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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
Amazing Salaries Paid By Federal
Reserve Board.
From the Augusta Chronicle.

When Hon. John Shelton Williams directed
attention to the immense salaries which men
connected with the federal reserve banks were
receiving many people said that he was beg
ging the question, that in the midst of an
arrangement OF policies Mr.. Williams had in
PRODUCED the salary question to confuse the
charges of ruination by the "dehation" course
Iof the federal reserve system.
However the United States senate did not
overlook the salary matter and a committee
Iof the senate directed Governor w. 2. G..
Harding of the federal reserve board to file
with it the salary lists of the twelve banks.
Governor Harding has already filed the sal
airy list for his bank. 1t shows that the pres
ident Of the bank receives $4,000 year, and
that there are three officers of the bank who
receive $4,000 a year each, one that receives
.$25 000 one that receives $22,000 one that
receives $4,000, two that receive Sl8,OOO two
that receive SIS, 1000, one that receives $12 500,
one that receives $4,000, five that receive
$10000 one that receives So, 400, one that re-
ceives $4,000, one that receives $500 and one
that receives 81 900. The initial salary OF the
president of the New York Reserve Bank
was $4,000 a year and the men who are now
receiving $4,000 year were started at $l6,-
600 each.
The federal reserve board is an Independent
organization; that is, is organization not
directly responsible to a cabinet officer. Enor
nous salaries have been paid in all these in
dependent organizations. However, few knew
Of the huge salaries it was paying before Mr..
Williams told of them, and there were those
as to them, but who will now learn OF Gov
ernor Hardings schedule with amazement.
1t has been shown that the shipping board
has also been paying immense salaries. 1t is
understood that senator's have let it be known
that steps are to be taken to bring all indie
pendent organizations under some proper de-
partment and that there is to be revision of
salaries.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
THANKSGIVING.

One of the happiest customs of the people
of the United States is their annual Thanks
giving festival. This occasion takes the place
of harvest feasts of yore, when men and wo-
men lifted grateful voices to high heaven for
the bounty bestowed on them from the fields.
But the country which once yielded meagre
sustenance from rock-ribbed soil to Pilgrim
fathers today pours forths a multitude of
gifts.
America stands first today among the ma
tons of the world in wealth and resources.
No other country on the globe can boast OF
activity in field and factory equal to that of
the United States. AS once all nations poured
their tribute to Rome, today friendly nations
Of the world come to the United States for
goods of all kinds And in return they furnish
supplies to the people of America. But the
trade balance is heavily in favor of this coun-
try.
America, which barred her arm and with
her courage and physical force, brought peace
to distracted and distressed world, has
shown that she is able to return to her indus
tries and pursue the even tenor of peace as
successfully as she fought battles. There have
been gales and storms, but tranquility lies
ahead.
Everywhere there is progress. The door Of
opportunity stands ajar for the ambitious.
America represents to the world all that is
pure gold in national character Fair Columbia
is not only the mightiest nation, but the great
est as we'll in character.
If one were to ask us, therefore, why we
will be really thankful next Thursday our
heart would prompt: First Of all because
we are Americans"
And we of Terrell county would be COM
PEELED to utter, except we be blind to the
fact and deaf to the compelling message of
superior advantages and prosperity to a much
greater degree than is found elsewhere even
in our own state: 1--WE are thankful that we
are of Terrell county"
National and civic gratitude likewise COM
pei state gratitude for there is no state which
offers greater cause for exultation than Geor-
gia, which is bounding forward with her
wealth of varied resources.
We of America, 81 Georgia, of Dawson
have every reason to be thankful. Let us raise
our voices in genuine songs OF thanksgiving
to Him from whom all blessings flow.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
Awakes to Find Rather on His Chest.

