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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
HERE'S YOUR MULE"

Bankers all over the south have come to
realize that cotton is the money crop, and that
only with cotton can the farmers hope to pay
their debts. Lending money on mules, pota-
toes and truck patches has proven disastrous.
Jas the story from the sanctum-s anctorum OF
Ia bankers convention well illustrates.
The agricultural program for the new year
was under discussion There was an old man
rich in years, in wisdom and in the worlds
goods-a banker for half century and
good one His voice and his hand trembed
slightly with emotion as he addressed the
Ichar:
Boys he began, "if you have the time to
spare | can tell you something that you will
find useful as long as you live. This is the
hardest year | ever experienced, 1t took this
year to teach me what | am now going to
tell you and that is, never borrow dollar
Ito lend to somebody else.
What | am telling you not to do IS the
thing | have done all OF my life, and 1t took
this last year to make me say never again.
When | pay up this year never again Will
borrow a dollar to lend to somebody else.
Let me tell you how things are in the
country The sheriff had to sell one OF our
small farmers out. His mule brought SIS and
his hog $50. The mule wasn't fit to eat. He
was bid in by an automobile dealer who had
let the farmer have car last spring. The
automobile man sent for good negro tenant
he had and loaned him the mule for his keep.
!
less than a week hitched him to the gasoline
pump and said Boss, here's your mule.
can't keep him no longer. He done eat his
head off,
whats bank going to do with a mort
gage on a mule like that?
| Zone of my neighbor banks got letter
from one of his customers out in the country
the other day and it read something like this:
'Gents-You better send me some feed Tor
my mule you got that mortgage on. If you
don't, your mules gwinter starve to death
Il lived through 1898, 1907 and 1914 with
out finding it out and of late years had
come to look on my customers as my part
|ners, but this winter | have just learned there
are a hundred farmers in my county who
would let my bank bust and close up before
they would sell FIVE bales of cotton and keep
| it open. From now on it's going to take some
thing better than a red mule named Ned to
satisfy my idea OF collateral"
This shows how the bankers are thinking.
They're not going to lend money unless they
lis only with a cotton crop that the farmer can
be certain that he'll be able to pay his debts.
| Cotton is our balance of trade. In 1920 our
exports totaed So, l ,039733, and our imports
jtotaled S. ,238 Cpl ,668, a balance in our favor
of about two and three-quarter billion dollars
/ The same year the export OF cotton and
products from cotton totaled a little in excess
of two and one-ha1f billion dollars.
If we get to the point where we have no
cotton to export then our trade balance will
be wiped out, and times will be harder for
Everybody
Raise foods and feed for the family, but
raise cotton to pay debts and put money in
| the bank.--Exchange.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
A Good Time for Cotton Growers
To Be Wary.
From the Atlanta Georgian.

There is a type of business" man-gener-
ally pleased enough to nave the word big
attaching to the phrase-that is pretty sure
the average Georgia farmer is TOOL tor the
want of sense and may be exploited with ease
and certainty, whenever that seems desirable.
That type now-cIaiming to be favorable to
cooperative marketing-is moving to defeat,
or at least embarrass, the initial experiments
in that regard, in so far as it may, by en-
couraging the cotton producers, as subtly as
possible, to plant and cultivate a bumper
crop this year.
Farmers will be wise to study their methods
carefully and consider calmly and with reason
and common sense what is sought now to be
put over" on them. 1t is a very good time,
indeed. for farmers to search with discrimina-
ton and care for Colored persons in various
woodpiles.
1t is being explained with great and smooth
emphasis how the cotton grower can, if only
The WILL, produce a great cotton crop, with
the boil weevil or without him.
The boil weevil is being pooh-poohed and
tut-tutted aside; Go to it, farmers, weev1l or
mo weevil-you can grow all the cotton you
want-and for the Lords sake grow lot OF
ESPECIALLY just now!"
That's somewhat the long and the short OF
the story.
The thing is transparent; but the gentle
linen handling the transparency nevertheless
are banking upon the farmers imagined stu
Ipidity and lack of common sense to fall for it.
If the farmer does-if he permits himself to
be fooled or platituded into planting and Gull
tvating a bumper crop this year-then may
tbe Lord or Satan whichever in that event
may seem really to preside over his destinies,
have mercy upon him!
He will have digged for himself pit from
out which he will find it frightfully hard to
climb.
Plant only limited acreage in cotton
cultivate that with sense, of course. But let
cotton be strictly, rigidly limited in acreage
and size of crop.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
Rural Rhymes
Name Your Farm

