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Evening star., 1921-07-13
ainn Feiner Kidnapers Release
Captive Uninjured.

CORK, July 13.-The Earl of Ban
don. who was kidnapped by Sim Fein-
ers early on the morning of June 81,
was brought back to Bantry last night
by his captora The aged earl for
whose safety there had been some
concern at various times was unin-
jured.
Since the kidnapinS constant
search for the earl had been kept up.
Latterly, however. 1t had been inti-
mated that as an earnest Of good
faith" the Sim Feiners would release
him.
The Earl Of Bandon has long been
prominent in County Cork. having
been the Kings lieutenant Of the coun-
ty since 1874. At the time the earl
was kidnapped his home. Castle
Barnard, was set afire and virtually
destroyed. The raiders locked Lady
Bandon and the servants in a room
adjoining the stables and they were
not injured. The earl owns about 41.o0o
acres Of land.
Evening star., 1921-07-13
BACKS DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Washington will have daylight
saving in the near future If plans Of
the industrial interests committee of
the Washington Board Of Trade are
worked out. The committee met last
night in the board rooms in the Star
building, and by a practically unani-
nous vote indorsed daylight saving
for the District of Columbia
!. According to the plan of William
C. Johnson, chairman Of the COM
mittee. the recommendations made
last night will be carried at the
earliest possible date before the
entire membership of the board for
approval. The bill in Congress that
the committee indorsed IS known as
the Ackerman measure for daylight
saving, and will be effective one week
after its passage. The daylight saw
ing would continue until the last
Sunday in September.
Evening star., 1921-07-13
TWO KILLED BY TRAIN.

NASHVILLE. Tenn. July 12.-Harry
Hallums, twenty-one, Montgomery
county farmers, were killed this
morning near st. Bethlehem, when
Dawler's automobile was hit on a
crossing bN q Nashville. Chattanooga
and st. Louis passenger train which
was being detoured over Louisville and
Nashville tracks,
Evening star., 1921-07-13
aARRICK-"Way Down East"

Owing to the demand for seats Tor
.'Way Down East now playing to
capacity audiences at the Shupsrs-
Garrick Theater, Manager Jack Eo-
wards has decided to held the pro
auction over for another week. a..
this revival of Lottie nlair Psrksrs
Worldwide success There VIII Ss ne ne
advance in pfiess. Natinsse VIII %
Even On "wednesday and Saturoax.
Evening star., 1921-07-13
RECORD BETTING MADE.

BERLIN, July. 12.-WaEers aggre-
eating 10, 600, ,000 marks were laid in
the betting ring at the Grunewald
track on Sunday. This establishes a
new record, and 1t 10 estimated tho
Prussian governments share will ex-
ceed 100000 marks.
Evening star., 1921-07-13
DuaL1N roL1cE ON LEAVE.

DUBLIN. July 13.-LarEe bodies Of
police Auxiliaries, as Consequence Of
the tIuoe In Ireland. have been grant
ed indeAatte leAve Of ahssnCA TIE
first batch OF the auxiliarte0 has Al.
Ssady left for England.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25
Money to Spend.

The breaking OF all records for attendance
and receipts at the world series baseball
games in New York illustrates two things
that the people have money to spend, and
that any climax OF the national sport is GER
tain to offer a major attraction to the vast
crowds. The final tabulations from the box
Office puts it at approximately million dol
lars showing the biggest number of paid ad-
missions ever gathered at sporting event OF
this kind 1t is twelve times the amount col
lected in 1905, when the Giants and the Atm
letics met in a championship contest Indeed
the interest in baseball must have increased
in the last sixteen years. or there IS more
money in the pockets OF the fans than they
had then.
Merchants are said to be wondering just
how it is that thousands of persons are wiling
to purchase tickets to the ball park when re-
tail sales do not pick up. Some retailers have
the idea that the large amounts OF money be
ing spent on sport today mean nothing III
the business world. They hold that the hum
dreds OF thousands OF dollars paid for admls-
sions to the ball games would not have been
sDent on apparel and other commodities
ANYWAY, that the major portion OF the spec
tators is composed OF the well-to-do, who buy
the things they need and indulge in sports as
necessary "high life"
The likelihood is strong that the American
lovers of baseball are spending their money
more freely nowadays because they are I'M
willing to deny themselves the pleasures II
brings them, for it is fact that when an
American wants anything very much and has
the money to pay for it he usually gets it. AT
the same time 100000 for a world series
baseball contest is a pretty high price to pay
no matter what the business conditions may
h.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25
New Agricultural and Industrial Era Is
Dawning Over Egypt.
Rv Frederick Simpich.

