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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-12-15

ireland st> ds Firm" says
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-12-15

When a ilowerS fellow meets I:
green fellow the time Is ripe for j
rotten deal.
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It's never too late to spend.
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Anybody can swear on Imokine
after Christmas cigars.
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on their wedding day. or thatone Of ma INST beau
In the jeans trousers.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-12-15

It's easy to learn figures on a
windy corner.
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Ireland has plenty Of loose brick'
for reconstruction.
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A friend In need Is a friend gone
to seed.
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PlauSfS Neptune, farthest from
,thS sud- sokx &hose yet known, was
atSfsA
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Psy day is fathers day,
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headline. No doubt she would move
to a better neighborhood II she
could.
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A Pattern Hat for Christmas
at Half-P rice?

wv HATS the matter with a new hat for Christmas? Quite a
w s~ane-minded gift we would think and one thatmany wom-
en- of our acquaintance are going to receive. Theyllbe Courtneys
Pattern Hats, too. Because the finest winter models in the store
have been reduced to only halftheir regular values and on that a-
count are being purchased more eagerly than ever before. Hats
from Rawak, Cupid, Bluebird, Reed, Fisk and Jardine are en-
braced in this ~halfprice selling.
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OBSERVATIONS.

AS far as we can see. they have
unit rolling their stockings.
Trouble is easy 10 borrow: Dill
hard to pay back.
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A daily column given
10 current events and
frank comment.
By The Way:

headline. No doubt she would move
to a better neighborhood II she
A friend in need Is a friend gone
TO seed.
when a ilowerS fellow meets i
green fellow the time is ripe for i
rotten deal.
It's easy to Learn hEuEss on /.
windy corner
Anybody can swear on Imokins
after Christmas cigars.
There may be merchants who
don't advertise, but son reTer hear
OF them.
Even an optimfst can't see much
fun in missing q street car.
The war veteran who shot a Chi.
.cago packer must have discovered
who invented canned corned beef.
It's never too late to spend.
Cold storage men are claiming
their eggs will hatch. Bet the lit.
tie chicks come ont wearing over
coats.
Absence makes the face grow
longer.
II we corraled the horsepower
wasted cussing Congress It would
be worth more than Muscle Shoals.
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
CLEANER PICTURES.

Whatever may come OF the effort to insure
cleaner pictures in the theatres there is no
question of the need of effort in this direction.
The question of motion picture censorship is
as old as the motion picture itself, and yet
no satisfactory plan of censorship has been
devised to date. One does not need to be a
purist or an extremist to recognize that much
is shown on the screen that has no proper
place there. Over emphasis of sex and the
presentation of crime are the great evils of
motion pictures Many of the pictures shown
are fine in every way, appealing both to the
intellect and to the heart but far too large a
proportion feature sex problems and crime.
Some of the sex plays are daring and nau-
seating to a degree that is startling. Others
make the worst of crimes familiar to all who
behold.
A motion picture with evil in it, whether
evil be presented markedly or arrayed in at
tractive disguise, is dangerous instrumental
ity 1t is education that debases. 1t is laden
with possibilities of evil that tells its story SO
clearly that the least intelligent is able to
comprehend it. In the protection and further
ance of morality among the people nothing
is more vital than that the motion picture
shall educate properly.
The News does not believe the managers
of motion picture theatres, as rule, have q
desire preference for plays that are harm
full to public morals. But the choice of plays
is matter that is quite largely out of their
hands. The News is not convinced that ii
would be just to impose the duty of censor
ship solely on them.
The motion picture is a tremendous force
| We can make it force for good or force
for evil as we will Certainly we should see
to it, by some means, that it is not made a
force for evil
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
PUZZLES HIS CRITICS.