Ever wake up and find rattlesnake sitting
on your chest with his tail gently toying
with the atmosphere? That is the rather
unique experience of DR.. R. W. Shufeldt, the
naturalist and he tells about it in an article
on snakes in the American Forestry Maya
zine. In view of the fact that DR.. Shufeldt
has been bitten several times by some sup
posedly fatal snakes he is considered an au-
thority on how to handle them. According to
DR.. Shufeldt there is more mis-information
abroad as to what snakes are poisonous than
on almost any other subject
In recounting his experience with the rat
tier Dr. Shufeldt who was an army surgeon
at the time writes:
''As surgeon in regiment of United States
cavalry operating against the Sioux Indians
in Wyoming l came within an ace, probably
of losing my life from the bite OF prairie
RATHER. The "A-tents" of the officers were
pitched and | was soon sound asleep.
81 became conscious of peculiar heaylng
with a sense of weight on my chest With
out making any movement and cautiously
opening my eyes | saw a big prairie RATHER
coiled on the blanket within a few inches of
my face. The serpent had assumed the usual
attitude prior to striking; its head was Hat
tened and moved deliberately backward and
forward; its eyes possessed a most vicious
CLEAN, and the movement OF its belly muscles
could be distinctly felt through the blanket.
The position was one demanding cool
ness. The bite, if given, would be received
in the face, and all hope of saving life would
be out of the question. I whistled to the
snake in peculiar way, and at the same time
hoped to summon field hospital attendants.
This ruse succeeded and young attend
ant appeared at the door. Between closed
teeth, and in a low, monotonous tone, di-
rected him to send two men to the tent. They
came quickly, and, in the same low, monoto-
nous tone of voice one was directed to step
very deliberately where the saddle lay, the
9TH 70 11oir, o+ he Of he ot
% o TO o ta ent Wb t I1 T
sible delberation each bent down together,
and catching the four corners of the blanket
they, with a simultaneous swing sent the
snake skilfully through the door of the tent
out onto the prairie, where it was shot"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
AII-Fours Cure Doubted.

Men of science generally agree that some
fifty million years ago, more or less, the
primitive man, known as pithecanthropus,
walked on all-fours, using both hands and teet
to propel himself wherever he desired to go.
1t is believed to be highly probable that pith-
ecanthropus did this very thing, and that his
descendants learned gradually to assume an
upright position, developing into bipeds as one
of the processes of evolution. That took some
of the callouses off the hands and put heavier
ones on the feet, evidence of which is plenti-
full to this day, as any chiropodist can testify.
All of which caused certain followers of a
new school of medical science to work out
a theory that man. having abandoned the old
style of walking, dsarranged many OF his
vital organs, thus causing bodily distress and
sundry ailments, the cure for which would
be return to the gait used by pithecanthro-
pus. Walking on both hands and feet for
modern man is suggested as treatment that
will restore health by giving the organs a
better opportunity to function. Numerous pa
tients have tried it. Many of them were bene-
fitted, but it is likely they were helped more
by the exercise itself than by the horizontal
position of the torso in which the organs are
placed.
No doubt the horizontal plane is much bet
ter than the perpendicular for one who is i'll,
but the really sick man or woman will as
sumo it by lying down and not by by simian
capers about a room on all-fours. 1t may be
true, too, that mans perpendicularity has re-
suited in disarrangement OF the organs and
that nature has not finished the job of ad-
iusting things to the new order; but man out
lives many animals of the quadruped type and
enjoys good health while dong so. At any
rate men and women of today are glad
enough that they walk on two feet instead OF
four If man had continued to walk as did
pithecanthropus he would have been just that
and nothing more to this day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
A Momentous Occasion.

The conference that is now in session at
Washington has the greatest opportunity OF
anv assemblage of men in the worlds history.
Upon this conference centers the hope of the
world Here today the world stands at the
parting of the ways. One way leads to right
eousness. Justice and peace, and the other way
leads to suspicion hate and war The oppor-
tunity is now at hand to establish new
order in the world an order founded on
eternal truth.
The world has made great progress to
come to this point. Having come thus far
hope is strengthened that it will yet go TAR
Their. 1t is recognized that the situation is
complicated; that many conflicting views and
desires must be harmonized before there can
be agreement that there are practical con-
siderations of great weight which must be ia
ken into account. Nevertheless so strong Is
the desire of the peoples of the world to be
relieved of the burdens of war, so active IS
their hope that the conference will be guided
by wisdom and justic, so insistent and COM
manding is their urge that the conference
must not fail to achieve the object for which
it was summoned into being, that belief in its
successful outcome is almost universal.
The nations of the world have been sum-
moned in this conference for two main pur-
poses, namely: to remove the causes that in
cite war, and to limit the construction OF
The appeal to them has been
based chiefly on economic grounds, with
view to relief from the fearful burden of taxa
ton imposed by wars and preparation for
wars. Behind this appeal there is yet
stronger one, an appeal that has naught to
do with taxes and expenditures. This is the
spiritual appeal. 1t is not to be presumed that
this appeal will be without weight. Indeed,
it will be an influence quite as potential as
the economic appeal. Supporting this appeal
now arise the prayers of a multitude of peo-
pie. invoking divine wisdom upon the delib-
eratons of the conference.
1t is a solemn and sacred occasion. This
conference has been declared to be the greatest
in the history of mankind AS to that it shall
be measured by what it shall achieve. Upon its
results rests the verdict as to whether it shall
be rated the greatest. The thought of failure
is not entertained. 1t must not fall it will not
fail 1t will not disappoint the hope of the
world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
A Skeptical Contemporary.