Ever since the plague OF toads, ever since
Pharoah'S army drowned i'll the Red Sea,
Egypt has been in the worlds eye-sOme-
thing is always happening there. Napoleon
once called Egypt ''the most important land
on earth!" And in the world war this old
Bible land played a 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 a draw
bridge at Kantara. To feed and support the
British troops Egypt delivered many mil
lions worth OF animals, grain, tOOdStuttS and
supplies and a boom in farming was started
which has revOlutonized agriculture in this
ancient region along the Nile
OF course Egypt for centuries has been
great grain region, and in the last few de
cades her cotton crops have been prodigious.
But an even greater industrial era is dawn
ing Since the war land has doubled and treb-
bled in value, and the Nile traffic has inCreas-
ed 400 per cent And up on the Blue Nile,
near Khartourn another great irrigation dam
is being built, which will give the Sudan a
vast cotton growing area OF fabulous value.
Soon. too the great Cape-to-CarO railway
will be finished then, with rail connections to
Jerusalem and the Bagdad railway at Aleppo,
and with her Mediterranean sea trade through
the busy ports OF Alexandria and Port Said,
Egypt will enjoy close contact with the COM
mercial centers OF the outside world.
She has already gained enormously in geo
graphic. commercial and political importance
since the war Vast sums of foreign capital
have been invested in her lands-50 per cent
they saw is held by outsiders-and modern
oil tractors and improved farm implements are
replacing the old-fashioned wooden plows and
clumsy harrows Along the Nile hundreds OF
gas engines now pump water to irrigate the
fields where once only the clumsy windlass
and goat skin, worked by oX-power, was in
use. A boom is sweeping over Egypt, and the
farmers along the Nile are happy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25
For Better Markets.

The Atlanta Journal has begun campaign
for better markets for Georgia farm products
and Ralph Smith, one OF its able staff cor
respondents, is touring the state and writing
some very interesting articles on farm cond1-
tions. There is nothing more important, or as
necessary, to the future prosperity OF Georgia
than market facilities WHICH will bring the
farmer ready money for his produce OF all
kinds, and not force him to rely solely on cot
ton for little cash for himself and family.
AS it now is a load or two of corn or hay,
few bushels of potatoes, dozen or so OF
hams and a dressed hog or two will glut the
market in the average town, and often the
farmer, unable to find buyers, is compelled to
haul some of his produce back home. If the
Journal succeeds in bringing about better con-
ditions along the line it has undertaken it will
render a great and lasting service-a service
that will contribute more to the material well
fare of Georgia than anything that has been
done for the public good in many years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25
CongratuIating a Neighbor.

Dawson was well represented each day at
the Albany South Georgia fair, and all who
enjoyed the many attractions returned 10 give
a good sized boost to the enterpr1slng citizens
of our neighboring city for the splendid sue
cess of the undertaking. The exhibits were
highly creditable and very attractively dis
PLAYED. The Lee county exhibit, which car
ried off the first prize was a wonderful dem
onstration of that prosperous county's re-
sources. and attracted wide attention. The
display made by the Albany Herald Pub
fishing Co. received much favorable comment,
as did many of the other features of the fair.
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.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25
Terrell Maintains Supremacy.

