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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24
The Pecan as a Shade Tree.
From the Augusta Chronicle.

The proposition, through formal action in
city council, to in future turn to pecans for
shade trees in Augusta is very attractive.
There is the assurance that in a few years the
wisdom of this course will be well proved.
There is found in the current issue of the
Lyons (Ga) Progress an interesting reference
to the pecan, the Progress declaring that
fitting new year resolution of every land own
er would be to plant a few acres in pecans
during the year. 1t says:
1T is claimed that land planted to paper
shell pecans increases in value at the rate OF
$500 per acre per year for the first ten years
Even if the figure is overdrawn, which we
doubt, if every land owner in this section
would put out few acres this year and con-
tinue planting for the next few years it is
impossible to estimate the wealth increasing
results and the increased value it will give to
our lands.
"a South Georgia farmer claims to own a
pecan grove of eighty acres from which he
has sold this year $4,000 worth of nuts, an
average income of six hundred dollars per
acre. Pecans surpass the orange groves OF
Florida as money makers.
ANY young farmer can lay the foundation
for a fortune by setting out several acres
in pecans and giving the crop the proper at
tention."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24
Amt 1t Funny?
From the Colouitt Sur1.

OF all the edifying literature in this good
old world to read-the stuff that will make
man cry, cuss and laugh at the same time
are the articles written every day. by soft
handed city likes advising the farmer what
he should do and how he should do it.
Nine out of ten of such writer's wouldn't
know which end of a mule belonged next to
the pillow; wouldn't know whether to plant
cotton on the fourth of July or Christmas
wouldn't know scooter from sweep, nor
single-tree from a breast yoke.
They can tell you exactly what the farmer
should plant, how many acres to the plow,
how to cultivate, the kind Of seed to use, and
what price cotton will bring next fall.
There is no doubt but that the farmer gets
more real genuine free advice than any other
person under the sun.
He has been advised so much and so badly
that he is justified in not believing anything
ANYBODY says-not even me.
The United States maintains an Agricul-
tural Department to advise him, his own
State does the same, experiment stations ga
lore are run at the expense OF the public to
tell him, experts go about over the State
teaching him how to farm from the back end
of Pullman sleepers
He must be mighty hard-headed student
if all this bunch of advisers can't get him
straight and keep him straight.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24
Dangerous Roads.

, Young America is speeding on some dan
gerous roads. Meanwhile the distractions
multiply and the number of hazards is in
creased Nobody knows what the end of the
| Joy ride will be, for none can tell how far the
boys and girls of today will go before they
stop. The only thing that can be said with
any assurance whatever is that the peril is
great and that, sooner or later, they will know
the pain OF accidents Then will come suf-
fering and remorse and those who find de-
tours to lifes safe highways will be fortunate
and blessed.
Many signs point to this. One is the retro
erosion of college and university students,
many Of whom have become shallow vain,
bigoted, sensual and irresponsible. Student
editors of the Ghost monthly publication
printed at George Washington University,
have been called immoral by their president,
Howard L. Hodgkins, who, viewing the con-
tents of the last issue, found that it appealed
wholly to vice, or suggested it. The Ghost
shows plainly enough what its student edi-
tors are thinking about or, rather, it proves
that they are not thinking at all Education
demands serious application, honest effort and,
withal, a clean approach to that which is
worthy and desirable When these essentials
are lacking only one thing can result, and
that is a yielding to the baser impulses which
develops them until they become the real
masters. 1t is pity that boys and girls who
have the opportunity for education, refine
ment and culture, whose father and mothers
are making sacrifices for them, cannot see
where they are drifting.
Many things indicate that the morals of
America are suffering swift and sure de-
cadence Recently new dance was invented.
Perhaps it would be better to say it was con-
cocted, for the name of it, "the scandal walk, "
suggests that many evil ingredients went into
its composition. Anyone must know why the
dance was so named-to provide lure sala-
cious. deliberate act like that is crime
be in the least Objectionable, yet its invent
ors would clothe it with name that is in
sulting.
What can be done to check the wild career
of young America is a question that cannot
be answered off-hand The woodshed might
be suggested, but many shingles probably
would be destroyed to no purpose. Fathers
and mothers may be to blame for part of it.
Doubtless they are. Perhaps it would be
better if they set good examples and then
employed the rod to enforc obedience. Other
wise their efforts at correction might only
add impetus to the speed now maintained
by their children.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24
A Crackers" Tribute to the Georgia
COllard.