If you possess likely farm, chuck full of
crops and cows and charm you ought to give
name to it, like Harvest Hills or Bod
gers Bit" And yet, pray you, do not choose
the common names that others use, the Hill
top Farms" and Valley Views" lest, when
YOU stamp the same some day, on cheese or
1runes or hops or hay the patent Office man
may say: Lay off that name for it appears
in Podunk Maine, John Henry Squeers has
used it umpty-seven years" So work your
brains and let them wander in search OF new
names here and yonder, through tales and
myths and old traditions that fit your farm
and its conditions. From Palestine and Greece
and Rome bring poetry and romance home.
II you have oaks try Druid Grove" or some
neat reference to Jove If you raise mules, like
my friend Bill, you might do worse than
"Balaam Hill" Yea, if the job were wished
on me to say what each farms name should
be, my choice would fit at any rate, but might
be too appropriate. For you and | and all
men know some farms that should be House
wife's Woe" and proud possessors would not
swallow my Hopeless Hill or Slipshod Hol-
low" bob ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
AS to Democratic Leadership.
From the Columbus Enouirer-Sun.

Calling attention to the fact, that notwith-
standing the Jackson Day speech of Governor
James NJ Cox, former democratic nominee
for the presidency, was an excellent one it
has, nevertheless, fallen fiat and failed to en-
thuse even the rank and file of the democrats,
the Charleston Is. CO. News and Courier con-
cludes that Mr.. Cox is not the man to lead
the democratic party out of the wilderness. 1t
goes on to say:
"If the party were capable of getting en-
thusiastc over Mr.. Cox this speech of his
would have made it show at least some
symptoms of enthusiasm over him. When
even fine performance like the Jackson
Day address leaves the party cold it may
be assumed once and for all that nothing
which this performer may do can make him
an idol Yet, in spite OF all these
things, Mr.. Cox was evidently not the right
man in 1920. and the failure of his Jackson
Day utterances to evoke any reaction or en-
thusiasm from the democratic party merely
demonstrates anew that what was already
plain-that he is not the right man for 1924
The Enquirer-Sun came to about the same
conclusion during the last national campaign
and said So Nothing was ever clearer than
the fact that James M. Cox was not the type
Iof man that a great national political party
ought to accept as its leader. 1t is perhaps,
true, as the News and Courier says that no
iother man could have led the democratic par
Ity to victory in 1920, but we cannot quite
agree with it that Mr. Cox made altogether
las favorable an impression as could have been
wished or as some others might have made
But, be these things as they may, there can no
longer be any doubt that Cox is not the pre-
destined leader of the democratic party from
now on for a time Neither, however is Nc
Adoo, as for that matter. To tell the plain
truth about it, there are very few big men IN
the democratic party any longer, outside OF
the southland, for some reason or other, so
it seems, southern democrats are not yet
available as presidential timber.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
A UNIQUE RECORD.

Home testimony for Doan's kldne[.
Pills, published in every locality is o.
itself convincing evidence OF merit II;
Confirmed testimony forms stii'
stronger evidence Years ago a citizen
of Dawson gratefully acknowledge
the benefit derived from Doan's Md
ney Pills. The statement is now con-
firmed-the proof more convincing,
Cases of this kind are plentiful in the
work of Doan's Kidney Pills-the rec
ord is unique, I'm
J. S. Clay, prop, bicycle shop oG
n. Main ST., Dawson, says: Il was SUI,
fering from a dull ache across the SIllaiI
of my back for several weeks. My klu,
neys didn't act right and the secretioni
were scanty and highly colored
heard about Doan's Kidney PMS alu
got some at the Dawson PharnlaC!!.'
One box of Doan's relieved the PAN
in my back and regulated my kidney ei.s
AFTER TEN YEARS Mr.. 6 6a.
added: "The cure Doan's Kidney rll'
made for me has been lasting. l am a.
ways ready to endorse this MEDICINE.
60c, at all dealers. Foster Mhou'D
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.-adT
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
Home-Raised Products.
From the Savannah Press.