Colquitt county will lead all south Geor-
gia and probably all Georgia in growing
cotton this year We mean that her crop
percentage will be higher than any other
county's Indications are that we will make
twelve thousand bales This is about halt
the size Of the largest crop we have ever
made-Moultrie Observer.
We admire the boosting spirit that lmpels
our contemporary to claim superiority for its
county which is a splendid one in every re-
spect; but we must dispel its illusion. The OBJ
server must, for the moment have overlook
ed the good county Of Terrell which never
fails, no matter what the seasons or condl-
tons may be, to come up with good yield
Of the staple and, area considered, lead the
state in production. There have already been
marketed in Terrell county $4,000 bales Of
this years crop, and the number will easily
reach 5000 more The area OF Colquitt county
is $50 square miles and of Terrell 322, and II
the last government report OF cotton ginnec
Colquitt was nearly 1000 bales behind Ter
rell These official figures leave no room FOL
argument as to which county leads i'll tht
production OF cotton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25
Georgia Most Favored Section.

Some of our brethren up in the northern
part OF the state can't get away from the
old idea that the boil weevil has ruined south
Georgia We remember reading a few days
ago where one of them referred to the hard
times in south Georgia caused by the boil
weevil" Just like the Weevil is not all over
the state now and just like some OF the
north Georgia farmers are giving out the IN
formation that their crop OF cotton Will not
pay for the guano this year. Down here,
where we have an early spring and can plant
the cotton two weeks earlier than they can
in north Georgia, we make fairly good crops
even with the boil weevil And, besides cot
ton. we raise watermeonS, tobacco, sugar
cane, potatoes, peanuts, beans, etc. We SIM
ply can't sit idly by and hear this land OF
paradise ridiculed in any such Way.-Nash-
vile Herald.
1t is amusing to note the occasional refer
ence by some contemporary in middle or
north Georgia, where much of the land is red
hills and gullies and some of it too poor to
sprout cowpeas, to this fertile and favored
section as one of poverty and thrittlessness
There is no excuse for such misrepresenta-
ton, and the evident indignation of our Nash
vile contemporary is justified. Our farmers
are intelligent and industrious and apply
scientific methods in cultivating their crops
with the result that they not only raise cot
ton despite the boil weevil but grow every
thing needed for man or beast in an abund-
ance that is unknown to north Georgia. Such
thing as a crop failure was never known
here.
AS to cotton, this section always has and
always will produce a fair yield. While under
boil weevil conditions only half as much is
now being produced as formerly it is as much
as was made per plow on the average NORTH
Georgia farm before nfestation by the weevll
If reports are to be credited, and they are
made with such frequency and unanimity a;
to leave no doubt as to their truthfulness
there are many counties in the upper sector
of the state that have not made bale OF cot
ton to the pillow this year. In some counties
it is said, the total production will not eXcee>
three or tour hundred bales, which is no
as much as has been grown this year on some
farms in Terrell county. In fact, prominen
citizen OF middle Georgia told us in the pas
week that the entire cotton yield OF his county
would not exceed $50 bales, and another well
known gentleman placed the production in hi
county at not more than 500 bales.
| Esteemed contemporaries should cease max
ing themselves ridiculous by absurd remark
about south Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25

From the Plywood Panels.

The following missive was received by the
forest ranger of the Pasadena district and
read at the annual dinner of the Sierra Club IN
Los Angeles
Kind and Respected Cir: l see in the paper
that man named j $ was atacted
and ct up by large bare whose cubs he
was trying to git when the she bare came up
and stopt him by eatin him up in the noun
tains near your town. What want to- know
is did it kill him or was he only partly ct
up and he from this place and all about the
bare. | don't know but what he is distant
husband of mine. My first husband was OF
that name and | supposed he was killed in
the war but the name OF the man the bare
ct being the same thought it might be him
after all and i thought to know if he wasn't
killed either in the war or by the bare tor
have been married twice since and their ought
to be divorce papers got out by him or me
if the bare did not eat him all up. II 1t IS
him you will know it by him having six toes
on the left foot. He also sings base and has
a spread eagle tattoed on his front chest and
la ankor on his right arm which you will know
him if the bare did not eat up these parts OF
him. If alive don't tell him | am married to
j W for he never liked j Mebbe
you had better let on as if i am ded but find
out all you can about him without him know
ing anything what it is for. That is If the
bare did not him all up Ii it did don't see
you can do anything and you needn't take
any trouble. My respeks to your family and
please ANGER back.
"P. S-Was the bare killed. Also was he
married again and did he leave any property
worth me laying claim to-"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25
Peace at Last.

