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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20
Cut Out the High Living.
From the Thomasville Times-Enterprise

From the Townsville Times-Enterprise.
Our standard of living, however, is far
from what it ought to be- We enjoy bene-
fits that we fail to appreciate, and we take
too much for granted and attempt to fol
low too closely to the standards of the rich
or the dissolute or the reckless Our chief
fault is our determination to be in style.
Too many people take no thought for the
morrow They are improvident and extrava-
CANT. If shoes are fifteen dollars for the
best grade, they buy that kind when they
could get a good pair for ten. If it is fash
ionable to own an auto they get one. of those
and ride around like they owned the earth
while the grocer puts their account in the
hands of lawyer or their mortgaged home
is sold by the sheriff. If it is stylish to wear
hundred dollar coat suits the fifty dollar
kind isn't good enough for the fellow with
the twenty-five dollar pocketbook. He must
be in style and so must she.
Sensible living conditions are all that is
necessary now. A certain amount of plain,
simple food, plenty of exercise and by all
means plenty of work will solve many
problem that today is pressing because of
high living costs and high living ideas with
short pocketbooks. Keeping neck and neck
with the payroll is dangerous bus
mess Saving a little every week is compar-
atively easy and it is so much more bene-
fetal in the long run.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20
GARAGES AND POISON.

The garage may become a place of death
to those who are determined to have the IN
toxicating effects of alcohol in some form
despite the inhibition on its manufacture and
sale. In several instances growing out of
the recent Christmas carnival of wood alco-
hol the sale of the poison was traced to gar
ages in the larger cities. There is
nothing unusual in this fact. Alcohol
is used in automobile radiators Gen
orally it is what is known commercially as
denatured alcohol. Ethyl alcohol is the kind
manufactured from grain and is that which
forms the Intoxicating element in liquors
Wood alcohol is distilled from wood and
separated from the resultant tar and creo-
sote by chemical processes combined with
distillation. 1t is a rank poison, its effects
being blindness, paralysis and ultimately
death in the majority of cases. Denatured
alcohol is ethyl or intoxicating alcohol with
which wood alcohol has been mixed.
The alcohol stored in garages is as dan
gerous TO life as pure wood alcohol. 1t may
require a little longer to accomplish its dead
" work, but it gets the same results. Death
from drinking unadulterated wood alcohol is
nearly as instantaneous as death from TAX
ing poison acid Death from denatured alec
hol is not so sudden, but it is as certain.
The thirsty individual who accepts the in
vitation of the garage attendant to have a
drink of the alcohol used in the radiator is
gambling with death. The attendant may
not know the elements which enter into the
fluid he is offering. Or he may know them,
but ignore their poisonous effects. In either
case he may become murderer. 1t contains
the deadly poison in sufficient quantities to
cause the death of those who use it for bev-
erage purposes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20
Saving the Meat.
From the Cordele Dispatch.


A number of Crisp county farmers are
making plans for home curing their meat
this wear that are indeed creditable. Some
of them have found out that it can be saw
ed, every pound of it, and a waste which
follows careless effort to save is no longer
necessary.
For years potato saving has been bug
aboo large enough for the best of us. Now
we can save potatoes, and the method IS so
simple, the potato house is SO reasonable IN
cost, that we know the potato has a great
future in this section. So it is with meat
If every farmer in Crisp county had the
full value of all the meat he has lost trying
to cure it he could declare dividends on his
ENTERPRISE The waste is not necessary.
The placing of curing plants according 10
government specifications is an encouraging
movement. These have long been in OPERA
ton in Brooks county, and that section OF
Georgia has a name which reaches all over
the country for its excellent country cured
meats. Brooks county has cheated the pack
ers out of millions of dollars IN sales
through Georgia by curing and selling Geor-
gia raised meat.
Stock raisers can do that and thus save
themselves from having to rush their hogs
off to market in time when the price is too
low because there is too much offered for
sale at one time. What we need most is a
marketable product we can offer when there
is little to be had. We want to be able to
offer the right kind of country cured meats
the wear around. When we reach that stage
the millions that go into the pockets of the
great packers will develope an industry
which will drop into ours and we will have
made thousands of stock raisers independent
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20
DOING FOR DAWSON.

