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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
PORK AND SUGAR.

Pork and sugar prices are like two-edged
sword in this country The consumer is suf-
fering from one and the producer from the
other. The trouble with both is the short
sighted policies in dealing with two rather
similar conditions in the world food supply.
Sugar has reached 25 cents a pound to the
consumer, and the price of live hogs to the
producer $40 to $12 a hundred. Every
advance of cent pound means tax on
the American table of $80,0OO,OOO, Every
cent the price of hogs goes down costs the
raisers of hogs $1OO,OOO,OOO Why should
these two essential foods show such diver
gent tendencies?
The difficulty is official inaction and an
attempt to let war conditions at home and
abroad work themselves out as best they can
Cuban sugar planters and European pork
buyers have worked them out to their ad-
vantage and Americas detriment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
NATIVE CHRISTMAS GREENS.

The scarcity and high cost of hot house
flowers should be no cause for worry to
those who would make festive their homes
for the holidays. Are not our southern
woods full of the red and green of the holly
and hawthorne, and where is the green
house that can furnish any thing so delicate
and beautiful as the mistletoe? 1t would be
hard to find anything more graceful than
the southern smilax, which runs riot in fes-
toons of delicate tracery over almost every
tree in our swamps The fact is we have
such wealth of beauty in field and forest,
free for the asking, that we fail to properly
appreciate what others prize so highly. New
York pays fancy prices for the smilax, which
is shipped in large quantities from Alabama.
Christmas trees of holly are eagerly sought
and come high to the city folks in the north.
There is no family in Terrell county too
poor to make bright their home for the
children this glad season of peace and good
will
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
The Country Printer.
From the Savannah Press.


The Springfield Herald has in Editor
Moore and owner and publisher one who
usually speaks his mind This paper this
week contains this paragraph:
"We have run across proposition lately
that for cheek has given US jolt. The Her
aid is expected to boost the schools, church
es and other public institutions, yet when
these same institutions have a little money
to spend for stationery, or anything else, the
managers seem to forget that we ever exist
ed and they send this money to outside print
shops. Consistency, thou art a jewel!'
This reads to US like legitimate protest
There is too great tendency in the country
to take small job work from the home prin-
ter and give it to the larger shops in the far
away cities. This is an evil that is prevalent
in all small communities. We have discuss
ed the problem with many of our country
newspaper friends and it is surprising the
number of people who will deny their local
printing office job work because they can
save few cents on a printing job. Often
there are additional payments to be met
such as postage, or express charges, that
make the out-of-town job really more ex-
pensive than it would be if given to the home
printer, but these extra costs are not figured
by the man with the contract.
The local printer is deserving of the sup
port of the home people. Without him the
community would be in bad way.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
WONDER GIFTS.

If Santa Claus brought wonder gifts
Hung on a wonder tree,
He'd bring peck O. happiness,
An give bit to me.
He'd give some hope to little Jim,
Whose back is bent an achin';
He'd bring good cheer to gran'ma dear,
Whose hands are worn an shakin';
He'd bring back faith to Mrs. Brown,
Whose baby boy seems dyin';
An he'd bring smiles to tired eyes,
That have been dim with cryin'.
He'd bring some love to Susan Jane,
Whose sweetheart died at sea,
If Santa Claus brought wonder gifts,
Hung on a wonder tree.
If Santa Claus brought wonder gifts,
An stuffed all stockin's tight,
There'd be one silver star-or two
In every cloudy night.
An rich folks wouldn't be too rich,
An poor folks wouldn't cry
Cause they were cold an hadn't gold,
An were fraid they'd die.
All folks would have enough to eat,
An lots to give away;
An there'd be time to laugh an sing,
An time to kneel an pray.
The world would be a pleasant place,
All pure an sweet, an bright,
If Santa Claus brought wonder gifts,
An filled all stockin's tight.
Christian Herald.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
WHAT AILS THE PRESIDENTS

