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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28
Europeans That Hate Us Be-
Mcause We Are "Meddlesome,
Patronizing and Tightwads"
From the Literary Digest.

MANY and varied have been the hatreds
entertained in Europe during the last sew
eral centuries, but it appears that now
good part of it is united in hating America.
In the words of Frederick Palmer, the war
correspondent, who seems to have had ex-
ceptional opportunities to observe the pres
ent situation: eff every American who went
abroad had set out to be quarrelsome
boor we could not have better succeeded
in making ourselves disliked." This state Oh
affairs puzzled Mr. Palmer, and he set out
to discover the reason for the widespread III
feeling toward a nation which only couple
of years ago apparently was held IN high
esteem by Europeans. 10 that end ne pc
gan asking wherever he went the question,
in effect, "Why don't you like us?' The
answers varied in the different countries.
but all agreed in the matter of finding fault
with America What he considered Amerl-
cans patronizing attitude during the war
and her aloofness now was assigned by
Briton as the chief cause of British lrrlta-
ton The Poles didn't deny that America S
relief work in Poland had been fine, but
thew complained that in fighting typhus in
their country the Americans had followed
an unpopular method. The French said they
would have had the left bank of the Rhlne
and the Italians thought they would have
had Fiume if the Americans hadn't stood
in the way. The Germans were sure they
would have licked everybody IN Europe ana
had things their own way if America had
not butted in. "Look what we suffered,
exclaimed the Belgians; and now, said they,
America, who didn't suffer at all, won't
even sign the treaty to defend Belgium if
the Germans once more attack her. And
nearly every place the correspondent went,
it seems, the cry was for money and credit
from America, who is so rich. The senti-
ment of all Europe seems to be that Amer
lea should come across and help set them
up in business again. One source of irrlta-
ton, also, we are told, is the TOOL American
tourists way of Haunting his cOuntry's
money in the faces of the Europeans with
the query, ''Do you want to see some real
money!" Taking it all together, the land of
the square dear' and good will toward
all the world is rapidly becoming the
scapegoat of the world, in the opinion of
Mr. Palmer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28
How Many Acres to Oats
And Rye This Year?
From the Progressive Farmer.

1t is time to decide how many acres to
plant to oats and rye this fall. 1t is time
to select the land and begin putting it in
shape for planting 1t is time to order the
seed. We can't boast of self-sustaining
system of farming as long as the South
fails to raise as much corn, oats or hay as
it uses and sends its money to other sec
ton to buy these things in great quantl-
ties A good crop of oats and rye on your
farm this fall will help cut down purchases
of all these products.
Oats can be sowed from September l to
November Is. In the latitude of South
Georgia early October seedlings have given
the best yields. FuIghum oats or red rust
proof with kindred varieties as Appler,
have proved very satisfactory. Plow or
disk the land four to six inches deep, pull
,verize it with harrow, if necessary use
drag or roller. Treat seed oats with forma
lin to prevent smut, and plant from two to
three bushels to the acre. Plant the seed in
open burrows or trenches to prevent winter
killing.
Plant oats on good land. They do we'll
after an early crop of corn and cowpeas,
or following peanuts. From 200 to 300
pounds of acid phosphate to the acre will
increase the yields and pay profit. When
vetch is combined with oats at the rate of
two bushels of oats and half bushel of
vetch they furnish winter grazing, can be
cut for hay in the spring and improve the
land
Rye alone or rye with crimson clover
goes a long way toward making winter
pasture Sow early, in September if posi-
BILE, to get good growth before cold
weather. Broadcast rye or drill it in the
cotton fields after the first picking, or
plant on fields prepared as for oats From
one and half to two bushels per acre
should be sowed when it is grown for graz
ing. Abruzzi has proved one Of the best va
rieties for this purpose.
Because rye will grow on poor land do
not impose on it. 1t responds well to fer
tilizer and the better the land the bigger
the crop.
After helping feed the stock during the
winter rye can be turned under in the
spring to feed the soil.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28
Tom Watson and Prohibition.
T. Boifeuillet in Macon Evening News.