When Senator Harding was nominated for
the presidency he was declared to be the
candidate of senatorial oligarchy. When he
was elected he was held by his opponents
certain to bow to senatorial dictation. Since
his election his course in public matters has
puzzled his critics more and more. Recently
speculation regarding his cabinet has become
so marked as to force the conclusion that he
is working out his own problems in his own
way regardless of senators or anybody else.
Indeed, President-elect Harding has devel-
oped an independence that Senator Harding
was not suspected OF having. He seeks ad-
vice, but does not indicate whether or not he
accepts it. He talks things over, but he lets
the other fellow do most of the talking. He
steers clear of party divisions, indicating his
desires only that differences be amicably ad-
justed. Meanwhile he keeps busy subjects
which he regards OF prime Importance, no
matter how they may be regarded by others
Mr.. Harding has them all guessing, espe-
y the politicians.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
Outfit Brings $1oo, But-He Rode!
From the Bulloch County Times.

There was sold before the court house door
by the sheriff yesterday morning an outht
which formerly belonged to farmer living
in this county, the selling OF which pointed
a moral with forceful lesson.
In the outfit was one two-horse wagon, a
one horse wagon, pillow and wagon harness,
a buggy, an organ-and an automobile
Did you notice the last-named article? Well,
that should have been first on the list, Tor II
was the automobile which brought about the
sale The man who owned the outht was a
fairly industrious farmer, and had accumu-
lated more or less of this worlds goods dur
ing the recent period OF prosperity. lie was
satisfied to be a tenant and found no trouble
in finding landlord who would take care OF
him from the time OF planting to harvesting
time. When cotton reached 40 cents the farm
er sold his share, invested it in Sl,50O auto"
mobile, and began to ride. The speedometer
ran till it wore out, so there is no way OF
telling how far the man rode before he reach
ed the end of his road. But he reached it i'll
front of the court house yesterday morning.
The end came when the sheriff sold the whole
outfit for approximately $500. The wagon
sold fairly WE'LL while the organ and auto
mobile sold for song. 1t was fitting that
they should go to the same man, tor the
fellow who will buy second hand automo-
bile at sheriff's sale needs an organ to play
his own funeral dirge. That is sure to come
sooner or later, and the chances are the SHEER
if will officiate at his obsequies, too, If he
doesn't watch out.
The tenant farmer who was foolhardy
enough to invest his cash in an automobile
during the recent wave of prosperity prefer
ably to investing in a home for himself and
his family, is now ready to admit that he
needed guardian. Farming and automobile
riding do not go hand in hand any more than
any other sort of business goes with last
riding. The higher priced car one bought
the quicker he has sped along the road to-
ward the end The farmer whose outfit was
sold yesterday is but one of many who, like
the prodigal son in Holy Writ, played the
fool. Today he is seeking another landlord
to run him for the year, and he started life
without even the simplest farm tools, which
are indispensable to the farmer. There is only
one thing that may be considered from which
to find satisfaction-he rode while he was
riding. The car was good one till the spec
dOmeter wore out.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
THE WEARONROADS.

That the present interest in the construc-
ton of new highways should not divert at
tention from properly maintaining highways
already improved is point which the Bureau
of Public Roads emphasizes, particularly in
view of the enormous increase in motor We
hicle traffic which is taking place. The bureau
recently completed compilation of statistics
from all the states of the union showing that
there were total of 7,565,446 cycles and
also trucks in the United States in 1919 This
is an increase of % per cent, or. 1,4lS,819
motor cars over 1918. Such figures indicate
that the country highways are being used
far more than in the past, and in consequence
added attention must be given to the repair
problem. The increase in the number OF cars
for 1919 over 1918 represents about 10 per
cent more cars than the total number reg
istered in the whole United States for 1917
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
New Negro Tendencies.
From the Minneapolis Journal.

