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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05
The Peanut Boiling"
From the Savannah News.

Another institution has been instituted in
Georgia. Another function is functioning.
The peanut boiling" is in "our midst" in
South Georgia 1t will be among the local
events-with the flavor of the country, the
tang of the happiness of contented and
rural population, the pleasure
of the community social occasion.
In the pioneer days there were 'log roll
ings" and "house raisings'-in the order
named. There were quilting bees" ana
"candy pullings" In Settlements where
set its staying hand upon the head
of the household of a farm the neighbors
gathered and helped the unfortunate family
with cotton chopping' or a corn hoe
ing''-which, while cheerfully giving aid to
one in temporary distress, afforded de-
lghtful breakAin the monotony Of the life
clown on the farm" and gave occasion for
a social day of intercourse for the people of
an entire district. In the fall there have
been the "corn stockings call them
"corn huskings" and 'husking bees in the
"down east country. The "shucking for
the red ear" the sentimental sequel of the
quest the big supper for ''all hands" late
in the night, sometimes as late as 9 O'clock
they have been events of characteristic
and distinctive picturesqueness in rural
Georgia. And in South Georgia-rich in
"infinite variety" of products and POSSIBLE
tiles, there have been peach packings,"
watermelon cuttings" and other socially
economic functions in given areas. There
have always been "cane grindings" and
"syrup boilings." Now comes another item
in the infinite variety of delights to be
be found if sought ever SO casually in happy
South Georgia: Peanut boilings. Hear this
from the local columns of the Pembroke
Enterprise:
"All those who attended the peanut
boiling given at Mr.. and Mrs. H. o.
Johnson's Monday night reported grand
time"
There's real aroma of the delightful lit
tie entertainments in the country of this
South Georgia and-entertainments which
combine as do the other and older forms
of farm frolics, business with pleasure. The
"pindar parties" will be added to the list
of scenes typical of prosperous, happy rural
life, the peanut boiling" is announced as
an institution
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05
Now We Have Pink Grapefruit.

Pink grapefruit is the very latest thing
for the table. They are not on the market
yet, for there are only few of them and
these are highly priced.
The pink variety is what botanists call
sport. Two trees Of two different varieties
have put out branch bearing pink fruit
The first of these was on the plantation of
Reasoner Brothers, at OnecO, Fla, and was
one of the old-fashioned Walters trees The
second, at Riverside, Cal, was one of the
Marsh trees
1t was in 1915 that the Walters tree
showed one limb bearing pink fruit. This
was then four or five inches in diameter.
From the seed many other young trees were
grown, the name "Foster'' being given to
the new variety, Some of these young Fos-
tiers in grove near Phoenix, Ariz., were
already bearing fruit in 1918.
A. D. Shamel of Riverside, in an article
in the Journal of Heredity, quotes the fol-
lowing description Of the fruit from the
Government Pathological Notes: "Next to
the skin the flesh is light purplish-pink
color which fades to a clear translucent col
or at the core; there is very little pulp" On
the other hand Prof. Hume, the noted hor-
ticultural authority of Florida, writes: ''My
opinion of the Foster grapefruit is that it
is fine fruit. 1t is the best early grape
fruit that know of. 1t was in good eating
condition at Winter Haven, Fla earlier
than any other variety we have tested, and
think we have tested nearly all"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05
The League of Nations.

The News prints below three articles
(which have caused the controversy IN the
United States) from the covenant OF the
league of nations:
Article X.
"The members of the league undertake to
respect and preserve as against external
aggression the territorial integrity and ex-
listing political independence of all members
of the league. In case of any such agrees
sion or in case of any threat or danger OF
such aggression the council shall advise up,
on the means by which this obligation shall
be fulfilled"
Article XII.
"Any war or threat of war, whether I'M
mediately affecting any of the members OF
the league or not. is hereby declared a
matter of concern to the whole league, and
the league shall take any action that may
be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard
the peace of nations"
Article Xxx.
"The members of the league severally
agree that this covenant is accepted as
abrogating all obligations or understanding
inter Sc, which are inconsistent with the
terms thereof, and solemnly undertake that
they will not hereafter enter into any en-
gagements inconsistent with the terms
thereof"
The Madisonian calls attention to the fact
that more than 10000 Georgia democrats
are on record as opposed to the league of
nations-11O,OOO opposed to it outright,
and the other 10000 favoring it with reser-
vations.
Let thoughtful readers look into this
great question, urges our Madison contem-
porary. Read the Declaration of Independ-
ence and the constitution of the United
States. Then decide for yourself wherein
the league covenant is contrary to these i'm
mortal documents and American rights as
established Hereunder
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05
THE NEW RACE PROBLEM.