Jno T. Boifeuillet in Macon Evening News.
During the recent campaign, in the pres
ence of the largest audience ever assembled
in Macon on a political occasion, so far as
the memory of living man recalls, Thos. <.
Watson declared that he was pioneer pro-
hibitionist in Georgia; that away back yon-
der in 1882 he led temperance fight IN
the general assembly in behalf of the cause.
That was the year of his first service IN
the legislature as a representative from
the county of McDuffie.
On this Holy Sabbath morning, when the
minds of men should dwell only upon the
true the beautiful and the good-when
their thoughts should be of things spiritual
and not so much of the earthly regard
it as opportune and fitting 10 publish the
following eloquent words by Mr. Watson
on the subject of "Strong Drink:
'It is warrior whom no victory can sat
isfy, no ruin satiate. 1t pauses at no Rubi-
con to consider, pitches no tents at night,
goes into no quarters for winter. 1t con-
quers amid the burning plains of the
south where the phalanxes of Alexander
halted in mutiny. 1t conquers amid the
snowdrifts of the north where the grand
army of Napoleon found its winding sheet.
It's monuments are in every burial ground.
It's badges of triumph are the weeds which
mourners wear. Its song of victory is the
wall that was heard in Ramah-' Rachel
crying for her children and weeping be-
cause they are not
"The sword is mighty, and its bloody
traces reach across time, from Ninevah to
Gravelotte, from Marathon to Gettysburg.
Yet mightier is it's brother, the wine-cup
| say brother and history says brother
Castor and Polux never fought together
in more fraternal harmony. David and Jona-
than never Joined in more generous rivalry.
Hand in hand they have come down the
centuries, and upon every scene of carnage,
like vultures and shadows they have met
and Toasted.
''Yea, pair of giants, but the greater is
the wine-cup The sword has scabbard, and
is sheathed has a conscience, and becomes
glutted with havoc; has pity, and gives
quarter to the vanquished. The wine-cup
has no scabbard, and no conscience; its APP
petite is a cancer which grows as you feed
it; to pity, it is deaf; to suffering, it isl
blind.
"The sword is the lieutenant of death,
but the wine-cup his captain and if ever
they come home to him from the wars
bringing their trophies, Boosting of their
achievements I can imagine that Death
their master, will meet them with garlands
,and song, as the maidens of Judea met Saul
and David. But as he numbers the victories
of each his pean will be, The sword is my
Saul, who has slain his thousands; but the
wine-cup is my David, who has slain his tens
,of thousands"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28
THE TAX ARBITRATION.

The arbitration of Terrell countys tax
returns resulted as stated elsewhere in The
News, in an increase of not quite half the
amount demanded by the state tax officials.
The people of the county will accept the
verdict of the arbitrators, and make no
further protest They have no desire nor in
tention to shirk the payment of their part
of the taxes necessary to support the state
government, but they could not concede the
justice of requiring them to pay taxes on
land at an average valuation of $40 an
acre while an average of only $40 per acre
was required of neighboring counties.
State Tax Commissioner Fullbright is to
be commended for his zeal in endeavoring
to require all property to bear its share of
the tax burden. In him the state has a ca
pable and aggressive official who would not
knowingly do an injustice to anyone, and
in the Terrell county matter he must have
been misinformed and badly advised by
some one.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28
ONE TERM PRESIDENCY.

