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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04
HOGS AND MEAT PRICES.

Live hogs are quoted in the packing CEN
tiers at about $3.50 per hundred pounds
Georgia hogs are selling at only $40 per
hundred), which shows reduction of more
than 40 per cent. from the high mark reach
ed some months ago. If there is any rela-
ton between the price of live hogs and the
price of pork the latter should now be SELL
ing at but little more than one half of what
it did six months ago
Side meat which was then selling for
about SO cents a pound, now should be sell
ing for not more than 271a cents pound.
Other prices of pork should show like de-
cline, but they have not In fact, the best
brands of breakfast bacon are selling at rs
cents pound.
Where is the product of $40 and $3.50
hogs going, if not into the retail trade? Is
it being stored so as to produce a shortage
which in spite of the losses suffered by the
farmer in reduced prices for his hogs will
hold up the prices of pork products to the
consumer? If there is no boarding, and the
product of the $40 hogs is going into the
distribution trade of the packers, someone
somewhere along the line, which is decidedly
short, is profteering in a manner which
amounts to public robbery. 1t ought not to
be difficult to find the profteer and to con-
Wet him of his offense under provisions of
the laws enacted by congress.
The farmers have been accused of prof
iteering because they were receiving high
prizes for live stock. The slump in prices of
live hogs without corresponding slump in
the prices of hog products proves that the
farmers are not the ones conducting the
hold-up They now do not have to explain
other things they must buy as a justifca-
ton for the prices they are receiving. Any
one knows that hogs at $40 per hundred
pounds are not out of proportion to the
cost of productions; that the farmer who
sells at that price under present conditions
is actually losing money. Thus, one factor
in high prices is eliminated from investi-
cations which should locate the trouble. If
the price of pork retains the same place it
did when hogs were SO to SO a hundred
higher because of the increased wages of
meat they are profteers and should come
within the regulation and control of the gov
eminent 1t is useless to eliminate the
cause of high prices in one place and add
causes of high prices in other places.
The quicker the public takes healthy
account of this problem, and sets about re-
moving all and preventing other causes the
sooner will the whole condition be improved
and the evil removed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04
SENATOR AND COMMISSION.

The charge of Senator Watson that the
federal trade commission has in it's employ
a number of people who are un-American
and who believe in and advocate the over
throw of the government, and the reply and
counter charge by the commission that Sen
ator Watson's allegations are packer propa-
ganda only joins issue. The commission as
serts that the Watson statement is intend
ed to cast doubt upon the employees of the
commission which found where the packers
were robbing. 1t charges Senator Watson
with having been lobbyist for the packers.
All these things may be true, but they do not
answer his charges. The commission does
not deny his charges, does not deny that its
employees are radicals, but calls for proof
and makes counter charges.
If Senator Watson cannot substantiate
the statement he made in the senate cham
Der he should stand before the American
public as a public falsifer and unworthy of
holding seat in the senate. If he does prove
their truth the federal trade commission
would stand in contempt of public sentiment
until it purges itself of its obnoxious en-
ployas, and convinces the public that such
unclean things will never again befoul its
Organization.
If Senator Watson is lobbyist, if he is
giving his services to the packers instead
of to the nation if he is loyal to private in
terests which make his loyalty to the gov
eminent impossible he is in the same class
with the employees of the federal trade COM
mission whom he denounced, and should be
banished from public service along with
them.
The public is not interested in the differ
ences in the estimate of Senator Watson and
the federal trade commission of each other.
But it is interested in the truth of the
charges made by each against the other.
There is a growing inclination among the
public to have a house cleaning and rid the
public service of me and women who are ed
ucating themselves and others to destroy the
government which supplies their living.
There is a disposition to stop the inclination
of those identified with public service to
use the powers of the government to furth-
err and strengthen the things which later
they hope to use to overthrow that govern
ment Cleaning out the dangers from the
public service, whether in the senate or the
federal trade commission, is one of the
methods by which this can be done.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04
PUMPKIN PIE.