Commenting on an item recently printed by
The News that the prohibition officer for this
district had stated that Terrell was the only
county in his territory in which he had not
found and destroyed an illicit distillery and
a subsequent statement by the Fort Gaines
Georgian that Clay county was entitled to a
similar distinction, the Edison News says:
"All of which sounds good, but the fact
th1l no raids have been made in Clay and
Terrell does not necessarily mean that
whisky is not being made there. We know
of localities where raids have never been
made in which whisky flows freely seven
DAYS in the week, known by all around but
the officers who can neither nor smell.
We will bet two francs against a peck OF
COOLERS that Policeman Whatley could find
a half dozen stills in either county inside
OF month. He finds them in Calhoun, and
we are sure this county IS being bothered
less with whisky than either of the above
Maybe our Edison contemporary IS cor
rect We are not in position to dispute it, but
the citizen here in quest OF little nip for the
stomach's sake or to remove some dust from
his throat is not infrequently seen bemoaning
the fact that none can be had We note that
in the last issue of our contemporary is an
interesting account OF the raiding OF Several
tigers" by Mr. Sage and Chief of Police What
: ley, OF Edison.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
Crisp Writes About Peanuts.

Editor Dawson News: | am just dropping
you line to let you know that congress has
passed bill extending the emergency tariff
bill until the permanent Fordney bill becomes
a law. This removes all question of any lapse
between the two acts.
Today peanuts cannot come into the Unit
ed States unless duty is paid on them of
500 ton, so you can see it is not Importation
from foreign countries that is affecting the
peanut market in the south.
| am sure you realize that it is impossible
to legislate against over-production in this
country, and we cannot control the price the
buyers offer, unless they are in combine and
violate the Sherman antitrust act. If the pro-
ducers OF peanuts can furnish evidence OF any
such violation of course l will be happy in
deed to lay the matter before the department
of justice. Yours sincerely, c. R. CRISP.
Washington, d. G.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
A Prescription for Hard Times.
Dan w. Hammock in Cuthbert Leader.

1t is something that is in every mans
breast, and all we have to do in developing it
to its full power and strength is to use it.
It's like all other elements of our makeup
it becomes dormant without use. 1t works
miracles; try it. 1t is simple honesty.
Honesty stirs up energy, overcomes lazl-
ness enforces economy to the highest degree
of efficiency in saving, pays all debts either
with money some tangible asset, and
teaches us how to sell cotton to meet our
obligations. Nothing under heaven can resist
its power God himself uses it, and we cannot
approach Him without it. My customers tried
it on me during the panic of the nineties and
| tried to use it on them. They are all over
this country; talk with them about it.
! remember one year the crop was short
only two to five bales to the plow-and sold
at four and five cents a pound, with cotton
seed at eight and ten cents per bushel We
were honest; perhaps its use-was forced on
some of us. It's principle that begets itself;
use it on others and they will use it on you.
We want the real hOnest-to-gOOdness prac-
tice that will promote confidence the greatest
business asset the world ever used an hon
est confidence that gets what credit we are
obliged to have and keeps our little wheels
going until we can pay all we owe. We want
to use reprisals and stop all big business that
present conditions do not justify and that we
cannot honestly carry.
Don't get discouraged and talk about fail
ure. God helps them that use the means He
has provided.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
Automobile SpOOners.
From the Greenville Is. c. News.

