The New England railroad
transportation business will be efficient
~ managed by Federal Director Hustis
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13

you're a Nice, Bright Mrs. Parrot"
1t was mighty fine that there was one.
So she tried to talk her very best talk
to Greene, though once In awhile she
felt little jealous.
You are right, Mrs. Greenie," he
commenced, when you say that
would be tired of acting If l acted all
the time. But that is true of more
than acting. We would be tired of eat
ing If we ate all the time. Suppose we
mad to eat seed every minute of every
hour of every day! 1t would be sim
ply awful! We couldn't stand it. And
yet we like to eat-in moderation
which means not too much, but Just
the right amount"
I'm not SO sure that like to eat In
moderation" said Mrs. GREENE.
"Ah. perhaps that word doesn't mean
all 1t should. It should mean, as use
it, that you enjoy eating all You can
without having 1t make you ill.,
"Ah. that's very different" said Mrs.
dreenie. Il think moderation is a nice
word"
Glad you do. my DEAR" said
Greene.
Yes, | see, of course, you would get
1red Of acting all the time" continued
IRIS. Greene.
Il am bird above money" Greene
said after moment.
is that another word for q low
9erch?" asked Mrs. GREENE.
An, no." said Greene; money Is
something they pay actors. It gives
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13

The supreme duty of the navy is to
Keep the road to France open" With
TINS statement Secretary Daniels voiced
the grim determination of the United
states and put it into execution. Rio
ships left our Atlantic ports at time
when the U-boats were operating off the
coast, There was no change in the
program. 1.-The bridge to Pershing''
was kept open.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-13
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