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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11
County Commissioners Can't
Legally Pay Interest on Money
From the Cedartown Standard.

Supreme court decisions render it limos
slble under existing laws for county com
mlssloners to legally pay interest on money
fer even current expenses, and this fact puts
nearly every county in Georgia on credit
basis" which is expensive to the county, and
hardship to all who have any business
dealings with it.
Here in Polk county our commissioners
have been in the habit of borrowing money
to meet expenses, feeling that it was cheaper
and better for the county to do this than to
pay credit prices and have holders of war
rants discount their scrip. This was I'M
doubleday good business, but it was not in
strict accordance with the letter of the law
Some one in Floyd county got peeved at
the commissioners there, and the matter
was carried to the supreme court, where the
inevitable decision was rendered that I'M
der existing laws the county could not Dor
row money.
The decision has worked a great hard
ship on commissioners and people alike The
sudden change gave rise here in Polk to the
report that the county was bankrupt
The general state law should be changed
so that the proper county authorities could
borrow money from month to month I'D
to the amount of the tax levy. 1t is not
right, for instance, that a rich county like
Polk should be forced to pay credit prices
and no one can be expected to furnish
supplies at cash prices and then have to
discount their scrip or carry it for months
Neither IS it fair that employees of the
county, working for fixed salaries, should
be compelled to carry their scrip Indefinite
ly or lose the discount
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11
VERY TRUE, EDITOR HOWELL.

From the Cuthbert Leader
The average farmer is not inclined to be
stirred deeply with patriotism by the urgent
appeals of the agricultural department and
other agencies to raise more food crops. To
him it seems just now more imperative that
a market be supplied for what he produced
N 1918 In some instances he is finding it
and velvet BEANS although there is said to
be urgent demand for fats and stock feed
IN various foreign countries. And while
pork products are as high as they have
been, hogs are selling at several cents per
pound less than they have done
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11
NO MAN ESSENTIAL.
Jno. T. Boifeuillet in Macon News.

The sage of The Dawson News adds an
other philosophical observation to his store
house Of wisdom when he says:
eve may be surprised to find how
easily this county will run along with
no man in the white house After all.
we are more of a self-governing people
than many realize. Even a president is
not as essential as we make him appear
IN the newspapers-or as presidents
get in the habit of thinking themselves"
The machinery of this government is
too mammoth and too well adjusted for any
one mans absence to jar it. Its revolutions
never cease. The history of this country
shows that even when there is death in the
white house there is life in the nation Five
times has the Great Reaper removed the con
stitutional head of the republic, but the
spirit Of the constitution continued to live,
and breathed liberty and good government
throughout the land
Presidents Harrison Taylor, Lincoln, Gar
field and Mckinley passed away, but ere the
shower of holy tears" which fell upon
their graves had dried amid the flowers the
wheels of government which had been mo-
mentarlly stopped as an act of Difference
and respect resumed their harmonious rev
olutions.
President Wilson is far across the seas.
but the great heart of the nation ceases not
Its beats or its functions. And over all and
through all the sunlight of peace and pros
perity shines in the fullness of meridian
splendor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11
RESTORING THE DESERT.

England has tentatively announced it's
purpose of restoring Arabia to its ancient
fertility. That country. which is now des-
ert Of shifting sands, once supported the
apex of civilization. Great cities Ninevah
and Babylon and a score of others, contain
ed populations in the height of their power
approximating that of the prominent munich
palities of America. Such populations could
not exist unless the country were intensely
productive. In the days of its prosperity,
when the nations which now dominate the
earth were either unknown or were in saw
agery, the cultivated bread plants fourished
abundantly in the regions which are now
only sand
At the time of its agricultural wealth
Arabia had no more rainfall than it has now.
It's moisture was derived from irrigation.
This modern application of water to agri-
cultural needs is as old as the Bible. The
waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers,
whose sources are in the perpetual SHOWS of
the northern mountains, were a never-fail-
ing supply of plant producing moisture.
When it reached the desert portions of the
river courses it was diverted from the chan
nels and spread over the land Nature provid-
ed the other essential element Of plant pro-
duction, and the country so irrigated -four
i ished and supported in luxury the cities and
\ the dense rural populations
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11
THE NEVER OLD.