It is very gratifying that the business in
terests of Dawson have rallied with such en-
couraging support of the Chamber of Com
merce as has been shown within the past
few DAYS. Face to face with the possibility
of the trade body reaching the end of It's
row for the lack of public support, num-
her of the towns leading business men put
their hands to the pillow with the determine
ton that the work must go forward. 1t was
too important thing, too vital a thing 10
end in failure Once awakened to the I'M
perative need of maintaining this organiza-
ton the people of the city have answered
generously and enthusiastically the call for
help. The system of financial contributions
has been put on a stable and business-llke
basis. and it seems that the future of the
chamber is assured.
AS this paper has often taken occasion TO
to say, a live trade organization is essential
to the growth and prosperity of any town.
Manv things have been accomplished for
the betterment Of Dawson since the Cham
her of Commerce was established nearly two
wears ago. 1t promises to do great deal
more for the town during the present year,
provided the business interests will unite
solidly in its undertakings 1t is not only
civic duty to support this much needed in
stitution but it is matter of good business.
Every dollar contributed to it and every
minute of time given by the individual to its
work means an investment which Will re-
dound many fold to the person so contribut-
ing. Eliminate all consideration of civic pa
triotism, if you will, and put it on the basis
of mere individual gain and profit, and the
Chamber of Commerce would still offer its
resistless appeal for support in time and dol
lars by every man engaged in business or
profession in the town.
1t is gratifying, we say. And, more than
that, it is an evidence of the inherent bust
ness sagacity of Dawson's people, well-known
for their sound methods and thrifty habits.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20
History of an Editor.
From an Exchange.

An editor died and slowly wendell his way
down to where he supposed a warm recep-
ton awaited him. The Devil met him and
said: 'For many years thou hast borne the
blame for the errors that the printers made
in the papers The paper has gone, alas for
81, and the 81, alas has often failed to come
in. The printers have bedeviled thee for
wages Saturday night when thou hadst not a
cent to thy name Men have taken the paper
without paying for it, and cursed thee for not
getting up better paper. Thou hast been
called a deadbeat by the passenger conduc-
tor when thou hast shown the annual pass to
their envious gaze. All these things thou
hast borne in silence. Thou canst not come
in here" and he fired him. AS he did so he
murmured: "Heaven is his home, and, be-
sides, if we had let him come in here he
would have been continually dunning his de-
linquent subscribers, and thus created disor-
der in my kingdom"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20
Just a MAJ

He wasn't no great shakes of a man
Jest an ordinary kind of cuss;
He never made no noise in the world
And never kicked up no fuss.
But he alwuz wore pleasant face,
And spoke a kind word to every one.
And it seemed, when you met him anywhere,
Like he carried CLEAN O. the mornin'
sum-
He never give much to nobody else
He never had nothin' to give,
For he had to hustle from mornin' till night
That his little ones might live
But when a Teller was down an out
Throw'd down by cruel, cold defeat,
He give him smile an a grip O the hand
That took him an stood him back on his
feet
They never built no monument to him
They never give him no need O. praise
They only laid him away in the ground
Where sooner or later all men lays.
But them that had always know'd him best,
That know'd how hard for the right he'd
strive,
Couldn't say nothin' better about him dead
Than they'd always said when he was
alive.
He was never called a Christian man.
He never know'd the meanin' o. fame,
For there wasn't no great heroic deed
That ever got coupled with his name.
But MANY soul that was burdened with
grief
Was lightened and healed of its smart,
And | rather think that the power in his life
Was the spirit of Christ in his heart
Boston Globe
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20
THE LESS HORSE ACE.

