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Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-03-11
loss Of 100000 IS
LAID BY SIMS TO
NAVY DEPT. DELAYS
ADMlrAL AT SENATE INQUIRY
OPENS FIRE ON DANIELS, LACK
or DEFINITE POLICY CAUSED
DISSIPATION OF Sc 100000, 900,
He SAYS.

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Senate investigating committee today
in presenting documentary evidence
in support OF his charges OF delay
against the department.
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Admiral Sims told the committee
that. although he repeatedly urged
that every destroyer and small cra1'
that could be sent TO sea be dispatched
immediately to this area, his recon
mendation was not complied with TN
TIL about SIX months later.
BID Craft at Brest.
Ito also recommended h.. said tbat
two divisions or ina Ameriqa1 drt3d-
,anght,, Ina cent IN ha.n.. nn pra.t ~
guard against raids in the English
Channel by German cruiser forces, bat
this recommendation was eatifelY dis
regarded.
Failure Of the department to throw
the full force OF The navy into the
struggle, he said, resulted in the nm
necessary loss OF l,.tO.tu tons OF
shipping by submarine attack in 1917
and l. 10000 tons i'll 1918.
III the tonnage lost III 1917 had
0een saved bE the prompt CO,Opera, /
ton Of the entire navy, he said,
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Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-03-11

Dan Ncary of Kewanee was In
Utica calling on friends one day Of
last week.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
The Criminal Insane.
From the Savannah Press.

The Triton Gazette finds a theme for ar
editorial on the lack of care for the crimi-
nal insane in Georgia. 1t bases its edi-
torial expressions upon the recent finding
of a criminal insane in Chatham county
1t thinks the state should make some pro-
vision for these unfortunates. 1t says:
man convicted of burglary in
Chatham superior court has been adj
Judged insane and as the criminally in
sane are not received at the state SAM
tarium arrangements must be made to
send the man outside the state.
The incident calls attention to a sit
uation that is a reproach to Georgia.
This state has absolutely no place for
the criminally insane. If insanity de-
velops after person is sent to the state
prison farm he or she must be cared
for by the authorities there as best
they can, and they have no facilities
for treating the insane or caring for
them. The prison commission must do
the best that it can, and that is very
little except to keep the unfortunates
confined Green, the man who in an
insane frenzy cut the throat of Frank
in the main ward of the penitentiary
six years ago, is still confined in cell
barred off in a corner of the room in
which the assault was committed.
Georgia is a state too big, too pro-
gressive and with citizens too humane
to allow this condition to continue. Al
ways when reforms are asked for there
is the plea of lack of funds. With a
just and equable system of taxation
there should be plenty to take care of
the states charges.
There are a great many people who agree
With Editor Herring. Georgia should care
or its criminal insane better than it does.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
PLAY BALL"

The baseball season in Dawson has open
ed. and the locals are greeted with warm
heart and an outstretched hand Dawson
is ready to back the team with enthusiasm.
1t will root for the players whether they are
at the top or the bottom of the score. When
luck hits hard home admirers of the boys
wifi judge in justice and overlook the un-
avoidable. They will understand that the
best ball team is machine in which human
element predominates; that players have
their days off as other people do. But at
the same time when the gods smile upon
the players they will forget the failures in
the delights of success.
Baseball is wholly an American game The
manliness of the contest the vigor of the
conflict, the grit, determination and fighting
force of the teams are elements found only
on the baseball diamond. There is the will
to do and the grit to fight. That is why
baseball appeals to American manhood and
womanhood. 1t is clean, manly and red
hooded That is why the losing team gets
Justice instead of eXecration.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
GERMANYS PENALTY.

During the recent session of the allied
premiers at San Reno the lump sum which
Germany may be required to pay as repara-
ton was discussed. While the amount was
not fixed, $5O,OO0,O 100000 was thought to
be the minimum amount that would be ac-
cepted. This is less than half what was
originally considered, and against which
Germany protested with much vehemence.
But $4,000, 900, 900 is an appalling sum. 1t Is
so great that the ordinary mind fails to
grasp its immensely. Il the sum were IN
silver dollars and an individual attempted to
count them one at a time and could court
one every second in the manner bark tel
lers count coin it would require 53,257
years of 1926 working days each if the
counter worked eight hours each day. An
other way in which the lmmensity OF the
sum may be grasped is by comparison OF
it with sums of specific knowledge. 1t is
estimated that the total value of property
destroyed during the five years of the war,
including cities, shipping, war material used
and wasted amounts to $200,000,0OO 1000.
Germany is expected to repay one-fourth OF
that destruction, or again the estimated
wealth of the United States at this time
is $3.50, 900, 100000 If it is possible to mag
inc Germany being taxed to restore or re-
place one-fourth of the total wealth of this
nation it gives an idea of the burden she
brought on herself
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
JERUSALEM RESTORED.