The action of the senate in Overwhelmingly
ratifyng the peace treaties with Germany and
the other central powers will meet with the
almost unanimous approval OF the people OF
the country 1t should have been done at the
end of hostilities three years ago, but unfort-
Iunately an effort was made at that time by
those in authority to entangle the United
States in foreign affairs, with the result that
the re-establishment of peace SO necessary
for American and world rehabilitation was
delayed while factions fused.
A very large number of democratic senators,
including Senator Underwood, the party lead
err in that body, and Senator Hitchcock, rank
ing democrat member and former chairman
of the foreign relations committee, are among
those who favored ratification. Mr.. Hitchcock
spoke in favor of the treaty and declaring the
American electorate had commissioned" for
eign affairs to President Harding he confined:
Il cannot bring myself to vote against
the ratification OF this treaty when l know
that the only alternative will be to prevent
a peace settlement with Germany and VIII
leave everything in state OF uncertainty
This existing state OF uncertainty IS dlsas-
trOus and |, for one, shall not vote to pro-
long it. One of the necessary steps to end
it is a peace settlement with Germany and
the resumption OF business relations with
that great country.
The first necessary step to end this IN
toerabe uncertainty is a peace settlement
1t cannot be ended in any other way than
by a treaty with Germany, and l am
Tor ratification OF this treaty because the
peace settlement is the supreme end OF the
hour"
The Washington correspondent of the At
1anta Constitution wires that paper that the
ratification of the treaty has already produc-
ed general satisfaction, regardless OF parties
or policies The whole nation is breathing
easier today over the fact that the people
have been spared another political battle pro-
1onged in the senate while the country con-
tinued in a state of war with unreleved I'M
rest in all lines of business There is more
optimism in the air today, in spite OF domes~
tic troubles and threatened rail tie-ups, as to
renewed foreign trade than at any time since
the armistice, it being apparent that the peo-
pie generally are anxious to renew the ma
tional diplomatic relationship with the new
German government"
The two Georgia senators, for reasons OF
their own-very different ones, in all proba-
bility-voted against ratification of the treaty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25

1t used to be the popular thing in state and
local taxation to stick a few additional taxes
on the railroads when it was necessary to
raise more funds for public purposes. This
was the easiest thing for the politicians, for
the railroad managers had few votes and the
rest of the people had many. But people have
come to realize that under the system OF gov
eminent control Of rates and labor charges
they pay the railroad bill, whether the items
Of the bills are made up of taxes, wages or
materials No one is deluded any longer into
believing that by taxing the railroads the bur
den of taxation is lightened for the people in
the country in general
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25
Georgia Spuds or Sweets.
From the Augusta Chronicle.