David Lawrence, who is closer to the per-
sonal side of the president than any other
correspondent in Washington, sets out some
inside information concerning the white
house worries over public comment on the
physical and mental condition of the pres
ident, In many of these adverse comments
the wish is probably father to the thought.
But no matter what the presidents con-
dition is the embarrassment resulting from
the insinuations that he is mentally and phys
ically incompetent to transact the public
business is entirely due to the impolitic and
narrow methods of his attending physician.
Dr. Grayson never has developed sufficiently
to understand that the health of the presi-
dent is public asset; that his physical and
mental condition are things which the pub
lie is entitled to know. He has yelled the
presidents illness in secrecy and mystery,
and hedged his patient with an impossible
barrier until neither his word nor that of
his consulting colleagues is believed.
The president may not have written his
message to congress, as has been widely pub
lished. But that does not prove that he is
mentally incapacitated to perform the du-
ties of president. He is not above the eff
fects of illness. President Garfield was in
capacitated from performing the functions
of his Office two and half months after he
was shot. But the people knew the details,
and his illness caused no public apprehension.
No attempt to declare the office vacant was
made though statesmen frankly studied what
course to pursue if public questions which re-
Quired executive action developed. They did
not desire to worry the patient with confer
ences and interviews. They wanted him to
save his strength for his battle for life. They
planned to relieve instead of burden him
with public affairs.
Had President Wilson's physicians follow
ed the course of those who attended Presi-
dent Garfield there would have been no hu-
initiating comments as to the sanity of the
chief executive or doubling whether his acts
were those of himself or of someone else.
That is true. But they have been so vague
and so lacking in frankness that they have
been taken as attempts to disguise the truth
and misrepresent the facts. If the rumor
persists that he is suffering from mental
as well as a physical breakdown lack of
frankness on the part of those in charge
of his case is responsible. They have forced
the public to surmise and guess, and have
not intelligently refuted the erroneous
guesses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
HUMAN GREED.

The striking miners and the Indifferent
mine owners have given no concern to the
suffering of the public because of the fuel
famine They have sought to accomplish
their purposes regardless of consequences
to others. They would have raved in right
eous indignation if the food producers of the
country had shut off the supplies of food
to them and their families regardless of the
prices they might have offered for enough
to prevent suffering from hunger. But they
fail to see the conditions of the other peo-
pie shut off from fuel in freezing weather.
1t provides thought that will be bed
fellow with thousands of men during the
next few months.
1t is human nature to get all that is pos
sble. No one is exempt The soviet who de-
mands the distribution of the property of
the wealthy becomes greedy grabber so
soon as he is in position to do so. 1t is a
matter of opportunity. The distress of war
did not prevent those in position to do so
from wringing the last dollar of tribute from
the masses in the form of excessive profits.
They may have justified their course by the
thought that the other fellow would do it
were their relations reversed. And the sad
commentary on human nature is that they
would have done the same thing had they
have had the opportunity.
The government will be derelict in it's
duty to the people if it does not bring the
profteers of all kinds to an accounting. 1t
is said human nature cannot be changed
by statute. That is true but the baser ele-
ments of human nature can be held in check
by the enforcement of statutes which pro-
vide punishment for these who permit those
elements to dominate their actions
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
Home Loyalty.
From the Atlanta Constitution

In an editorial on "Home Products" the
Cordele (Ga.) Dispatch well says that the
way to encourage greater food production
is in loyalty on the part of the consuming
public to the markets at the home-doors.
In urging that loyalty on the buying pub
lie the Dispatch says the people should real
ize that they owe it to their farmer neigh
bors:
ga pound of creamery butter at 80
cents pound from Elgin, ILL.,, through
a packing house account is, indeed, a
misfortune-a tragedy in business here,
just so long as the dairy and the Crisp
county home within our reach can pro-
duce and deliver it to u.s."
1t goes without saying that the more home
products are patronized the greater will be
the interest in the raising of home supplies,
and the point is stressed that "when the
farmers offer the food products we need
they are entitled to first consideration
That is the way to show home loyalty
"to cooperate with the farmer, who viii
then raise more home food products and
bring them in"
And it means "longer home prosperity
and good business all around.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
STRANGE. INDEED.

