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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01
DAWSONS CHRISTMAS.

Perhaps Dawson has never had a happier
christmas than the one just passed There
has been less of entertaining and merry
making than usual, but more of the real Joy
THAT comes from unselfsh giving, more of
The real Christmas spirit that keeps in mind
The welfare and the happiness of others,
rather than the indulgence of ones own APP
8petites and fancies. "Peace on earth and
good will to men" has been the dominant
note through all the hurry and hustle of the
|guletide shopping.
The crowds that for days thronged the
Streets were a surging mass of happy hu-
smanity come together after a year of hard
work to grow young and care free in the
Thought of Santa Claus, and all the joys that
follow in his train.
Bullying pocketbooks were freely fattened
that the dreams of the little folks might come
true, and the wishes of the older ones might
be realized during the glad season. There
were abundant signs of prosperity on every
hand. 1t was noticeable that the negroes had
plenty of money, and, thanks to the "bone
dry law, they spent it lavishly for worth
while things to carry back for the comfort
'Of their homefolks.
Throughout the week it was a sober. safe
and sane holiday season that brought the
people closer together and filled each heart
with high hopes to meet the duties and re-
sponsibilities of the New Year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01
FOR SELF INTEREST.

Admitting that a man has the right to
spend the money he has earned with whom
and where he pleases we contend that the
question of buying where one wills has
something besides the question of right
There is the future to think of Are we as
a community going to aid few men. stran-
gers who do not give rap for you or your
children, to get rich at the expense of our
home merchants which can only mean to
the detriment of our home town? Are you
so Indifferent and disloyal to the fate of
your fellow citizens and to yourself as to
patrOnize strangers, to strangle your beau
tiful city? We maintain that there is a duty
that men owe their communities, and that
is their cooperation and loyal support of
every enterprise and movement which has
for its purpose the upbuilding and better
ment of the community. Our merchants and
other business firms are a big part of this
community, and their fourishing and pros
porous condition helps make times better for
the wage Garner, the day laborer and right
up the line to the banker and the retired
capitalist.
All the people of Dawson are called up
on to conserve the best interests of their
town. You can not do this if you persist in
patrOnizng merchants of the big cities and
the mail order houses. Just so long as you
spend your dollar at home just so long will
that dollar be doing good in the community
in which you live-including yourself. But
the minute you get so thoughtless as to send
it away for the payment of some article
which you could have bought right here in
Dawson then, and only then, has your dol
lar gone beyond recall-it is not a carrier
pigeon, it will not return.
Just sit down and think about this "buy-
at-home" proposition. Ask yourself some
pointed questions; be honest with yourself,
and the next time you have that feeling of
sending your money out of town be loyal
and don't do it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01
WHAT ARE WE. FIGHTINCo

Allied press comment while universally
approving the tone and most of the sub
stance of the presidents recent war mes
sage, is inclined in some cases to denur TO
ms continued iteration of the theory that
America IS making war on the imperial Ger
man government not the German people.
The ITEMS, of London, and the Westminster
Gazette-the latter, by the way, a very lib
eral organ-are inclined gently to insist
that any present distinction between Ger
man government and German people is an
academic distinction; that in fact the Ger
man people through generations of educa-
ton and habit have become one with their
government and its mlitaristic aims, and
that nothing that has yet developed in Ger
many gives any real hope of an early breach
in that alliance. However carefully. there
fore, we may preserve in our own minds the
differentiation which we wish to make be-
tween people and government we would be
very foolish to delude ourselves, as a prac-
teal proposition, into thinking that we have
anything less to fight than the united Ger
man people.
AS plain matter of common sense the
Times and the Westminster Gazette are right.
We are fighting all Germany, and it is all
Germany we have got to whip All talk of
driving wedge between the German peo-
pie and their paternal autocracy is for the
present idle The only wedge that will
count is the kind that must be driven
through the Hindenburg line Ex-President
Taft has hit the nail squarely on the head
when he observes that the only practical way
to bring the German people to see the light
is to crack them on the head with club In
that brief phrase Mr. Taft has summed up
indeed, all the careful arguments as to the
oneness of Germany that the London paper.
could print in decade.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01
Then and Now.
From the Savannah Press.