The Jews of New York have just
staged a monster street parade and pa
geant in celebration of the decision of
the San Reno conference of the allies to
make Palestine a homeland for the Jews if
they desire to use it, and to re-establishing
in that country the nationality which wrote
the pages of human progress and develop
ment for so many centuries. The Zionist
movement is about to be realized, and it is
fitting that American Jews who have fought
for the plan in the face of near overwhelm-
ing discouragements should express their
satisfaction and joy at its contamination.
But Palestine is not yet the restored king
dom of Israel The gates have only been
crossed. The country must be changed from
the desolation of thirty centuries of i'm
poverishment and twenty centuries of mis-
rule to the conditions which prevailed when
its olive orchards flourished on a thousand
slopes, its threshing floors were in every val
ley, its shepherds fed their flocks on thou
sand hills, its artisans erected temples the
glory of which amazed the world, its mer-
chants carried their trade to the farther
most parts of the known world reaping their
to whom they became lenders.
nation cannot be built on sentiment. A
people cannot exist on tradition 1t will
neither clothe the body nor fill the stomach
to stand amid the scenes familiar to the
prophets and the givers of the law. The
lands must be made to produce. The habits
of 5000 years must give way to those of
this age. Palestine must be modernized if
it is to be utilized. determination will de-
stroy some of its romance, smother some of
its traditions, eliminate some of its Gus
toms But it will make the country fit
place of refuge for those of the race whose
lots are cast in hard places; for those who
are undergoing captivity in world Baby
Ion To these Jews the opportunity to re-
turn to their homeland is not only one of
sentiment, but an assurance of a chance to
live in peace and security under the vine
and fig tree that sheltered those from
whose loins the race came.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
GIVES UP THE FIGHT.

Weekly journalism in Georgia has lost
one of its strongest and most forceful
editors in Jack L. Patterson, who has sold
the Covington News and will take a posi-
ton on the editorial staff of the Atlanta
Journal. The expense, worry and texations
incident to publishing newspaper under
conditions which have prevailed the past
few years have made life anything but a
bed of roses for small publishers, and our
Covington brother has availed himself of an
opportunity for pleasanter and more profit
able employment In stating his reasons
for this step Editor Patterson says:
Il retire from the weekly newspaper
field temporarily because of the con-
tinued scarcity, unreliability and ineffi-
cheney of linotype operators and print
ers, and other conditions with which
newspaper publishers are familiar
The News regrets to lose Editor Patter-
son from the weekly fraternity, but we wish
him mighty we'll in his new position and
the Atlanta Journal on his
addition to its staff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
The Lawyer.


From the Newman Herald ana 1oNe'
The lawyer has a cinch on words; ne
corners 'em by droves and herds, and every
time he writes a page tits filled with sur
plus verbiage. He writes thousand WORDS
or more, description of cellar door, ana
half a thousand still he'd choose to tell
about the lock and screws. You ask MN
for a common match, and soon his fertile
brain will hatch a lot O. phraseology that
stings YOU like humble. bee. He does not
say, Here is a match" and then on lingo
pull the latch, but with mighty known
air, with strange gyrations doth declare,
''know all we supplemented men that, IN
nv sanctum or in my den, | hold IN fee
TIL title to this match I'm bout to give TO
YOU. | own it from encumbrance free, no
dover has a hold on me. | own tn Wood
and own tn head, all other claimants now
are dead To you I give and do devise
with brainlet clear and open eyes, TINS
match, which l now firmly hold, and which
to me was fairly sold. And | agree by all
that's good forever to defend tn wood, ana
likewise all tn birthstone, too, that's IN tins
match | give to you l warrant it forever
more to be match bought at the store,
on which no mortal has claim from Tim
buctoo to Portland. All Entertainments !
give to you las long as you may live, ana
by these presents and by these lines eX-
tend tn title to ,9ssgns. Yet furthermore, |
do declare, this match will go to lawful
bear, and all tn rights l have hereunto are
vested in YOU
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
The Break Of a Texas Day.
From the Eastland News.

The baby stars have all closed their
bright eyes in daily sleep, but the great
their retreat. Swiftly the light broadens
and earthly sounds multiply. The pink
turns to rose-to crimson. A symphony of
light and color freshens and blesses the re-
stored earth. Golden flashes along the no
rzon, a building tipped with pinnacles of
fire, and 10! above the eastern rim of earth
a curving disk of red gold appears. Like
a king unto his own comes the Lord of
Day to Eastland, and another busy day has
been born.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
SALVATION IN PEANUTS.

