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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18
SUFFRAGE BEATEN AGAIN,

Following the disgusting exhibition of a
lot of unseXed women who burned an effigy
Of the president the senate again refused to
pass the proposed amendment to the con-
stitution providing for woman suffrage. It
was defeated, as it should have been and
always should be-
The time may come when all the women
of the states will have their votes, but this
Is a matter for Individual states to decide
As the Philadelphia Inquirer says, "this bus
mess of attempting to upset the constitu-
ton by advocating all sorts of amendments
to 1t is becoming altogether too common.
Any person who has a reform to advocate
thinks that the proper way to bring it about
is to rush into constitution tinkering. Wo-
men who want to vote wish to coerce wo-
men who do not want the ballot. and their
theory is that the quickest way to reach their
end is to tack an amendment to the consti-
tuion."
1t is refreshing to see great northern
newspaper like the Philadelphia Inquirer
speak out for state rights The question of
suffrage is strictly a state matter Why
should Kansas dictate to Georgia what it
should do? When a majority of the women
of Georgia really desire to vote they will
do so. We have no very serious objection,
provided that the women make their wish
es known-not through some noisy women's
rights organization, but in an orderly and
decorous manner.
In casting their votes against the propos-
ed amendment Senators Smith and Hard
wick represented the sentiment of an over
whelming majority of their constituents.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18
ECONOMICS AND SENTIMENT.

Sentiment and love of mankind for the
individual members Of the brotherhood NAV
serve some purposes, but when economies
confront a nation sentiment becomes only
the rings Of smoke of the post-prandial CT
gar. England has placed an embargo on the
importation into that country of any goods
which may be manufactured in her own
mills. This excludes large quantities Of
American made goods While it relieves la
Dor and industrial conditions in England
it makes them more acute in this country.
When England was hungry America fed
her When her armies were in need of sup
porting armies America provided them.
There is no disposition to complain or APP
peal to sympathy. What England has done
economically is what any nation must do to
preserve its domestic industries in time of
peace. 1t is taking care of itself. The
people of that country are looking out for
themselves
The case of England should be warning
to the sOphists who believe the United
States can ignore the same facts upon which
the British action is based, and become one
of common brotherhood of governments
in which all economical barriers are elm
mated and in which there will be a general
and unselish adjustment of industry that
will make all prosperous. 1t is time to see
that not one of the nations whose industries
have been paralyzed by the war will neglect
to take advantage of whatever opportuni-
ties present themselves to better the condi-
tions of industry within its borders.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18
From a Dawson Prohibitionist.

Editor of The Dawson News: The fimsy
argument that dry nation will increase the
taxes and call for an enlarged police force
in the different states will hardly carry
weight where the citizens are intelligent
enough to do any sort of thinking for them
selves
The Chicago Herald and Examiner states
the case in nutshell: "By the ratification
of the prohibition amendment to the fed
eral constitution 100 per cent in efficiency
mas been added at one stroke to the peo-
pie OF America, and by the same stroke half
of the misery and half of the poverty of
the people of America has been abolished"
The Buffalo IN. " News finds comfort in
the thought that "old John Barleycorn is
meeting the tate of some millions of his
own victims; moving towards the scrap
heap" The New York Times thinks that
taxes are trifies if the ameliorations, NOR
AL physical, social, economical foreseen by
prohlbltlonlsts come to pass. The New York
Sun, after reviewing the situation, sums it
up like this: "No ranting and kicking up
OF dust has been responsible for all this
The evil effect of the corner ginmill on the
peace and prosperity of the American home
has been the cause of the sweep of senti-
ment against liquor" The MINNEAPOLIS
Journal asks this timely question: But, af-
ter all, was it not the popular conviction
that the drink habit is bad in an economic
sense that proved the deciding factOr?" The
Philadelphia Ledger argues that "the growth
OF sober judgment that the use of alcohol
as a beverage was social industrial and
economic waste" is in part responsible for
the swiftness with which the amendment has
been pressed to ratification.
AS to the increased cost of law enforce
ment under prohibition Mayor Hanson. of
Seattle, testities that his city has fewer po-
hcemen despite an increase of over a hun
dred thousand. The mayor of Birmingham,
Ala, says the cost per year of the police
department was $32,250 less than when sa-
looms were in existence. This last word
IS from the Williamsport (Pa.) Sun: ''The
voice of the people has spoken out in no I'M
certain tones. The liquor interests have
been defeated in a fair fight Let them
abide by the decision with good grace"
Public sentiment is crystalizing against
officers Of the law who fail in the matter of
enforcement, and we believe the time is
swiftly coming when all such who menace
the safety of community will be swept out
of their offices to join John Barleycorn on
the scrap heap. The liquor traffic has been
weighed in the balance and found want
ing" and has no place in the great forward
movements of this twentieth century
PROHIBITIONIST.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18
BOYS AND PICS