The horseless age will not come IN the
next few generations, if 1t ever does But
the less horse age is already here. Automo-
bile and truck and tractor have displaced
horsepower in travel, transportation and on
the farm. The development of motor machin-
erv is one of the biggest industrial results
of the times Figures covering the last year
show that 1,586,787 automobiles were man
ufactured in the United States. The whole
sale value of the product was $1,399,282,-
995. Twenty years ago the annual produc-
ton of automobiles was 300 and the whole
sale value of the machines was S4,75O,OOO.
The average wholesale price per car for
last wear was 1882. If the car built in 1899
had been priced at the same figure the total
value of the years supply would have been
only 3,263,4 400, a reduction of approx
mately one-fourth. When the quality of the
cars manufactured twenty years ago is COM
pared with the quality of those manufactur-
ed last year the high prices paid for early
styles is apparent.
The increase in the sales of cars is larg-
est in the agricultural regions Last year
the largest gains in sales were in the mid
die south, but this is due to the fact that in
the states where the increase is shown, Ten
nessee, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana, the
sale of cars before war prosperity and high
prices for cotton was low. These states have
merely caught up with the procession by
heavy buying during last year. Alabama,
with all the buying last year, has only one
car for every forty-three persons. Mississippi
has fewer cars per capita than any state IN
the union, the number being only one for ev-
cry fifty people. Iowa and Nebraska are at
the top of the list with one car for every
six and one-haf persons.
The future development of the automobile
and truck industry depends almost entirely
on the development of good roads in the
country and provisions in the cities for I'M
derground or some other method of park
ing so that cars may be left while not in ser
vice without utilizing the streets. 1t is es-
timated that the United States could utilize
12,e0O,0OO cars without overlooking the
country. The normal replacement of cars is
about 16 per cent of the current produc-
ton. so that fve-sixths of the number man
ufactured must find new buyers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20
A Suspicion of Profit.
From the Meter Advertiser.

J. E. Webb. of Hahira, is credited with
making seven hundred and seventy-five gal
Ions of syrup from one acre of cane this
year. This was an excellent crop. Five hun
dred gallons of syrup from an acre of cane
is pretty good yield. If Mr.. Webb put his
syrup up in new barrels he probably found
a market for it at one dollar a gallon. Quite
a lot of it has been sold in South Georgia
this year at this price, and some at better
prices. If he canned it or bottled it he re-
ceived good deal more. 1t looks like there
ought to be bit of profit in syrup making
like this The syrup makers as whole have
made profits this year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20
WANTS MINIMUM OF POLITICS.

Editor Allen, of the Moultrie Observe
wants short campaign and a minimum {
politics, and gives good reasons why. Il
says:
This ought to be big year in Geor-
gia. There is work for all men and wo-
men. There is market for all they
produce There is profit in their labor
and the fruits of their labor.
We need big crop.
We need lot of building.
We need road construction.
Factories are behind with deliveries.
Merchants will have all they can do.
Will lawyers please have heart, and
be light with US in the matter of poll
tics?
We have so little time to spare, and
so many other important things to en-
gage our attention Such a pity we
have political year coming at such
busy time
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20
Boost Your Town.
From the Griffin News and Sun.

An ideal citizen is one who sees something
good in his town and spreads the good news
abroad that others may benefit therefrom.
Of course there are other sidelights to
the ideal citizen, but the quality of loyalty
is one which produces tangible results.
There are three distinct attitudes which
a person may assume toward the community
which houses and feeds him-to boost, to re-
main quiescent, or knock
The booster pushes his town along, the
quiescent citizen lulls it to sleep, and the
knocker helps to put it out of business.
Which are you?
Perhaps you have never given it thought,
You may not realize yourself which you are,
but your neighbors all know. They have ac-
curately catalogued you according to your
deserts.
If you are booster they admire you; if
you are quiescent they wonder when you
will emerge from your slumber; and if you
are knocker they yearn for the day when
you will fold up your tent and silently fade
away.
Boost the home town, and its citizens will
boost you.
Knock it, and you knock yourself infinitely
more.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20

