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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19
Forests in Russia Grown Like Crops.
From Farming.

Russia, with thousands of square miles of
forests and trilions of board feet of timber,
conserves her trees. Around Kieff, for in
stance, says a writer for the American Red
Cross, forests Of red pine are grown like crops
and every year trees are planted to replace
those cut down. These tracts OF forest land
have always belonged to the state.
Contrast the above with a statement which
recently appeared in an editorial in the Editor
and Publisher, to the effect that in America we
are taking 26000,000,000 cubic feet of material
out of our forests every year and growing
less than a fourth as much in their place.
The original forests of the United States,
according to department of agriculture esti-
mates, covered 822,O0O,0OO acres and contain
ed 100000, 100000 board feet OF timber. Over
two-thirds of this area has been culled, cut
over or burned, and three-hfths of the timber
originally in the United States is gone. Our
timber wastage by preventable fires alone is
SIS 100000 a year
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19
COMMUNITY SALES.
From the Pelham Journal.

The merchants of number OF live Georgia
towns are putting on Community Sales. The
plan is to hold three days sale with all the
merchants of the town working collectively
together Amusement features are provided
for the three days, and each merchant ad-
vertises number of bargains Tor each day.
Dawson is soon to have one OF these three
day sales, and in explaining it a prominent
merchant of Dawson has this to say in The
News:
1--WE are planning, and | am sure others
are doing the same to open the eyes OF the
people with some of the prices we are gong
to offer 1t is not expected to be money
making proposition. We do hope and expect,
of course, to turn large part OF our stocks
into cash, and will be satisfied to do this at
"a loss The main thing to be accomplished
is to show the people OF this section generally
that Dawson is a splendid place to trade in,
to get them into the habit of buying here
We rather like the idea of community sales.
Not that any particular financial gam is to
be had in the beginning, but 1t goes long
way toward bringing the people OF any ter
ritory to a town or city that shows a spirit
of wanting them and offering inducements
to get their business. II a farmer forms
habit of trading in certain city he IS sure
to continue doing so unless he is offered bet
ter inducements by some other city that is
lust about as convenient as trading center
This is day of publicity, and the town or
city that neglects to go after business IN
publicity way is sure to fall behind in the
march of progress.
Community sales are in the experiment
stage in this section, but they have been tried
successfully in the west and other portions
of the country. If they are successful III other
sections it would seem that they are destined
to be successful in this section
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19
SPEAK UP.
From the Carrollton Free Press.

In recent issue of the Free Press we
printed an article advocating buying OF the
home merchant; and be it known that not
a single merchant in Carrollton said thank
you
If we hadn't been in the newspaper game
so long we might go off and pout at the SEEM
ing indifference OF the local business men to
ouf efforts to interest the reader OF the Free
Press in the general benefits OF trading at
home. But we have long ago learned that most
of us are too indifferent or too busy to give
a fellow a word Of appreciation for favor
done We all do it. We read something in
the local paper that pleases u.s. and we smile;
butsit never occurs to us to tell the editor the
next time we see him that he had written
something that met our approval. A loved one
is taken from us by death, baby comes into
the home, son who has gone away receives
some promotion, and the editor comments in
complimentary terms upon the event. You
are gratifed and pleased at the notice IN. the
paper, but you never thank the editor. In the
case of a death in the family you write out a
card of thanks-or, as is more often the case,
you phone the editor and ask him to write it,
thanking the undertaken, the doctor, the min
ister the ladies who sang at the funeral and
the friends for the beautiful floral tributes.
But you do not think of paying the newspa-
per for publishing the card OF thanks or
thanking the editor for thanking others.
Oh, dear, yes Being editor is fine Job
if you don't weaken. But why should the
editor get sore? He shouldn't
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19
Editors Discuss Ham.
From the Dalton Citizen.