Americans are beginning to realize that
the race problem in California is one which
not only concerns the Pacific coast alone,
but the entire United States. This realiza-
ton has become more acute since leading
Toxic newspaper has urged the japanese
government to take the situation before the
league of nations and there attempt to
coerce the United States.
The $1,000 Japanese now in California
constitute an increase of Ill per cent in
the last ten years. The excess of births
over deaths among the japanese in Califor-
MIA last year was 800 per cent. Compare
this increase with that of the white popula-
ton, only 20 per cent, and it indicates that
the fecundity of the race will accomplish
what direct immigration is prohibited from
doing.
Without reference to the question OF
race superiority or inferiority we face the
simple fact that two races so different in
physical characteristics and in culture can
not mix The question, therefore, becomes
one of survival, not necessarily of the fit
test but of the race which develops the
greatest numerical strength.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05
West Growing Jealous.
From the Macon News.

Georgia last year was second in corn pro-
duction in the United States. Other South
ern states are rapidly forging to the front
in raising corn and other grain. Western
states which have always enjoyed mo-
nopoly of the grain crops are not taking kind
ly to the records made by the south, as is
evidenced by the following editorial in the
current Grain Reporter:
The Bureau of Markets or the Agricul-
tural department is again concerning itself
about the Southern corn grower, and because
the Southeast buys a lot of Western corn it
has undertaken through the Bureau of Mar
kets to show the Southern planter how to
provide adequate marketing facilities for
handling locally grown corn by organizing
"co-operative agencies" etc, and advises
Southern people to "use native corn and hay
wherever available"
But isn't this advice somewhat superfluous?
At any rate would it not be more to the
point to advise Southern planters to confine
their production of corn to their requirements
on their own farms, the extreme difficulty of
keeping free from weevil damage and sur
plus that would have to be stored until mar
keted, making corn as a cash crop uneco-
nomical and exceedingly unsatisfactory. 1t
is this fact which initiates against corn in
the South as a commercial crop and such
mentors as the Agricultural Department and
the Manufacturers Record, which aim to
direct the entire industrial life of the South,
ought to recognize that difficulty and warn
farmers of it.
The excuse for more corn in the South now
is the boil weevil. But this weevil could be
easily gotten rid of if the southern farmers
would go to the job in earnest; but they
don't and they won't. So their swivel chair
advisors urge them to grow a grain crop
which is also subject to weevil damage both
before as in Alabama this season, and after
the crop is made instead of advising them
to buy corn but to go into other crops for
which the section is peculiarly suited and
which can be stored without so much dan
ger of insect damage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05
Hold On to What You Have.
By ]. J. Mundy.

Sometimes when you think about your
life and compare it with the lives of other
men you think that you have nearly always
been pulling upstream against a strong cur
rent.
Don't you sometimes think you are fight
ing battle which is not going to bring you
much success in the end because you cannot
see, with your present earning capacity,
how you are going to accumulate very
much and keep living expenses paid in full?
You have almost a mind to ease up in
effort, not be so saving and stop denying
yourself the little pleasures you forego be-
cause they are really beyond your income.
Then the thought comes that if you wind
up your life in charitable institution you
might as well go ahead and spend your
money have a good time and get there a
little earlier perhaps.
Dangerous line of thought-the thought
of weaklng-stop it.
You are losing pride and ambition.
Don't be a disgrace to your parents, a
disappointment to your friends, just because
you have not the real manhood to continue
good fight.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05
The VANISHING POSTER

The circus season in Georgia is here
again For year or two the circuses and
carnivals have used far less paper in a
broadside way in announcing their advents
in town. They are employing the adver-
tising pages of the newspapers to acquaint
the public with what they offer in the line
of amusement. This saves paper and ap-
pears to be business-ike, but it deprives US
of those photographic wonder worlds of
boyhood's summer hours. What man is there
who does not remember the pricking rap
ture he experienced when a youth in gazing
at the work of the bill poster as his flaming
rolls were spread out on the side of a barn
or a line of high board fence? 1t was ex-
quisite. Even men were not above attend
ing the posting ceremonies. 1t seemed to
cast glow through the entire village.
What elephants, what snakes, what goril-
las, what riding, what leaping, what bal
ancing! It soon will be viewed no more in
mammoth, gaudy sheets adjoining hit and
miss places
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05
MISPLACING THE KICK"