When the constitution was framed to limit
the tenure of the presidency to- one term there
was much diversity of opinion on the length
of term. 1t ran from three years to seven
years. Finally four years was agreed upon.
Then the question reverted to the eligibility
of the president for reelection. The discus
sion on this point in the convention was
pointed and earnest Gouverneur Morris said
ineligibility "tended to destroy the great mo-
tive for good behavior-the hope of being re-
warded by a reappointment." The resolution
to make the president Ineligible was defeated
by vote of six states against four, three
not then being represented.
But the idea of single term president had
found Judgment. Delaware, Virginia, North
Carolina and South Carolina voted against
the resolution making him eligible for more
than one term. When the Confederate States
of America were formed by the secession COM
monwealths the sentiment of the old constitu-
tional convention found expression, and the
confederate constitution fixed the tenure of
the presidency at one term of six years. The
sentiment was an inheritance from the cOnsti-
tutional convention when three or four south
ern states favored making him ineligible for
reelection.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28
CAMPAIGN TEMPERS.

People are weary unto disgust in Geor
gia of newspaper lying, misrepresenta-
ton and partisan and fractional spleen.
They have reached the end of their pa
tience in that regard.-Atlanta Georgian.
Many candidates, national and state, and
newspapers and politicians generally seem
to be in an exceptionally irascible state this
year. Tempers usually good are shattered'
Men who are civil of speech in private life
have developed a wonderful turn for bill
lingsgate in public life.
Take our own state campaign-Never, we
think have there been such explosions OF
bad temper and worse language on the part
of gentlemen and newspapers usually ia
vorable known to their neighbors for suavi-
ty of speech and charity of thought. What
ais politics, anyhow? 1t must be one OF
those reactions of the war; some writers
and public speakers tell US about.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28
SOME LEAGUE SALARIES.

The league of nations is not self-ti-
nancinp institution. 1t has no sources OF
revenue except appropriations made by the
nations which are members. The Cri de
Paris has published list of some OF the
leading salaries paid the various functlona-
ries.
The encouragement receives $4,000
annually, while his secretary receives S2o,-
600. Two under secretaries receive SlOooV
each. The director of each of the twelve
sections receives from $4,000 to $4,000
The members of the sections-and the num-
Der runs from four to nineteen-draw from
$4,000 to $4,000 annually. The chief libra
rian gets $4,000, and the director of the
international bureau of labor is paid $780,
600. The chief of the diplomatic division
receives $4,000. The chief of the service OF
inquiry into sovietism is paid $4,000, though
what has come of his service is not appar-
ent. The sub-chief of the scientific division
draws a salary of $4,000.
If the directors of the twelve sections
average $4,000 each their total salaries
amount to $4,000. If the members of the
sections average ten and receive an average
salary of $4,000 the cost of the member
ship of the twelve sections is $480,000. The
total salary list of the officials enumerated
by the Cri de Paris would then be $751;
OOO There are 357 persons in the organi-
cation Whenever a meeting of the league
is called all these officials must be moved
from the place of the last meeting to that
of the new one. This expense may be elm
mated after the permanent capital of the
league is established. But at present the
cost of moving the league is heavy. Again,
it should be remembered that the expenses
are those of the administrative
officials only. The expenses of the members,
their suites and their retinues must be add
ed These, of course, are borne by the ma
tons which they represent but they are
part of the cost of the league.
Only the council of the league is func-
tioning so far. The assembly has not yet
met. When it does it will also require an
immense organization to administer its
1-Orlr
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28
THE COTTON SITUATION.
Great Southern Trade Paper Declares
Bears and Federal Reserve Board Ham
mer Down Prices With Crop Short.