Hogs on the hoof are quoted at So cents
per pound Boiled ham is retailing in Com
merce at 75c per pound. This indicates that
the man who raises the hog gets but little for
the raising while the person who buys the
boiled ham pays an outrageous price There's
wide difference. It's long, long way from
81 to Is. The local retailer is no hog. Who
gets the difference? There's something dead up
the branch somewhere" says the Commerce
News. On which the Moultrie Observer COM
ments; The wholesale price of the cured ham,
uncooked, is thirty-one cents The wholesale
price OF the cooked ham is forty-two cents.
The Commerce retailer buys at forty-two
cents and sells at seventy-fve. But why
should that worry an editor? He's got no
business buying sliced boiled ham at the
ham day or two ago begging for buyer at
twenty-five cents. That would have been good
enough for us-if we could have raised the
twenty-five per pound.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19
The Poultry Industry.

In noting a statement by The Messenger
that more than1 900 pounds OF chickens were
shipped from Cairo in one day and on anoth-
er day near 100 crates of eggs-30 dozen tc
the crate-were shipped on one train the
Moultrie Observer declares, and rightly so
that not enough attention is paid in the south
to the sources of small cash income, and con-
tinues:
1--WE have exaggerated the big crops and
have overlooked the best bet-the small but
constant incomes from cattle, hogs and
chickens. We are not suggesting that any
one quit raising cotton or corn or peanuts
not necessary. 1t takes but few acres on
the farm to provide for a few milk COWS, a
few head of hogs and a bunch of hens 1t
does take a few acres, however, and it
takes barns pens and cross-fences Live
stock and poultry on the farm will increase
the production of the major crops rather
than reduce the production"
Considerable quantities of poultry and eggs
are shipped from Terrell county in the course
OF a year, but nothing commensurate with
the possibilities in that direction. The poultry
business is one of the big industries of the
country. 1t is also a profitable industry, and
with more attention and but little expense it
could be made a source of considerable rev.
enue to our farmers without interfering in
the least with any of the big crops.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19
TORNADO DESTROYED
LIFE AND PROPERTY
CAME EASTWARD FROM TEX
AS ACROSS SIX STATES. DAM
AGE AT ROME, GEORGIA.

Tornadoes which swept eastward
from Texas Friday night and Satur-
day claimed approximately 100 lives,
injured several hundred and damaged
property and crops to the extent OF
millions of dollars. The storm toll OF
lives follows:
The Dead by States.
Texas-Avinger, 6; Atlanta, /;
Queen City, Cass county 2, and sew
eral missing and probably three near
O'Farrell
Arkansas-Pike county, dead, 2
injured, four probably fatally; Yellow
county, dead, 10 injured, two prob
ably fatally; Miller county, 10 whites
and 7 negroes dead; % seriously in
jured; Pope county, 3 dead, and a
number seriously injured; Hampstead
county, 20 white persons and Il ne
groes dead, IA seriously injured, sew
eral fatally. A number of sections hit
by the storm have not been heard
from.
Mississippi-Five dead at Steen,
at Sontag, l at Rural Hill and one
in a railroad washout near Mossell.
Alabama-Five dead at Cave
Springs, near Tuscumbia, five at
Ralph, Tuscaloosa county; three at
Sulligent, Lamar county, and one in
Dallas county. Torrential rains which
followed the wind in all the states hit
by tornadoes have delayed relief work
and hindered the compiling Of accu-
rate list of casualties.
Damage at Rome, Ga.
AT Rome, Ga, the tornado damag-
ed dozen or more buildings on
Broad street and lifted again to de
scend on residential sections Of north
and west Rome, where numbers Of
small residences were laid waste. The
storm, followed by a downpour of
rain, put the electric light an power
lines and gas plant out of commission,
and caused property loss estimated at
around $225, 1000, but injured seriously
not more than half dozen persons and
took no toll of human life.
Heavy property loss in Tennessee
is reported at Newport, Lynnville and
Connersville. In Shelby county alone
the county commissioners estimate
the loss in roads and the bridges at
$75,000.
Farm Land Inundated.
In Mississippi, in addition to act
ual loss from the high winds, much
farm land will be inundated by the
rapidly rising streams throughout the
state. A number of railroads in that
state report tracks washed out and
damage to road beds by the unprece-
dented rainfall.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19
WORRY OF BUSINESS MANAGERS

