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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-03
DAWSONIANS TESTIFY
IN BAHNSEN PROBE
MUCH INTEREST IN LEGISLA-
TIVE INVESTIGATION OF STATE
VETERINARY DEPARTMENT.

Three Dawsonians, summoned 10
Atlanta to testify before the legisla-
ture committee that is making an
investigation of DR.. Peter Bahnsen,
the state veterinarian, on charges
that were preferred by Representa-
tive Williams, of Worth county.
Messrs. H. A. Petty and j. ID.
Weaver testified that because OF Dr..
Bashnsen's failure to test their cat
tie for tuberculosis at the time they
were imported into the state, they
were forced later to slaughter the
animals. DR.. John W. Salter, the
veterinarian, testified as to the pur-
chase of serum from the veter-
marian. and the price paid for it.
Brown on the Stand.
J. ]. Brown, state commissioner
of agriculture, was on the stand for
nearly two hours and testified con-
corning his official relations with
Doctor Bahnsen. "When | was a
candidate promised to remove Doc
tor Bahnsen if l were elected" ne
said. "When l got into office found
/ was practically powerless, for the
law creating his position had made
him almost entirely independent of
all other State departments"
Manv Asked Removal.
Mr.. Brown said many persons had
asked for the removal of Doctor
Bahnsen, but on cross questioning
by Judge Joe Pottle he admitted that
all whom he could recall were per
sons who had a personal grievance
against the State veterinarian. He
said several disinterested citizens
had said both Doctor Bahnsen and
DR.. A. M. Soule of the State Agri-
cultured College, should be removed
in the interests of harmony.
Mr.. Brown said he had not known
Doctor Bahnsen had made a per-
sonal profit on hog cholera serum
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-03

which he shipped out under state
label and on which he collected ex-
press charges from the state.
William Schley Howard, attorney
for the prosecution, asked the COM
missioner if he knew that Doctor
Bahnsen had issued an order requir-
ing all veterinarians in the state to
buy their serum from him and had
made an arrangement with manufac-
turers of serum so that he received a
commission on sales direct to vet
erinarians. Mr.. Brown replied he
had never heard either charge be-
fore.
Controversy Told.
The commissioner also was ques-
toned concerning the Bahnsen-
Cheatham controversy in 1917 over
an audit of the records of the State
veterinary department, in which
Doctor Cheatham said Doctor Balm
son had refused to permit examlna-
ton of serum records. Mr.. Brown
said that in his office Bahnson con-
front Cheatham- with direct
charge that this was false and twice
called Cheatham a liar without the
latter's resenting it.
DR.. Bahnson has introduced wit
nesses from many sections of the
state to disprove the charges. These
witnesses state that their transac-
tons with the office of the Veterin-
arian had been very satisfactory and
helpful.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-03
BOTTLE EXPLODES
AND INJURIES BOY
TEN-YEAR-O LANGSTON BIOL
TON MAY LOSE EYE AS RE
SUIT OF ACCIDENT.

A coco cola bottle in the hands OF
Langston Bolton, the ten-year-old son
of Mr.. S. L. Bolton, burst without
warning Thursday, and a sharp
niece of the flying glass pierced
the eyeball and cut deeply IN
to the flesh, making a very
painful and what is feared a
serious wound. DR.. Guy Chappell
was called, and as soon as he made an
examination rushed the patient to an
eve specialist at Americas. 1t will be
necessary for the injured boy to re-
man in the hospital at that place for
some time, and it is hoped that it will
he found that the injury is not so Sc
we're as was at first thought.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-03

No other tubes in the world are road tested
on so big scale as Firestones. The Yellow
Cab Company of Chicago uses Firestone
Tubes exclusively on its 800 taxi cabs. The
service of these tubes is checked constantly
improvements and developments are
arrived at.
BY close watching of large number of
tubes in service-not confined to isolated
instances, the conclusions are accurate and
definite.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-03

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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-03
Diamond Dust.