real philosopher is the editor of the
Longview (Texas) Times. ''It is strange"
he says, chat a newspaper man should be
compelled to solicit advertising or give ar
guments for its use. Funny, isn't it, that a
man who thinks he is business man will
get up in the morning from an advertised
mattress, shave himself with an advertised
razor, using advertised shaving soap, take
off his advertised pajamas and put on ad-
vertised underwear, advertised hose, shirt,
tie and an advertised suit, seat himself at
the table, and eat advertised coffee or sub
stitute, put on an advertised hat light an
advertised cigar, go to his place of business
nwhere he turns down the advertising solicit
pr or salesman on the ground that advertis-
ing does not pay"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
The Pleasant Way.

A pleasant way is the Christmas way,
With youngsters dancing upon it,
And the Tilt and tilt of music gay,
And the JOY of the world to sun it.
A pleasant way, as it keeps its faith
In the old dreams and the fine,
With childhood brimmed and the rosy
wrath
Of love that grows divine.
A pleasant way, where the plodding
throngs
Go by with hop and skip,
And always breathing the song of songs
And whistling with puckered lip.
A fairy way for the hosts of strife
To find when the time draws near,
So beautiful with the dreams of life
And sweet with the Christmas cheer
A pleasant way, where the people pass
With light hearts and bright eyes,
The old and the young, the lad and lass,
And above them the bright blue skies
A way that is rich with the hopes of
things,
And stored with the dreams of men,
And a voice of life's beautiful love that
sings
Of a King that shall come again.
Baltimore Sun.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
Regulating the Jiggerator
Of a Flivver.
From the Sparks (Ga.) Eagle.

1t is getting high time that the town au-
thorities were taking some steps to put a
stop to the everlasting tinkering with Fords
and more or less dilapidated cars on the
streets before an outraged public takes the
matter in hand. Whether or not it is posi-
BILE to regulate the "jiggerator on car with
out racing the engine for thirty minutes we
don't claim to know, but we do believe that
honest, Woodworking people, trying to mind
their own business, are entitled to some con-
sideration. Half the time it is impossible to
telephone, transact business in the stores or
hear ones own voice because some "bug''
is parked near the sidewalk trying to see
how loud he can make an asthmatic motor
go without its flying to pieces. If it is abso-
lutely necessary to the well-being of civ
ver' that it be permitted to make at inter-
walls a noise like 1000 machine guns and
boiler factory the owner should be requir-
ed to take it two miles out of town whenever
it feels a spell coming on, or at least take it
into some shop where they can do something
for what's-the-matter-w ith-it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

The statement was recently made that of
the five thousand men and women sent to
Ellis island for deportation less than fifty
had been sent out of the country, while the
rest were again scattered far and wide. This
statement indicates one of two things
either the lack of law or the failure to en-
force it. AS the courts under the law sent
these men and women to Ellis island to be
deported it begins to look as though the of
ficials at the island had failed to enforce law.
More backbone is needed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

The report that quail are rapidly increas-
ing in Georgia under the closed season law
and the protection the farmers are giving
their chest friends" recalls how numerous
these birds were in earlier days. In fact,
it is within the recollection of many when
selling quail in large numbers to hotels and
restaurants of the larger cities was an i'm
portant industry.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

The reason they are calling for five bill
lions in taxes next year may be found in
part in the fact that government officials are
given to extravaganza the same as the rest
of the people. Every department. wants to
get all it can and spend it for the glory of
his administration" What is needed in
Washington, and in state capitols as well,
omy
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
These Long Evenings.
From the Minneapolis Journal.

