The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25

DISPLAY made by the Albany Herald Pub
fishing Co. received much favorable comment,
as did MANY of the other features OF the lair
ALBANY is receiving high praise for shutting
out the cries of calamity howlers with the
hum OF busy and successful trade week and
a splendid fair
! DIR, Matheson is a good man, was doing a
good work as the head of Georgia Tech, and
we regret that he has left the state; but we
are not one Of those who believe the instltu-
ton has received an irreparable blow, There
are others who can take hold where he lett OFT,
and the school will continue to go forward,
1t would indeed, be lamentabe if the success
IOf great state institution depended on any
one man.
NEWSPAPERS denounce the filth OF the Ar
buckle case and then print columns OF the
stuff in disgusting detail, The reading public
shudders and shivers at the horrible details,
but contribute to the demand for such by ca
gerlv reading all that is printed. Thus we run
about in circles building for good on one hand
and contributing to the evils on the other.
How human humans are.
We are paying a big price for the expert
ence of government control of business during
the war 1t is up to the people themselves to
study these matters; not from prejudice and
.impu1sive snap Judgment over incidents OF the
moment, but sanely and deliberately with the
ultimate always in view in order to realize
on and recoup from these heavy and compul-
sorry investments.
The real Georgia state fair will open at Ma
con Thursday, and, as usual, large crowds
will Journey to the Central City to see the eX-
position. For many years this fair has been
recognized as a state institution, at which are
seen the best there is in agricultural products,
the domestic arts, live stock and machinery
of every kind No one should miss it.
Our esteemed contemporary, the Dalton
Citizen, has just celebrated its seventy-fourth
Anniversary Notwithstanding its old age the
paper is more virile than ever before in its
long existence. We hope the Citizen and its
able editors Messrs. Shope and McCamy, will
be with us many years to come.
1t will be cheerful news to users of anthra-
a 40 per cent increase in wages next spring,
with a seven-hour day. The prospect tor an
thracite being placed in the jewelry or pre-
cious stone classification is frightening.
The saaried man is having his inning. In
the early days of the high prices his salary
did not keep level with the advancing cost Of
living Now that there is actually some reduc-
ton in the cost of living salaries are not de-
creasing in proportion.
A very feminine creature was heard to
criticise the kniCkerbocker girls, insisting that
the costume was too manish." She might
have gotten away with it, too, if she had not
Immediately dropped package of cigarettes
from her purse.
One chemist says time will come when a
half pound of coal will heat a house for the
entire winter, But by that time they'll say
! its black diamond, and charge for it at dia-
mond prices
Taponicas have been in full bloom in Daw-
son for some time, being several weeks in ad-
vance OF the usual season for these rare flow
ers.
Triton will see to it that there are plenty OF
acknowledged fryers for the preachers
New Agricultural and Industrial Era Is
Dawning Over Egypt.
By Frederick Simpich.
Ever since the plague OF toads, ever since
Pharoah's army drowned in the Red Sea,
Egypt has been in the worlds eye-some-
thing is always happening there. Napoleon
Ionce called Egypt "the most important land
on earth!" And in the world this old
Bible land played singularly conspicuous
role Tens OF thousands OF troops were based
along the Nile for the operations against
Turkey; a railway was built from Cairo to
Jerusalem, crossing the Suez canal on draw
bridge at Kantara. To feed and support the
British troops Egypt delivered many mil