1t is stated that hogs worth half million
dollars were raised by Georgia pig club men,
bers during 1918. Only a few years ago
there were no pig clubs in the state, but I'M
der encouragement from the state college
of agriculture and the United States depart
ment of agriculture 8,678 boys in Georgia
are now enrolled in these organizations.
Their beneficial effect on the hog industry
of the state may be judged from a sum-
mary just received by the department from
its pig club agent in Georgia. Progress is
reported as follows: "The increase in the
value of hogs raised by pig club boys in 1918
over those in 1917 was more than Sc per
cent. Pig club boys won 70 ribbons and
$505 in prizes in the open ring at two Geor-
gia fairs. The increase in the number of
pure-bred hogs raised by pig club boys in
1918 over 1917 was more than 306 per cent.
The state champion was the 11-year-old
son of one-horse farmer who bought his
pig at an auction sale for $3.50. She is
worth $500 today"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18
Turkish Cemeteries.

According to the Koran the deceased is the
owner Of his grave in perpetuity. and the
Objectionable system of sculpture in rotation
IS unknown to the Musulmans; and in Con-
stantlnOple, in EyOub, and in Scutari the
room occupied by cemeteries is alonist as
extensive as that covered by dwellings,. With
in recent years it has been found necessary
IN order to open roads that have been much
needed TO curtall and even suppress some of
the cemeteries; but it required an express
order from the Sultan, which made the
"ulemas" utter the wall of bigots. The cv-
press is pre-eminently the funeral tree. Each
tomb has to have its own. And Turkish GEM
eterles become gloomy forests in time which
impart to certain Oriental land scapes an
aspect singularly stiff and somber. 1t is up
on the seashore that these funeral forests are
found in the greatest abundance. The trees,
being nourished by the soil fortified by hui
man remains, reach a prodigous size and
height. The largest and most celebrated
OF these cemeteries is that of Scutari upon
the Asiatic coast of the Bosphorus it ex-
tends over an area more than six miles
square. The tOmbstones are in the shape of
an oval, wider at the top than at the bot
tom, and surmounted with a turban of fez,
the form of which, varying greatly, indi-
Gates the rank of the deceased. A Gilt in
scrption in Turkish characters, cut in relief
on blue background, gives the name and
enumerateS the virtues of the deceased and
lmplores divine mercy in his behalf These
stones are perpendicular, sometimes leaning
very much. In the latter case hole is dug
at the base of the tomb intended to catch
rain for the little birds that come to uuench
their thirst. The dead are not buried very
deep, and it is strange that the custom does
not cause more sickness than it does. The
proximity of the cadavers to the top of the
ground produces, during the summer nights.
particularly in swampy and damp cemeter-
les, myraid of phosphorescent lights, which
dance and fit around the tombs and these
myriad sparks of fire, while inspiring the
poets, also brighten the children
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18
INCREASING MEAT SURPLUS.