Out of doors stands naked world The
summer things are gone. But the home with
in is bright and warm. The seasons indoors
reverse the order of the outdoor seasons
Natures winter is the human summer time.
With the first touch of frost the blood leaps
faster and the mind grows clear. The fire
is lighted on the hearth. Friends greet
friends in CHEEKY hospitality. Storytelling
begins and the books come down from their
dusty hooks. Winter is here again, but by
the spirits calendar it is spring within the
heart.
The long winter evenings, the blazing fire,
the children gathered about, the apples and
popcorn on the table give promise of SPLEEN
did winters harvest for the home. The sto-
ries read to the children in the twilight hour
will be remembered long after many of the
textbook facts are forgotten. What an op-
portunity, through these stories, to plant
the seeds of true Americanism within the
growing mind America is as rich in hero
stories and in deeds of patriotism as any an
cient land. The planting of these today as
part of the winters sowing will assure a
better America tomorrow.
And to the adult these long evenings give
the opportunity for leisure wisely spent, or
for self-education through reading and re-
Election. 1t would be pity if the winter
yielded no harvest to the mind Let us be
thankful for the long evenings. They may
mean cold without, but they may also mean
brighter light within the heart and home.
Dad will wear last years overcoat this win
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

No railroad legislation has yet been en-
acted. Action, it will be remembered, was
defeated in the senate by Senator La Fol-
lette suggesting the absence of a quorum.
If the purpose of the senator was to have
this important legislation passed upon by
as many senators as possible his action
would be excusable. But his only object
was to open the measure for discussion, and
as result to delay the final vote. The Wis
consin windmill is long on discussion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

Our neighbor, the Albany Herald, is be-
ing commended on its enterprise in making
delivery to subscribers in nearby towns by
motor trucks during curtailment of train
service due to the coal restrictions. AS The
News has before said, Albany is the biggest
little city of its size in the country, and, as
is nearly always the case, its newspaper
keeps in advance of the town.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

The practical impossibility that President
Wilson will be candidate for third term
has caused the democratic party to cast
about for a nominee for 1920. Owing to
fractional differences the democrats as yet
have not been able to unite on any one man.
This leads Mr.. Bryan to remark on the evil
dent scarcity of presidential timber. Possibly
Mr. Bryan is getting ready to again take it
himself.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

The decision of the supreme court affirm
ing the constitutionality of wartime prohi-
bition is another step toward "dry' United
States The decision is based on the unani-
nous opinion of the members of the court
that signing the armistice did not abrogate
che war powers of congress.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

Dorothy Dalton's new play was about to
be suppressed in New York because the lead
ing woman wore such scant clothing. Search
ty of fuel compelled her to put on more
garments while on the stage, and thus art
was saved from the profane hand of the
censor
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

Senator Smith spoke in Macon Monday
night, and impartial chroniclers say that he
had one of the largest and most enthusiastic
audiences ever confronted by him. And he
has confronted some large ones.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

To think more of relieving the needs of
the unfortunate and less of ourselves would
take much of the fever and fret out of the
preparations for observing "peace on earth
and good will to men," Selfish indulgence
has never yet brought any real happiness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
BIFFS B. WEEVIL.

From Wesleyan Christian Advocate.
The Dawson News has found a man who
has sold 500 worth of pecans from a sin
gle tree The tree will yield 800 pounds of
nuts this year. The way the boil weevil is
being put on the run in this country is a
sight.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23
A GENEROUS PEOPLE.

From the Wesleyan Christian Advocate.
Rev. T. II. Thomson, who was returned to
our church at Dawson, was given on his re-
turn home from conference a generous show
er that filled the pantry of the parsonage.
Generous people that, and they know how
to appreciate faithful pastors services.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

Kansas has man which prevents women
from working more than nine hours day.
1t would seem justice to have a law COM
polling men to work at least half that time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

Gompers pays laboring men no compli-
ment when he ascribes the restiveness of
workingmen to the withdrawal of booze
from their daily rations.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

The first man took what was not his, and
the second killed the third.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

THE Spirit of the Season.
prompts US to express,
our appreciation of all fsvo,'
shown US, and to wish vo,'
in return all the JOYS u ~ I
Very Merry Christmas
Bright a nd Happy NJ 4
Year. 's7|
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

Love may laugh at the locksmiths but it
does not laugh at the landlord and the gro
Ger.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

The News wishes everybody a merry
Christmas
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-23

Dad will wear last years overcoat this win
ter. The car must have new rear casing.
New Britain herald., 1919-12-05
BENEFICIARIES REAP
 INSURANCE HARVEST
New York City Soldiers Relatives Draw From 5000 Govern
 mcnt Policies.