The Automobile spooners" who make
themselves ridiculous and often disgusting in
cars parked along the country roads are be-
ing subjected to organized warfare in various
communities. One rural village, adjacent to a
large city, has been SO over-run by these OBJ
jectionable young mushers that a bonus Of
80 cents per couple has been offered for their
arrest.
The custom of taking ones best girl out
for buggy ride is as old as charots, and the
occasional hand-holding which accompanied it
in former years was as mucous as the old
family horse and open side-bar buggy which
served as the means of transportation. But
the speeding automobile with its encourage
ment of 1awlessneSS has developed type of
highway love-making which is vulgar and in
decent-a menace to those who indulge in it
and an affront to the respectable folk whose
neighborhoods sullied by it.
Many a warning has come from welfare
workers and those conversant with court pro-
ceedings that automobile riding, unlimited and
unchaperoned, is playing large part in the
increase of juvenile delinquency When police
crusades become necessary to put check up
on these unwholesome performances it is time
for decent society to wake up.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
Administrator S Sale,

GEORGIA, Terrell County.-Notice
is hereby given that by virtue of an Or
der of the Court of Ordinary OF said
county, will be sold at the w. w. Kirk
sey home place in the Eleventh district
OF said county, between the legal
hours OF sale, on Thursday, the 18th
day of November, 1921, to the highest
bidder for cash, the following describ
ed property to wit:
One bay mare mule about fifteen
years old; one bay mare mule about
sixteen years old; one bay mare mule
about fifteen years DID, one White
Hickory two-horse wagon, in use
about five year; one red top-buggy and
harness; one 1917 model 400 Chevrolet
touring car; one two-horse John Deere
steel plow; one Gannt cotton planter;
one Seay guano distributor; three sin
gle Haman pillow stocks; one two-horse
Haman foot and beam; five wedding
hoes; one long handle shovel; two
pitchforks; three sets pillow gear; one
/. ]. harrow; two tenders; three tons,
more or less, cotton seed; one post
hole digger; one mattox; one three-roll
Chattanooga can mill; one S0-gallon
syrup kettle; one CrOss-Cut saw; one
hand saw; one brace and bit; one draw
ing knife; one sow and ten pigs; nine
shoats; one thousand drawed shingles,
more or less; 100 bushels corn in the
shuck, more or less; 1000 pounds fod-
der, more or less.
Said property is sold as the property
of the w. w. Kirksey estate, now in
the hands of the undersigned for ad-
ministration. This the 9TH day OF No
vember, 1921.
MRS. I. E. KIRKSEY, Administra-
trix, Estate of w. w. Kirksey, de-
ceased
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
NOTICES
Administrator Sale

GEORGIA, Terrell Count,
virtue of an order granted h., by ny
Court of Ordinary of Terrell Co, tne
will be sold at public outcrv C ~,
hrst tuesday in December, 1921 AZ
the court house door in said count,
between the legal hours of sale, to t5s,
highest bidder fer cash, all the eon; ,
OF redemption in the following describy
ed land, to wit: NNo0iIo-
That tract or parcel of land in Ter
rell county, Georgia, described as 81
lows: In lots l46, us and 178 boundod
as follows: Beginning at a point of tba
west side OF lot l46, APO feet north nf
the southwest corner of said lot tberca
east 1900 feet to the branch tbenC Ce
with the run of said branch and 'i me-
lot us and to the public road tbe ~,oo
a little south OF each along said rooG
1000 feet to the bend Of the r ,oag
thence a little north of east 400 {ao1,
to a point on the east line of lot ~
1860 feet north of the southeast ~ ~
ner of said lot, thence south .,ona
said lot line 1860 feet to the soutbeasss
corner Of lot us, thence west aIonm
the south lot line of lot Us, 1850 feats
thence south and into lot 178 2000
feet to the creek, then with the run NJ
said creek in a northwesterly direction
to point on the west line of Iot ia
1000 feet south of the northeast 90 49,
ner of said lot, thence north alone ~
west line of lots 178, Us and lax lS
4,52O feet to the place of beginn;r0'
all in the Third land district, and con- con-,
tanning 276 acres, more or less. VIII
Said property will be sold as the
property OF the estate Of Fannie Fer
ject to a lien of $2,750.OO due Novem.
Der l, 1921, in favor of Pearsons-Taft
Land Credit Company, which bears
8 per cent interest from November
1921; also subject to a mortgage lien
in favor of ]. A. Fergerson Of $9374I
with interest thereon at 8 per cent ner
annum from July /, 1916 This IA.
vember E, 1921.
S. J. FERGERSON, Administrator
Estate of Fannie Fergerson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
EXCHANGE TALK.
What High Freight Rates Do.