The complaint of the department of agri-
culture of Georgia is that the products Of
Georgia farmers cannot be shipped anywhere
because freight rates takes up all the profit.
The railroads, of course, answer that the
wages paid employees are so high that they
cannot afford to reduce the rate. So the farm
err suffers "a-goin' and a-comin'" and under
the present situation is compelled not only
to live at home but to keep all of his prod
ucts at home.
One interesting feature of this discussion
has been called to mind by the fact that the
town of Moultrie, Ga, situated in Colquitt
county, has made a specially of buying art-
cles raised in the vicinity. Hams, corn, meal,
potatoes and other things are sold to the
population of Moultrie, who give preference
to Georgia-raised commodities
This is the best lesson of living at home
and of buying homemade and home-raised
goods. 1t seems to have had double effect.
Under this process not only have the farm
ers of Colquitt county benefited, but the town
of Moultrie itself has shown a wonderful
growth and, we believe, has scored larger
increase in percentage than any town or city
in Georgia.
Here is good object lesson If the farm
ers cannot ship their products afar on account
of high freight rates they should at least be
encouraged to unload these articles in nearby
towns and cities Home markets for home
products would be a good slogan at this time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
A Feminine Obsession.

DIR. Brady, physician who conducts
health column in the newspapers, wonders
why the disconnected sex is so determined
to become skinny. By the discontinued
sex" DR.. Brady of course means the women.
He reports that he has had recently 500 let
tiers from women wanting to know how they
can reduce" Of this number 228 explained
that they wished to reduce excess weight
and of the 228 Dr. Brady asserts IS had no
excess weight to reduce 1T really begins
to look" says DR.. Brady, as though busts
are doomed and the skinny sex in the future
is going to be just straight lines and angles"
While this may be artistic i'll a poster, he
declares that in real life it is painful to con-
template He would like to know the reason
for this obsession of women to be thin for
it is apparent that he believes it to be an
unhealthful trend.
Dr. Brady makes out good case for at
least "a reasonable amount of fat" on wo-
man. 1t not only adds grace to the feminine
form. he says, but makes the complexion
clear, supplies warmth for the body and
promotes sweetness of disposition. "a wo-
man with not more than 10 per cent excess
weight" DR.. Brady afirms, is a happier,
better natured, warmer, sweeter, stronger,
handsomer and longer lived person than the
woman who is underweight" This sudden
feminine prediction for attenuation he de-
nounces as an insane Juror" and he eX-
presses the hope that something will happen
to put stop to it while there still is some
thing left for woman to hang her clothes
on"
Out of his 500 letters DR.. Brady did not
discover the explanation of the prevailing de-
sire of women to be attenuated, but he sus-
poets that fashion has something to do with
it. The conclusion seems quite plausible. II
is not new thing for women to dislike fat
but never has it been quite so fashionable to
be thin as at present. The thinner the bet
ter All the latest feminine styles seem tc
be devised exclusively for the skinny. As
long as attenuation is fashionable it will dc
DR.. Brady little good to talk about the ad
vantages of even reasonable amount OF tat
What woman cares to be happy. good ma
tured, warm and sweet if it interferes witt
being fashionable?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
HAUNTED CITIES.
(To Sidney Lanier)


(The following beautiful poem from the pen
OF a Dawson writer was recently published in
the Atlanta Constitution.)
They proudly show, on Macon's prosperous
hills
Their honored seats Of learning busy mills,
And varied marks of city-growth men prize.
These patent things my glance but seldom
win:
I see, instead, fair lads dream-flled eyes;
l hear the grooming OF his violin
They point with pride, in stately Baltimore,
Their laden ships that cling about the shore,
Their model House OF Healing, blessed place!
l cannot heed these triumphs of repute
l see a racked consumptive's fevered face;
l hear the pulsing OF his living flute.
They boast the views from Asheville's wooded
heights,
And make marvel OF the sunsets rites,
A mystery OF Natures changeful art.
Their empty tourist-talk | cannot note:
l hear your labored beat, courageous heart;
I see the enduring word your frail hand
wrote.
Dawson, Ga. -ELOISE PICKETT
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
Otherwise They're All Right.
From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.