From the Triton Gazette
NO publisher could have withstood jump
from 100 to 623 in print paper cost and from
100 to 1913 in labor costs with increases not
greater than from 100 to 1876 in advertising
rates and from 100 to $50 in subscription
rates had he not been saved by the increased
volume of business that has gone through his
presses" says The Dawson News. Yes, but
now that the volume of business has dropped
back to normal, while print paper and labor
remain high, the problem of making both
ends meet is keeping many business managers
awake OF nights.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

The Dalton Citizen very correctly says there
is no more important question before the
people today than that OF maintaining the
public highways Not to do so is a conspicu-
Gus waste of the taxpayers money" asserts
our contemporary Millions OF dollars have
been and are wasted in Georgia every year
by constructing highways and leaving them
to wear out before again giving them atten-
ton Keeping a road in repair is a great deal
less expensive than rebuilding it every three
or four years, fact which it seems impossi-
bic to impress upon those who are in charge
of the work and ordinarily are men of good
business judgment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

John F. Kramer, federal prohibition COM
missioner, says enforcement of the liquor
law encounters hostile public sentiment, lack
of cooperation, bootlegging and too many
dealers permits. An honest, disinterested OBJ
server is warranted in wondering how such a
law ever came to be enacted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

The passing of big dividends by mail order
houses isn't creating any pangs of regret in
the breasts of thousands of retail merchants
in the country who have for years taken care
OF the credit business of their respective COM
munities while these big concerns grew rich
on cash business garnered from rural COM
munties
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

Atlanta is accommodating unenviabe rep
utaton as rendezvous of thugs and crooks.
And, while there are many good people in the
city, the record of crimes committed leaves
no room for doubt that there is plenty of fire
behind this unsavory reputation smoke
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

Nnety-three cents of every dollar collected
by the United States government last year
was expended for war purposes, past and
present. Thus only cents was available for
all the other activities of the government. Ed
ucation and research received l cent OF the
dollar, and public works 3 cents Nothing
could better illustrate the wastefuness OF war
and the need of some arrangement to meet
this waste.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

The battlefelds of France are still being
searched for American soldier dead. The
quartermaster general of the army reports
that 178 bodies recently have been found. This
materially reduces the list of missing. The re-
claimed bodies are being inferred in the
American cemetery at Romagne
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

Judge town by the advertising columns
OF its newspaper If it is packed with virile,
active, up-to-date copy the town is up and
doing If it is SHINY occupied by perfunctory
cards the town is slow, sleepy place. The
newspaper best mirrors the spirit of its COM
munity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

Many young men who gleefully left the
farms and rushed to the cities year or two
ago are now vending their way sadly back
to the haven whence they fled. Three square
meals and place to sleep again look good to
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

To fax and how to tax-that is question
which will be before the legislature IN the
summer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

Open diplomacy at Paris appears from MI
Lansng's relation to have been turning Inc
lack from the bottom OF the deck.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

Before a man shoots himself over inability
to meet paltry payments might it not be well
to talk it over with the creditor? The creditor
may not want the debtor to go to such ex-
tremes. In fact, this is a good time for every
body to be lenient with debtors
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19
LET US HOPE so.