Jackson Progress-Argus: Products of the
farm rottng in the fields while thousands are
crying for bread is one OF the situations
the country's troubles could be removed if we
had a better system OF distribution, which
means bringing the producer and consumer
into closer touch by means of lower freight
rates The farmers Of the nation have done
their duty splendidly, but the high rates for
freight have brought about stagnation in bus
mess.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
Sick Trees.
From the Dalton Citizen.

A sick tree is as pitiful an object as a
sick human. Dawson has many trees made
i'll by an insect scourge. Their appearance
is tragic. If the ravages of the pest are not
stayed by some means the city seems DOOM
ed to lose large proportion of its trees.
1t is problem meriting individual and col
lective effort toward standardization
News.
A sick tree is pitifu1, and one which needs
only attention to make it blossom again is
doub1y pitiful when neglected Joyce Kilmer
wrote:
Poems are writ by fools like me-
But only God can make a tree"
And this truth should be so impressed
upon the public that there shall be no lack
of appreciation of the service and beauty of
trees.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
To Debtors and Creditors.

GEORGIA, Terrell County.-No-
tice is hereby given to all persons hav-
ing demands against Profit Harrison,
late of said county, deceased, to pre-
sent them to me, properly made out
within the time prescribed by law, 50
as to show their character and amount;
All persons indebted to said deceased
are hereby required to make immedI,.
ate payment to me. This 3rd day OF
November, 1921.
WILLIE HARRISON, Admins
traitor, Estate of Profit Harrison, de-
ceased.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
Are Too MANY Winners.

Triton Gazette: Buck up and fight it
through 1t takes courage to win battles"
Jackson Progress-Argus goes after the hard
times, to which Editor Jones, of Lagrange,
adds: You can do it, brother Any man can.
Go to it. Don't be pitiful shrimp or putty
made weaklng." The boys are right. We have
too many winners and too few brave fellows
in these trying days Let's all buckle down
and go to work and things will be much
brighter and better.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
TerreIl's Strawberries.
From the Macon Telegraph.

1t has often been said, and quite accurately,
that Georgia is the garden spot OF the world
for the farmer. 1t is no less than a real joy,
therefore, when news is received that another
county is following the example of Colquitt,
Turner, Brooks, Putnam and Washington
counties and breaking away from the a1l-cot-
ton plan The excellent information is now at
hand that Terrell county is on the road to be-
coming a great strawberry growing section.
On account of the berries in this locality ma
turing before those in many other sections
the best OF. prices are generally secured for
them.
Gorgia looks forward to the day when she
will really be the garden spot OF the world,
not as regards her agricultural possibilities but
referring to her actual achievements and farm
prosperity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22

Too many of our people are economical in
the wrong way. They economic in order
to get money with which to buy an automo-
bile. and after they get one they are just as
economical in saving for the gasoline and up
keep of the car. They seem to forget that
nine times out OF ten an automobile is the
worst extravaganza and that real economy
would be to cut it out and use push cart, if
it is absolutely necessary to have convey
ance and you are not able to afford another
kind.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-22
Demonstration of Hard Times.
From the Washington Reporter.

The regular weekly hard times demon
stration was put on in Dawson Saturday.
About a quarter of million dollars worth
OF automobiles were parked on the $780,
900 pavement, while their passengers filled
the movie, visited the stores, ate peanuts,
drank dope, played pool and milled around
the streets telling each other how blooming
hard up they were.-Dawson News.
And here in Washington Wilkes cheap
little tent show came to town, remained a
week, and got away with something like S.
900 in cold cash.
But the people of Terrell and Wilkes are
hard-up We know they are because they say
so themselves every day!