Thomas, Dawson's newest addition
to the pitching corps, will probably
do mound duty next Friday. THIS lad
recently belonged to Cairo but says
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-03
It's The Reserve
That Counts

The difference between success and
failure often lies only in the reserve be-
hind you.
When you. identity yourself withS;sthis
: bank you can have the satisfactionassof
knowing that you have this strongss bank
back of you.
And that back of us is the strongest
financial organization in the world
The Federal RESERVE. System.
This is of prime importance I'M the con-
sideration of banking connection.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-03
FIFTY CHICKENS STOLEN
FROM A DAWSON CITIZEN
Negro Thief Sold Them to Hotel
And Some of Fouls Were Re
covered.

Several nights ago thief made a
raid on Mr.. Robert Kent's hen house
and carried off so of his choice fowls.
The theft was reported to Chief of
Police Hill, who set about to locate
the missing birds. This he did-at
least he found part of them, thirty
odd-at the Commercial hotel, where
they had been sold by negro. Mrs.
Williams, the prophecies of the no.
tel said she did not know the negro
from whom she bought the chickens.
Shields Geise Motor Co. can sell
you wagons at the old prices.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-03
REV. THOMPSON GRANTED
I A MONTH VACATION

Rev. T. H. Thomson has been
granted a months vacation by the
Methodist congregation but it is I'M
derstood that he will continue the
regular routine of pastoral work
which he feels is too pressing and
important to lay down even for a
short time. Mr.. Thompson is how
ever deeply appreciative of the con-
siderations shown him by his flock.
- MOl<E 4fMIIAIIONo
..,. 1.~A OTHEK ~1ILL AND
A..-.. .UIN.L ON HE MAKE I /,
w W. 1lVE WANTS mi a.
IORo. Ihr. AXE DANGEROUS
Kings an 4 r. MEDICINE LINE.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-03

Firestone puts the best in materials into
tubes by establishing purchasing experts at
Singapore, center of the worlds rubber
market. Firestone puts the best in work
manship into tubes by organizing the crack
manufacturing organization of the industry
on profit-sharing basis.
And then SUBJECTS the finished product to
this big-scale road est-in order to get you
more for your tube money and more miles
out of your tires. And yet Firestone Tubes
cost no more than the ordinary kind.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17
SANE LEADERS.
European Statesmen Scout Soviet
Idea Under Labor Guise.

Premier Lloyd George has refused to
negotiate with the Miners Federation
and has come out boldly as foe of the
Labor party's program, which. he de-
clares, is to father the soviet idea.
Over in Germany, Carl Rudolf
Legien, the head of the General Labor
Federation, has come out strongly
against the formation of a soviet state
If it took the hurricane of world
war to shake off a useless kaiser from
the tree of state, it could not have been
such an i'll wind, after all, since it ush-
cred in man who works for the best
interests of the worker and who will
not lead his people into the treacherous
marshes of a soviet government, such
as Legion gives promise of being.
Germany, where systematic and "eff1c-
lent" oppression of the workers by the
military case has practically created
socialism, is fertile field upon which
to grow the weeds of communism. A
leader, sane, courageous, and one who
will not follow mirage, is among the
best things the workers of Germany
could have to help them weather the
trying period of reconstruction ahead.
Communism is real evil, and it is
we'll that men like Lloyd George and
Legien recognize it before it brushes
the best interests of the people whom
they represent. There are dangerous
paths ahead for the radical labor parties
in all countries unless they are given
saviours who will save them from them
selves and their fa1lacious theories.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17
LABOR QUARRELs.
Some Good and Pertinent Advice
Given By Australia Editor.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,
April 1o-"There are thousand things
we quarrel about, and not one that is
worth quarrel said the editor of
Australian Worker, is plea for unity
of the wage earenrS. Workers are
urged to think and to disagree, but to
learn the all-irnportant point, to differ
and still remain united.
1--WE will have to learn to express dis
sent without pressing it to the point
of division" says the editor.
We have not yet risen to the con-
cept that unity is principle that pro-
vides its own justification. 1t is more
important that we be united than that
we should agree upon any of the ques-
tons that sunder us.
1--WE should come together upon the
lowest level of agreement-upon those
fundamental truths universally accept
ed by the working class-and gradually
rise to agreement upon the higher
planes of principle and policy
"None need fear that the process
would be too slow. Events would push
us fast enough. And they would push
us all the same way then, instead of
scattering us in every direction as now.
War outside our ranks and peace
within. That is the gospel of labor
Minorities should not burst through the
discipline of the main body, impetu-
ously or impatiently, but loyalty con-
form to the will of the mass.
1t may happen that minority is
right in the matter at issue. In that
case it is more than ever its duty to
stay where it is and educate the many
to its view.
I'm the labor movement it is some
times right to dissent, but it is always
wrong to divide"
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17
FAILURE TO GIVE RAILROAD MEN
SQUARE DEAL CAUSE OF "S7RLKE'

