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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
A Little Cotton Talk.
From the Dalton Citizen.

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Just what the low price OF cotton may cor
rectly be attributed to we do not know, but
our opinion is that it is the result of gambling
in futures.
If the rule of supply and demand is going
to work in this case we believe cotton will ad-
vance in price very materially within very
short time.
| Commissioner of Agriculture Brown is anx-
ious that there be no cotton planted in 1921.
! Listen to this from him:
IF an agreement can be made through the
| state departments of agriculture whereby the
fourteen cotton states, through their boards
of entomology can put on police quarantine
next year, prohibiting the planting of a single
acre of cotton, then l would suggest that
there be not a single stalk OF cotton planted
in 1921 Let the quarantine be established tor
the determination of the boil weevil which
could be accomplished absolutely by this
method; and then we could get as much tor
the present crop as for the two combined, II
this plan were followed
Now what would such a policy carried out
do? 1t would almost bankrupt the business OF
the fourteen southern states. 1t would throw
hundreds of thousands of cotton mill opera
tives out of work for good part OF the year
and would close practically every cotton mill
in the United States 1t would increase the cost
of clothing to the general run of folks. We
can conceive of nothing more calamltous TO
the best interest of the south
Every intelligent person knows, if he has
observed that in the cotton belt proper the
farmers are not prepared to plant and culti-
vate other crops than cotton. They don't
know how to raise anything else, and would
fail if they attempted it. The marketing tacil-
tiles for other crops than cotton are nil.
Diversified farming, it is true, is the right
kind of farming in the south, and it has been
preached from almost every housetop, but
enough of it is not yet done
Every farmer should live at home; that is,
he should raise what is necessary to feed his
family and live stock and then raise cotton
as his surplus or money crop
This course pursued, low priced cotton
would not be veritable nightmare to him.
Talk of policing the cotton fields in an eff
fort to prevent planting! 1t would take the
army of the United States to do the job 1t
would produce anarchy and reign OF lawless-
ness the like of which have never been seen
in this country before.
The Citizen believes the farmer is entitled
to more for his cotton, and further, it believes
he will get it. Certainly he will get it if enough
of them hold it off the market until the pres
ent decentralization is over.
But burning gins and cotton and general
destruction of property is not right. 1t is law
1essness run mad 1t is anarchy and sabotage,
and is going to land many misguided persons
in the penitentiary. Some it may lead to the
gallows. :.
1t is a good time to keep your head and
hold your cotton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
A SQUARE DEAL.

Practically everything the farmer has to sell
has hit the toboggan. Prices Of farm products
have crumbled all at once. Prices of some OF
the things the farmer has to buy have decreas-
ed slightly, but nowhere near in proportion.
If other things went down like cotton, cotton
seed, peanuts, grain and hogs disaster to the
business of the country would surely happen.
The farmer is as necessary to the country
or more so-as the so-called business inter
ests The price of farm products should be
raised to level with other prices, not that
the farmer should be given any the best OF
it, but he should be given a square deal
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
NOTHING THE MATTER WITH
THE, SOUTH.

There has been so much publicity given the
condition of the cotton market that some sec
tons of the United States are laboring under
the belief that the south is in the midst of a
period of hard times, that its purchasing pow
er is curtailed, and that the outlook in gen.
eral is dark.
1t is very unfortunate that this impression
has gotten abroad, for it is based on an error.
The very opposite is the case. The situation
is correctly set forth by the Dallas (Tex.)
News in the following:
The south is not destitute or bankrupt by
any means. 1t is not even in the throes OF a
period of depression. Just now, it is true, we
are beginning to feel to some slight degree
the effects of a wave of commercial dulness
that has been existent in the north and east
for some time. But this wave has diminished
in its intensity as it has moved SOUTH Its
force has been attenuated by the optimism
and confidence of southern business men and
bankers-an optimism founded firmly upon
the knowledge that nature has been bounti-
full this year. and that as a consequence no
protracted period of distress is possible
Before we shall have felt any really seri-
Gus effect from the period of psychological
depression that is moving slowly down from
the east the reaction will already have set
in Even now, according to the bankers, mon
ey is becoming easier in New York. A better
period is on the way. Before we catch the
brunt of the first wave it will be washed into
history by the oncoming of the second"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
SATURDAY NOON TILL SUNDAY
MIDNIGHT.

