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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

From the New York Tribune


There was the governors lady in the play
who did not rise socially side by side with her
brilliant husband. This was decades before
Main street sounded its tocsin, and she was
lovingly contented with horizon limited by
her husbands comfort and her children's wei
fare-until an ante-cinema vamp had all but
hog-tied him. Then, stirred as much by the
ire of competition as by any belief in her
latent power of fascination, the governor
lady cut herself asunder from the kitchen
apron and made the governor and his elite
set grovel before her wit and shoulders.
But things are now in reverse. 1t is the
wife of social charm who proves she also
can cook. A real live governors lady, Mrs.
Martha McKelvie, wife of the present gov
ernor of Nebraska, not only keeps HIM hap
py and backs him in anything he IS amb1-
tious to do" but she herself without ser
want housekeeps their twenty one-room man
sion, all cooking included. This is her reply
to those who argue that servantless western
homes will have to be abandoned for coopy
apartment houses if women are to have
social and intellectual career When bitterly
told that she was not believed she offered
an inspection of her immaculate mansion and
her full engagement book She refers doubters
to her neighbors. She offers to match her
self intellectually against one critic who be-
Titled her capacity for study in her spare
time. How does she do it? Listen
1.-The whole discussion is rank nonsense!
Will you tell me where the hundreds of
women are-women Of old Missouri, as L
knew it-who got up at 5 o'clock, fed the
chickens, MIXED, churned, packed lunches
and got seven or eight children off to
school, cooked breakfast of hickory smok-
ed ham, eggs, potatoes, cakes, biscuits and
coffee while fix toast on an electric toast
er and boil two one-ninute eggs Tor one
husband), the women who put the clothes
to soak and had them on the line before
their husbands went to the fields then
cooked two more square meals in the day
for the hired men and the family? Where
are these women? | am willing to bet the
ladies of Kansas City that Missouri is full
of them. They may not be on your calling
list, but they are the foundation OF the state.
They'll tell you | am doing half the work
they do-with more conveniences and cas-
ier allowance.
1--WE women must earn our blessings and
not be barnacles. Many of us have inherit
ed money from the savings of pioneers l
should never wear silk next my body with
out thinking of the toil-worn women who
wore the coarse ticking skirt and the under
garments of sacks.
"If the women will only quit arguing
they'll soon find measure of happiness-in
proportion to their labor"
Hurrah for the governors lady! She seems
to be intelligenty balanced between the ex-
tremes of drudge and jazz queen. We will
have to think of Nebraska in the future as
the state of Mrs. McKelvie, of John G. Me
hardt as poet laureate, and of the books of
Villa Gather one American hctonist who
has eyes in her head and something in her
mind.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21
WILD ASSES OF ARIZONA.
About 1000 Find Habitat in the Depths
Of the Grand Canyon.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