We might as we'll bid the old-time
hospitality a long, long farewell It's
we'll worth kiss and hard hug as it
takes its departure, never again to re-
turn. Time was when the old man hook
ed yoke of oxen to the cart, piled in
the old lady and dozen children and
drove over to the home of neighbor to
spend the night. Seated around the fire
place some eight feet wide, filled with
good hickory wood, they roasted pota-
toes and had good time. They arose
Late, and were in no hurry to get off
home after breakfast was over.-COm-
merce News.
thine was" indeed. But now it is a case
of time is The young folks on the farm dc
not hitch up their yoke of oxen. They get
into their big six and do not stop until they
are putting their feet under some restau-
rant mans table, where they are served the
best the market affords. Nor do they sit
about fire roasting potatoes. Indeed, not
they sit by the radiator in a steam-heated
apartment and roast their friends. The
''issers" are like the "wassers" in one re
spect, however, they still rise late.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01
Disheartening Disclosures.
From the Macon TELEGRAPH.

The time has come when it can be said
so he who runs may read that the world
war will be won for the American people
by the American people-and by this we
mean in a sense in spite of the executive
branch of the American government Con-
gress is the people in Washington, vocal and
direct from them and their feelings, color
of their color and authoritative of their au-
thority. And congress is setting about to
bring the shakeup in high places that will
win the war for America. 1t will have to
be reforming of organization and far
reaching one, for enough has already been
developed in the probe by the representa-
tives of the American people to show that
the most important of all departments of the
government at this time, that of war, has
failed to move, organize and mobilize the
resources of the American nation in any an
gle which would indicate that combination
of envlsion and producing genius we must
have II our young mems lives and the
weight OF our money are to count in this
stupendOus scale demanded of them in this
struggle.
The Crozier evidence in regard to our
ordnance preparation would have been ride
ulous had it not been SO downright disheart-
eningly tragic in the utter failure of the
men at the head of this most important of
all production work to realize what the
country is up against and what is expected.
Congress is putting in the best ticks to-
ward getting this war won we've had struck
for us in many day. The investigations so
far have been conducted with thoroughness
and fine insight into the essentials of the
situation. There are some of us who can
see IN what has already developed the man
date for a fairly clean sweep OF our house
of war organization with the broom brush
ing firmly over very high places-and con-
greSS has OnlV inst started
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01
CONGRATULATIONS.

Yesterday the Albany Herald began tax
ing the full leased wire service of the Asso-
ciated Press for afternoon newspapers, a
stroke of enterprise that is commendable
and will be appreciated by its patrons. The
newspapers in only four other Georgia
cities-Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta and Ma
con-receive such service. The Herald is
fortunately situated in that it has field
that cannot be reached by any other news
paper on the day of publication, and our
contemporary is leaving nothing undone to
fill its mission completely and satisfactorily
as a dissemination of news when it is news
We are glad to see our excellent neighbor
let out another tuck, and offer congratula-
tions and best wishes for its continued sue
cess
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01
BIRDS IN GEORGIA.

The Macon Telegraph finds qualification
in the fact that the news columns of many
papers carry almost daily accounts of ire
mendous increase of birds and other game
in Georgia and adds, ''that we need the birds
for the protection of our crops and other
interests cannot be denied; they were very
wisely provided by nature to help in keep
ing down insect pests" Our Macon contem-
porary thinks "Georgia's game laws may be
responsible for the present improved condi-
ton" They undoubtedly have helped, and
are among the best laws ever passed by the
legislature. Another contributing cause is
the education of the people, especially
farmers, by the newspapers of the value of
birds in the protection of crops from in
Vulnerable destructive insects, splendid
and helpful work in which the Telegraph,
along with The News, has had part The
farmer hos no more valuable friend and ally
than the bird.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01
Only In The South.