When sunshine fails to follow the rain,
And lovers care nothing for winding lane;
When a Georgia billy goat forgets how to
butt,
And squirrel will spurn hickory nut;
When boys and girls don't marry in june,
And Decatur street won't attract coon"
When babes no longer fret and cry,
And the L. S. A. for fact goes dry;
When old maids cease to love cat
And hotel cooks no longer grow fat;
When hooking birds all cease to sing,
And violets no longer bloom in spring;
When Dawson girls don't care for flowers
And the month of April sends no showers;
When little kids are not 'fraid OF dark.
And dogs are born without the bark
When turtle doves no longer coo,
And hungry COW forgets to moo;
When bantam cocks no longer crow,
And a snow bird cares no more for snow;
When the Irish learn to love the Jew,
And toad frogs cease to sip the dew;
When crows no longer pull up corn,
And Cutie don't hear the dinner horn;
When yellow jackets no more will sting,
And girls eschew the engagement ring;
When English sparrows live quiet lives,
And men are faithful to their wives:
When turkey gobblers cease to gobble,
And drunken men no longer wobble;
When wedding tours are a dollar apiece,
And a trousSeau fits i'll one valise
When red-headed woodpeckers forget to peck
And flies are Matched without the speCk;
When country women don't have to slave,
And get some rest this side the grave"
When fishes travel down the stream,
And minCe pie makes one sweetly dream;
When Georgia girls lose all their charms,
And country boys stick to the farms;
When boys and girls no longer dance,
And Cutie amt 'fraid of grave-yard-hants;
When hens will lay two eggs each day,
And old folks heads quit turning gray:
When bootblacks all quit shootin' craps,
And birds learn not to walk in traps;
When a puddle duck no longer quacks,
And kisses are given without the smacks;
When a Georgia gopher outruns Brer Rabbit
And chewing gums no longer a habit;
When thug can't rob and get away,
With the "swag' III Atlanta, every day;
When a politician becomes a saint,
And a mouse won't make a woman faint;
When all these things and thousands more
Come true this side the golden shore,
Till then. and not till then, l VOW,
Dear collard. I'll love you as l love you now
JOHN R. THORNTON,
Atlanta, Ga Formerly of Terrell County
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24
Rude Rural Rhymes
The Household Budget

Before he travelled far in life Jim
Henry Smith annexed a wife; then
straightway Ioosened up his collar pre-
pared to chase the nimble dollar. But
all he earned his bride would spend;
her wants and needs seemed without
end A nickel for a spool of thread and
ten cents for thimble and other things
of higher price from Isenstein or Girnbel.
In shopping trips she found delight. She
searched Jim's trousers every night.
There came a daughter. then a son, and
they were dear more ways than one. For
though he loved them bona 6de it cost
to feed and keep them tidy. Smith S
credit smashed to smithereens; he had
no jitneys in his jeans. Then wiser grown
Jim Henry's spouse drew up budget
for her house, assigned her dollars, dimes
and cents to balance income with ex-
pense, lot for food, bit for frills, for
movies, church and pale pink pills. So
now she knows just where she's at and
Jim no more is busted fiat. He walks
the street in manly pride nor looks for
duns from side to side. He pays each
month the merchants tallies and is not
lodging through the allies.
BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24
HeIpmate, Not HeIpspend.

Mrs. Martha Groves McKevie, wife of the
governor of Nebraska, keeps up 2l-room
house without the aid of servants, cooks all
the meals for family and guests cares for
her child, and still finds time for her social
duties as the "first lady" OF the state.
Mrs. McKelvie does not regard her ac-
as remarkable in the least.
In speaking of her work she says: II 1t
should seem a bit out of the ordinary in
these days l would answer by calling .atten-
ton to my grandmother, who cared tor an
18-room house, raised 8 children, grew all
her own cotton and WOOL spun, carded,9 and
wove the cloth; dyed and made every gar
ment worn by her family. She put up fruit
and vegetables by the barrel, made syrup for
sweetening, dried meat, and even made flour
and cured the mems tobacco. All the soap
used was made in her home; she bought
nothing at the store, exchanging produce
for coffee and sugar.
a helpmate, not helpsend She was pro
Queer, not parasite, paying her own way
in life She always said that the blue and
discouraged are words of modern coinage.
"My grandmother is my ideal; with her
aid my foundation in what | deem real Amer1-
canism was laid, regardless of modern theo-
ries. Any help / give my country emanateS
from my home"
Mrs. McKelvie believes that a governor is
just like any other working man, and pro-
vides him with meat and potatoes" accord
ingly Her work is of necessity, systemat-
ically planned Her household work is done
at 10 o'clock, she turns her attention to other
important tasks, cleaning closets, pressing
Clothes grooming herself, and attending to
a big correspondence, which is always kept
up to date.
During the day she answers about 40 tele-
phone calls accepting many invitations from
persons and organizations who understand
IL ALn ~ hn al n
wife is excusable when she has delayed to
put the clothes to soak."
Wisely, Mrs. McKelvie uses electrical ap-
planes to help her accomplish such huge
amount of work. She also ''cuts OUT all un-
necessary "frills" in entertaining, declaring
that such men as Mr. Taft and General
Pershing, being of the human variety, accept
things as they find them in the gubernatorial
mansion at Omaha, where real hospitality
regns.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24
The Cost of Living.

