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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24
PRESIDENT WILSON'S CABINET.

President Wilson has already had nine
changes in his cabinet. William j. Bryan
his first secretary of state, was succeeded
nv Robert Lansing, and now Mr. Lansing
has retired; Lindley NJ Garrison, secretary
of war, by Newton D. Baker; James o.
McReynolds, attorney general, by Thomas
w. Gregory and he by A. Mitchell Palmer;
William C. Redfeld, secretary Of commerce,
bv Joshua w Alexander, and William u
McAdoo. secretary of the treasury, by Car
ter Glass and he by David F. Houston, Who'
as secretary of agriculture, was succeeded
nv F. T. Meredith. Mr.. Wilson already
has the resignation of Secretary Lane, and
Secretary William B. Wilson awaits an OPP
portunity to get out.
What has taken place in the president S
cabinet has also occurred among his ad-
visers and commissions. Col. House, the
nresident's man "Friday" and his trusted
representative at Paris after he returned
home, is now his political opponent MI
Garfield fuel administrator during the war
and since, is now actively engaged in pro-
noting another presidential prospect. The
heads of the great commissions have, with
a single exception, severed all relations with
the executive Even Mr.. Hoover is wholly
out of sympathy with Mr.. Wilson.
And the secret of all these cabinet chan
ges and severed relations lies in the one fact
that Mr.. Wilson cannot work with and
through other men except those who will
completely bend to his will. He has been
unable to do so in domestic affairs, and has
utterly failed to do so in foreign relations
which accounts for frequent designations IN
diplomatic corps. 1t is one of the biggest
reasons why Mr. Wilson will not again be
2 candidate for the presidency.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24
INTEREST RATES.

Generally an increase in interest rates is
based on an increasing scarcity of money.
The federal reserve board, however, is re-
versing this principle. 1t is increasing in
terest rates because of the abundance OF
money. It's advance of short time interest
rates from IL to 6 per cent is intended to
check extravaganza on the part of the peo-
pie and force the payment of loans which
initiate the currency while the money which
should be used to pay the loans is expended
in expensive buying and extravaganza living.
The banks which are members of the fed
eral reserve system are beginning to appre-
ciate the need of pressing for the payment
of loans made through them. They under
stand that safety in the financial world IS
possible only by following conservative and
sound policies If money which should be
used to pay loans is used to buy costly SILK
shirts no reserve is provided out of which
loans may be paid. If an individual owes
borrowed money and spends all of his in
come in extravagant living his future ablll-
ty to paw his loan depends upon the contlnu-
alton of the condition which makes con-
tinuation of his present extravaganza pos
sible. If high prices cease to rule he IS
without the means of paying high price
loans. Increased interest rates will enforce
payments. The high rate of interest fixed
by the federal reserve board will also limit
the borrowing of funds for investment IN
cheap securities of Europe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24
DON'T GET EXCITED.

With the appearance of influenza in Daw-
son our alert physicians can be depended
upon to give out just such information as
is necessary for the public good. In the
meantime common sense would suggest that
every precaution be taken by individuals
to safeguard health. There is no use to
take all the joy out of life by crossing
bridges before we get to them. 1t is well
to keep in mind the fact that every slight
cold is not "fu," because it takes mighty
little talk to get some folks panicy. To
dwell with thankful hearts on the remark
ably good health record of the community
rather than to worry over what may never
happen will keep US a vast deal more COM
Portable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24
Are We a Friendless Nation?
From the Columbus-Enquirer Sun.