They who can smile when others hate.
Nor bind the heart with frosts of fate.
Their feet will go with laughter bold
The green roads of the Never Old!
They who can let the spirit shine
And keep the heart a lighted shrine.
Their feet will glide with fire of gold
The green roads Of the Never Old.
They who can put the self aside
And in loves saddle leap and ride.
Their eyes will see the gates unfold
To green roads of the Never Old.
EDWIN MARKHAM.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

The white per capita wealth of the South
is an index to the prosperity of this Sec
ton. 1t is said to be in Georgia 81 ,664; in
Alabama it is $1,349; in Florida $4,000; in
South Carolina, $1,000; in Tennessee ST.
2O9; in Louisiana $3.50; in Texas $2,14O.
The average for the entire South is 1854.
Confirming the significance of these figures
is the report on the South's banking re-
sources, which amount in the aggregate to
2,248, 065,122.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11
ARLINGTON BOY is THERE

From the Calhoun County Courier.
Did you know Arlington is represented
at the great peace conference in France?
Private Sherwood Clements writes his moth
er, Mrs. w. E. Clements, that he was ac-
corded the good fortune of being detailed
as orderly to Secretary Robert f. Lansing.
one of the United States ENJOYS to the
peace conference. All Arlington Joins with
the family in rejoicing over Sherwood's
distinctive honor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11
BIFFING BROTHER BURLEsoN

From the Dalton Citizen.
The Albany Herald certainly has no
love for Postmaster General BurTeson.
1t says 1T would be in favor of repub-
Hcan victory next fall to have him put
out of office.-The Savannah Press.
Well, if there is a republican victory
mr.; Burleson will have done we'll his part
to bring it about.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

Better roads are needed throughout
Southwest Georgia" says the Albany Her
aid. True; but at the same time it is a fact
that Southwest Georgia has decidedly the
best roads in the state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

1t is fortunate that the government has
lost only two hundred million dollars since
assuming control of the railroads, as the
public has paid the loss in freight and pas
senger rate advances and been given
eXecrable service at high cost If the gov
eminent retains control of the roads for five
years-well, heaven help u.s.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

The punch of the individual is more i'm
portant in achieving success than the extent
of the family lineage
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

With the director general calling for a
S75O,OOO,OO0 draft out of the public taxes
to rehabilitate the railroads, these enter
prlses are becoming as expensive as the first
models of automobiles were to their owners
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

The way the socialists are trying to run
the country one might be led to believe they
had just won the war.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

mot much loaned" is the way the Savan-
nah Press speaks of Uncle Sans loan of
$17O,O0O,000 to the allies We presume that
one hundred and seventy millions is mere
pocket change for a Savannah editor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

Champ Clark now wants to bring all of
the American boys home instantly. That
seems to be the growing demand of the
country. 1t amounts to a protest against do
ing police duty for European nations.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

The prohibition political party is out of
a job, but we doubt greatly if its members
can be convinced of the fact.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

There's lot of difference between the
rights of the man who honestly abors and
the one who never performed days work,
but who wants to rule the men who do?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

We observe that, notwithstanding the diff
ficulty of the packers and their close mar
gins and serious obstacles, one of the last
to render a report managed to squeeze by
with bagatelle of $47,OOO 900 profit. How
ever, that looks like loose collection along
side of Henry Ford's 200 per cent
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

If we can accomplish in one treaty what
the christian religion has failed to bring
about in 1000 years-estabIish permanent
peace on earth, good will to men and the
golden age at one sitting-that will be 60
ing some. But when the average man
looks inside himself he isn't so sure about it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