Before the advent of the extensive system
of canning food products the seasons all
brought their special gustatory luxuries. The
early weeks of fall, in the olden times, meant
the appearance of the pumpkin pie. The raw
product, ripened in the sun and rich in the
favors only nature imparts, became one of
the items on the menu of epicureans. Spiced
and baked without frills no other item
among the products of the farm was so APP
petizing and SO full of health. The doctor
was never called to treat indigestion caused
by eating these pies. But the SAVIOR of the
pumpkin pie, like the glory of Rome, has
departed.
The pumpkin of the present family larder
is bought in tins. 1t is prepared in bulk in
a common canning factory where the diff
ferent favors of the different pumpkins are
unknown and where all are blended into a
common group lacking the distinctive feat
ures that made the pies of the olden gen
Grafton the acme of culinary perfection. The
modern product does not smell or taste like
pumpkin Somehow dumping this fruit of
the gods from the can has a different effect
on the anticipations than slicing up the
product fresh from the field.
But it is the modern way, and few would
return to the time when the frost on the
pumpkin was the sign of autumn days. The
world has become converted to the COM
munty scheme of life. The cannery has
taken the place of the kitchen. Even kraut
is bought at the store instead of made at
home, and vegetables are delivered in tins
by the grocer instead of coming fresh and
crisp from the family garden. But as these
things are surrendered the cost of living
goes up. Not alone because the world is
topsy turvy, but because the world refuses
to do many things which it once did for
itself And as this communicating process
goes on the artificial supplants the real, and
life takes on that strange, abstract, indie
Enable element of discomfort that always
wants and never realizes
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04
Facts About Light.

Light travels at a speed of 10000 miles
a second. The source of all light, except the
light of phosphorescence, is a substance rails
ed to a temperature sufficient to set up
waves in the surrounding ether. Light waves
vary in length between 1-33400 and 1-650OO
of an inch; the first being extreme red and
the second being extreme violet. Rays of
white light have length of 1-450OO of an
inch The sun is great mass of whlte-hot
matter.
In an arc lamp it is the white-hot particles
of carbon floating between the two cleo
trodes that produce light. In the incandes
cent lamp it is the hairpin filament inside the
glass globe that, when heated by electricity,
gives off light waves
In gas and oil lamps light is produced by
the heated particles of carbon in the flame
above the wick or mantle. The eye can stand
without firing brilliancy of about five can
dle-power per square inch of surface. The
ordinary candle flame gives from two to
three candle-power per square inch, while
the sun at zenith gives 100000 candle-pow-
err per square inch, and the best modern
flament incandescent gives about l,OOO
Fcandle-power.
The prism shows us that white light IS
composed of happy blend of all the colors
of the spectrum. The sun gives the only pure
white light, with the arc lamp a close sec
ond. while the metal flament incandescents
take third place Sky light, such as comes
from the north on clear day. is buish-white
Gas mantles give a greenish light open
flame yellow light and kerosene an orange
liCht
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04
Let 1t Be a Finish Fight.
From the Jackson Progress-Argus.

The steel strike is the opening gun
in the struggle for power between labor
and capital There should be no mis-
take upon this point. Labor is not
striking for higher wages, shorter hours
or better living conditions. 1t is strik-
ing to obtain the virtual and actual
control of industry.-DaWson News.
Let us hope it will be a finish fight. Let
US hope the issue will be settled at once and
for all time. Let there be no compromise,
delay or half-baked victory. Let the fight go
on to the final, bitter end-to the final show
down of power.
The great middle class, the men in every
line of business activity, the rural class the
farming class-men of all occupations, who
are neither capitalists no members of the
labor unions-have stood by and suffered
quite long enough while capital and labor
fought out their differences. They have
borne the brunt of every strike. They have
suffered and said little. But the great UNI
organized middle class is getting tired and
Disguised with so many strikes. They want
to see these differences settled and settled
right.
Capital has it's rights Labor has its rights
The men-and this includes an overwhelm I'M
ing maiority-who are neither union la
borers nor capitalists have their rights. The
unorganized class, the producing class, the
farmers, merchants, clerks, etc, pay the
final cost Of all the disputes between labor
and capital.
It is high time this question was being
settled and settled in way that will leave
no doubt of the victor. Let the fight pro-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04
Political Investigations.
From the Farmer and Breeder.


The whole country seems to be suffering
from an epidemic of Investigations. For the
past few weeks a mania for investigation
has broken out in Washington and it seems
to be contagious in its nature, as 1t IS eX-
tending into the several states. Many of
our alleged statesmen, clothed with brief au-
thority, seem to be looking in every direc-
ton for something to investigate These in
designations are of every conceivable char
acter Almost everybody who is engaged
in the production of food for the people,
from the humble milkman, who has been
milking his cows before daylight in obedi-
ence to the daylight saving law, to the mil
lionaire packer in Chicago, have been sub
iect to attack The federal trade commits
sion in star chamber session with the active
help of the sensational metropolitan press
has been working overtime. Ambitious con-
gressmen and sedate senators have taken
a hand in the game. Even the department
of justice has been prodded by the presl-
dent and with blare of trumpets the at
torney general has marshaled his forces for
a general onslaught.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04
The Boy ON the Street.
rom the Greensboro Herald.Journal.

from the greensboro I1crdlo-JournaI.
The worst habit that boys can fall into is
loafing around the streets at night. 1t is then
they cast their lot in slippery places, when
at any moment they are likely to fall from
grace. All good and noble lessons taught
them by their mothers are there counter
acted and nullifed. They learn nothing that
is good, but everything that is bad. The boys
who spend their evenings in the sacred pre-
cincts of home with good books for their
companions are the future hopes of the re-
public; they will fill congressional and leg
isative halls, and sit in judgment upon men
and measures, while the boys who run the
streets will fill ouc penitenilaries, aims hous-
es and lunatic asylums. Parents who are
responsible for these broken laws of decen-
CIV will have broken hearts and bowed-down
heads in the years of awakening that will in
eyitably follow.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04
THE RETURN.