A New York man, in a communication 10
the Atlanta Constitution, declares that
American army officers walking the side
walks in European cities are sneered at and
sometimes spat upon. Gratitude, 1t has
been said. is a keen sense of favors to come.
Inst now the United States Is gong SLOW
on the peace treaty, and also IS Tightening
ND the strings of its money-bags: VINO,
TODAY. is our real friend? Certainly not
Italv. Certainly not Germany. Certainty
not Russia, whose citizens we are now send
shores. Certainly not Turkey Certainly
NOT Austria, whose ACKNOWLEDGMENT we sane
toned and insisted upon. Perhaps Poland,
and perhaps Czecho-Slovakia; but they are
small and weak as yet. And France has
for us "historc friendship just that.
And England has for us business trend
shin"-iust that. It's strong friendship and
a lasting one, but its basis at bottom IS
business. pure and simple. And what have
we done not to enjoy the friendship OF
Europe today? We crossed the waters to
trv to save the world for democracy, ana
even the most biased European critic VIII
admit that our aid was welcome IN those
irving days 1t seems to be simply case
of hard luck; we are the victim OF clrcum-
stances. Search the world over, and II
wou1d he hard to find an influential nation
that in its heart of hearts is really friendly
to the United States. China once was, but
we did not, or could not, protect China at
Versailles, and it is not surprising that the
Chinese friendship is cooling. We haven't
anvthing against the world as a whole; IN
fact, we have a feeling of good will toward
the great majority of the nations, and our
present status would be humorous if 1t
were not serious.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24
Strained Again.


It will doubtless cheer large part of the
dining-out public to learn that New York
State Federal Prohibition Agent O'COnnor
has announced that alcoholic liquors can be
used for cooking purposes, without violating
the law. Of course they can be so used in
the homes, but Mr.. O'Connor goes further
and says: New Workers have no need to do
without brandy in their mince pies or wine
on their buildings, as permits will be issued
to hotels and restaurants to keep stock of
brandy and wine or whiskey on hand for
legitimate culinary purposes"
But there is absolutely nothing in the
Volstead law to variant any such permit
No one and no place is allowed to hold any
liquors, outside the home, save for medici-
nal, industrial or sacramento purposes. The
culinary art is never mentioned.
There have already been several severe
strains put upon the Volstead act in the way
of pretty liberal interpretations, and here
is another. There are likely to be still
more.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24
ANSWERS WANTED.

The recent slump in foreign exchange
and its consequent demoralizing effect on
American export trade, has raised new
series of questions, answers to which Will
be sought.
If the near panic in foreign markets mas
caused large quantities of goods intended
for European consumption to be diverted
to domestic markets why is not the
resulting slump of wholesale prices reflected
in retail prices to the consumer?
Why does such a slump IN wholesale
prices react at once against the producer
when it is so slow in reaching the consumer!
These and similar questions are in order
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24
HEAR HUMANITY'S CNLL

The pathetic appeal made at the Dawson
churches, following the usual services, for
funds to aid a well known Dawson boy
fighting for life at the state tuberculosis
sanitarium met with sympathetic and gen
erous response from the congregations, and
committees were appointed to canvass the
business section for the same cause. Mani
fold are the calls of humanity that come
to the churches of Dawson, and it is seldom
that deaf ear is turned to these appeals.
The public knows little about this work,
as the churches usually dispense their char
tiles without the flare of trumpets
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24
NATURE STORIES.
THIEVING BABOONS.

A troop of South African baboons-for
it has been proven that they usually go
about in large bands-always posts a SEN
trv He is placed in some prominent posi-
ton from which he can Immediately give
warning in the event of hostile attack,
The baboon's cry somewhat resembles the
German "Hochw shouted through mega
nhone. The creatures are believed to be
able to count up to two, but no more, and
this fact is taken advantage of as follows :
When a field of corn is ripe and the ap-
proach of band of thieving balloons seems
Imminent three men walk into the field
with their guns and lie down. After a
time one of the men crises and walks away
The sentry counts-one. Later another
man goes away, and as the ,,entry only
counted two men coming in l.e presumes
there is nobody left in the field: He ac-
cordingly gives signal and the whole troop
swarms into the field and begins to gather
the corn The third man, having repeat
ing rife, is thus enabled to kill good many
of the marauders before the rest escape.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24
GIGANTIC ANT HILL.