From the Fl Gaines Georgian.
Not too late to plant more peanuts, corn
and beans. Salvation" may lie in peanuts
If it's a damp summer you know what a
slim chance the cotton crop will have. In
1918 farmer near Fort Gaines had large
acreage of cotton planted. Late in May
he got weevil-scared, and proceeded to plant
peanuts between his cotton rows. He made
some cotton and a very fair crop of pea
nuts The same man has lots of cotton
growing this year, and he's becoming I'M
easy again, as the weather seems built es-
pecially for the delectation and benefit of
boil weevils. Peanuts may find a place
'twixt fleecy-staple rows ere the first of
Tune
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
Lesson in Potatoes.
From the Triton Gazette.

Here is a lesson to the men who grow
sweet potatoes in this section. It is from
the jacksonville, Fla, Times-Union, which
says Georgia sweet potatoes are bringing
$3.50 a bushel there, and Jacksonville is
only $50 miles from Triton. The Times
Union says: "Sweet potatoes, cured in ware
houses in Georgia under government plan
of treating them, are now being sold in Jack
sonville at $40 a bushel. If Florida had
these warehouses millions of bushels of the
best sweet potatoes that can be grown any
where could be made into staple products
and would be available at any time for mar
ket."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Thursday was the hundredth anniversary
of the birth of Florence Nightingale. 1t
did not pass without proper appreciation of
the great work this devoted woman did
for suffering humanity. Five years ago
new statuary group for the Crimean memo
rial was unveiled at Waterloo Place in Lon
don. One of the figures in the group IS
that of Florence Nightingale. She is the
first woman, other than those of royalty, to
be commemorated in a public statue. She
is POLITICALLY termed "The Lady With the
Lamp" Though she lived to be 80 years
old, her long life was no fuller of years
than of deeds of mercy. She waI the
pioneer of the profession of nursing; the
John the Baptist of the Red Cross. Every
woman whose hands soothe the brow of
pain; whose mnistrations alleviate the suf-
ferings of humanity; whose devotion catches
the fleetng spark of fading life and coaxes
it back to earth is a disciple of the English
woman who consecrated herself to those an
gelic duties on earth when but girl in
years
At the age when most girls think only of
selfishness and pleasure she was minis
tering angel among the sick in the commu-
nifty in which she lived. If one were sick
she as well as the doctor was sent for. Often
the doctor was neglected in the call and
Florence Nightingale sought. Somehow
pain was less severe, suffering less acute
when she ministered to the victims The
doctor might prescribe his palliatives and
rotions, his cogdials and connections, but
/ ri
thing that neither palliatives nor potions
secured She brought the sunshine of hu-
man hope; the reinsurance of human SYM
pathy And sick body mind and soul for
got their pain, suffering and weakness while
mature cured the ills of all
The Crimean war gave here the first OPP
portunity to express her, soul as a nurse.
With a band of thirty-eight devoted fell
low-women trained in nursing according to
her ideals she set out for the battlefront
and there established the sanctuaries of
mercy and help for the wounded and sick
soldiers which in the sixty-six years since
she opened field hospitals at Scutari and
Balaklava have done so much to alleviate
the hellish horros of the battlefield. Her
en- fragments of humanity, to relieve their
suffering and nurse them back towards the
| life which but for her and her mission
would have gone outfn the agonies of thirst
and fever and gangrene. How many lives
were thus snatched from the grave and Civ
en- back to earth will never be known. But
! in their hearts thousands of soldiers of that
war and the wars which have followed have
whispered the name of Florence Nightingale,
as child whispers its evening prayer at its
mothers knee, because of what she did
From every sick bed, from every hospital
ward, from every place where the hand of
woman assuages pain and relieves suffering
tribute to the gentle yet determined wo-
man who made nursing a professional bust
ness in which the heart of woman entered
with its tenderness and sympathy and love
goes up an incense offering to heaven for
giving Florence Nightingale to humanity
and earth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

A roster of the nations wealthiest men
would show that the majority of them are
not the men who inherited the wealth, but
that they are men who on their own ini-
tiative and as result of their own ability
have attained to competence. For, after
all. it is the men who do things, not the
men whose fathers have done things for
them, who hold the conspicuous places in the
world of affairs today.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

The glutton is similar to and almost as
bad as the drunkard. In expression the
drunkard is often rash and violent, while
the glutton is lstless and stupid. A good
share of the present day gluttons essay silk
hose and shirts and carry out their acts OF
gluttony at cafes polished with music, tinsel
and fashion But these swells are just
as Incorporate as greasy hyena that brags
about putting under his belt forty eggs with
out pausing
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
HUGSTRY!

From the HOLSTER (Cal) Free Lance
An editor who was a believer in yellow
journalism" ran this as a leading editorial,
says an exchange: "The business man Of
this city who is in the habit of hugging
his stenographer had better quit, or we will
publish his name" The next day thirty
seven business men called at the office,
paid their subscriptions a year in advance,
left thirty-seven columns of advertising, to
run indefinitely, and told the editor not to
pay any attention to fool stories
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
HELPING HIM OUT.