The constant struggle on the part OF the
householder to influence a further downward
trend in retail prices and thus reduce the cost
of living does not at this time hold promise
of much success Opinion seems to have it
that prices generally will not go much lower
than they have been for the last several
months Some articles, no doubt, will be
cheaper; Others are sure to go higher. The
average, however, is expectd to vary but lit
tie from what it is now. Fluctuations will
come, as they always have, based on the law
of supply and demand, which will result in
articles of food or wearing apparel being OF
fered at varying prices, but the 100 per cent
base of 1918, popularity used to show the in
crease in the cost of living and the reduction
from the 1920 peak, probably never will come
again. 1t is practically certain that new base
will have tobe found, and that it will be high
er than that which prevailed before the war.
A reason for this must exist; otherwise 1t
could be expected that prices would go back
to the pre-war level, just as they did some
years after the civil war Economists say
the chief cause of continued high prices is
the continued high price of production. Other
things enter into it, OF course, one OF which
is the natural demand of capital, large and
small for return that will enable it to meet
its own increased expense as reflected in a
personal, individual way. The producer cannot
be expected to sell on a narrower margin
than ever when his cost of living is just as
high as that of everybody else. That unfair
condition has been forced upon the farmer,
but it is not sound nor just.
Wages on the average are higher than be-
fore the war Labor demands higher wages
now, its main argument being that they are
necessary to meet the high cost OF living. 1t
is recalled, however, that labor leaders insist
wages were too low when the world war be-
gan. and that, if the conflict had not come
and increased prices, persistent effort to in
crease scales of pay would have been made.
It is remembered that considerable unrest on
account of wages and working conditions was
noticeable for some time before the war. In
any controversy over wages and the cost OF
living it is a foregone conclusion that labor
never will agree to accept lower pay until
It can see lower price tags on the necessities
Of life. Some elements OF labor are not willing
that the reductions should be proportonate,
thus basing their resistance on the statement
that wages were too low seven years ago
Thus it is unlikely that prices of goods, the
cost Of production of which is influenced more
by wages than by anything else, will again
! descend to the 1913 level
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24
Mr.. Newberrv's Victory.

The seating by the senate of Truman H.
Newberry, of Michigan, disposes of a case
that tried the patience of the public and it
is sincerely hoped that it will not be reopen
ed to be restirred. 1t were better to forget
the whole bad business than to have it
dragged to the fore again. with the likeli-
hood that no better settlement could or would
be made. At the same time it is difficult to
see how Senator Newberry possibly can en-
Joy having the seat which he reached after
long drawn out contest that developed an
unpleasant and dangerous antagonism in the
senate membership against him.
The News does not agree withs Mr.. New
berry in his claim following the announce
ment of the senate's vote in which he said:
81 regard the result as a complete vim
dication, and generation OF myself and
all concerned
1t is certainty that the first task ahead
of him is winning the respect and confidence
of the senate body. He cannot serve as a
United States senator until that has been
done If Mr.. Newberry resigned, returned
to Michigan and offered himself as candi-
date for reelection to the senate and won in
a campaign in which suspicion could at
tach he then could say he had kept the faith
and was entitled to his seat and all the honor
that goes with it. We believe that Mr. New
berry would have better chance to redeem
himself out of the senate than in it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

1t is a matter of report that in sections
where farmers are burdened with a surplus OF
unstable corn they are translating it into
moonshine whisky, for which there is always
good market and with the proceeds are &C
cumulatng funds with which to meet inter
est payments and taxes. If interest and taxes
are not paid it is goodbye to the farm. Self
preservation has long been recognized as the
first law of nature, There will be a difference
of opinion, of course as to the morality OF
such measure born OF desperate needs What
would you do?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

The Walton News, which has just reached
its And year, is a splendid example of Geor-
gia's best journalism. Messrs. Caldwell and
Hester are giving their people newspaper
that is every way worthy of that splendid
city and section.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

Atlanta simply will tell it bigger than any
other place. wherefore the announcement IS
out that last year there was very large in
crease in arrests by the police, including
public DRINKS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

Ten million are new said to be threatened
with death from starvation and disease in
Russia, which ought to check any attempted
spread Of bolshevik propaganda into other
countries.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

Lavonia has just had Prosperity Week, !"
and our esteemed contemporary, the Times,
proved it by appearing. with eighteen pages
brimful of interesting reading matter and at
tractive advertisements. Burton certainly did
Rush things.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