The most famous dialogue in all history
is that recorded in the sixteenth chapter of
Numbers, between the ass and BALKAN. AS
will be remembered, the ass had much the
better of the argument.
All through the Bible one finds frequent
mention of the ass, which, at the present
times in Palestine and the near east general
ly, still plays, as anciently it did, an import
ant part in the life of the people, who take
much pains in breeding the animals and rear
ing the young.
In the depths of the Grand Canyon Of the
Colorado there are now about 1000 wild
asses which are direct descendants of ami
mails that were domesticated in the Holy
Land and neighboring regions in the time
of Abraham.
Their forebears were brought to this coun-
try by the Spaniards, who were first to ex-
plore northern Arizona, through which the
Grand Canyon runs. They took with them
asses to carry food and other supplies, and
the progeny of some of these beasts have
remained there ever since in wild state
They have multiplied to such an extent as
to become a nuisance and the government
is planning to exterminate them by shoot
ing or other means
1t will be no easy job for the ass, especial
ly when wild, is one of the cleverest and
most alert animals. Xenophon, $500 years
ago, wrote that only the swiftest horse could
keep pace with wild ass. The creature is
SO suspicious OF man lHdl II IS QlIIlCult 10 ger
within rifle range; and, as for the lasso one
might as well try to rope jack rabbit. A
wild ass will look back at its pursuer-as a
horse will not do-and dodge a rope
The prophet Jeremiah speaks of the wild
ass, used to the wilderness that snuffeth up
the wind" 1t is desert brute, originally ma
tive to northern Africa and Arabia, and it
can live where no other creature could pos
sibly survive.
Undoubtedly the ass was domesticated long
before the horse. The latter probably was
native to humid country, but the ass has a
hard hoof adapted to the dry desert. 1t
can get subsistence from nothing more sus-
tanning than creosote brush. 1t can eat any
thing that man can eat The domeSticated
asses OF our own west, which are called
'burros," will browse on bacon rindS and 9TH
er remnants of camp provender.
The wild asses OF the Grand Canyon roam
over the plateau 1000 feet or so above the
river, and 1000 feet below the canyons rim.
They denude the plateaus of grass and other
forage, so that antelopes and other native
wild game animals have been driven out for
lack of food
In the Tonic national forest, Arizona.
where the Roosevelt dam is located, there
are couple of thousand wild asses in the
businesses of the mountains. 1t is very de-
sirable that they shall be killed off, but it is
a hard matter to get at them. They eat grass
that is needed for domestic animals, and often
they elope with tame burros.
Not long ago, north of Tonic forest 400
wild asses were rounded up and sold at auc-
ton for $3.50 apiece. The buyer took them to
Winslow, killed them, sold the hides and fed
the meat to hogs
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21
A New Governor.

Georgia will have a new governor before
the close of the present week. Little remains
to be said concerning Thos. w. Hardwick.
Nothing more need be said than was said
during the campaign.
Mr.. Hardwick will be capable and efficient
governor. He will administer the governor
ship on business principles (Which is sorely
needed and for the good of all the people.
He knows the people of the state, and the
needs of the state itself Forced to meet a
campaign of narrow criticism, often villifi-
cation, he conducted himself with dignity,
and proved that in soberness of temper and
calmness under great stress he possesses the
qualities which make a successful governor
of great state. The governorship is posi-
tion of large responsibilities. Men OF large
capabilities and unquestioned merit should be
chosen to that position. His friends are con-
fdent that is what the state has done in the
election of T. w. Hardwick.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21
THE GUN-PACKERS.

From the Columbia Is. c. Record.
The problem of what to do with the pistol
toter has not been solved in Kentucky. The
court OF appeals of that state has held that
the Kentucky statute depriving him of his
franchise rights is unconstitutional The SUI
preme court of the United States would not
unlikely affirm this decision. Pistol-totine
may not be unconstitutional but it is incom,
patible with the constitutional guarantee to
every citizen Of life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. The pisto1-toter is a menace
to peace and security 1t is clear that we
can not disfranchise him. But if we can not
deprive him of his franchise, what is more to
the point, we can deprive him of his pistol.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21
PeriIs VS.. Thrills.

Nature denied men wings, but provided
them with ingenuity sufficient to accomplish
the feat of flying by use of artificial means.
Now they outriva1 the birds of the air as to
swiftness, but they cannot equal them in
safety. The desire to fly, and the opportunity
to do so bring their thrills, no doubt, but they
also bring their perils, of which there are
many from time to time. Hundreds OF men
and women have gone to their death because
of the desire for the thrills which weighed
too heavily in the scale against the hazards
they took Those who died in the discharge
of duty may be catalogued as sacrificing their
lives because of necessity, but others who
flew for the thrills only seem to have held
their existence lightly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21
Romance in Real Life.