With the meat industry the point of TO-
Gus of the attention of the country just now,
and the packers asserting that governmental
regulation of the industry will be inimical
to the trade and injurious to the country
the amount of meat in storage at the be-
ginning of the present year compared with
the same date last year will throw an in
teresting sidelight on some of the discus
sions of the question in congress. There
was at the beginning of this year about so
per cent. more meat in cold storage than
there was January 1st of last year. Under
the principles of the law of supply and de-
mand, which the packers contend should
regulate the prices of meat, the cost of the
product to the consumer should have been
reduced But it has not.
The comparative figures which follow are
taken from the official returns made by the
storage houses to the federal bureau of
markets. The same number of storage hous-
es are included in each report. The figures
follow:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18
Fifth Liberty Loan Talk.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

1t is evident that Secretary Glass is feel
ing his way cautiously as to the next liberty
loan and is putting forth semi-official sug-
gestlons and rumors to test public sentiment.
He realizes only too well that there is a gi-
gantic task ahead of the country if the loan
is to be by popular subscription To float a
"A per cent. bond at par seems utterly i'm
possible and such an idea seems to have been
abandoned.
For a time there was talk of selling the
new loan at discount, but at the 4 per
cent. rate. This does not seem to have met
with much encouragement. Just now the
rumor is that the interest will be increased
possibly to q per cent, but the bonds made
taxable IN all respects. The idea has not
awakened much enthusiasm. What is said to
be a semi-official statement is to the effect
that no great popular drive will be made
again, but that corporations, rich men and
banks will be expected to carry TIE loan.
which will be for a short term of wears, not
to exceed five
All past borrowing and taxes have been
expended and the treasury is living by sell
ing short-term certificates in anticipation of
bond sales or of tax receipts. At the exist
ing rate the proposed bond issue of five bill
lions or more will be fully expended by the
time it is offered the public To the extent
that the bonds are not sold the banks will
nave to accept them, and since few can af-
for such 4 contraction of their LIQUID assets
it is likely that heavy issue of reserve notes
may be expected with the bonds as collater-
al
1t is such condition which confronts the
country at time when, curiouslv enouob.
It's actual war expenses are at the maximum.
1t indicates that we need to be economical.
that every unnecessary expenditure should
10 stopped or -~e shall close up our fiscal
year with q del cit which will mean more
bonds or more imitation of the currency. Evil
IDENTIFY we shall not have enough left to plav
the rich uncle to the whole of Europe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18
A WARNING TO BOYS WHO
LOAF ON THE STREETS AT NIGHT

From the Madisonian.
The worst habit that the boys can fall in
to is loafng around on the streets at night.
1t is then that they cast their lot in slippery
places when at any moment they are likely
to fall from grace. All good is counter
acted and nullifed. They learn nothing that
is good and everything that is bad. The boys
who spend their evenings in the sacred pre-
cincts of the home are the future hope of the
republic; they will fill our legislative halls
and congress, and sit in judgment upon
measures and men, while the boys who run
upon the streets will fill our penitentiaries,
aims houses and lunatic asYlums
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

The Vdalia Advance hasn't very high re-
gard for the congressional district agricul-
tural schools, and takes a shot at these insti-
buttons in an editorial broadside in which it
says there is no room in the educational af-
fairs of Georgia for them" 1t adds, "many
of them are unsuccessful, and this in spite of
the fact that each school receives $4,000
annually from the state" We have very
good school here in the Third district-the
best one in the state, in the opinion of The
News
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

Good old-fashioned ham and eggs are get
ting back down to a price that resembles the
halcyon days of peace and plenty before the
war, when a poor mans dollar would buy
twice as much clothing or fuel as it will to-
day Instead of go to rs cents a dozen,
which those who could scrape up the price
were paying two or three weeks ago, the
fruit of the Industrious hen has now dropp-
ed down to 30 cents, and the price is sure
to go still lower
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