Last night you came to me and in your hands
Were vioets-emblems of your love so
true
Surrounding one white-hearted rose that
grew
Upon the misty shores of dreamy lands.
You came in dreams across the vanished
years,
The same bright golden sheen was on your
hair;
No hint of life's chill winter frost was
there,
And in your eyes there was no trace of tears.
there,
l visioned you as ere our lives were sundered,
Your smile as bright, your songs as light
and gay,
And hope within your breast as brilliant
as noon day,
And in my heart the old wild longing thun-
dered.
Times hand had touched you softly, and it
seemed
That all the radiant spirit of loves flame,
Undimmed by years, burned brighter when
you came
And blessed nv visions as l lay and dreamed.
Dawson, Ga. w. 7. BARFIELD.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04

The era of good roads is about to dawn
for Georgia. In the planning and construc-
ton of them every possible use should be
made of the lessons learned by experience
Of these not the least is that a good road
with its grade crossings unprotected is not
a good road in the best sense. 1t will be i'm
possible to abolish all of these death traps
but not one should be left entirely unpro-
tected. where the law of the land permits
and the traffic warrants the expense these
crossings should be abolished.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04

When Secretary Baker said that he sold
the surplus goods in Europe, including 22,-
100000 pounds of sugar, so as not to dis
turb market conditions in this country he
missed it by long shot. He did disturb the
market conditions in this country-at least
for the consumer. He acted wisely, if his OBJ
ject was to keep prices here from tumbling
down. But many Americans would have
liked it better if they had tumbled.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04

1t took fifty-one moving trucks to trans
port the personal belongings of the deposed
emperor to his new home. If the talk of
year ago had materialized one hearse would
have served the purpose.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04

Senator w. j. Harris is being compliment
ed by the press of the state on his reply to
the attack on the federal trade commission
by Senator Watson. The Georgian knew
what to say, and said it to the point
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04

With turkeys practically out of sight in
both numbers and price, and no sugar for
the cranberries, it begins to look as though
we might as well begin to look around for
squirrel
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04

Now if the farmers should call a strike
and lookup on their graneries imagine
how suddenly delegation of miners would
get busy demanding relief by the govern
ment. But what's the difference between
freezing and starving to death?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04
WHERE TO BEGIN.

From the Kansas City Times.
Another campaign has been started in
Washington to reduce the high cost of liv-
ing. But has anything been done to reduce
the high cost of Washington's campaigns to
reduce the high cost of living?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04

President Wilson will find the people of
the nation, with few exceptions, support
ing his stand that there must be no cessation
in the production of soft coal at this season
of the year. 1t is not a question of indus
trial morals or principles, but of public
RIGHTS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04

Women's skirts are not the only things
that are becoming shorter. There are pock-
etbooks, too.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04
MAKES A MAN ENVIOUs.

From Capper's Weekly.
A Missouri Poland China hog weighing
more than half a ton has been sold at auc-
ton for $11,1O0, which the average man
will feel is almost a personal insult.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04

A news report says "Burleson makes Wig
orous defense of his administration" We
do not happen to recall a case where de-
tense was needed more.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04

An Ohio minister says hell has become
an obsolete word in the vocabularies of the
ministry. May be so, but it is still retained
in the vocabularies of bucking auto owners.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04

The sum and substance of this unrest
is that every fellow is trying to make every
other fellow pay his bills and buy his luxu-
ries.
Evening journal., 1919-08-14

The Want Ads will locate garages
and country homes for sale.
Evening journal., 1919-08-14
GOVERNMENT TO SUE
CEMENT COMBINE