England is having difficulty in determin-
ing what to do with her old war horses. In
America they are used as leaders in political
campaigns, and to run political conventions
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

The usual advice about how the good
roads we all want can be obtained and the
usual amount of road building is going on
with the usual waste, If the coming session
of the legislature does not provide a way
to better the situation it will miss an oppor-
tunity to render the state a real service.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

Grape juice is to be the future drink of
America, in the advocacy of which Colonel
W. J. Bryan was a noted pioneer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

The liquor interests say they will spend
a million dollars in desperate 'last stand
for their rights" That million dollars would
stock a lot of dry goods stores and buy a lot
of small farms, none of which ever would be
legislated out of business.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11
WOMEN DETECTIVES.

From the Greensboro Herald-Journal.
Atlanta has woman detective. We mean
one who makes it profession. and not the
multitudes that are married.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

Heaven save France Most of our freak
reformers, Notwithstanding our public utili-
ty experimenters, are going over to "recon-
struct" that country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

Now is the time to begin thinking about
the coming of the income tax man. who will
get" you if you don't watch out-or if YOU
do, for that matter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

The girl who spends an hour on her toilet
when she expects a dude to call on her dur
ing the evening goes to a lot of trouble for
nothing
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

If King George v. of England, visits the
United States people must be careful not
to confuse him with King George III. The
Lack of distinction might be embarrassing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-11

A dozen or more legislatures have voted
since the beginning of the year to destroy
the American spirit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-01

Alpheus II. Baldwin, passenger
conductor on the Philadelphia divi-
sion of the Pennsylvania railroad,
was to-day retired from active SER
vice and placed on the company's
pension roll.
Mr.. Baldwin was born, March 6,
1849, in West Lampeter township
Lancaster county. He was educated
in the public schools and remained
on the farm until 10 years of age.
He entered the service of the Penn
sylvania railroad as freight brake
man, September s, 1861, and was
promoted to freight conductor, De-
cember l, 1873, and appointed pas
senger conductor, February 1, 1873,
in which capacity he continued until
retirement.
His period of service permitted
him to see the Philadelphia division
changed from the old State survey to
the present Strengthened and improv-
ed roadbed, also marked improve
ment in the equipment, especially
that of the electrically lighted stand
ard steel coach as compared to the
old candle lighted wooden coach in
which it was necessary to carry a
lamp on the arm in order to get the
transportation on night trains.
He has seen many changes in the
forms of transportation and in the
accounting and was one of the -four
conductors of the Philadelphia divi-
sion who ran the Pennsylvania Linn
tied trains Nos. 2 and 3 when first
put on the road. The others having
passed into the great beyond.
Mr.. Baldwin is very active yet and
contemplates engaging in some other
work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-01
Merchants to Organize
Commerce Chamber Bureau

The plans to be followed in the
organization of the Merchants Coun-
Gil of the Harrisburg Chamber of
Commerce were outlined by officials
of the Chamber to-day. The bureau
is to be organized at a meeting of
the merchant members of the cham
ber in the Penn-Harris Hotel week
from tonight at $50 o'clock.
Every effort is being made to in
duce every merchant to attend the
meeting, as it will be of particular
interest to them. A feature will be
the address of William Smedley, of
Philadelphia, secretary of the Retail
Merchants Association of Pennsyl-
vania, who, besides being a retail
organizer, is a speaker of consider
able note, travelling more than 75,-
900 miles annually, organizing and
addressing merchants organizations.
The plans for organization as out
lined to-day include the formation
of an executive committee of the
council, to be composed of a repre-
sentative of each line of mercantile
trade, selected by the merchants in
each line. The entire body of mer-
chants will elect the officers. The
council will be a self-governing body,
giving particular attention to matters
of interest to the merchants. 1t
will be responsible to the board of
directors of the chamber in mat
ters effecting the entire organiza-
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-01
MACKEY EXPLAINS
COMPENSATION LAW
CHANGES PROPOSED