Opposition voiced by European labor to
the bill now before congress providing for a
restriction of immigration during the next
four years should not swerve our national
lawmakers from what they conceive to be
the path of duty The time has not come
when Europe is entitled to voice in our in
ternal affairs. The policy of our country
must be wholly an American policy, and not
policy shaped by and for the Old World.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

Americans are not in love with the Gus
toms of the French peasantry in combining
the stables for the farm animals and the
houses for the chickens and pigs with the
family residence. Some of this American
sentiment may find expression in the recon-
structed villages and farm houses. If So it
will be a sanitary improvement which, while
lacking in romance for the tourist, will make
living conditions healthier for the people
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

All supreme" sacrifices are not made on
the battlefield, William D. Van Dyke, new
ly elected president of the Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance company, has proved
this. His first official act when he took of
flee at Milwaukee was to reject a $4,000
increase in pay AS president he is entitled
to draw $4,000 per year. but he chose to
continue to receive the vice presidents
scale, which is $4,000
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18
IT'S NICE, NO DOUBT.

From the Marietta formal.
1t is said that the president took
twelve automobiles with him to Europe,
and not one of them was made by his
dear friend Ford.-Dawson News.
Still it is mighty good thing to have
a friend like Hennery around in time of f.
nancial depression
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18
ONLY PLEASANT PASTIME.
From the Fort Gaines Georgian.

From the Fort Gaines Georgian.
Here lately one or two Atlanta CORE
spondents of one or two Macon papers have
been making secondhand prophecies as to
who will run for governor in 1920 Political
prophesying is a pleasant and perfectly
proper ,pastime, but at this long distance
from the 1920 goal-post we fancy the
prophets are merely amusing themselves
more than they are enlightening the pub
lie
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

A popularity of the law of supply and de-
mand is that during the past month the
quantity of eggs in storage decreased while
the amount of butter in storage increased.
Yet, the price of both went down.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18
INDIGNANT EDITOR.

From the Swainsboro Forest-Blade.
We don't think we will ever sell whisky
at all, but if we do we're not going to tell
a man we are going to get it for him and
then go off and never do it. We know what
1t is to get your appetite whetted up for
a drink by some fellow promising to get
you one and then running off and never
thinking about YOU again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

Now that they've done about all they can
to whisky the w c. T. U. and other reform
ers promise to turn their attention to the
weed If they can eliminate the man who
persists in blowing tobacco smoke into the
faces of others they will have served humani-
ty a full measure of good
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

Mr.. Bryan has recently been a distin-
guished visitor in Washington, and the pol
iticians at the capital are all a-futter and
wondering what he now 'has up his sleeves"
The Nebraskan has as many political lives
as Georgia's T. E. w. and the proverbial
cat, and his movements are always mat
ter of nationwide interest
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

The Italian commander who hauled down
the American flag has apologized. Sometime
ago the United States tried to make the de-
facto government of Mexico salute or apol-
ogize to the American flag, and the powder
intended for that salute is still in the raw
material
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

The Madisonian says 81. J. Brown COM
missioner of agriculture, deserves to be COM
mended for the earnest and efficient work
he is now doing for the farmers of the
state" Mr.. Brown is making a splendid
commissioner, one of the best who has ever
occupied that office, and deserves the praise
and commentator that is due all good of
ficials.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

How many more Trotzkys are there float
ing about this country with naturalization
papers in their pockets?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

The daily edition of the Dublin Tribune
is splendid little paper, and reflects credit
on Editor Hilton and his co-laborers The
patronage it is receiving shows that it is ap-
preciated, too, by the business men of Dub
lin
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

The German school of Buenos Aires cele-
brated the birthday of the late emperor by
giving the children holiday Does anyone
believe the German people despise and re-
vile the dethroned despot?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

Rumania is staging a side show in war
all her own. The peasant uprising is anoth-
er demonstration of the inability of keeping
warning people within peace bounds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

The ice man, up north, is cursing the
weather because it is so warm he c2Dnot put
up his summers supply, and down south the
coal man is doing the same thing because
he cannot sell his winters supply.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