From the Winder News.
If the railroads are successful i'll reducing
wages will they then reduce rates? The rail-
roads are saying nothing about that, but it
is something the people would like to
know-DawSon News.
We can rest assured that if wages are re
duced rates will come down. The people will
not stand for prohteering in any line of bus
mess now.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

# is an acknowledged fact that pictures
showing crime and criminals as heroes nave
a bad effect on the youth. Just so, pictures
displaying only that which is good will also
have their effect
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

The cattle, calves, sheep and swine
slaughtered for food annually in the
United States, if moving in single file,
six inches apart, would reach seven
and half times around the globe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

IT'S enough to make the shades OF those
twentv-two calves bawl most mournfully that
if took the price OF all their hides to pay for
one pair of shoes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

A few hangings in Georgia might have a
sautary effect. Almost everybody except the
criminals and their lawyers seems to think
that way.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

The Lavonia Times is glad it lives in city
where carnivals are not allowed to show, and
adds 1T is poor encouragement to people
who try to hold up the morals OF any city
when carnival is allowed to camp right on
your very premises and carry on for week. "
For a number of years Dawson has been
surfeited with such attractions" and the peo-
pie of the city generally will be very much
obliged if the mayor and council will have
compassion and give them long needed and
much desired rest this year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

Judge Victor P. Arnold, of the Chicago jul
venile court, told group of Chicago Boy
Scouts that in FIVE years he bad dealt with
900 delinquent boy cases, and that among
them were only five Boy Scouts This is in
disputable testimony to the good work of
the Boy Scouts organization. Judge Arnold
asserts that the great need OF the boy OF to-
day is direction. He points out that we train
colts, and these animals are useless until they
are trained. The proper direction, supervision
and training of the young generation, Judge
Arnold believes, is the greatest movement for
good citizenship in the country, for the boy
OF today is the man OF tomorrow.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19
The Fool and His Money.

T. B. Conner, in a speech made in Atlanta
recently, said thousands OF dollars were be-
ing slipped from Georgians by fake stock
promoters Georgians are great people to
buy stocks in fake enterprises far Oft from
home but slow to invest i'll home enter
prises They are suspicious OF home people,
but very trustful of strangers. This is one
reason so many Georgia towns gained only
to 9 per cent in population between 1910
and 1920.-Commerce Observer.
The exposure of bogus stock selling con-
Germs which have been successful in swindling
hundreds OF persons in Georgia illustrates the
hopelessness of preventing this kind of fraud
Neither law nor publicity operates to restrain
suckers eager to separate themselves iron
their money. 1t would seem that everybody
had been sufficiently warned to examine ev-
cry "get-rich- quick" proposition with particu-
lar care But it is only necessary for some
shrewd rascal to devise new bait, and be
hold, new crop of suckers! 1t is so easy that
it is not surprising that interruptions persons
should take advantage OF the situation. Their
view is that it is a shame not to take the
money. 1t is difficult to feel much sympathy
for people who are so gullble, and yet it is
necessary that the weak shall be protected
from the consequences of their own weakness
so far as the law can afford them protection
No law, however, is going to absolutely pre-
vent the swindler from reaping his harvest
When people are so willing to be swndled ht
will find a way to get the money. The sucker
like the poor, we have with us always.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

Java furnishes the larger part of the world!
supply OF quinine.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

1t is again revealed that the treaty of Yer
sailles did not settle anything.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

FOR SALE-Fine Rhode Island red
eggs for Matching, from large cher
ry red to the skin thoroughbred hens.
Can supply you with fresh eggs now
at $500 per IS. Phone No p. R. J.
GLASS, Bronwood, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

FOR SALE-Section of shelving suit
able for store purposes, about seven
feet long and in good condition. Will
sell cheap to quick buyer. Apply at
THE NEWS OFFICE.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19
Special Notices

FOR SALE-Corn. H. o. MOORE,
Dawson, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

FOR SALE-Rhode Island Red eggs,
from special matings, rest of hatch
ing season, $3.50 setting. MISS
BELLE ZIMMERMAN, Brentwood,
Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19