That truth is stranger than fiction is prov
en- daily in the news The story of Rev. David
S. K Byrne is apropos. In Chicago, many
years ago, Rev. Mr.. Byrne was invited by a
young woman in the slums to buy her a
drink He kne1t and prayed instead, and as
a result of the prayer the girl reformed and
returned to her parents who lived in Flori-
da. The girls father was William George
Byrne, an iliterate man who had acquired
much valuable land. Two years after the
girls return she died. and her father also
died in the same year. In his will the father
divided his estate between his widow, son
and daughter, and provided for a number of
requests. The residue, he directed should go
to David S. Kidd, on the condition that he
change his name to David S. K. Byrne. The
Canadian who had set Lucy Byrne straight
by prayer was David S. Kidd, the present
Rev. David S. K Byrne. By a codicil, after
the daughters death her share was given to
David S. Kidd and a trust fund for aiding
hayward girls established in her memory
In 1914 the widow and her son were in Aus
traia, and since then have not been heard
from. They are believed to have returned to
America and to have been drowned in the
Empress of Ireland disaster in the St. Law
renee river in the spring of 1914. Seven years
having elapsed since that disappearance, UNI
der the law Rev. Mr.. Byrne now becomes
the sole heir to the estate, excepting the trust
fund and requests. The value of the estate is
conservatively estimated to be $22O0O,OOO and
upward.
The story reveals that romance is not all
in the story books, and also that gratitude
has not persisted from the face of the earth
The influence of an act of kindness is some
thing that cannot be measured. The trust
fund, Rev. Mr.. Byrne states, is to be invest
ed in a home for girls in Chicago, where
Lucy Byrne was reclaimed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

A good way to renew ones faith in the
essential integrity of the country is to make
a journey past the farms of Southwest Geor-
gia However confused and perplexing our
human problems may be nature goes on her
way placid, serene and undisturbed The
farming country seldom looked handsomer
than it does now. To one who loves this great
section of Georgia no landscape is superior
If you would take a new hold on hope and
confidence, and if you would renew the spirit
of optimism within you take ride through
the country, anywhere, during these wonder
full days of June. You will return refreshed
and inspired, and with renewed strength for
your task
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

Europe is doing all she can to make a fool
Of the prince of Japan, who is visiting in
the old world, being just now in France The
big bugs and the would-be big bugs are
kowtowing before the little prince and making
him think he is great. We missed like per-
Torrance in this country only because he de-
clined an invitation to visit the United States
Possibly he will get his head twisted and
think he ought to rule the universe, The
snobbishness of the people is past fathoming
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

Congressman Drane, of Florida, dehed su-
perstition when he presented bill in the
house of representatives at Washington pro-
vidiag for the addition of another month to
the calendar. He would call the month Ceb-
ter and it would fall between June and July.
Inasmuch as Mr.. Drane's arrangement, which
provides for thirteen months and for Friday
always to fall on the 18th, Cebter seems to
be inapropos for the proposed months desig-
nation
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

1t is not absolutely necessary to go to col
lege to get the mind and viewpoint of an ed
ucated man. Many of the best educated men
we know never attended a college or univer-
sity. The man or the woman is the essential
thing A college cannot make wise man
out of fool, and lack of college education can
not keep person of scholarly qualities from
splendid self-development.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

1t is not likely that anywhere near one
tenth of the people of America are feeble
minded" 1t is not likely, either, that feeble
mindedness exists in any greater proportion
than it used to- All that is happening is that
modern psychology is turning its searchlight
on mental levels that were never studied be-
fore, and with the zeal of a new cult exag-
geratng what it sees.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

The seven Georgia congressman who voted
for the resolution to end the technical state
of war between the United States and the
central powers have the approval Of an over
whelming majority of the people Of Georgia
Congress should have taken this action soon
after hostilities ceased. That it should have
been delayed until now is little less than alb
surd.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

Those who complain that they cannot bor-
row money now may live long enough to
realize that it was we'll they could not borrow.
Debts have to be- paid, and sometime they are
paid in worry more than in money. The man
who gets along now with what he has and
prepares himself for participation in the pros
perity which will come sooner or later is the
WiseSt among men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

A sample of modesty was noted the other
day that was refreshing-a young lady bat
Ting with the wind to keep her dress down.
Most of 'em buy 'em short on purpose. We
believe that if we were young lady we'd
dress becomingly, but we would not let the
wind embarrass u.s.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