New York, Dec. 5.--Beneficiaries Of the New York city soldiers killed in the war are drawing monthly in stallments from 5000 government policies, the total value of which is $26,220, ,000, according to a statement by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. The policies average $S,74O each.
 The bureau states that about Tb per cent. of the men demObllized have not retained their insurance, attribu- ting the failure to carelessness and delay in readjustm rent in civilian pur- suits. In this connection the bureau calls attention to the fact that former soldiers may reinstate their war risk policies at any time within IS months after lasping and may convert the in- surance to any one of a number of in suranc1 forms within five years.
 Premiums on converted policies may be paid monthly as well as quarterly, semi-annually and annual 1y, and the discounted value of all premiums paid in advance of the month Ill which the death of the in
New Britain herald., 1919-12-05
EXPLAINS CAUSE
 FOR MEXICAN ROW
Nat, Geographic Society Cites 1 B Reasons for Disorder

A factor contributing to tEc d1&or- ders nll,f law Iessnv<S in Mexico, <ur1 asothc kidnapping recently of Nlllla" ,. Jcnkiu& an American citizen, ana ais release upon payment of hea\> ransom. is the diversity of races ahu tongues, Say& a bulletin from the Ma Gional Geographic society.
 ''lNrom sonora to Yucatan more th''" - 50 separate dialects gare. Slokeh' Ns,~ oordin| tu a communication |" " society by Frederick Simpich.
 "AII the mhubit0nt% Of 'ht "'". coast, however, with tn" exception 'oi some hllI tribes Of Indians, can uhdrf~ stand Sranish. or these indians 'h@ fS 0o0 Taoujs, with thc'r crude baca~ tcte bill forts, their weird ceremonial mu4ouc dances and thoir WarlkN at'i- tudc. arc easily most conSpl"uohS' Many are enlisted with tho federal army or employed as ranch hands and mine or railroad laborers. The SaqulH with the federal troops arc termed .Non1os' or tame YaQuis; those in the hills. wild and hostile, arc the 'Brop chos.' The latter arc a vagrant lot, robbing ranches for food and animals, { carrying rawhidc drums and water sourds. wearing sandals of green com sktn--living by thcir wits. Pressed hN burger, they subsist as well on hurros nS beef.
 "Thcsc burros. the short and sinlplo animals of the poor.' thrive by thn thousand on the west coast. Many run wild. like the wild asses of Mesopo tama."
 "Tho Maya Indians, some of whom still carry bows aud arrows, inhabtt the flat coastal plain south of the Yu- qui region along tho River Maya. ElN- aollcnt labOrerN. peacefully inclined, uany of tho Mayas arc trusted help CTS on American ranches and plant2- tons
 Most of the well advertised brands of wild mon arc fairly familiar to the show going American public. The hond -hunter. the bushman. and his boomerang are all old circus a@- uuaintanccs, but within 700 miles of chaate and classiS Los Angeles, thorc dwclls d lost tribe of Savages whose vcry namo is known 10 but few Of us; for this tribe has never been tnn,c unlfted or oven exhibited. Yet it | older. perhaps, than the AztccS; ii n,nN even De the last living fragment of tho American AboriGines.
 'The Seris. thcso strange people are , ,called. and they iuhabit a lonely, evil rock called Tiburon island that lifts it's hostile head from tho hot empty waters of the Gulf of California. And all down this coast the name of Tibu- ron is spoken with a shrug' of the shoulders. for these Scris are thieves and Killers. It is even whispered that long ago they were cannibals.'