FOR LE-Mercer's Improved
Toole Cotton Seed. Screened and
the earliest and most prolific cotton
known. $3.50 per bushel. Also white
Spanish peanuts, $100 per bushe1, or
will loan to responsible people for
peck on bushel for peanuts. ELLA
DALE ESTATE.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-05-03
PANANAMUST
SURRENDER COT0
T0COSTAR|CA
Secretary Hughes States Po~
siitiion of u. S. on White
Award

washington. May c-V'nless Panama
time" the United States will take
measures to compel her to transfer
jurisdiction OF the disputed Coto terri
tor, - Costa Rica, Secretary Hughes
says In 4 recent nolc TO the Panama
government. The text Of the document
was made public to-day at tho state de-
part!neut.
The note. which is in reply to one
from Panama dated March Is. and re-
c.;ved here April 81, resta,es the Amer
:ran position in detail. examining anew
:he legal aspects OF the controversy,
although at the same 1ime'G says that
nv;cndr,l discussion Of the contcntions
advanced by TIE government or Panama
should I've unnecessary.
Referring to The statement or the
government OF Panama that Its people
are unanimous in their expressions
against recognition OF the White hVI:4
the note says the American government
has learned OF these expressions with
deep regret" but express confluence
tha. "thc people Of Panama Yill recos-
n!zc Tie uhl!zatiOn OF their government
10 comply with the terms OF he solemn
agreements into which 1t has entered.
The United States, 1t adds, cannon
consider the suggestion made BY tho
government Of Panama, that plebes-
cite j.. h.,, in the territory IN dispute
as n,.,us Of reaching a final settle
rna,,; ~ IN" controversy" because or
the obligation Of Panama under the
porras- Anderson treaty 10 consider tho
award as Il perfect and compuSor!
treaty between the governments OF the
Panama and COSTA Rica."
The White boundary was not hmiteo
nv .hc Ioubst award, the note asserts'
aiding that there appears to be no
founda tion for the claim that Panama
j. entitled 10 retain territory on no
Pacific side which cOnfessedly doe3 Sos
baiong TO Panama because the govern
men, OF Panama is not satisfied Win
The award Of the chief Justice OF the
United States as 10 other territory On
n. Nantir side.
chief Jr.tice white did not exceed
his powers and jurisdiction in foihg
this boundary. the not" says. addih6
,h.t he had decided IL precise Ques-
zion which hn had bee? invested Win
Jurisdiction to decide. ind the TWO
n,r,icS rn the dispute were. BY their
most solemn engagement. bound 10 ac'
ccp, his determination accordingly.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-05-03
FINED $1,000
FOR SED|T|0N

Ti't~bUT%h. Ia. May 1t Convicted on
"hn nrErS of scrlit!"n under Il stat" '""
S'"v" IlnOn Of Ambrids", Ia" ara To-
S"Uir Marcinov:ch oc Pittsburgh. ""r"
to-day sentenced IN criminal court I"
pay Il nnn ~ $1,000 each and serve from
thrr" I" ilvr years in :he Western pen
itentlary. EInOff testified that h" spent
money for the printing of communist
literature"
M.rrinnvicn. witnesses testified. was
district organizer for the communist
party Of America"
4 charge Of sedition was today lodged
against Alexander Jurtrh, Of this city
who WAS he'd for court BY police mag
is,-a;e Zurich vas arrested last Fri
day while circulating radical litero-
turc," according 70 tho police
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-05-03
APPROPRIATIONS TOTAL
ABOVE NINE MILLION
BY ]. r. BE ED

,'har.rStUll ". Va, Ma. - h"
,yrauElc over the long list e! :s?N7"pTl;t
lons included in the budget h! proved
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Dortant OF III" tuttr" session 81 m"
legislature. After IN h:i. haI passed
the lower hUuS" ami had been "npr"N GU
in tn. senate it included expenditures
t,tal!uE moro than nine muli"nS LOT
, h.. coming fiscal year, as we'll aS special
amounting I" ~" nun
dr.d Thousand dollars for concluding
This Years work IL IN" various DEPART
lu'uts Of state.
IT,. Institutions III which Wn"cling !&
most closely Interested were rather wei.
favored in the budget bill and were
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