On the Cape to Cairo railroad there Is
a remarkable phenomenon which all tour
lists leave the train to behold 1t is huge
mound of earth thrown up over the railroad railroad
tunnel, apparently for the express purpose
of a lookout To the contrary, this OBJ
servatory was not of mans construction
except the matched summer house sur
mounting it, Industrious ants, engineers
carpenters and architects intent only on
constructing city for themselves "b9 a1 ed
better than they knew" They succeeded IN
LAYING the foundation for lookout which
affords hundreds of tourists annually sur
passingly fine view of the surrounding coun7
trv. An enterprising Arabian built natural
steps leading to the summit, GROWING the
latter with picturesque thatehed I'd O df fsd
classes. sharp eyes can discern the typog-
raphy of the country dotted with its obellsks,
statutes, mosques, foundations and tombs:
So rudely disturbed in their engineering
feat the ant colony transferred its opera
tions to a nearby site In few weeks these se
Industrious creatures had reared another
mound on the opposite slope that is nearly
twice as high as the one used for lookout
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24
MARKETING FOR WIVES.

The Azandi tribe living in the north
east of the Belgian Congo, sell wives amaz-
ingly cheap. A knife, costing about 70
cents, will procure an intending 6rlaegroo on
et' thrives in the mountainous district of
the Mafalees, in New Guinea, The price Of
each girl is one pig, augmented with dogs
teeth necklaces, and so on, according to the
wealth of the girls parents. The proposal
is usually made by proxy, the boy sending
a female relative to the lady of his choice
The preliminaries to courtship among
the Mafalees are rather picturesque. When
a young man, wishing to marry, goes to
seek his "ojande" literally, his fower) ne
will light fire on a still day, in bush or in
an open space outside his village, and walt
till slight breeze carries the name or sm9he
in one direction or another. He then takes
that point of the compass as an indication
and walks to the next village to find his
Glover"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24
Audrienne.
(She of the Golden Hair.)

Out of the night comes the old, old yearning,
Back to the past are my wild thoughts
turning,
Back to the past and you.
Can you forget that night by the river?
The willows stopped to the tawny tide,
Wanton breezes made the marsh-grass
CULVER,
The swaying cypress sighed.
1t was here by the stream that our love took
fashion,;
Out of the mists of the moon it came,
Born of the night in its wild, sweet passion,
A breath of heavens flame.
We were but children in that first glad hour,
Free from the sorrows of worldly strife,
When loves hand touched the bud of flower
And ripened the fruit of life.
Had you but stayed when we were loves
minions
HOPES rich fount would have never died;
But you flew from me on your fedgling
pinions,
And became another's bride.
Was it for this that our fond souls waited,
Shaken with longings and unknown fears;
Was the cosmic scheme of our love so
freighted
With pain and DlCCer TEARS!
Are dreams like snow on the swirling river,
Or lightning's flash in the summer sky;
A moment white, then are gone forever;
Is life itself lie?
With you 1 could read life's deepest mean
ing,
NV eyes undimmed with their bitter tears,
As day by day with their richer cleaning
Unfold the misty years.
Must l forget what my heart remembers,
And leave the words that are there unsaid;
Must the dream, too fade with the last faint
embers
Of the flame forever fled?
No, some things stay when the others
vanish,
Things that were dear in the days of old;
That first long kiss that the years cannot
Danish,
And the CLEAN of your hairs young gold.
What is the world stripped of all it's wonder?
A space untitled or a barren sphere;
The heart a cave for desires to plumber,
The mind desert drear.
One by one are the white threads counted
By the sisters three with their mystic
rites,
And the finished warp on the world-loom
mounted
Is woven with shades and lights.
| will go down where the ocean foaming
Leaps to the arms of his bride, the shore,
And all of my thoughts, like a pigeon hon.
ing,
Will fly to you once more.
There by the sea, with the wan stars shining
Their pale cold light on the sapphire blue,
My long arms will be closely twining
Around my dream of you.
Till the gray Tipped dawn in the east awak-
ing
Slabs the mist with its cleaning rays,
will stand by the sea with my full heart
breaking
With thoughts of other days.
| will dream of you till the hills are humbled,
Only the ages my love can span;
| will climb the rocks that the first gods
tumbled
Into the path of man.
l will call to you, and the moment after
My tears will fall like the winter rain,
For onlv the wind and the winds wild
laughter
Will answer my cry of pain.
Dawson, Ga. w. T. BARFIELD.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