From the Wesleyan Christian Advocate.
There was held in the Billy SUNDAY tab
ernacle in Atlanta on the evening of De-
cember 9th one of the most impressive SER
vices that has ever been held in this city, or
anywhere else in this country as to that and
one of that sort that could only have been
held in the South. The tabernacle was
crowded beyond it's capacity and hundreds
stood in the spacious vestibules all around
1t while other hundreds could not get in
Sitting on the rostrum where the big
white choir sits during the Sunday meetings
were hundreds of negroes-perhaps 500
or more-whO had been trained by one of
their own race. When the time came they
sang, and such singing as they did has never
been surpassed in this city or any other. Not
a note OF their songs was written, vet the
time was perfect, the harmony accurate ac-
cordlng to the musicians who know of such
things, and the melody was such as to stir
the hearts OF the thousands of white people
who listened to them with far more interest
than they would have listened to the per
tormances of grand opera. They sang the
songs that only the negroes sing. Just where
they get them is one of the mysteries, and
how they carry parts that cultivated NIL
sIclans know nothing of, and yet every part
they carry fits perfectly into the harmony
and melody of the music. The words they
sang have little meaning, and many smiles
played over the faces of the white people as
they muttered them without any poetry in
them, but no smile was seen when they
reached those strange, weird, thrilling mel
odies peculiar to the songs of the negroes
of the South. No words can describe that
melody, as no words can tell adequately the
effect of them on one who listens while the
negro sings. 1t was a service to be remem-
bered through the years, and one can but
feel a sort of loneliness to think that such
singing as that can ever pass from the peo-
pie Of the colored race and never more be
heard in our Southland. By every token
such music as that should be preserved for
the sake of the race of the negroes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

South Georgia can knock a coal famine
into smithereens with a pine knot" says
the Vidalia Advance. But where are the
pine knots? Wood is as high and hard to get
in this section as coal. And when load of
lightwood, amounting to about two wheel
barrow fulls, does happen to stray in the
"cullud ge'man" in charge has no compunc-
ton of conscience in pricing it at $500 or
more. The wood problem is just as great
as the coal problem.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

Do the people really desire to practice
food economy? After observing their ways
at home and in hotels and restaurants it
seems a case of advising your neighbor how
he should conserve his food, and making
sure that you yourself are we'll fed. Con-
servation and American citizens are almost
utter strangers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

Now, that campaign year is here, we are
reminded that not few of the old-line pol
iticians still carry, though neatly camou-
tagged, a long, lean and curly knife to be
used the first time political opponent turns
his back
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

Hon. Emmett Shaw is the most active of
any of the candidates for the senate He is
attacking the records of other candidates
in speeches and newspapers. Much in earn
est and an untiring worker Shaw is going
to be live wire in the campaign.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

If it is true, as the German critics saw
that lack of action is what is breeding mu-
tiny among men of the high sea. fleet doubt
less they will be glad to know that all their
ennui will be dissipated any day they con-
clude to show their noses outside their
mine fields
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

AS Secretary Daniels said, there is dan
ger in pessimism. And as Secretary Daniels
omitted to say, there is danger also in the
kind of optimism that cheerfully under es-
Inmates the problem.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

The old year, the one that babe us good
bye at the stroke of twelve last night, was
made glorious in the United States by the
wonderful giving which characterized the
people. Who, if they could, would have that
historic page torn out?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

Our friend and neighbor, Editor Howell,
of the Cuthbert Leader, has bought farm
and will tickle old Mother Earth in
connection with his newspaper work Won
der if Farmer Howell is going to act upon
the advice given by Editor Howell these
many years as how to farm? We will see
Just what he thinks of it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

There is not much difference between the
holier-than-thou christian, the holier-than-
thou patriot, or the holier-than thou man in
any line of activity. They are too often
hypocrites.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

And owls are stupid looking birds in COM
arison with some of those congressman
reshly back from the war fronts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01
The response to the appeal for the Empty

The response to the appeal for the Empty
Stocking Fund was prompt and generous
and the committee who distributed the gifts
are so grateful they wish The News to give
for them public acknowledgement of the
beautiful spirit in which the donations were
made. They were not charity gifts, but an
expression of the love of Dawson people for
bors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

l about this fuel administration and then
st no coal down his chute?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