the
walk There mystery about it. The
either the the
which practically
much i'll feeling
troubl was bound o And it did.
The of employees in frame of mind which
them particularly receptive the of those who
desired disrupt the legitimate unions to which they belong To
defy brotherhoods walk
To incucate them with the Zone big union and
radical ideas also
In other words the failure to give the men square deal
radicals the made the task of the brother
leaders, who adjust the differences peaceful
ner almost impossible.
strongly all the railroad
that they have
who didn't really sympathy with
their loyalty
ever NOR remarkable and commendable.
thing which should strongly in
the the attitude of the brotheroods
standing their their efforts
socaed strike 1t be doubted their attitude
consideration should There inclination
railroad
equally
are endeavorng wreck them.
high time that Mr. Average Citizen awoke to the serious
the attempt that being made throughout the
embitter the public Once
emphaay that the safety of the people and of the
workers whole lies Organized Labor There other force
the encrOamen of predatory wealth and there other
ready and willing protect the country the dis
of those radicals who would down existing form OF
government and bring ruin to capital and Labor alike
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17
SUCH A HEADACHE.
Financial Riot Since Armistice
Now Beginning Aftermath.

New York, April 19.-Ignoring the
financial riot and speculation since the
armistice, bankers in this city realize
that the end is in sight and are now
passing appropriate resolutions of re-
greet. A committee of bankers and bus
mess men made this declaration:
1t is profoundly to be regretted that
after the armistice there was not a
stricter control exercised toward secur-
ing more conscientious and effective
accumulation of savings on the part of
all classes. Viewing in retrospect the
last 10 months, it would appear to us IN
the nature of calamity that instead of
permitting large amounts of these funds
to be squandered in individual extrava-
gances and to be poured into specu1a-
tive ventures of little value in the large
aims and needs of the hour, the worlds
resources could not have been better
husbanded and directed. The economic
loss to our own country and to the
world at large has been incalculab1e"
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17
ONCE MORE WE'RE ROBBED
BY THE SUGAR MANLPULA TORS

public famine, with attendant
believe
situation the shortage and results from
ipulation of profteers
cited wehre wholesalers with big
of their refuse supply the small
customers small ration.
foundation for these constantly
there Them
apparently well authenticated thathe public supic
frame of mind.
Well, The government either
will afford relief Wouldn't the thing do
who CAN WILL do something
regardless of what they belong to- That of the
of Labors nonpartsan political
if tired of being robbed well black
other well
sderation and energetic support to that movement.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17
PENSIONS AT LAST.
Government Employees of &c
Years May Retire, Says Senate.

By passing the Stirling-Lehlbach re-
tirement bill for federal employees in
the civil service the senate has made a
record. 1t is the first time this prin-
ciple has been accepted by either branch
of congress. 81.
An amendment by Senator Smoot
extends the age of retirement for all
classes to 20 years. Friends of retire
ment feared the bill would be side
tracked if this amendment was defeat
ed and they accepted the proposal. As
reported to the senate the bill fixed the
retirement age at "a with a proviso
that the retirement age for mechanics,
city and rural letter carriers and post
office clerks should be e. years and
railway mail clerks 90 years.
After the Smoot amendment was
adopted, the opposition, which has de-
layed action for months, disappeared.
The bill has been favorab1y reported
by the house committee, and it is hoped
that the senate's age limit will not be
concurred in.
Under the senate bill a sum equal
to ~ per cent. of the employees basic
wage is to be deducted monthly to aid
in forming the retirement fund. The
President may extend the law to in
clude employees not classified at the time
of passage of the act.
An employee must have been employ
ed at least IS years to benefit under the
act. The maximum payment to a re-
tired employee is 500 year and the
minimum is $780, An employe who
becomes disabled for efficient service,
and who has been employed by the
government for IS years, may be re-
tired.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17
THE CHANGING TIMES.
Present Generation Takes for
Granted Things Fought
For