Of course Europe is hard up, and needs
money. But that is no good financial reason
why this country should finance continent
which spends its time raising hell instead
of food and setting about earning its own liv-
ing. There is point where responsibility
ends, and another farther on where even
sympathy stops.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20

Mr.. Bryan has been buried good many
times by a good many sets of politicians
who have no use for him, but he won't stay
buried. No man who will be an aspirant has
anything to compare with Bryan's personal
following. If you will keep your eye on W.
]. B. the coming season you will not miss
a great deal of the show.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20

Some young men would rather have $14
silk shirt than to have 81 shirt and $12 in
the bank They are the kind of fellows who
will find it hard shedding when hard times
come and jobs are scarce. And these things
are coming
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20

The Jackson Progress-Argus has entered
upon its forty-eighth year. Editor Doyle
Jones is giving the people of his town and
county splendid newspaper in every re-
spect, and one that deserves loyal and liberal
support. 1t is always welcome visitor to
our sanctum.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20

The optimist is nice about it, and remarks
that he is confident we shall have an early
spring, running on beautifully and smoothly.
There is consolation in this assurance. The
pessmist, however, says the grain of COM
fort is about the size of the proverbial mus
tard seed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20

According to the bureau of railway eco
Monies the net loss of the government has
reached S543, 100000 in the twenty-three
months of railroad operation. The bureau
placed the loss of the eleven months of 1919
at more than 1881 100000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20
THE DRIVERS GET THEIRS.

From the Wesleyan Christian Advocate.
Drives pay the drivers, that is if state
'ment in the Eastern Methodist is true That
paper states that one of the head men of
one of the drives is being paid a salary of
$25, 900 per year. That is some salary-to
use a phrase of the street.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20
INDICATES OPTIMISM.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Ten million silver dollars are being melted
up at the mint to be converted into small
change 1t looks as if the government were
optimistic enough to think that there is 60
ing to be use for small change again, one of
these DAYS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20

Two major generals are candidates for
president. If buck private would TOSS MS
derby into the ring he'd get more OF the
100000 soldier votes than both of the gen
erals put together.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20

When a thief was robbing hen house a
$40 bill slipped out of his pocket. The own
er of the hen house advertises that the own
er of the bill may have the same by proving
his property.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20

A young man sent ham to his sweet
heart for a Christmas present, and the card
which accompanied the present read: "When
this you see remember me-"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20

Farm boys of this generation know moth
ing of one real sport of years ago. That
was breaking calves to work under the yoke.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20

One way to conserve paper is for the gov
eminent to cut out writing notes of protest
to Mexico That is the most pronounced
waste of paper in the country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20

A woman who scorned rabbits for table
use when they could be bought for nickel
apiece asserts that they are delicacy now
that they are selling at four bits each.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-01-20

President Wilson has appointed Howard
Pigg to direct the prosecution of feed prof
iteers. 1t would appear to be fitting selec-
ton for this particular job
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-12-16

there are boys in the big cities who
have never seen sleigh? Because a
sleigh is getting to be scarce article
in the cities. You see, as soon as a
little snow comes the STRENGTHENING
department gets busy and sweeps !,
up, before 1t gets chance to melt
into sluSh.
In the country the winter wheat
needs it, and the ground takes care OF
It. But In the city it just means slor
and slush. SO they sweep 1t up and
carry 1t away and uncover the ugly
pavement as soon as they can.
But they let you keep your snow in
the country. When a warm wind
comes along it will pack fine, and you
can have your snow-men, and your
snow forts, and your SNOWFALL battles.
(Only please don't use your artillery
on older folks, or girls, or me.)
Or perhaps this snowstorm is one
of the blizzardy kind, with the wind
tipping around the house and piling
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-12-16
This Lad Had a Real
Christmas Tree