A happy and prosperous New Year to ev-
~ reader of The Dawson Newsstand ev-
eybody else, too.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

ected to put on their heavy coats, they de-
erve all they have been getting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

i The News sends greeting to every one
IF its exchanges May the New Year bring
khem prosperity and other good things,
which they so richly deserve.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

Congressman Fet Overstreet, returned
home for the holidays, brings the news that
the Georgia delegation is solidly opposed
to the woman suffrage BILL which will soon
be voted on by congress. There is no real
desire in the South, even among the wo-
men themselves, for such an amendment to
the constitution. The women are now max
ing homes happier and controlling pol
itics to a much greater degree than they
will when they become politicians.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

There is one consolation in the over-work-
ing of the term cover the top" 1t gives that
other phrase, doing your Bit" rest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

The only New Year resolution The News
has to make is to do the best it can for its
patrons and itself. And we try to do that ev-
cry week in the year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

Brother Dick Grub, of the Darien Ga
zette, wants the profteers sent to the pen
itentiary for life. They deserve something
like that.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-01

If the senate investigation results in get
ting rifles and clothes for the soldiers well
and good. But if it does it sets new prec-
edent for such inquiries.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
France Flick erinss

- Lots of news this week in these
cnvirons.
e. Straw hats are beginning to be seen
on the boulevards of Paris, but most of
our boys forbear to rush the season and
stick to the more conservative tin derby.
-. warm spell of weather is expected
next month. If
*'"Quite a little rain fell yesterday and
it was pretty cold. If
-. 1t is pleasant to report that our Art
Department is off the sick. list and is
almost as merry as he was when he was
in the hospital.
80 Some of the houses hereabouts would
look better with a new coat of paint is
the opinion of yc scribe.
- Sharley Hindenburg the wk. night
editor of the Potsdam Offensive has
little cold. Gossip has it that Charley is
suffering from insomnia also.
- 1t - of handed III a
pair of socks for 3 mos. subscription last
Wednesday, Come again, -.
~ Ye scribe enjoyed his April bath
yesterday afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
The Quest

To bid fond adieu
Unto your native shore,
With one great aim in view
To learn the arts Of war;
To spend long, weary hours
In dull routine and drill;
To use your latent powers,
Toward gaining martial skill;
To steel your heart and nerve
Against the day of wrath,
Nor for an instant swerve
From Duty's shining path;
To face the hour of strife
With ardent, eager zest-
This is the soldiers life
This is his golden quest.
Pvt. GEO. E. PARKER,
Co. L, - Inf.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
The Hill Back Home

I will be the gladdest thing under the
sun;
l will touch hundred flowers, and not
pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds with quiet
eyes;
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
And the grass rise
And when lights begin to show up from
the town,
| will mark which must be mine,
And then start down.
Pvt. CLARENCE W. GAUGLER.
Q. M. c.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
Pay Day

What is the call we like to hear.
Which always brings a lusty cheer,
Of all the calls the one most dear
PAY Day!
The day that sick call blows in vain,
With ne'er a single soul in pain
They even stand out in the rain.
Pay Day.
What is the day that dawns so fair,
Which drives away that look of cara
And makes us each a millionaire
Pay Day!
The day in every foreign land
Which makes the tradesmen smile 50
bland
And grasp the Yankee by the hand?
Pay Day!
WALTER E. BROWN. Amb. Co.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
"MOTHER'S
LETTER.