The Manufacturers Record makes the
following strong statement, heartily sup
porting the activities of the American Cot
ton Association:
English cotton experts at the Worlds
Cotton Conference in New Orleans last
year insisted that the world needed 49,
600 .OOO-bale crop from the South this year.
They repeated the statement over and over
again when they got back to England. They
warned manufacturers of a world cotton
famine already in sight. The South has not
raised the 15,000,000 bales for which they
begged. Its crop will be several million
bales short of what they said was absolute
ly needed; but under the drastic deflation
work of the Federal Reserve Board. which
has brought stagnation where Astounding
activity prevailed, cotton buyers in Europe
and in this country and the bear gamblers
are using the opportunity thus created to
drive cotton prices down below the cost OF
production.
BETRAYED in the house of it's supposed
friends, its credits curtailed by the action
of the board, the South must face a ire
mendous fight to protect its cotton against
all enemies, open and secret. The planters
should, after paying their debts, hold their
cotton and store it, knowing full we'll that
if they assert their power they can con-
troll the marketing of their staple.
The age old custom of rushing cotton to
the market in the fall only played into the
hands of the buyers, who, having forced
prices to the lowest point, stocked up heav-
lily, and then prices advanced, to their
profit but to the loss of the growers.
Let the south hold its cotton and market
it slowly, during twelve months instead Of
in four, and the producer will then soon
hold the whip handle and no longer be
driven by the lash of the buyers At the
same time the south should give its at
tention more largely to diversified agricul-
ture, raising a full supply of foodstuffss,
for its own use and to add to the nations
food stores, making cotton a surplus crop
For a quarter of century the Manufactur-
ers Record has sought to drive home the
idea that every southern farmer should
raise his own foodstuffs and then plant in
cotton his surplus land only. In that way
lie prosperity and safety, and in that way
only.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28
MOVIES IN REALISM.

The Pickfords have enchanted their mil
lions. Young girls and older women have
watched their actions on the screen and en-
WED them the perfection of their, happi-
ness. But the world is awakened with a
shock to learn that what it has seen and
sobbed and laughed over is a sham and a
pretense. Mary Pickford had scarcely been
divorced from her first husband and mar
ried to the one she selected while the wife
of the first before Olive Thomas, the wife
of Jack Pickford, the brother of Mary, died
at Paris under circumstances which disclose
sordid life that would hardly appeal to
the romantic side of the people who were
thrilled by the screen projections of the
dead woman's husband and herself.
The movies are not responsible for the
shams in the lives of those who make them.
The movies are not inherently immoral. So
lono as the Pickfords were struggling up
ward to fame and fortune there was moth
ING in their lives to which the Puritan could
nrotest. But they lived life of make be-
lieve and sham. In time it became part
of themselves. Success intoxicated them
life was too drab to satisfy the mental at
titude developed in them. They wanted eX
citement. The things which had been salts
flying no longer were So
But the biggest shock comes to the PEG
nile who. having considered them ideal, fine
they were sordid, unreal and artificial 1
is a severe jolt to the imaginations of many
but in the end it will teach valuable les
son. The stage is recognized as unreal, blu
the movie, because it places the actors s.
far out of the vision, has gradually com
to be considered a perturbation of tn
ideal, the noble and the perfect in life. TIL
Pickfords have disillusioned those who be
lieved so.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28
Boil Worm Enemy Found.
From Alabama Farm Facts.

That big fleas have little fleas to prey
upon and bite 'em, and little f1eas have less
err fleas, and so ad infinitum (the pseudo
scientific explanation of insect life, was
not thought to apply to the boil weevil as
far as the agricultural experts discover at
ter studying the insect pest for several
wears. Some comforting intelligence comes
from Mississippi, however, that an insect
proving upon the boil weevil has been dis
covered on the extensive cotton farm of
Walter Clark, at Clarksdale. The MISSISSIPPI
ri and federal entomologists are said to be
studying the habits of the new insect care
fully with a view to making a detailed re-
port on how far it may be expected to re-
ieve the boil weevi situation. AS the APP
parent enemy of the weevil has only re-
Gently made its appearance in Mississippi,
and in a very limited area, it may be some
time before the entomologists are ready to
give authentic information on the subject.
Mr.. Clark was one of the Mississippi dele
gates at the meetings of the American Cot
ton Associations special committees in
Montgomery recently and Farm Facts took
occasion to obtain some information from
him on the newly discovered insect. 1t is
species of worm which follows the weevil
into the boil in the egg-laying period and
consumes the eggs as fast as they are laid.
The boil penetrated by the egg-laYing Wee
vii is unproductive and drops off the stalk,
but through the destruction of the eggs laid
IN the boil there is no second crop of Wee
wills and no serious infestation of cotton
fields such as planters have experienced in
that part.of Mississippi in the past. Accord
ing to Mr.. Clark the new worm does a
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

complete job, consuming every egg deposit
ed in a boil.
If the new insect is as effective as re-
ported-and Mr. Clark is one of the most
reliable and best informed cotton men IN
Mississippi-there should be some interest
ing developments in the boil weevil situa-
ton before next season, or possibly before
the present season has passed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