Times as we'll as customs are chang
ing-there is no doubt about that and,
generally speaking, we all agree that
the changes are for the best. Of course,
we still have the pessimist with us, who
constantly complains of conditions and
makes dire predictions as to the future
but then the world has always been
handicapped by people of this type. We
expect them.
We must not, however, minimize the
dangers that confront the nation and its
institutions They are real and they are
menacing. AS pertains to labor, the
greatest danger is that which emanates
from labor itself-the misguided or
thoroughly selfish zealots who, with
radical theories or doctrines, are threat
ening the destruction of that which took
years to build. And the changed times
that have been brought about by the
agitator and troub1e-maker, as a matter
of course, cannot by any stretch of the
imagination be classed as better" times
But broadly speaking, times and con-
ditlons are improving, in spite of the
lea today. The younger generation of
workers take for granted the new con-
ditions light and we'll ventilated shops :;
tiled wash rooms and lockers; fans to
get rid of the dust that once choked the
workers; safety devices and medical at
tendance. They take the shorter hours
as matter of course, good pay as
condition precedent to working at ALL
Older men. remember the days when
they produced by main strength, and
the full dinner pail was the main obj
tive of labor to such an extent that
national political party made it s1o-
gan-and carried the country. They and
their fathers worked longer hours and
under far less satisfactory circum-
stances.
And in connection with these changes,
let no man think that they were entirely
brought about by the working body. OF
course, labor has had lot to do with it,
but we must not lose sight of the fact
that the employer has extended his CO.
operation and, although he has profted,
his skill in taking a greater profit is not
to be compared with the stupendous
proft-mental, moral and physical-of
the man who works with his hands.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17
THE NoN-UNIoN TRowEL.
Emblem of the Grafters' and
Confidence League.

The Bricklayer, Mason and Plaster
er in recent issue tells the story of a
candidate for parliament in England
who addressing gathering of work.
men asked their support because he
also had been horny handed son of
toll. Enthusiastically he waved trowel
and hammer in the air declaring he
still treasured the tools that had brought
him his bread and butter.
Brother workmen," he concluded,
"can I rely on your, support?"
"You can that" answered one of the
audience who had examined the tools.
"A chap who can lay bricks with gard
ner's trowel must be extra clever"
That is exactly the kind of appeal
that fake stock statesmen are making
to workingmen all over the United
States. They claim to be able to find
producing oil wells and paying gold
mines with a prospectus. 1t takes an
oil man to successfully manage an oil
property even rich one and it takes
r1iring man and one with sterling bust
ness ability to make, just as it takes a
skilled bricklayer to lay bricks properly,
any mine pay a profit Yet unscrupu1-
Gus promoters who know an oil we'll
only by its photographs or mine by
the engraving on the stock certificates
are urging members of organized labor
to trust them with the savings won by
hard work and safeguarded by the prin-
cip1es of unionism. The only thing they
have to back their claims is the gard
ner's trowel of promised profits.
The parliamentary candidate referred
to you may be sure carried no union
card and the only card which ought to
be issued to the fake get-rich-quick peo-
motors and statesmen is one showing
membership in the Grafters' and Con-
fdence Mems League. The convention
of the American Federation of Labor
at Atlantic City last year saw this cpl
dernic of stock swindling in prospect
when they adopted resolutions endors-
ing Government Savings securities,
War Savings Stamps and Treasury
Savings Certificates as a safeguard for
union savings.
The leaders of labor knew that those
securities are both safe and profitable
and you cannot do better than follow
the advice contained in their pro-
nouncement which urged every union
member so to invest his money, unless
you want to hire non-union CRATER
to lay your bricks with gardeners
trowel.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17

Sovaks expected leave the
United States taking with them
average $1,000 each Since nearly all of these skilled work
the land Of their BIRTH will
this country Are recent vicious and
unprovoked attacks the forgner responsible for this
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17

Ministers are exempt from the
operation of the income tax law
not through any specific exemption
in the law itself but because they
do not earn enough money to come
within the laws minimum require
ment. Out of a total of 10000
ministers in the United States, but
1,671 receive big enough salary
to be required to pay any income
tax
These incomes were not only pay
from churches but included pri-
vate earnings too. Hundreds of
ministers have been forced to en-
gage in some occupation outside of
the ministry such as poultry rails
ing, barbering, market gardening,
ETC., to earn enough to feed and
clothe their families These figures
show Vividly why the Interchurch
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17