Who is paying for the strikes that are in
progress? Well, the strikers pay part of the
bill, their employers pay another part, and
the public which is everybody pays the bal
ance in one way or another. The price is paid
in loss of wages, in. loss of business, in de
struction of property, in higher prices and in
the preservation of order 1t cost the federal
government huge sum to establish peace
with federal troops in the West Virginia coal
fields 1t is going to cost the state of Kansas
thousands of dollars to police the coal fields
of that state with troops. These are only a
part of the costs of strikes. What folly it is
to do these things this way. 1t is not credit
able to our common sense that we can find
no better way.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

Speaking of eating corn, what has become
OF that old fashioned staple, hominy? Hog
and hominy" have contributed to prosperity
on the farm and the rearing of many good
men and women.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

The "Looker-on in Washington" who
writes for the New York World concludes
that what ails France is that she is suffering
from an exalted ego" That seems to be
about the size of it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

The work OF the Washington conference
would not be complete without chemical dis
armament.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

The attorney general OF the United States
is out cunning for prohteers again. per-
fectly harmless form of pleasant amusement
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

Economy that is so economical that it will
result in decreased taxes is sure to be one
of the campaign cries OF 1922 It should be
unanimous.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

The two richest agricultural counties in the
United States are in Virginia, according to
the census report OF the federal department
OF agriculture. The farmers in neither one
grow cotton, and the Worth County Local
thinks that ought to be an eye opener for
the farmers OF this favored section, some OF
whom have an idea that they could not even
make a living without growing cotton"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

Senator "Pat" Harrison, of Mississippi is
seeing things" again. He has become as big
a nuisance as the Borahs, the Reeds and others
of that ilk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

The times haven't changed much. Persons
who ought to know better continue to pour
kerosene and gasoline on the fire and pay Tor
their folly with their lives.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

Another thing that seriously needs to be
debated is grand opera salaries.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

Buggies are beginning to be right popular
vehicles again, notes the Conyers Times and
the Linconton Journal sees in it one OF the
signs of returning prosperity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

Yes spring is on the way; big leaguers are
already threatening what they will do if they
don't get three or four times what they are
worth next season.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-24

An undesirable individual like this one the
Meter Advertiser pays its respects to is in
every community:
THE man who has nothing else to do but
stalk around and criticise Institutions which
are trying to help themselves and the general
public ought to be suppressed. Thoughtless
remarks, generally proceeding from gross ig-
norance, often do harm and never do the re-
marker and good"
The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-20
IT'S A QUEER WORLD!

CHICAGO, May 20-Prince Charm ing of legendary fame has a rival in real life.
 He is Prince Max Egon de Hohen- lohe Langenburg of Austrian royalty, who is in Chicago on the first leg of a tour of the country.
 The prince, youthful, handsome and stately, modestly admitted an aver sion to tobacco, liquor and profanity.
 He confessed, however, that he once only once-violated the last of these three "vices."
 q said damn," the prince declared. 'It was on the day I landed in this country. I swore because I had not come here sooner"
The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-20
PRISONERS TO
 PURCHASE RADIO SET

KANSAS CITY, Kan, May 20. - Now comes the radio jail. And why not? Radio waves, so the wireless bugs aver, pass through grim gray walls as easily as through the air.
 Prisoners in the Wyandotte County jail here have been learning all about radio. There's a concert by radio every night in this section of the Mid- dle West, and the men behind the walls want to enjoy it.
 "We will save our tobacco money and buy a radio receiving outfit" one of the prisoners-a long termer-sug- gested.
 The fund is now reaching the de- sired proportions. the sheriff is willing, and the jail will soon have a wireless set with a loud speaker" to enter tain the prisoners in the pen" every night.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-20
CITIZENS FLEE FROM
 CITY'S HEAVY TAXES

PERSHING, Okla, May 20. - "They bonded the town so dog-gone heavy the folks all moved away"
 That's the way one of the "surviv- ing residenters described the plight of this "city."
 Pershing-boom town of the Osage country-incorpora in 1919 and quickly growing to a population of several thousand, has but few hundred inhabitants left within it's limits. It's Main Street" looks de- serted-for all the world like a stage street on a movie "lot" after the mob extras" have left and the cameras have ceased to grind.
 It had big ideas, according to the "early settlers" It took the name of the commander of the, American armies in the war, and General Pershing, justly proud, gave money for it's beautiful church edifice.
 But it wanted public Improvements and bonded itself for $140,000. Taxes soon scared. They reached 16 per cent, where they are at present, and the Pershingites began to pull up stakes" and move. Some of the build ings which were portable were hauled out of town. Others were | boarded up.
 Oklahoma taxpayers who took $80,000 of Pershing's bonds have now asked for an investigation, which has been ordered, to ascertain why the interest on their bonds has not been kept up.
 And in the meantime Pershing wonders what it will do to solve it's problem-taxes, taxes and still more taxes.