Contracts by which several million dollars
of American money will be used to finance
and put on its feet the cotton manufacturing
industry in Czecho-Slovakia have recently
been contaminated. Several of the largest
cotton mills in that country have been taken
over by the syndicate of New York and
Philadelphia capitalists. McFadden cotton
interests of Philadelphia are said to be the
principals in the matter. Southern cotton
farmers are reminded that the holding
movement is their only salvation. There
is a cotton famine the world over, but the
sandbaggers are ever busy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

Vice-President Marshall has risen several
notches in our estimation. In letter to
the democrats of his home state, Indiana,
Mr.. Marshall declares he has had enough
of the "so-called unbridled democracy" and
is "quite convinced that the peace, pros
perity and perpetuity of the American
republic must rest, finally, upon few an
Gent and time-honored democratic doc
trines." Let's elect him president
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

Editor John H. Jones, of the LaGrange
Reporter, is a candidate for the state SEN
ate. Here is the hope that he will get all
the votes he needs or wants, and that the
people of Troup county will show proper
appreciation of him and his splendid news
paper by giving them to him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

The country does not need investigating
committees to prove that Uncle Sam spent
money like water during the late unpleas-
antness. Everybody knows that your Uncle
always did act very literally with his funds,
and that half the time he did not know what
he was doing with his money. He only knew
he wanted something, and did not care a
thrip what it cost That's your Uncle Sam.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24
WHY EUROPE DIsLIKEs US.
the PhiIadelphia Puh1ic 7 Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
1t is easy enough to understand Europe's
undisguised hatred of this country. We
have failed signally in our attempt to main
tain Europe in the style to which Europe
was accustomed before the war. In fact,
our failure has been so marked that num-
Der of the residents of Europe have been
compelled to go to work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

The Griffin News and Sun has entered Its
fftieth year. At no time in its half cent
urv of usefulness has it been as good
newspaper as Editor Duke is now issuing
He is serving the people of Griffin and
spalding county in an admirable manner,
and deserves their united and loyal support.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

The democratic party can give no consid-
Grafton to Hoover as a democratic candidate.
The party Greeleyized once, and it is hardly
possible that it has forgotten its punish
ment and will repeat the folly. A mug
hump cannot be elected president, and
would please nobody if he should be.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

In the old days people "whooped her up"
for w. ]. Bryan, and voted against him.
Can it be possible nowadays they will 'whoop
her up" against him and then vote for him?
We shall see what we shall, maybe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

1t isn't the men who feast at the banquet
halls who are going to make the issue this
year, but the folks back home who are eat
ing sow bosom and colard greens and cuss-
ing the price list.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

The earthquake gave Mexico little taste
90 what she will experience if she ever ex-
hausts Uncle Sans patience
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

Hungary chooses to become monarchy,
probably, because she can't see where
many of the "democracies" that have re-
suited from the war have gained anything
by the operation
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

An Arkansas editor says the reason why
ho tried to kill political opponent was
because of the high price OF skunk hioeS'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

What's the use of making the odor OF
wood alcohol disagreeable to prevent peo-
pie from drinking it? Everybody knows the
old topper had to hold his nose to drink the
real stuff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

It costs 6 cents to carry ton Of first
class mail one mile by railroad, and $5.25 to
carry like amount the same distance by
airplane, but the latter system has its ad-
vocates
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

Boston bacteriologist says that IN nifty
years people then living will be too clVliz ...
to kiss. He evidently believes that CIVIL
cation improves with the advancing years
of the individual.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