+. Much OF the troubles, the loss of money
and reputation are brought about in modern
days between Saturday noon and midnight
Sunday It's period for avishness and gave
ty, time for carousal and excuses. At the
same time it is period for expressing devo-
tons and pieties, for it covers the Christian
Sabbath Soon after noon Saturday certain ele-
ments of society begin to get keyed up for
the weekend recreations which are in many
instances weekend designations. Monday
morning finds these elements blue, and in no
mood for quiet, constructive service. AS a
result they find fault with their work, shirk
and try to breed complaint in the minds of
those around them. Many of them belong
to the self-established loafer class men and
women, who are the parasites of every COM
munity
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
Morbus Sabbaticus.

Morbus Sabbaticus, or Sunday sickness, a
disease peculiar to church members.
l. The symptoms vary, but it never inter
feres with the appetite.
3. No physician is ever called.
2. 1t never lasts more than twenty four
hours
4. 1t always proves fatal in the end-to the
soul.
5. 1t is becoming fearfully prevalent, and
is destroying thousands every year
The attack comes on suddenly every Sun
day; no symptoms are felt on Saturday night;
the patient sleeps we'll and wakes feeling well;
eats hearty breakfast but about church
time the attack comes on and continues until
services are over for the morning. Then the
patient feels easy and eats hearty dinner
In the afternoon he feels much better and is
able to take walk and read the Sunday pa
pers; he eats a hearty supper, but about
church time he has another attack and stays
at home. He wakes up Monday morning re-
freshed and able to go to work, and does not
have any symptoms OF the disease until the
following Sunday.
Remedy-"Be not deceived; God is not
Knocked. Gal. viz.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
PREVIOUS ELECTORAL VOTES.

The president is elected by the votes in the
electoral college The relative strength of the
voters OF the different party candidates in the
last fortyeight years is interesting In 1860
the opposition to the republican party, of
which Lincoln was the candidate, was divided
into three factions each with a candidate in
the field. The vote received by these candi-
dates in the electoral college did not measure
the strength of the two great parties. 1t only
measured the following of the factions In 1864
the democratic opposition to Lincoln was bas-
ed on the claim that the war was a fail
ure, and the vote at that time did not repre-
sent the parties because the states then in Sc
cession were not permitted to vote. The same
was largely true OF the election of 1868. The
passions of war were still burning and sec
tional hatred ran high The southern states
were represented in the election by carpetbag
governments
1t was not until 1872 that party lines actual
ly settled In that election President Grant re-
ceived 286 electoral votes to 63 for all his op-
ponents. The memorable Hayes-Tilden con-
test of 1876 was hardly fair test of the cleo
toral suffrage, because the right to cast the
electoral vote in Florida was decided by the
electoral commission created by congress to
decide the contest. By giving the vote of that
state to Hayes he received 1875 to 1874 for Til
den Four years later the first real fair party
contest took place between Garfield and Han
cock Garfield received 214 electoral votes
while Hancock received l55.
Conditions changed politically in 1884, and
Cleveland received 219 votes to 1872 for Blaine
But when the democratic party attempted to
re-elect Cleveland in 1888 the ratio OF the
votes was nearly reversed Harrison receiving
233 votes and Cleveland los. But four years
later with the same candidates contesting
Cleveland received I'll votes to AS for Harri-
son. Then came the era of Bryan. In 1896 Nc
Kinley took 271 electoral votes to 176 for Bry-
an. Four years afterward these two candi-
dates again contested Mckinley moyed his
previous vote up to POP, while Bryan's went
down to 155.
The number OF electors changed from 447 in
1900 to 40 after the 1000 census. In 1904, the
first election under the increased number OF
electors, Roosevelt received 336 to 140 for
Parker Taft allowed the republican strength
to slip back slightly in 1908, receiving 32l
votes to 162 for Bryan. There was another
increase in the number of electors after the
census of 1910, and that was followed by the
triangular contest between Taft and Roose-
welt in the former republican party and Wilson
in the democratic party. In that contest Viii
son received ABS electoral votes, Roosevelt IS
and Taft 8. In the last presidential contest
Wilson received III to 254 for Hughes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
Love in Prison.
From the Macon Telegraph.