The old south is breaking up in more sens
es than one. DR.. Albert E.. jerks, the an
thropological expert of the university, has re-
Gently pointed out four significant move
ments taking place among the colored people
of this country.
The first is that the negro since the civil
war has become more and more a migrant.
A million and more have left the south and
taken up residence in northern cities. In the
wake of this movement come such race
troubles as those that broke out in East St.
Louis Chicago and Duluth.
A second movement is the increasing ten
dency of the negro to intermarry with GER
tain white stocks. This almalgamation has
been taking place for some time, but only
of late has it become pronounced. In eastern
cities the negro is intermarrying with those
of south European origin The effects of such
racial mixtures are not yet known.
A third tendency is the increasing political
influence Of the coored element. A move
ment is already on foot for negroes to elect
their own representatives to congress wher-
ever possible
A fourth movement is toward segregation.
This is taking place in at least three separate
areas of the south. Negroes flourish better
in some regions than whites, and not so well
in others. In some parts OF the south the
whites are decreasing, and the negroes in
creasing at such a rate that the results must
soon be reckoned with.
The first conclusion to which these ten
denotes point is that further negro immigra-
ton from the West Indies and Africa should
be stopped The admission of 5000 Colored
aliens every year from these regions only
complicate the problem OF racial relations.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
Uncle Sam Wearies Editors.
From the Cuthbert Leader.

The Leader receives letters frequently from
the treasury department, but not one of them
has ever contained an order on the treasury
for any of the money stored therein. On the
contrary, this department sends us matter
for publication with never so much as hint
of pay for the use of our columns 1t is
propaganda, too, not news. OF course we
don't have to publish this matter, but it takes
time to open letters and look over such lit
erature even when it is consigned to the waste
basket, and we wish Uncle Sam would drop
us from his free-horse list. By so doing he
could conserve paper and save expense to the
postofice department, while we could en-
ploy our time more proftably than in looking
over his propaganda.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
SUCH is LIFE.

The bluest blue law of the bluest blue law
hacker today is a pale robins egg blue be-
sides the frolcksome little rules for Sunday
observance laid down by "A Person of Great
Learning and Piety" for the direction of his
children in England in 1902
Squire Abner Harpngton possesses, copy
of the Contemplation" of this pious I'M
known Printed by William Godbid for Will
liam Shrewsbury at the Bible in Duke-lane at
Blew Bell in Fleet street near ChancerY-line"
in 1916.
Condensed here are few of the rules:
ut is not only unfit but unlawful and in
descent to indulge in exercise and recreatlonS,
as bowling, shooting, hunting and divers 9TH
err recreations including the study of human
learning Sunday.
You must not walk for pleasure, no more
than is enough to digest your meat and over
come drousiness. About half hour of sober
walk, | should deem best.
"You must not engage in cheerful or ami
mated conversations nor talk of business,
pleasure or learning except the learning OF
scripture.
You may give physk to the sick and set
broken bones, but you may not dress meat
which should have been prepared for table
on Saturday"
The worthy gentleman instructed the chill
dren to listen to the same sermon morning
and evening.
He said he always observed Sunday so,
only more so, and enjoyed it.
He's dead now.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
Spider Kills Birds.
From Leslie's

York ZOO is huge spider coming from east
ern Bolivia, South America, which kills birds!
Its name is "Avicularia." When stationary,
with its right legs covered like its body with
bristles that irritate the human skin like a
nettle, it occupies circumferentia area equal
to that of the closed fist Living in burrows
or hollow trees during the day, it sallies
forth by night to prey upon insects or young
birds, taking the latter from their nests. 1t
possesses hollow teeth, which distill poi
son into a wound in manner analogous to
that of. snake poison. This lethal fluid is so
active that it kills in an instant creatures of
far greater size than itself Spiders a rule,
are beneficial rather than the reverse, since
they eat insects which would otherwise be
destructive to crops and life. Several of the
larger spiders are poisonous in their bite.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
The Peanut Bill.
From the Savannah Press.

The fellow who hopes to get his income
tax reduced by the enactment of tariff
law will have to continue his hopeful atti-
tude for some years. Revenue from a tariff
will help some, but the tax burdens are
altogether too heavy to be borne wholly
by a tariff tax.-Dawson News.
The emergency tariff bill will not help any
body very materially. 1t will raise the cost OF
living by adding to the price of -four and meat.
In the end it will not benefit the farmer, be-
cause it closes to him the markets of the
world He needs the world markets just as
badly as the world markets need him. The
tariff bill would shut off foreign buyers from
the cotton grower, while it increases his food
bill. The emergency tariff bill is not in any
way revenue raiser, because it is a prohibi-
tive tariff For the life of us we can't see
any sense in it or any hope from it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
SENATOR is SEVERE.