A display of implicit confidence In ner
husband is shown by the wife who allows
him to carry the egg money in his pockets
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

A number of papers are printing Hints
!. Motorists y The best hint would be $500
fine and ten days in jail"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

A scientist is advocating ire-proof burial
vaults There are cases in which his con-
tention would seem we'll founded.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

man whose wife eloped with another
nan and took her husbands favorlte coon
dog along offers a reward for the return Oh
the dog and no questions asked.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24
OPINION OF STATE PRESIDENT OF
DAUGHTERS OF CoNFEDERACY

Mrs. Frank Harold, state president Of
the Daughters of the Confederacy, in
letter to a Dawson woman, says: Your
paper, The Dawson News, is the best
weekly have ever seen in Georgia"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

Speaking of Hoover, what is it in his ca
reer that leads any one to imagine that
he'd be foolish enough to want to run for
president?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

The railroads will go back to their own
ers next Sunday with the public well satiS-
fed that government ownership is not the
thing for country organized like this
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

Marriage is supposed to include 'for bet
ter or for worse" but in practice it means
for the present"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

All pests are not bugs or insects. There
is the fellow who gets on a business ONCE
phone and spends fifteen minutes TO get
some fapper to guess who he is.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

Some people are like mules. They never
DO hard work and are always ready
70 kick.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-24

FAkW MAUnlNEKI DET ANlNlGNl
Has been moved up town to the
building formerly occupied by Cobb
Thornton Co., and is in charge Of
MIR. J. T. Crimes, who will be
pleased to give your wants and or
ders his best attention.
Handling the very best and kind Of
implements and machinery best suit
ed for the planters Of this section,
Our implement and machinery de-
partment has steadily grown, and at
our new place we are even better
fitted and more conveniently situa-
ted to give you still better service
and display our goods.
You take no chances in buying from
US, every article is guaranteed by us
and its makers.
We invite you to come and let us
show you through our line.
Moline Black Land Flows
Disc HdrrOWs
Drag-Tooth HarroWs
Distributors
Planters, o cGt veiv sf1 ssa peanut
CuItivatOrs
Farm Wagons, T Tns 1 Horse
Fdirbanks-MOrse Gasoline
Engines, All Sizes
We carry a complete line Of parts for every
implement or piece Of machinery we sell.
NO WAITING FOR REPAIRS
Farm Implement and Machinery
Department
SHIELDS GEISE co.
Main Street DAWSON. Ga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-17

attractions which have been secured for the day.
 Dreams is the subject selected by the Infant Mystics for the pageant this year, and the idea was carried out in eight floats. Immediately following the parade, the ball pf the society was held in the Battle House auditorium. and was fea- tured by the coronation of the queen of the carnival, Miss wefel, by Emperor Felix Taylor Peck.
 Mardi Gras proper will open tomorrow morning with individual masking, which the carnival association hopes will prove one of the features of the celebra ton. Prizes will be awarded to those wearing the best fancy dress. best costume, best grotesque costume, group maskers and numerous others. This feature of the carnival will take place in Bienville Square on Tuesday afternoon, when all maskers desiring to contest for the prizes will pass in review before judges.
 Tuesday at l o'clock the Knights or Revelry will parade, also the Comic COW boys, while Emperor Felix will make his first public appearance also at this tiine' riding in the royal chariot.
 Tuesday night the carnival will come to a close with the parade and ball of the Order of Myths, Members of the society will appear on numerous floats shoruy after s o'clock. parading the principal streets of the city and later adjourning fo the Batti~ House auditorium. where the annual bah of the society will take place
 The fleet of twelve se--.anes from the naval air station at Pensacola, Fla, com ing to Mobile for the Mardi Gras ceiehra- tion. will arrive in the city Tuesday morning Ut s:30 and land near the Pinto island docks of the Alabama Dry Dock and shipbuilding Company. During the forenoon and while the afternoon parade is on the street they will fly over the city and give exhibitions. A committee of the carnival association and city off fcials will greet the men in special boat.