The northern name for the sweet potato is
sugar spuds or sweets. When they speak OF
potato they mean the Irish potato, which they
call spuds. There is a greater movement TINS
wear OF sweets northWard by twenty-five per
cent than has obtained before. This industry
of the sweets is practically confined to the
south and is comparatively a new industry.
The industry was an impossible one up to the
time of the potato curing house. Inc crop
this wear will be about hundred and four
teen million bushels There is more building
now going on of potato storage houses by Tar
than obtains in any other department OF agri-
culture. South Carolina today has seventy
five potato curing houses, and will venture
to say that within three years she Will have
five times this quantity.
Indications.
AS food the sweet potato should be Just
as valuable and universal crop as is the irish
potato crop. There is no one food that IS more
largely shipped or is more universally eaten
at every mans dinner table than is the Irish
potato There is more food value in the sweet
potato, and there are hundreds OF ways, OF
cooking it. The Irish potato can be cooked
only in a very lew ways. The sweet potato
is not only good for human use, but there
is no hog food crop that is cheaper. Its prac-
ticabity as a syrup maker has not yet been
proven 1t may not be generally known that
when the potato is put into curing house 1t
runs up in sugar content from two per cent
to six per cent. After that it goes backward
Now while the potato is at this high sugar
content stage third of the potato in weight
can be made into a frst-class syrup. 1t may
not be generally known that it is the starch
from the sweet potato from which glue is
made for all of our postage stamps. AS a
starch maker the sweet potato offers many
possibilities. But it is not these side issues in
the sweet potato that | wish to call attention
to- The southern farmer is mostly interested
in the potato as a shipping matter
Early and Late.
Potatoes can be shipped very early in the
season or they can be put into drying house
and shipped any time during eight or nine
months. 1t is, therefore, no longer a perish
able crop.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25
MUST DO BETTER THAN THIS.

From the Nashville Herald.
Those who seem to think there is no market
for food crops in Georgia will be interested
in the announcement that Georgia is annually
sending away from the state the enormous
sum Of S15OOOO,0OO for foods. Ii there were
any certain food crops that we could not
raise in Georgia we might not be so surpris-
ed at such condition. but the truth OF the
matter is we are one of the very few states
that raise all of everything we need to eat.
This sum represents a per capita OF $50 for
every man, woman and child in the state, or
an average OF about $3.50 for each community.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25

Truly. it is an i'll wind that blows no one
good Says the Triton Gazette: High freight
rates alone keep the price of hay where the
Georgia farmer can see a profit in it. West
ern hay is so cheap that it would drive the
local hay out of the market were it not for
the added freight By the way, the hay crop
in this section is the largest ever grown here.
1t is not only abundant, but OF extra fine
quality, in part due to the large acreage sown
in peas and in part to favorable weather"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25

DR.. 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 institu-
ton has received an irreparable blow. There
are Others who can take hold where he left Oft,
and the school will continue to go forward,
1t would, indeed be lamentable If the success
OF great state institution depended on any
one man.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25
OTHERS COULD TURN THE TRICK.

From the Cordele Dispatch.
Terrell county boasts of a farmer who made
three bales Of cotton this year on two and
half acres of land. That's exception to the
general yield, but it would not be if our farm
ers did not undertake too many acres to the
plow Few acres we'll prepared and properly
cultivated possibly turned the trick for the
Terrell farmer
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25
UP TO THE CONSUMER.

From the Monroe Advertiser
Before this country ever comes into its
own the live at home movement must extend
to the consumer as we'll as the producer. Ev-
cry merchant and every person not farmer
must join with the farmer in not buying from
abroad that which is raised and is for sale at
home Diversihcation and prosperity will thus
be promoted and closer ties OF friendship will
mite all
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25

Newspapers denounce the filth OF the Ar
buckle case, and then print columns of the
stuff in disgusting detail The reading public
sbudders and shivers at the horrible details,
but contribute to the demand for such by ca
gerly 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.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25

Ripe bananas from plants ornamenting the
gardens of several Dawson citizens are OF fine
size and as luscious as those grown in the
tropical regions There are other clusters
which will mature and ripen unless frost gets
Them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25
AND THERE ARE SOME GULL1Es!

From the Valdosta Times.
state farm at Miliedgeville Mr.. Brown NAV
not be a postmaster in the matter of handling
convicts, but we venture the assertion that
he will come as near making the old hills and
gullies at the state farm pay as any other man
in GEORGIA
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25
PRESUME HE'LL BE PUNCTUAL NOW

From the Savannah News.
The Warrenton judge presiding in Atlanta
played safe for a feature story in the alert
capital city papers. He was late at court, ar
ragned himself for his own hardness, declined
and refused to accept his own excuses, and
fined himself $1-collecting the fine in person.
If is presumed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-25

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
mpulsive 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.