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weent the
idea what
OF them hwmu heyb
ems Land
once hr9tm eseaiy
yh she abothes
as than
nandth
cea and ueand loyal
least few
knowsy
for all
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twrteto
in
peemintV others Day, MAY 49," "
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
THINGS WE USED TO BEEF ABOUT

THINGS WE USED TO BEEF ABOUT
Having to get to work at 9 a. m.
OF all the things we have lampcd in
this country the shelled streets alone
have aroused in us feeling of homesick-
ness. They remind us acutely of Seventh
Avenue, New York.
Speaking of Seventh Avenue, corre-
spondent for New York paper was talk
ing to doughboy the other day. AS he
left. "Goodby," he said, ''remember me t
N'Yawk'
What part Of New York arc you
FROM" asked the correspondent ''Forty-
second Street,"
II should say not" replied the indig.
nant soldier
"Where Them
Forty third" said the loca-rrdeful
Gothamite.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
Girls ] Left Behind


ELSIE
When war waged its wide desolation,
Among the Young ladies ! kissed
On leaving our glorious nation,
Your name led the lachrymosc list.
Some girls forgot as | kissed them;
Some fingered week-maybe two;
But, Elsie, J never have missed them
The way that I've hankercd for you.
/ miss not your wit nor your beauty
You never could class as a queen
And. sticking to truth, as my duty,
You never had much of bear.
But when you did tricks to the batter,
And doughnuts came out Of the pan.
Dear Elsie, that there was matter
That called for the utteranee oh,
ran."
They shone with a glow and polish,
They dulled with a sugar sublime.
q think that used to demoish
A dozen or two at a tinle).
And so when they told me to come where
The shell is commingled with shot,
found myself billeted Somewhere
In France and I missed you lot.
] yearned for the doughnuts you'd fried
Till-Elsie, I'm not going to stall.
The truth is-whatever betide mel
/ don't miss your doughnuts at ALL
For-though in the future you bar me
The doughnuts I'm getting these days
Turned out by the Salvation Army,
Have yours beaten seventy ways.
BY the way, a couple of those Saliva
ton Army doughnuts make you think
there is good deal in the Food VIII
Win the War" slogan
Our letter writing friends in the United
States would do we'll to have their envel-
opes equipped with al-weather treads
The last envelope we got had gone 1900
mles--about 1000 of them in France
without puncture or a blowout
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02

The difference between American and
French automobile driving is this: In
America when your tire blows up you say,
Good Heavens! There goes our tire!"
and in France you say, "Hooray! Tha.
was only the tire
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
Bless Him!

A friend Of all
Is Charlie Cults;
He never asks
To save him butts.
E. J. b.
A guy we love
Is Joe McGurld;
He never springs:
"I'll tell the world"
JAYEM.
A gink we like
Is Dave McGee:
Fle uttcrs eyes,"
And never "Oui."
G.. S. NJ.
Our favorite dough
Boys Al McGuck:
He never uses
"Out of luck"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02

One is impelled to pin sharpshooter'
medal on private 4. j. BIS gifted chest.
He, hit The Listening Post twice out of a
possible two
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
A Letter

From: The Allies.
To: W. Hohenzollcrn, Germany.
Subject: Travel order.
L. Proceed plumb to he'll.
2 The travel directed is necessary in
the military service
By direction of
GENERAL GOOD.
Things here have way of reminding
you of things at home. Our billet, for
instance, these warm mornings isn't bit
chillier than the Yale Bowl or the Har-
ward Stadium in late November.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02

Speaking of names, which is habit
hard to jettison, B. Worthy is a Y. M.
secretary in New York, and will soon sail
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
By and For
the Soldiers
of the T.. E. F.
The Am1y's Poets
My Dog

| found him in shell hole,
With cash across his head.
Crouching down beside his master
Who he must have known was d.,
He'll was popping all about US,
So we stayed there through the fipht
Got to sort of like each other
Through the mis'ry of that nigh.
He has feas; I have cooties;
He speaks French; I "no cornpreea.
So the rule fty-ffty goes
Between my dog and me-
You wouldn't say he's handsome.
He's been wounded several times.
Bat when we boys go over.
Over with US Frenchie climbs
And when the Boche is gassing.
And we want to test the air.
We try it on my dog first.
But he doesn't seem to care.
He gets no blesse medals,
No Distinguished Service bar.
But just our admiration.
Doubled by each honored scar.
And when the war is over.
And To o,1r homes wo ,o
Ny dog is going back with me
What's mine is his. you know.
Sgt. F. c. MCCARTHY.
= Aero Squadron.