Senator Charles S. Thomas, of Colorado, a
democratic member who is completing
long term of service in the senate, has de-
livered himself of few opinions concerning
the national legislature which are interesting,
TO say the least.
The Colorado scion, who has been in pub
lie life more than generation, and who has
ranked as one of the ablest men in the SEN
ate in his remarks called attention to the fact
that 10000 laws have been placed on state
and federal statute books in the last twenty
years.
He declared that 90 per cent of all legisla-
ton in congress is designed to pry money
out of the treasury, and that "the lice of Egypt
were scarcely thicker than the federal en-
ployes of the United States"
He also sets forth his conviction that this
government is bureaucracy, pure and sim
pie" and that in the place of the lobby Pres
ident Wilson was supposed to have destroyed
we now have more than a hundred Hobbies,
influencing the legislature by threats, by per-
suasion by entreaty and by other processes.
Touching lightly on the subject of pork
Mr. Thomas remarked: Il will guarantee that
/ can take any measure that has promise OF
an appropriation for local expenditures and
/ can get the support for it of practically all
of the men and all of the women of the state
where the money is to be expended"
"We are no longer senators; we are dele
gates we are rubber stamps" he said. Lead
ership, craftsmanship, originality of legisla-
ton, the standards of congress and OF
legislatures have been transformed and when
the whip cracks outside we get into line
This is a pretty severe arrangement There
is a comforting thought, however, that per-
haps congress is not quite as bad as Mr..
Thomas thinks it is, and that perhaps he is
viewing it from the standpoint OF an elderly
and disillusioned gentleman.
However, there is sufficient accuracy in his
charges to indicate that great many i'm
provements in the character and work OF con-
gress might be made. But no such improve
ments will be made until they result from
an awakened public conscience.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
MIRACLES OF CHEMISTRY.

We often speak of the age OF miracles as
being past, but in fact the present is the mir
acle age in truer sense than in any other
period in history. Among the modern mir
acle workers is the chemist. Daily in his
laboratory he is finding the key to and un-
locking the mysteries of nature. An illustra-
ton of the achievement of chemistry was
given in Washington the other day, when
George w. Carver, a negro teacher from the
Tuskegee (Ala) Institute, explaining to the
ways and means committee of the house OF
representatives more than 100 products that
had been derived from the peanut, field
crop of the south which yields 'prolihcly
in Georgia 1t does not seem great while
since the peanut occupied the most lowly
place, was sold only in shell at little con-
fiction stands, and was eaten only by chill
dren or by adults when they went to the
circus How little it was esteemed was re-
vealed by the phrase, peanut politics, in
dicating something exceedingly small or triv-
ial But when the chemist began to analyze
the peanut and dissolve it into its original
elements it was shown to have an important
food value and to be rich in essential oils.
Further analysis has served to multiply the
food products to be derived from it, and has
added other products not edible.
Professor Carver's exhibit as displayed to
the ways and means committee included ten
kinds of milk FIVE kinds of punches; cherry,
lemon orange, blackberry and plum; sailed
peanuts; two grades of -four; five breakfast
foods; new havorings for ice cream, cakes,
gingerbread, cookies and various connections;
chocolate coated peanuts; peanut candy bars;
crystalized peanuts; three relishes; nine wood
stains, ranging from malachite green to fum-
ed golden oak; black ink; face powder and
face cream Worcester sauce; four different
kinds Of stock foods, including hay compo-
siton made from the vine; ground hay with
peanut cake a sweet food with chinaberry
added as a tonic, and various kinds OF
oils. Prof Carver stated that the favoring
extract obtained from the peanut could be
used as a base for any number of favors,
including some not shown to the committee.
Carver is son of former slaves, is 81
years of age, and received his collegiate edu-
cation at the Iowa state agricultural college.
He is now head of the research and expert
ment station at the Tuskegee institute.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
How Banks Help.
From the Atlanta Constitution.