Love laughs at locksmiths. There's no doubt
about it any longer. When two hearts beat az
one stone walls and steel bars might as vel
crumble into dust as far as keeping those
hearts from taking a chance with the high
cost of living and the danger OF not getting
any coal to keep room and kitchenette warm
until the green grass sprouts again. Hand III
hand they will go in spite of the devil, the
weather and the cotton stringency.
The news comes to us that guard at the
state prison at Milledgeville has eloped with
one OF the woman prisoners Some unkind
Judge has evidently given Cupid prison SEN
tence or the heart wounder is long shot
We have heard of folks getting in jail
through falling in love, but this is our first
knowledge of any getting out of jail by that
process.
1t is not in our province to doubt the sim
certify of the young couple and that they are
not intensely infatuated with each other In
fact, high walls and romance go together-in
the movies at least But a dangerous exam
pie has been set. Other convicts of 'the dead
lier sex" will begin practice in vampire work
and our penal institutions may become so de-
moralized with coquetishneSs and fearful
smiles that little work will be done and they
will become a burden upon the poor taxpayer.
II the time should come that all the guards
fell in love with all the prisoners our prisons
would be converted into a honeymoon head
quarters and every cell become a bridal cham
Der. Instead OF trying to keep out OF jail
many young women who find it hard to Sc
cure a mate would be getting in. A matri-
monial bureau would be opened in the front
office and a thriving business conducted.
Amorous young college men, on graduating,
would seek positions as prison guards and
where pray tell us, would the end be?
Strong precautions should certainly be ia
ken at the various penitentiaries where Wo-
men are imprisoned to prevent this single case
from developing into an epidemic. For, as
you know, the law OF the sub-consciouS mind
is suggestion, and although this affair has
quite newness about it startling sugges-
ton has been supplied that must not be al
lowed to advance into a further stage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
Mans Two Good Doctors.
From the Brockton Times.

81 have two DOCTORS" George Macaulay
Trevelyan wrote not long ago, my left leg
and my right. When mind and body are out
of gear and those twin parts of me live at
such close quarters that the one always catch
es melancholy from the other l know | have
only to call in my doctors and shall be we'll
again" Between summers langour and the
bitter winds of winter lies the season which
God gave mankind for walking The air is
clear and bracing the ground dry under foot
and carpeted with leaves, the hill sides, road
sides and the, woods painted delight. Sick
cured of his mental and bodily ills by an aut-
umn walk
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

OF course you know lot of women whom
you think should not have been vested with
the right to vote. But if you will turn your
periscope around and look the males over
you will find about the same percentage of
irresponsible or unthinking persons in the
bunch as you find among the women. A big
majority OF both sexes will use the ballot with
intelligent discrimination
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
WHY DO THEY DO ITp

Why are men willing to invest large sums
of money in enterprises which have no visi-
bic property? In most cases there is nothing
except the moonshine OF the promoters and
the stock statesmen in which to invest. Yet,
men who, if they were selling a pair of horses
or a load of cotton would be alert to their
own interests, invest in blue sky" stock
without making an investigation. There are the
hypnotsm of speculation and promises of
big dividends but these ought to produce
caution instead of recklessness. But they do
not. Is it the spirit behind the Ponzi swim
die that induces men to invest in these con-
Germs, or is it merely business alteration
caused by the hystera of the war period?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

At the present time the most conspicuous
example OF men who ought to be in jail are
the coal men who are demanding around
SIS ton at the mines, when even during the
war price OF $3.50 was deemed too high by
many practical coal men. 1t is game of hold
up, just as the sugar game was. And there is
no one in Washington who seems to have
courage enough to treat it as SUCH
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
ELBOW ROOM IN AMERICA.

From the Springfield Republican
Texas which is as big territorially as all
the north Atlantic states put together in
GLIDING New England, New York. New Jer-
sey and Pennsylvania, has about the same
population as Massachusetts. A new help to
realizing this familiar fact is the information
that in one Texas county there are only sixty
seven people and in another only thirty-nine.
There's lots of elbow room in America; the
problem is to spread the elbows about
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

The publisher who writes check for print
paper nowadays cannot see where there IS
any economy in buying paper clothes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

1t is certain as anything political can be in
advance OF the act that it will be absolutely
impossible to secure ratification of the league
covenant as it now stands. 1t could hardly
marshal a mere majority vote in the senate
hence the impossibility of it ever getting the
necessary two-thirds majority seems clear.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

When this country gets to the place where
it is not a question of adequacy" of prices
or wages, but question of work and mark
ct, it will be right at the spot where it begins
a regime of stable and lasting prosperity. 1t
will be at the end of get rich quick, and at
the beginning of normal business.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

Southwest Georgia with this ideal autumn
weather presents a landscape more beauti-
full than any painter has put on canvas. Fo-
1iage, which is now falling, has turned TO
most beautiful coors of varied hues Here
abouts every prospect pleases and only man
is vile"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

Twenty cents a pound for cotton, dollar
a bushel for corn and so cents for oats is not
enough for Georgia farmers to break even on.
There is something wrong somewhere when
such prices prevail. If it is the SPECTATORS
then they should be rigidly controlled and SUI
pervised by the government. The News has
never been able to see the logic in bunch
of New York and Chicago gamblers setting
prices for farmers products. If the federal
reserve board is at fault i'll restricting credit
then that should be Immediately remedied
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