Support organization your Dues help your officers
knock it BOOST help every
label all Ii
things your the meetings.
tongue rules abide by
that
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17

AS protest against prices five hundred citizens
Tampa Florida walking overas Watch the
O. overals go up
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17

Thirtytwo to be animated
after producing electric spark
touching We did know that prisoners this kind OF
q shock b
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17
POTATO PEELERS
ORGANIZE UNION

News has been received here of the
formation of Potato Peelers' Union
in Chicago, with the standard scale of
Sc day for an eight-hour day, three
meals day, and time and half for
overtime.
An editorial in The Organized Farm
er comments:
THAT means that the peelers of the
spuds are getting all the way from
$3.50 to $40 day, while the growers
are getting for 16-hour workdays all
the way from SIS down to nothing. The
reason for the difference is that the
peelers are organized, while the growers
are free and independent Americans.
Well, suit yourself"
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17
THE WORKER SHOULD GET IN
PROPORTION TO WHAT HE GIVES

problem the question in the world
today. it is the question OF human life
every society relation of service The
fundamental lawo of civilization itself is service.
the law of life is also the law of equilibrium The obiga
factor of mutual Economic justice
cheated in the long
these things because they fail
of human ideals under forms
expression labor problem whole they
that affect their selfish interests
economically
will health the physical
development of the
able have decent house
of life He
children He be able all out Of life
his services society deserves.
society exactly
what he renders society investment the capitalist
then his only But the investment
of the workngman his life and manhood and his return must be
life and manhood Money themselves not such
full returns life manhood
essential.
of labor thus involves not only industrial
within the relation of industry society
the problem restored
sight of practical industry
civilization mechanical but
for the of ndustry indus
of mankind The home does not exist for
the factory for the sake OF the home
recognized being the things they
produce labor problem will not be solved until and not
of WORTH the of the
world will not be safe from internal destruction.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17

World Movement has included in
creased pay for ministers as one
Of the chief planks in its forward
looking, fve-year program for the
exp ansion of Protestanism
throughout the world.
The average salary of the coll
1ege trained preacher is 1897 ac-
cording to established figures
several hundred dollars less than
the average annual earnings of the
uneducated worker In some of the
leading Industries of the country.
A worker I'm the rubber industry
averages $1,526.2O a year. The av-
erage for the boot and shoe work.
er is $1,346; for the chemical
worker $1,326.40; the silk work.
er, $1,179.S8; for the paper work
er SILICA; and for the wool work
eT $962.72.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-04-17

Opportunity knocks once at every
mans door-but generally he is down
street telling some one about the good
chances he has missed.
The Home news. (McCrory, Ark.) 1915-1922, 1920-08-13

Mr.. Romie Crossett was
Helena visitor last week.
Mrs. Bob Cheshire and
daughter Miss Thelma, of Cot
guests of Mrs. w. B. Fakes.
ton Plant, are the guests of
Mrs. w. B. Fakes.
Little Miss Blanche billiard
returned today, Friday, from a
most pleasant visit to her
grandmother, Mrs. M. F. Tn
derhill in Conway.
Miss Della Jeffries left
Wednesday for Hazen, where
she will be the charming guest
Of her friend, Miss Marguerite
Sims
Miss Bess Roddy Cullum has
accepted a position in the store
of L. A. Powell at Garland,
Texas. Mr.. Powell is a rela-
tive of Mr.. Cullum.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. O. Wyatt
and two sons, Vernon and Ken
meth; and Mrs. Jake Fullerton
and daughter Miss Edith
Reaves, arrived Tuesday to be
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
L. Rushing.
Mrs. Slade Stallings and
little daughter, Ruby, of Hum
bolt, Tenn, arrived Wednes-
day for a visit to her brother,
Mr.. R. C. Thompson and fam
lily. They returned home to-
day, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. johnson
and baby, Franchelle, of Will
1;ston, Tenn, arrived Sunday
and have been guests of Mr..
and Mrs. T. A. Smith. They
will return home Sunday &C
companied by Miss Thelma
Smith.