The statement of Prohibition Commits
sioner Kramer that the enforcement of pro-
hibition laws in this country is virtually i'm
possible under present conditions is more
of an indictment of his own organization
than of the law under which it operates.
The Volstead enforcement act is well fitted
with teeth. 1t will bite if given half a
chance. There is, or should be- sufficient
funds to keep its laws in action, for fines
were intended to make it self-supporting.
Failure of prohibition enforcement there
fore becomes a matter of incompetent
workmen rather than of faulty tools. APP
parently, there has been too much of poll
tics not only in the personnel of Mr.. Kra-
mer's staff, but in its concept of duty. Pro-
hibition has successfully run the guantlet
of the legislative and judicial branches of
our government, and is now in the hands
of the executive department
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

The people are much more concerned i'll
the reduction of burdensome taxes and a
more economical administration of the pub
lie business than they are in the clap-trap
about "reds," "disoyalty," ''reactionary"
and the like. Here in Georgia no man or
faction has corner on loyalty and patriot
ism, but all are, or should be, interested in
the constantly growing tax burdens.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05
TAX COMMISSIONER HAS TROUBLES

From the Jackson Progress-Argus.
State Tax Commissioner H. ]. Fullbright
seems to be having considerable trouble
getting tax returns adjusted to his idea of
what they should be. Several counties are
demanding an arbitration and others have
gone into the courts to test the law.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

At least one has to admit it takes some
kind of courage to starve ones self for an
issue or a cause and that kind of courage
is also rare enough. A man who has it must
be at least an idealist, and he must have
in him the fires of some sort of faith or
even fanaticism.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05
ARE TOO MANY LAWS.

From the Dalton Citizen.
There are so many laws on the statute
books that it is impossible not to violate
some of them almost every day, and in our
humble opinion so many fool laws are re-
sponsible for the growing disrespect of all
law. Thomas Jefferson was right when he
declared that "people governed least are
governed best"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05
You're Right, Brother.
From Washington (Ga.) Reporter.

So long as the seasons come and go; so
long as the rain falls and the sunshine
warns the earth; so long as the flowers
bloom and the fields bring forth their har-
vests; so long as our mothers and wives and
sweethearts are true, and little children
smile and laugh and play, Georgia will be
paradise. no matter who sits in the places
of the high and mighty, or whose political
fortunes have become bankrupt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

Trying to get living without earning
it causes big per cent of the trouble and
unrest in the world. In other words, when
a man makes up his mind that he is willing
to be a parasite he ought to be treated as
one
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

The Citizen is urging "decent" depot
for Dalton. Dawson has fairly credita-
BILE station, but sheds are badly needed for
the protection of passengers leaving and
boarding the trains. Secretary Marlin, of
the Chamber of Commerce, is going after
them. and here's luck to him. The railroads
must build them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

Burleson is still running the taxpayers
money into airplane mail experiments,
while it takes a letter three or four days to
reach its destination twenty miles away.
Why not improve the present railway mail
service before squandering any more good
money on air mail service, which nobody
cares about?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

When a girl with face like a cream
puff marries a youth who never earned a
dime the editor has to paint the bride as
radiant vision of blushing beauty and the
groom as one of the rising young business
men
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

1t may seem a small thing to plant just
a few turnip and rye seed, but if every
one will do so it will mean much to the
health of the people and thrift of the chick
ems and stock of the entire county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

Politics is the only thing that is cheap
this year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

What has become of the old fashioned
citizen who used to bring chestnuts to town
for sale?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

The farmers say the cotton will be out
by November 1st. If so it will give good
opportunity for them to do some good deep
blowing, and bury the boil weevil and vege-
table matter
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

Between a wicked mans frown and a
hypocrit's smile the sensible individual will
choose the frown.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

every cloud has its silver lining" The
other peace-made nations will think of Po-
land for long time before they put chip
on their shoulders.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

Farmers have to fight for the growth of
everything they put on the farm except a
mortgage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-05

There's a difference between marrying
for figure and marrying for figures
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-10
AMERICAN cHnDREN's GIFT.
First Juvenile Reading Room in Eu-
rope to Be Opened in Brussels.