Funny that the big, rosy-cheeked apple
should cause worry and loss of sleep for the
prohibition agents. but such, it seems, is the
unhappy fact. The trouble arises, of course,
after the juicy pippin is made into cider, for
if nature is given a free hand the juice is
bound to become a foe of the Volstead law
by the mere process of fermentation. To keep
the cider down to the proper alcoholic con-
tent the United States internal revenue de-
partment is prescribing the addition of ben
zoate of soda
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

During the next four years this country
needs peace at home, We want to give less
attention to European interests, and devote
more time and energy to righting affairs in
the United States We want chance to re-
build
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

The time is coming when the candidate
for office who gets out and makes a reason
able promise of tax reduction will be the
popular one. When things get back to normal
our taxes will pinch more than ever.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
CONCEALED

From the Washington Post
The modern girl doesn't blush enough -
says the Atchison Globe She does, only YOU
can't see it through the enamel.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

President Wilson has had his Solemn ref
erendum." Such an overwhelming majority Of
his fellow countrymen having declared against
delivering America over to Europe he will
of course, accept the verdict gracefully.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

"Why do young women paint their faces?'
queries the Savannah Press. We can't an
swer your question, but we do know that
many young women win their beauty and
charm by doing SO. We have often wondered
why
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

Dawson people found it an easy matter to
observe apple day" The fact is, lots of folks
have the habit believing that "an apple day
keeps the doctor away"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

If man has a job with wages attached,
even if the job is hard and the wages not
what one would wish we think if he is wise he
will hold on and do nothing now to shake
himself loose or out.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

The man who trades his Georgia farm for
an interest in Texas oil well may not be a
darnphool but he will always have his doubts
on the subject.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

Without blinking an eye Secretary of the
Treasury Houston informs the taxpayers that
Uncle Sam will need a four billion dollar
budget to run his business in the next fisca
year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09
MENTIONING NO NAME,

From the Washington Star.
AT least one Ohio editor will have an on
portunity to give more of his attention to-ed-
iting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

Grand Jury Will Probe Keeping Prisoners
in JAIL" says a newspaper headline. Well
where else would prisoners be kept?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

A St. Joseph, Mo-, man advertised book
entitled, what l Know About Women
Orders poured in by the hundreds. The book
contained blank pages.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-09

Lots of young men are so blind before mar
rage they cannot distinguish between an an
gel or a goose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-08
ALaban1ians h Washington
 Organize Underwood Club
Prohibitionists AntP Prohibtonists Capital and Labor All Represented and All Bent Honorng State
 by Reelection of Senator Underwood
By HUGH w. ROBERTS

the capitalist, the laborer. But, judging from the utterances of these men, they were present in no other capacity than Alabamians bent on honoring their state
 The fact that these men have been in Washington for several years, have seen and felt the influence that Senator Underwood yields, have noted the ease with which he accomplishes things, have become aware of the regard in which his colleagues hold him, and have become possessed of knowledge that in the eye of the nation, Senator Underwood is the ablest figure from the south, has completely eliminated from their speculation the little isms which comprise the heart of factional fighting "back home
 In the many short speeches made by those present, it was repeatedly stated that no Alabamian in Washington is opposed to the reelection of Senator Underwood, and that all of them eligf- ble to vote will vote for him. It is an ticfpated that the Washington vote will approximate 1000.
 The A1abamians resolved to support the senator and write to their friends and relatives in all sections of the state their conviction that his reelection was essential to the continued prestige of Alabama in the Congress of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-08
Fly FRED IT. GORMLEY
 Montgomery Bureau The Age Herald
 22f-2 First National Rank BuiIdIno

Montgomery. April 7.-(Special)-- The case brought by physicians of Bir- mingham to invalidate the public health law enacted in 1919 and to pre- vent the payment of the public health appropriation to the state board of health will be argued and submitted for decision to the circuit court of Montgomery county Saturday. What ever the decision an appeal will be taken to the supreme court in order that a final ruling may be obtained.
 Those who brought the case contend that the legislature has no right to delegate the powers involved in pub lie health work to a private corpora tion and allege that the state board of health was created by the Alabama Medical Association, a private corpora tion. The state will answer that the supreme court has already ruled on the matters involved in the contest and that the suit involves a political policy which was adopted by the legislature and which cannot be passed upon or invalidated by the courts.
 Dr. S. W. Weleh, state health officer. is continuing the plans outlined by the board of health when it received it's enlarged powers last year and will not stop until the supreme court has de- cided against the board. He does not believe the allegations can be sustained and in this he has the support of the states legal department which will represent the board of health in the hearing in the circuit court