From the Liverpool Post.
Among the curiosities of childrens prayers
the following seems worthy of a prominent
place. A small boy who had been repri-
manded by his father for the repetition of
an act of disobedience against which he had
been warned before was heard to say in
his prayers at night:
ooh, God, make me a good boy, and if
at first you don't succeed try, try again"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
SACRIFICE SILK STOCKINGS.

From the Lyons Progress.
Macon women are pledging themselves to
do away with the wearing of silk stockings
that cost from four to ten dollars a pair,
but actually are worth from twenty-five to
fifty cents. They pledge themselves to re-
turn to cotton hose That is a real move
against the high cost of living worth fol-
lowing over the country
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

A London dispatch says the British board
of trade estimates that the 1920 wheat
WELD of the world, including Russia, will be
5O,2 900 tons, with 2O,29O,OOO tons avail
able for export. Import needs in wheat and
rye of the chief wheat-buying countries are
estimated at 2O,20O,O0O tons. The crop OF
the United States is placed at 24,998,OOO
tons of which 100000 tons will be avail
able for export. There is to be no cheap
bread this year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
REDUCING PRICES

The announcement that Chicago firm
had sold 100000 yards of silk at reduc-
tons varying from so cents to 50 yard
from the former price is significant. AS
one robin does not make a spring so one
such announcement does not mean a re-
action from high price levels. Both are
harbingers of that which is coming.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

People of this generation take pleasure in
going back to look at the old house in
which they were born. The next generation
will experience no such pleasure. They
will have to hunt for the hospital ward
in which they were born.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

What many persons dread nowadays is
what they call routine-the routine of
duties. But the poor creatures will find
that life itself is something of routine
eating and drinking and breathing in the
same old way day after day. But it all de-
ponds upon what one puts in the routine.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

After glimpse of the dress circle during
grand "oppry'' that gay and observant
young man, Editor Herring, of the Triton
Gazette imparts the information that "the
bareback ladies are no longer all in the
circus
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

Saturday afternoon renovators in church
inadvertently left tack on the pulpit
chair, and when the pastor occupied the
chair at the Sunday morning service a
grouchy deacon remarked that it was the
only point upon which the pastor did not
linger
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

Sugar, sugar-whos got the sugar? No
doubt some of the sweet stuff has been put
away by housewives for the canning sea-
son, but that's a small matter compared
with what the profiteers have done to the
sugar supply.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

The present is the era that will go down
in history as the era when people hated and
despised work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

What has become of the economic boycott
of Germany which started so bravely in this
country during the war? Last month we
bought 100000 worth of goods of the
Germans, and the amount is steadily in
creasing
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

Men promise in their marriage VOWS to
protect the women they marry, but the di-
vorce court records show that lot of men
need protection from the women they
marry.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
SET PACE BACKWARD.

From the Knoxville Tribune.
The government having set the example
for ruinously extravagant spending it should
now take the lead in return to reasonable
economy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

If the money invested by the people
here during the past few years in get
rich concerns had been used to improve and
promote the growth of their home town
Dawson would have been much bigger and
better city than it is today.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

There is talk of strengthening the blue
sky laws of Georgia when the Legislature
meets in the summer All blue sky laws in
the world will not keep a fool and his
money from being parted, but we should
make it as difficult as possible for the pirate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

Some political aspirants are as quick at
lodging issues as the old negro who was
trying to saddle fractions mule, and was
asked by a bystander if the mule ever kick
ed him. "No, subj" answered Sambo, 'but
he sometimes kicks where Use jes' been"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

The fishing season is here, though the
season for suckers has been on since worth
less securities were invented
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
ABSENT FROM HOME.

From the Ebert County Times.
The government says the cost of living
dropped six-tenths of a cent in February.
1t must have dropped one day when we were
not at home
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

Print paper at $500 ton is robbery.
And yet, the paper experts tell US 1t is
going to $500 per ton before it stops.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
NEVER REST.

From the Commerce News.
Robbers used to work in the dead
hours of the night Nowadays they carry
on their hold-ups in day time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

The trouble with most agitators and re-
formers is that they try to make over the
world to suit themselves instead of making
themselves over to suit the world
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
LIVE TOWNS.

From the Jackson Progress
Dawson. Monroe and LAGRANGE have re-
Gently nut over new hotels. How about
Jackson?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

The do less and get more club has been
in active existence for two or three years
And in that time it has set the coun-
try back ten years in real advancement and
prosperity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

"Wanted-A christian gentleman to drive
a Ford car" reads a want ad. Thus does
necessity defeat the evangelation of the
world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

A giggling girl is an abomination, but
compared with giggling man she is a gem
of purest ray.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

Women may be curious, but men are
curosities.