In an editorial on how the banks have
helped, and aEe continually helping through
cooperation in times of financial stress, the
Jackson Progress-Argus says the country
owes a debt of gratitude to them
but for the banks business could not
have weathered the storm. The farmers have
been helped The business world has been
helped. The banks are a mighty bulwark
of safety and this fact is never appreciated
more than during panic conditions. Don't
sheer at the banks and accuse them of
holding up the people, Cooperate with
them. and they will cooperate with you"
1t is the bank that is one of the biggest
factors in putting the smallest town ION the
map" it is the towns best business recon-
mendation at home and abroad, and business
grows as the people cooperate with their
financial institutions.
The bridge that carries you over is the one
to count on.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
Was 1t Worth the Price?
From the Atlanta Journal.

E L. Rainey, for many years editor OF the
Dawson News, one of Georgia's brightest
and best weekly newspapers, was evidently
dissatisfied with the result OF the 1920 fed
era census. Hear him:
The census bureau reports that it cost
$24000000 to count the people last year
At that the cities and towns are unani-
nous in the opinion that it was a very
poor job of counting"
That it was a very poor job OF counting
is generally conceded. Since it appears that
a large majority of those counted were re-
publicans we incline towards the opinion that
Uncle Sam paid out too much for the work
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
TYPES OF NIGHT LIGHT MOTHS!

New York Letter in Indianapolis Star.
Queer characters are drawn to night life
like the moth to the fame. AT the midnight
hour of relaxation they will come-Dusty the
Coke, who will dash off a poem for the ask
ing; Mrs. beavers, who looks every morning
for some news of her boy who went to sea
IL years ago; Stubby, the legless, who sells
papers and writes jingle books for children;
Ghost Fitzpatrick, who will point out shades
of the historical great in City Hall park, and
Tiny Tim, who leaves the Greenwich Village
coffee houses to sell Park Row his soul candy
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
SOME GEORGIA TURNIPs.

From the Triton Gazette.
The Ocilla Star comes to bat with two tur-
nips, one weighing 12H and the other 10
pounds, the latter measuring 30H inches in
circumference. Those are fine turnips for r.
win. But to see the real article of turnip a
fellow has to come over to Tiff county. Just
incidentally, man brought one to this office
today that weighed IS pounds, and last week
two were brought ill., one measuring 32H
inches and the other 341a inches in circum-
ference Still, 13-pound turnip is a big
turnip in some places
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
THE PLACE TO BEGIN.

From the Alexandria Herald
Newspapers have been requested by con-
greSsiona committee to cut down paper con-
sumption 10 per cent How would it do if
the various bureaus at Washington, D. c.,
which furnish free" dope to the newspapers
would start the conservation ball rolling by
cutting down their consumption of paper
about 100 per cent?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
THE DEADLIEST WEAPON.

From the Los Angeles Times.
War is quite dangerous game and its fatal
tiles have been frightful; but, barring the
scrap with Germany, there have been few
wars in the worlds history that present so
great toll of death and disability as comes
through the development and use of the mo-
tor. Saul has slain his thousands and David
his ten thousands, but wait until you get the
full score on Henry!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
A DOUBLE BURDEN.

From the Springfield Republican.
A loyal member of the Choate family rises
to remind the world that it was not Edward
Everette Hale, who had honors enough, but
the late Joseph H. Choate, who praised the
Pilgrim mothers because they had to endure
all the sufferings that the Pilgrim fathers suf-
fered and had to endure the Pilgrim fathers,
fOoo
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08

After all there is not much to this great
struggle for riches. Even if you succeed in
getting more than your share of the worlds
wealth it amounts to naught if you have lost
the confidence of your fellow man. That
above all else of the worthwhile offerings Of
this earth should be sought.