WASHINGTON. Aug IA suit in
equity to dissolve the cement com
bination" was announced yesterday by
Attorney General Palmer. The action
is TO be brought in the, district OF
New Jersey against 10 individual com
panies as follows:
Atlas Portland Cement Company. Al
lentown: Portland Cement Company.
Alpha Portland Cement Company, Bath
Portland Cement Company. Coplay Ce-
ment Mapufacturing Company, Dexter
Portland Cement Company, Edison
Portland Cement Company, Giant Port
land Cement Company. Glen Falls Port
land Cement Company. Hercules Ce-
ment Corporation. Knickerbocker Port
land Cement Company. Lawrence Ce
ment Company. Lehigh Portland Ce-
ment Company. Nazareth Portland Ce-
ment Company. Penn Allen Cement
Company, Pennsylvania Cement Com
pany, Phoenix Portland Cement Com
pany, Security Cement and Lime Com
pany and Vulcants Portland Cement
Company.
In praying that the defendants be
perpetually enioined "from further en-
gaging in combination and conspiracy
the Government charged that by means
OF unincorporaied associations. sup
ported by all on the pro rata basis Of
business transacted. they undertook to
restrict production, TO decrease the
aggregate amount Of cement under
contract for future delivery. TO main
tain uniform prices and 10 advance
prices by about 200 per cent
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-09
SEVERALFINED
IN POLICE COURT
Violation of Traffic Ordinance
and DisorderIy Conduct Adds
TO City Treasury

A mar giving his name as John j..
High. of 38 William street, Railway,
son of ex-Mayor High of Railway
fined SO in police court this
morning by Acting Recorder Delaney
on a charge of violating traffic regu-
latfons. He was arrested by Officer
f. Seiboth and when arraigned plead
ed that he was in a hurry to reach
his home.
Laurence Hanga, of Garretson
ven was fined $40 for disorderly
conduct in police court on complaint
of officer L. Marmon who alleged
that he found the man near the cigar
factory with a pocket full of stones.
The police department has a new
mascot, a cute little itty bitty kitty
kat. The cat was presented to the
station house for the purpose OF
catching rats, but looks as if she will
have to grow a bit first. Chief Burke
christened her Dynamite Bum" or
Bum" for short.
Mrs. Mary Names. of 204 Smith
street, is being held in $100-b bail on a
charge of assault and battery on Mrs
Marion Turner, of h same address
She was paroled in custody of her
counsel, John Toolan.
John Kupachinski and Frank Che
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-09
a DISCOVERY THAT
MANKIND

Two discoveries have added greatly
to human welfare.
In 1885 Newton originated the'vac-
uum process for ~condensing milk with
cane sugar to a Semi-liqaid form.
In 1888 Horlick at Racine, Wis, dis
covered how to reduce milk to a dry
goznder form with extract of matted
grains, zrithout cane sugar.
This product EORLlCk named
Matted Milk. (Name since copied
by others.) Its nutritive value,
digestibility and ease of preparation
Thy simply stirring in water) and the
fact that it keeps in any climate,
has proved of much value to mankind
as an ideal. food-drink from infancy
to old age.
ASK TOT hoRlicNs -AvoId limitations
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-09

mas were fined So each on charges q
being drunk and disorderly and sus-
picious characters. Both men live Of
Washington street.
Sigmund Bo1digen, of Gil Charles
street, has reported to the police that
his Ford touring car, license No. 1885,
SIS ". J., was stolen last night about
IL o'clock from the corner Of Smith
and Goodwin streets.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-09
Satisfied His Curiosity.

An inquisitive young gentleman read
this advertisement in a local paper:
"Young man, some woman dearly loves
you. WoCIa you know who she Is?
Send postal order for ten shillings to
Occult Diviner, address as below, and
learn who she is." He sent the money
and received this answer: "Your
mother"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-09
The Venerable Toad.

Toads often look very old, don't
they? Even so, probably you have
never imagined that a toad might be
$50 years old. Actual records prove
that there have been toads Of more
than 100 years of age, and very likely
this estimate has been exceeded.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-09
Natures Wonderful Work.

! Nature gives to every time and sea-
son some beauties Of Its own; and
from morning to night, as from the
cradle to the grave, is but a success
sion of changes so gentle and easy that
we can scarcely mark their progress.
Dickens.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-09

OF being alone, and found 1t a great
success. Miss Buffers trousseau In
GUIDED a full aviation costume. No
body butted in on their sacred privacy,
and they were "in the clouds in fact
as well as fancy.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-03

and contracts-and for this reason are
protected today as probably no other
local establishment could hope to be. We
are secure in contracts dating back as
far as twelve months ago providing pc
rloclc dellveries-we Gown" Gas the
trade-term goes) vast stocks for you to
choose Communicating our position
as leaders in the sale of Quality Rugs as
we'll as showing the Largest Assert
ments
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-03
eginning Monday=AdvanceFallS Sale Of Rugs

THE PRIMAL PURPOSE of this
advance Fall Sale of Rugs" is, of
course, to legitimately stimulate
business, and to protect our Gus
toners interests as we'll as our
own, but it's broader object is far
larger than mere immediate self
interest.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-03
This Is Our Advice:

Buy noz0 the Rugs you intend
to buy late1-buy to the utmost.
The grim alternative is that you
zCiN pay n1ore-and gerry much
more-tor the same Rugs if yon
zC1it.