ssST<HE question of how to meet the
needs of the education we
wanted our boy to have was
with us from his birth, ard it was my
love Of all kinds of trees which solved
our problem said the mother Of a
growing boy.
"He came near the Christmas sea-
son, and I wanted to do something to
mark the wonderful event My mind
turned to trees. What could be more
appropriate than to plant a tree and
let this child of nature grow up with
mine?
'aThen came the thought, Why not
choose a fruit tree, something that
will yield tangible profit to be laid
aside as the beginning of a fund for
the boys education? And so the plan
took shape, and as we live In warm
climate, fruit tree was planted each
year on Christmas day for the little
one
"SOon the lad was taking an active
part In the ceremony, and by the time
the uTSt lIulI dPpCdACu hc was OAS-
enough to take real delight in the
proceeds of Its sale, which went into
his bank A few years more found
him in entire charge Of small or
chard His ever growing bank ac-
count has always been his own, sub
ject to the inspection and advice OF his
father, who keeps before him the Fur-
pose for which it was started
If you live where the climate pre-
vents tree planting on Christmas day
could you not give your son the price
Of a fruit tree and let it be planted
when the proper season arrives r
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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-12-16

1t is not so much the thought Of re-
ceiving the customary holiday gifts
which most pleases the fancy, but
rather that pleasure the heart derives
from dwelling upon joyful surprises
1t may bestow upon others. To bring
a smile of gladness upon another's
face is, indeed. boon more precious
than Christmas gift. and the JOY
Of bestowing can neve; be eQualed by
the receiving.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-12-16
snowbsIIs Through Royal Windows


the snow up in the corners-why that
kind of snow doesn't seem to come
down at all, but just goes slanting by
until it runs up against something 1t
can't pass.
! remember being on night train
one time; and when we woke up In
the morning, and the train was run
ming over the smooth prairies, little
girl from a big city In western Penn
sylvania Il won't tell you what city
it was but maybe you can guess) ex-
claimed as she looked out Of the
window:
Look, Mammal The snow out here
is white !"
don't need to say much about the
Christmas dinner. But If you have
your Christmas dinner In the country,
the turkey perhaps is one your folks
raised, or that was raised in the
borhood--anyhow, it is pretty
likely to be native, and not a resi-
dent of a cold storage plant some
where. Or maybe you'll have goose
or brace Of chickens. Anyway, you'll
know their pedigree, and that they're
fresh and good.
And 1t will be the same way all
down the line-vegetables, and pies.
and everything. And cooked cooked
to turn--just long enOugh-just
short enough-just right.
And you will more than likely have
one thing that they won't have at the
Christmas dinner in the city, because
you know the cost Of living just now
is mighty high, IN town especially, for
both rich and poor. So you will have
one thing that the city boy probably
will not have
Enough
So could go on and show you a
dozen other ways In which a Christ
mas in the country puts it all over a
Christmas in the city, but ] am going
to mention just one thing more: the
Christmas tree.
OF course they have Christmas trees
in the city. In New York trainloads
of them come down every season from
the Adirondacks, and in Chicago boat
loads come from Michigan's upper
peninsula. You can buy them for fifty
cents or a dollar, and they make very
good Christmas trees indeed.
I don't know what you think about
this either-but ! have always thought
that things / did myself and for my
self were just twice the fun of things
/ bought myself or hired myself. And
/ think that especially about Christ
mas tree. If you are lucky enough
to be able to go out and pick your
own tree, and chop 1t down, and bring
it in--well, that's what I call a real
Christmas tree!
Because that is really and truly
your Christmas tree. You selected 1t
with your own eye and chopped 1t
down with your own axe and brought
1t home with your own muscle. The
Christmas tree-that is your job:
Bringing In the Tree
Father gets the turkey,
Mother makes the pie
Each one has g Christmas job
To do, and so have l.
Sister strings the popcorn
To decorate-but, gee!
have got the biggest job
Bringing in the tree!
Turkey is important.
Pie and such are great,
Popcorn strings you have to have
When you decorate.
But I guess Christmas
Christmas wouldn't be
n you didn't have boy
Bringing In the treel
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