Physical culture for members of congress
is declared to be sufficiently beneficial to make
fat men lean and lean men strong, to drive
away that drowsy feeling and to eliminate the
Crouch If it will do all that it will not be
necessary for a lot of congressman to seek
reelection. They would be fitted to do some
thing else.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

The -milionth motor car of certain
well-known make is reported to have been
turned out at Detroit factory. Any man
in the street, as he jumps out OF the way of
this sef-same motor car, would insist there
is mistake somewhere, and that the one
to repose in the manufacturers museum sure
ly must be the five bilionth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

Something in moving pictures is to be Of
fered by woman producer who hates the
bedroom and boudoir scenes Miss Catherine
Curtis proposes to give the film lovers, mean
ing those who go to see motion pictures, a
chance at some out door action that is alb
solutelY clean Bravo Miss Curtis!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

The railroad managers might as we'll quit
talking about impossibility of any reductions
of freight rates, and make up their minds
that the rates must come down. If rates are
not reduced following the reduction of the
railroad workingmens wages a protest will
arise from the public that will be both loud
and vehement.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

Americas boasts of COW with literary
taste. She was caught in the act of actually
eating some of Editor Kirkpatrick's editorials,
Very naturally, the owners of Bossy there
after detected an unusually pleasing taste to
her milk
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

The official idea of economy seems to be
increasing appropriations and then increasing
assessments to pay them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

IT'S the truth that folks are more careful
of spending a nickel than they were OF spend
ing dollar year or so ago, unless you re-
fer to gasoline and amusements. They're dit
ferent, you know.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21
WHAT PRIZE FIGHTERS EAT.

From the Boston Post
| Speaking of food Jack Dempsey, the cham
pion fighter, ate the following meal as part
OF his training routine on a recent evening:
Soup, steak, potatoes, corn, string beans let
! tuce, salad, onions, olives, (more steak), rhu-
barb, cakes, apple pie and tea.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21
NEED A TEN-ACRE LOT.

From the Kansas City Star.
The dentists have asked for permission to
use whisky for reviving patients. But isn't the
average dentists Office a tri1e small for such
volume of business as this would afford?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

The bright lights of the city draw the
sporty crowd but those who stick to the old
farm lantern and help the old man care tor
the stock will prosper more in the long rum
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

A washington correspondent says congress
is getting worried about "the huge waste OF
natural gas" in this country. That's something
congress can do much toward remedying.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

"Are the schools in politics, or are there
politics in the schools?" asks the Jackson
Progress-Argus. Our observation is that OF
ten it is both.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

Opportunity is not heard when it knocks
at some peoples doors because, at the same
time they are making so much noise knock
ing their home town.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

The story that one man made $l,OOO,OOO
"clowning" will be either a disappointment
or an incentive to great many who DO not
get paid for their efforts in this direction
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

The farmers plan to buy comparatively as
we'll as sell comparatively. If they succeed in
that they are likely to put a crimp in some of
the profteering that has been going on.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

If man is as old as he feels the Texan
who married girl just sixty year his junior
must feel very youthful
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-21