New York, March l0.-The gift Of
the children Of America to the children
Of Belgium, the first juvenile reading
room in Europe will be opened in Brus.
sells about the first OF May, it has been
announced here by the book committee
of the Art War Relief. The committee
conducted the campaign for funds with
which to establish the reading room,
which is the first of a series to be
opened in France and Belgium
These reading rooms win be called
"LHeure ,Ioyeuse" Joyous Hour-and
will be replicas Of the pleasant chill
dren's reading rooms in American IL
braries The book committee is sup
plying books and library furniture.
The first shipment of books has al
ready arrived in Brussels. f. Joaquin,
Belgian minister of education. wrote:
Belgian children have no opportunity
to read at all. except such books as
might exist in thier homes. There are
neither free nor paying libraries for
them Not only children but teachers,
parents and public officials will catch
that new world spirit, that free broad
democratic sense, that respect for the
child as future citizen, which every
one coming to America cannot fail to
admire"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-10

pompous. brow beating. club-swinging,
or ferocious about him. He had a
tough Job we all knew that; yet he
could smile. So | guess we all smiled
back. You know how it is when
million cubic yards Of gloom go sailing
away.
Surprise No. came to Us as our
visitor showed the logical sequence OF
the blocks, spaces, lines and questions
on the income tax form. | had never
stopped TO think about it. but the
blank must be practical for every kind
Of income and every combination of
income that man might have. Most
of the club members had been calling
the form hodge podge.
Although a salaried man myself,
was interested in the whats and why
fores in figuring u merchants income;
also the accounting of a manufactur-
er: and the way a professional mans
earnings were figured out. Then our
leading business men asked pointed
questions, and the answers our visitor
gave smoothed away their troubles.
Right down through the form the
revenue man took us, step by step,
until he had covered every item of the
income that any Of us might have bad.
Questions flew thick and fast; and a.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-10
BRITISH INDUSTRY THREATENED
By the Decline in the Worlds Supply
of Cotton.

London, March l0.-The decline in
the worlds supply of cotton will ieop-
ardize Britain's great cotton industry
unless the quantity can be increased,
SAYS the American Chamber Of Com
merce in London In the cotton indus
trial districts Of Lancashire and York
shire, the American chamber under
stands, 100000 people are directly de-
pendent for their living on cotton,
while, indirectly 100000 are depend
ent on it.
The main dependence Of Great Brit
aims cotton industry is admittedly on
supplies of American cotton; and as
the chamber points out, within the past
five years, for various economic and
climatic reasons, the American cotton
acreage has considerably decreased
while her consumption has increased
British experts have estimated that If
the yearly American crop should drop
below the average, say, of l5,000,000
bales, of 500 pounds each, of which
Britain normally absorbs 4l5000 bales,
,the Lancashire trade would have to re-
sort to short-time working. Given a
continuance OF the same shortage con-
dtions they say all manufacturing ma
chinery would ultimately cease. In view
of this opinion, the estimated drop this
year in American cotton to 100000
bales, is giving rise to much serious
thought in Britain's trade circles.
With a view to making the empire
a committee represent
ing the British Empire Cotton Grow
ers' association has suggested to the
board of trade that funds, approx
mating fl0O,00O year for cotton
growing within the empire, should be
raised by levy on the cotton indus
try of the United Kingdoms and, that
the government assist the colonies and
protectorates by guarantees to provide
railroads, waterways, harbors, etc
The American chamber says there
seems little doubt that the suggested
annual levy Of 100000 would be east
ly raised among the Lancashire cotton
interests.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-10
Inoome Tax Night at the cIub.

When YOU see a man smiling and
stepping high down the street any OF
these DAYS, YOU can tab him as one Of
those lucky fellows who have got their
income taxes figured out OF course,
IL NAV be a new baby in the family
OF a raise If pay or the mother in law
has gone away. or any of the ordinary
causes for grins But the best bet Is
that his income tax return j. filed.
Now that's inst my case. oh, boy /,
but its a wonderful feeling,
Itau came about through income tax
night al the club I remember bow we
an groaned when somebody suggested
the idea. But after counting the moses
~ those who were having income tax
troubles. il was discovered that we
were 100 per cent in need Of frst aid.
- we sent over to the internal revenue
collector and asked him to send man.
Although up TO their eyes in work, the
request was granted and income tax
night was duly announced.
We expected a dull evening. hlled
with figures and legal technicalities
Also. headaches. A for myself, II il
were not for that Liberty bond interest
and the rent 81 my garage I'd have
stayed away
Surprise No. ] was sprung when a
smiling stranger was ushered IN and
introduced ~ the income tax man he
was Just q regular fellow nothing