Explaining to the legislative COM
mittee having in charge proposed
| amendments to the workmen's COM
pensation law, Harry A. Mackey,
| chairman of the bureau, went at
length into the changes contem-
plated, saying that while the amend
ments submitted had been carefully
considered, they were not to be
considered the ideas of the admin
istration. He said the Governor de-
sired the fullest discussion of the
amendments and suggested that the
hearing be confined to the acquiring
of information and that debate be
delayed until a later date.
1t is the desire of the bureau to
be made q department of the State
government, free from regulation
by the State Department of Labor
and Industry, of which it is now q
part.
He said that while farm and do
mestic labor have been excepted in
the amendments proposed, they may
be included by special agreement.
Benefits have been advanced under
the new act to about sixty per cent.
and insurance rates thirty per cent,
which amounts to an advance of
about one cent for each ten dollars
produce.
Minimum weekly benefits are in
creased from SIS to $3.50. and max
imum from $40 to $3.50, while
widows are to have benefits for
400 instead of 800 weeks and upon
remarriage are to be given in a
one-third of the benefits due her
had she remained unmarried.
Grandparents and grandchildren are
to be included in the act. Totally
disabled workmen who live beyond
the 500-week period are to be con-
tinued as beneficiaries for the re-
mainder of their lives at twenty-five
per cent. the amount due them un-
der the act up to the 500-week
limit.
Overtime is to be reckoned in
the fixing of the weekly wage and
other changes of a more or less i'm
portant character are also included.
"It is prefectly apparent that the
workmen of Pennsylvania are to-
day urging three definite changes
in the act of 1915" said Mr..
Mackey.
First. An increase in the rate Of
compensation.
Second. A longer period of med
ical service. and
Third. A shorter waiting period,
this being the time after an acci-
dent during which medical service
is alone supplied and no compensa-
ton paid.
"Obeying the instructions of the
Governor, the attorney and the
chairman of the board have pre-
pared a tentative draft along these
lines and summoned to our assist
ance actuarial experts in order to
place before you, all the informa-
ton at our command. 1 want it
distinctly understood that we have
adopted certain proposed rates and
the purpose of presenting the prob
lem and in order to furnish the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-01
Croix de Guerre
For Sergeant Welz
From Marshal Foch

Camp Meade, Md, April Char
acterizing him as a man always "at
hand at times when mems souls
were tried" General Beaumont Bon
aparte Buck, commander of this
cantonment, yesterday presented the
Croix De Guerre to Sergeant Joseph
A. Welz, of Company L. Twenty
third infantry, for bravery in ac-
ton at Chateau Thierry. The order
for the decoration came from Gen.
eral Foch, marshal of France, the
citation by the French commander
in chief reading: Near Chateau
Thierry, July /, 1918, he (Sergeant
Welz) ably and bravely reorgan-
lied the sections, after having
reached the objective, and led the
groups of trench cleaners to dug
outs and machine gun nests"
In connection with the presen-
tation there was a battalian parade
and all the officers congratulated
the sergeant, who yesterday after
noon left for the Pennsylvania State
College, where he will serve as mill
tary instructor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-01
Two Bills to Blot Out
German in the Schools

The Senate committee on educa-
ton, this morning reported out two
bills concerning the teaching of
German in the public and normal
schools of the State.
Both the measures would elm
mate the German language as fea-
ture of the school curriculum. One
of the measures sponsored by Rep
resentative Mallory, Venango, would
compel all schools to give instruc-
ton in the English language. The
other, fathered by Representative
Davis, Indiana, would prohibit the
teaching of German.
The committee upon education
had scheduled hearing on the
measures for this morning, upon
the request of Senator Shantz, Le-
high, but no person appeared to
oppose the measures. Senator
Shantz let it be understood that he
would have something to say on the
floor OF the Senate in regard to the
bills
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-01
Missionary and Aid
Society to Hold Meeting