The next thing for the graduate is job.
The Monroe journal., 1921-05-03

The tar-famed asphalt Lake 81
Trinidad is not much 20 look "a. X
Is a slightly Coneaye. black patch OF
q hundred acres with shores as de-
finite as those of lake OF water. Ii
is surrounded By scantly nursh ana
low, thirsty palms. To the LETT the
black towers Of halt q dozen oil wells
break the otherwise blank horizon. i
trade wind almost constantly sweeps
across the field
On the surface of the lake several
groups of negroes work leisurely. One
man in each group turns up with ev-
cry blow OF his pick q black. porous
lump of pitch the size of market
basket, the others bear the Jumps
away on their heads TO small cars
that run on narrow tracks. Other
men push the loaded ears TO the fac
tory" The pitch is so lieht that the
largest lump is scarcely burden.
The men are paid eighty cats a day
of ten houfs--a sum that, as II Sc IS
big to them and small to their en-
ployers, satisfies everyone.
This reservoir of pitch is appar-
entity inexhaustible The holes dus
during the dag 6ll iaperceptibly ans
are generally gone by morhlhg; tie
deepest one ever eNcavated disap-
peared in three days. only a small
part of the field is worked; ii could
easily keep all the ships oi the world
busy. -
The lake which sa, Mr. Harry a.
Franck in Roaming Through the West
Indies, has faint smell Of sulphur,
is soft underfoot like a tar sidewalk
IN midsummer. If man stands stiil
on ii for a minute or two. the heels
Of his shoes will sink out OF sight.
In few places it is not solid enough
10 sustain a mans weight though
children and the bare-footed work
men scanlper across 1t anywhere at
sight of n white visitor to demand a
penny. please. sir. "
The Monroe journal., 1921-05-03

i lie QnIkeTs came within a hair
breadth oI not founding the city OF
Philadelphia. The Purita+s WHO coll
onized Massachusetts Bay We're very
intolerant OF Quakers. and il any
venturesome Friend dared TO visit
Boston he MAS likely TO depart with
out ears or with his nose so disiigul cd
that he no longer took pleasure in
looking in the glass. Indeed, so BIT
ter were the Puritans against the
Quakers that they would fain have
carried their persecution OF them far
beyond the confines of the colony.
In September. 1852. William Penn.
determined TO find home for his per
secuted sect, sailed with his company
OF Cuakers for America in the ship
Welcome When the ship was near
ing the American coast. news OF the
enterprise came 10 the ears of the
Puritans in Boston. whereupon. as
Miss Bangs relates in Old Cape Cod.
Cotton Mature wrote 10 the Rev. John
Higginson Of salem: There be- nov
al sea skipper which has ahoa.e I
hundred or more OF the hc.v.i,s
called QuakerS with William Penn.
who is the scamp At the head OF
them
Mather wrote further that secret
orders had gone out To %aylay the
ship "as near the coast OF Codde as
may be and make captiyes OF the
Penn and his ungodly crew. so that
the Lord may be glorified. and not
Knocked on the soil OF this new coun-
try with the heather worship of these
people. =" Still later in his letter he
suggested TO Higginson that Much
spoil can be made by selling the
whole lot to Barbados. where slaves
fetch good prices in rumme and SUI
gar We shall not only do the Lord
great service by Furnishing the Wick
ed. but shall make gain for his min
listers and people.
For some unknown reason the
threatened seizure of 'Codde" did
not take place; Penn and his fellow
colonists were spared the fate of be /
coming slaves in Barbados, They
sailed happily on TO their destination. I
fully prepared TO make il tit place 1
for the signing of the Declaration Of 4
Independence
The Monroe journal., 1921-05-03
The Wonders of Machinery

\ story concerning conversation
between an American and an English.
man, in which the Englishman met
the American on his own ground, not
without success, was told by General
Pershing while he was in London re-
Gently.
My countryman, said the gen.
eral, was telling one of yours a tall
story about wonderful sausage-mak
ing machine they had in Chicago.
It's big affair he explained
but quite simple. All you have to do
is to drive a pig up plank through
a hole In the machine. and. five min
utes later. out come thousands OF
sausages.'
What becomes Of the hide?'
queried the Englishman.
The hide sir? retorted the Amer
lean. oh, that falls out OF another
slot In the machine, and out come
portmanteaus, purses. or. II YOU like.
shoes or saddles. It's merely a mat
ter Of turning a screw
oh. is that all {? said the English
man. We've used that machine In
England for the last thiry-five years.
What's more. we've improved on It.
Sometimes we find the sausages not
up TO the standard Well. what hap
pened? All we had to was TO put
them back In the machine. reverse the
engine -
Go on said the American. what
happenedT
Why. out walks the pig, as fit as
a fiddle.