State Senator James B. Clements of r.
Winville, is the latest gubernatorial sugges-
ton, He has $4,000 acres of good South
Georgia land and many friends
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

How to build roads that will last without
having them cost more than the public can
pay is the question that will worry the leg
islators at their coming session.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

If some people could transact business
with the same thoroughness that they dis
pense gossip their salaries in the business
world would be almost limitless.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

1t looks like the weather man did not want
Fuel Administrator Garfield to handle the
coal situation this winter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18
Jan. /, 1918. Jan. /, 1918. Inc,

Frozen muffin 6,219,298 11,537112 S55
Frozen pork 30,192,1O3 49,853,89O 65. I
Dry salt pork 234,O55, 592 331, 866,617 AIS
Picked pork PAP, 295,4O 272,OO6.526 1913
Lard ------- 81 ,873,8O6 98,033,534 $50
Miscellaneous 34,965,952 61,995.595 77.3
From poultry 50,905,566 94,68O,529 58.1
From these figures the amounts of meats
in these classes at the present time and a
year ago are apparent There should have
been a material decrease in the price if the
law of supply and demand were allowed to
take its natural course. The storage plants
act as an overflow reservoir into which the
surplus products flow and are retained so as
to preserve the relations established between
the artificial supply and the actual demand
Much criticism of Food Administrator
Hoover was INDUCED in during the debate
in the senate over the appropriation of
$1OO,OO0,000 to feed the people of Europe
The criticism was based largely on the
grounds that the packers had on hand large
supplies of pork and lard, and that the de-
mand of Europe at this time is for fats. This
would naturally create a heavy demand for
pork and lard. Critics of the food admins
traitor declared he was working in the in
terest Of the packers.
The meat industry is too large to remain
unregulated by the government. 1t has too
much power over the American breakfast
table. 1t needs reasonable business regula-
ton which will reach all its qualifications.
and especially the storage business, so that
the supplies cannot pile up in them while
the prices hold the place they reached when
supplies were smaller. The consumer will
not be forced to pay excessive if not prohib-
tive prices for the fats essential to life and
health, as their absence has demonstrated in
Europe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

Paris is suffering from an epidemic of itch.
Old men recall the sulphur and lard ONT
ment that was once used to cure this disease.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18

Germany is showing disposition to resist
the arresting officer.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-09

A general roundup" and meet
ing of representatives of banking in
situations within the county, called
by Governor Void OF the Federal Re-
serve bank. ninth district, occurred
at Crookston yesterday. The meeting
was n Of brass tacks" organization
to complete ways and means fer the
whirlwind campaign to bring Polk
county we'll over the top in the Fifth
Victory Liberty loan, which will take
up the week of April 21-I6 inclusive.
THE job must be finished; and we
must help finish it," said N. J.. Nell
son, cashier Of the First State bank,
who represented his institution at the
session. - -. xs
While a few details involving the
local organization are mot yet COM
Governor Wold's wish that so far as
possible, former township and city
chairmen and committees handle the
present campaign will be respected,
in view of the splendid work accom-
plished in preceding loans. .
Misner County Chairman.
H. w. Misner was appointed county
chairman to succeed A. D, Stephens,
whose sickness in a Chicago hospital
prevents his taking an active part In
the present drive. Polk county's al
lotment during the fourth drive OF
ST. 900 was oversubscribed nearly
100000. While no definite inforrna-
ton has vet been received, it is the
understanding of local workers that
the allotment in the present drive
probably will be the same as. In the
last. ra
Local Spirit Enthusiastic.
Every effort will be bent to swing
East Grand Forks allotment well
over the quota in "a snappy, speedy
campaign which will cover every part
Of the city. Whatever the local ap.
portionment may be, the East Grand
Forks organization is determined tc
prove that the patriotism Of it's PEG:
pie has not disappeared with the
stopping Of the killing, but is a last.
ing motive that compels the<full per.
Torrance of national Duty