This is the season of the year to SOW
garden seeds one day and have them come
up the next, if your neighbors have chick
ems. If the scratching by the chickens was
all it wouldn't be so bad, but often it caus-
es neighbors to scratch each others faces
and one cannot blame people to get mad now
when it is SO hard to get seeds planted.
Keep your chickens on your own premises
or kill them, unless you want to sell them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

Most of the newspapers in and out of
Georgia concede Mr. Watson's ability, and
many of them predict useful career for
him in the senate. They recall that it was
Mr.. Watson who introduced and urged to
passage, when he was a member of con-
gress, the resolution giving to the rural
people of Georgia daily mail delivery. 1t
was one of the greatest pieces of legisla-
ton ever enacted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28
THE MAN AND HIS PUP.

The average man buys a pointer dog
And pays as much as he would for hog,
AS soon as he says goodbye to his change,
He turns him rowing to take the mango.
He rolls his sleeves, removes his coat
And dips his dog in creosOte.
Buys high-priced beef, that he may be fed
With the best of food till his dog is dead.
Dawson, Ga. H.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

The News congratulates Hon. Charles R.
Crisp upon his nomination for congress
from the Third district. Mr.. Crisp is always
ready to serve his constituents in every
way that he can, and The News feels sure
the district will be well represented by
him for the next two years as it has been
for the past eight
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28
THE VOTERS PUZZLE.

From the Houston Chronicle.
Isn't it passing strange that whenever two
humans aspire to one office the public mind
becomes impressed with the fact that one of
them is a bang-up patriot and the other is
a doleful dolt and voracious throgdolyte, the
only difference of opinion being as to which is
which?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

The compliment of the tax commissioner
to Terrell county farm lands is duly appre-
cated, but it comes high. The owners
can't see the fairness in taxing Terrell
land at valuation of $40 per acre while
the valuation for tax purposes of land in
adjoining counties is only $50 an acre.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

Eugene Debs, the socialist candidate for
president being anxious to get out of the
federal penitentiary near Atlanta, should
test the virtues of a hunger strike. 1t re-
mains to be seen how it would work in the
"home of the brave and land of the free"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

Since we have seen the Maine election
figures we have concluded that Maine is too
far away to really know what is going on
Perhaps they will have caught on by about
March A. 1921.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

Cotton piskers can now make enough
money in one week to buy few pounds
of coal. They are getting a dollar Tin some
instances more) per hundred for gathering
the fleecy staple, and it is simply hanging
in the fields.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

Up by the neck until dead is the proper
treatment for bomb thrower. Killing de-
fenseless men and women is not going to
correct the faults of society here any more
than it did in Europe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

The cotton fields of Terrell county are
indeed white unto harvest, and the labor
ers are few" but the open weather enables
the farmers to get in some beautiful staple.
May this weather continue.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

It's high time you were clearing that new
ground you have been calling your garden.
Get your axe and cut down weeds and
plant some turnip seed. 1t will help your
financial and physical health.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

President Wilson can extract this grain
of comfort from the result of the election
in Georgia: The people of the state adopted
his idea of "self-determination."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

Editor W. G. Sutlive of the Savannah
Press, was defeated for coroner in Chat
ham county He is too live a newspaper
man to bother with dead subjects.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

There is one motor car to every sixteen
people in this country. Some of the drivers
evidently want to eliminate the other fiji
teen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-28

The Kiffir wife must employ a different
language from that of her husband and
must never refer to him by name.