The Missionary and Aid Society of
the Nable Street Church of God
will convene tomorrow evening at
7.3O. The Rev. J. Nissley Gable, of
Allen, Pa, will be the principal
speaker of the evening. He will
give an address on the subject of
missions. The program will be in
terspersed with special music. This
music as we'll as the address by the
Rev. Mr.. Gable will be worthy of
an appreciative audience. Miss Ca
dessa Fry is the efficient president
of the society.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-01

poiny Jed out by the cankassers that
the Iehamber Is not a selfish busi-
ness proposition, and that the man
who joins the Chamber of Com
mel ce should do so with the sole
intention of thus contributing to
the welfare of Harrisburg.
Perhaps the chamber will be Of
some assistance to him, but ordinar-
lily he should not expect direct f.
nancIal results from his membcI- =
ship," said Flavel L. Wright, chait-
man of the committee. "The work
of the chamber can not help but
bsaefit him indirectly. 1t may be
through the bringing of conventions
or new industries, or the censor
ship of promiscuous soliciting prop
ositions. 1t may be through the con-
struction of the new Penn-Harris
Hotel which will mean much to the
future of Harrisburg. But if in none
of these ways, the member benefi s
through the knowledge that he IS
a. man among men-he is carryin !,
his share of the common burden"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-01
|DEBS THREATENS
TO CALL STRIKE
OF HIS PARTY
Says Action Will Be Taken to
Enforce Demands For
Rehearing

Akron, Ohio, April Eugene V.
Debs, Socialist leader. threatens to
call a general strike of his party
throughout the country unless he is
granted a rehearing in the courts on
charges upon which he was convict
ed under the espionage act.
When shown the report of the de-
cision of the Supreme Court Debs
said:
THAT means that by Nav /, the
day on which begin my sentence, Il
general strike will have eliminated.
1t must not be forgotten that that
day is the Labor Day of the world.
On that day 1 had been assured that
IL the Supreme Court had not ruled
by that time more than 5000 labor
meetings would have been held ask
ing for my release.
The miners of my own State. In
diana, will start the strike. These
men came to me at my home in
Terra Haute before l started on my
last speaking tour and told me that
from the day I went TO the peniten-
tiary there would be no more coal
mined in Indiana until the day 1
was released.
THE movement will undoubtedly
begin at once"
Debs was confined to bed with a
bad attack of lumbago at the home
of Mrs. Margaret Prevey. here, when
notified the United States Supreme
Court had refused him a rehearing.
Illinois is third with 21,727,000
acres, or about three-sevenths of her
land area.
Iowa in fourth place is very close
to Illinois with 21,613,000 acres,
which is about three-sevenths of her
land area.
The aggregate crop acreage in
clude those of corn, wheat, barley,
oats, rye, buckwheat, potatoes, sweet
potatoes, tobacco flax rice, hay, cot
ton, peanuts kafirs beans, broom
corn, hops and cranberries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-01
RUNS THREE-DAY
HURRICANE ON
THE HIGH SEAS
Galesburg Docks With Twen-
ty-one Casuals of Twenty
Ninth Division

Philadelphia, April AFTER en-
countering a hurricane that lasted
three days, the steamer Galesburg,
an army cargo carrier, bringing
81 casuals of the 42d sanitary
squad, 29d division in charge of Ma
ior Ralph e. Balchm, Kalamazoo.
Mich, of the medical corps, docked
here yesterday.
The vessel bore evidence of a Sc
we're struggle with heavy seas. One
lifeboat was washed overheard, a
masthead light was gone and the
decks were covered with water the
greater part of the time. During the
height of the storm, the soldiers,
under orders of Captain Herman
Doyle, commander of the vessel,
donned life jackets and wore them
continuously.
The squad was made UP of units
from National Guard companies
modified at Camp Mcclellan in the
early part of the war. They arrived
in France, July Is, 1918, and were
sent to the front lines three days
later in time to take part in the
Chateau Thierry drive. The unit also
saw service in the Alsace and Ar
gonne sectors.
The ship left Bordeaux March ~.