They hurt the theatre business. Men are
afraid to go in off the streets for fear they will
miss something.
They have increased the length of silk
stockings one foot and the price several dol
lars.
They make it impossible for you to express
your dislike for a lady by stepping on her
train.
They make BARRIERS stare out of the win
dow, meanwhile removing some important
member like a nose or an ear from the Gus
TONER'S face.
They have made life very miserable for
near-sighted persons.
They have worked a hardship on knock
kneed and bow-legged ladies.
They are very difficult to find in clothes
press without the aid of microscope.
They are stealing Harry LADDERS idea Of
dress.
They are too high from the sidewalks Why
not raise the sidewalks?
They show that women have their rights
and their lefts
They block traffic at important street inter
sections
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
Something Doing in Fl. Gaines.
From the Fort Gaines Georgian.


Wildcat avenue in Red Dog, Arizona, in its
most hectic day had little nothing on
Washington street Fort Gaines, in recent
weeks.
Washington street is waking up!
In fact, Washington street has already
woke UP. Here, lately. residents along that
aristocratic thoroughfare lie awake nights to
see Tor rather hear) what's going to happen
next; and some Of them are said to be de-
batting with one another whether to build a
community boom-proof or to move to some
less turbulent section OF the city. The chief
of police, whose home fronts Washington
street, is non-committal-he thinks his neigh
borS should rely on their own judgment in
such vital matters as this.
Washington street began to achieve fame,
such as it IS the latter part OF December, and,
with the passage OF each OF the eight weeks
since then the movement" has gained i'm
petus Today the ancient driveway which
in class to itself-as an open-air stage for
bad actors including gunner with quick
ger-hngers, yodelers with raucous, Shine
soaked voices and whatnot. They say, too,
that in at least one place on risky old Wash
ington one may (if he has the price and the
PASSWORD enjoy quiet sessions at stud, draw,
craps, blackjack, etc. That report, however,
may not be well founded.
But the other part OF the story rests upon
la foundation as firm as Gibraltar. Folks cant
afford to trust mere rumors, but a sober man
usually is safe in betting on evidence that
comes to him directly through his own eyes
and ears.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
This Editor Has 1t Down Right as
To Taxation.
From the Meriwether indicator.


When the legislature was asked to put a
tax of one per cent on gasoline it was stat
ed that it would only be an emergency tax.
Now it is proposed to make it permanent in
order to Justify an issue of bonds for road
purposes All other special taxes will become
permanent There is no such thing going
downward When once thing is discovered
that can be made to pay toll the weather
eye is out in search for other things to tax.
The advocates of the addition of the in
come tax bodily proclaim the purpose is
to secure more revenue and the result is to
put a greater burden OF taxation upon the
people They are in favor OF a limit unfet-
tered and unbounded-as high as heaven and
as deep as hell. They argue that an unlm-
tied tax rate will curb appropriations.
The thing we wish to emphasize is that
Iif a halt is not called the property of the
people will be confscated to pay taxes.
The Legislature, instead of imposing addi-
Itional methods of taxation, should abolish all
unnecessary offices, cut all unnecessary ex-
penses and demand an economical admins
tration of public affairs.
In this the greatest crisis which ever con-
fronted the people of this state taxes should
be held down to the minimum. OF course
the debts incurred by state and counties
should be taken care of and paid. But from
now on, after such indebtedness has been
paid a strict limitation should be declared
both in taxes and expenditures, in order to
relieve the heavy load which the people are
bearing.
The slogan should be: How little can we
get along with, instead OF How much can
we raiser"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
Golden Weddings.

Contemporaries in the past few weeks have
recorded the celebration of numerous golden
weddings in this section. Sometimes these
accounts have been accompanied by photo
graphs of the chief celebrants-hale and hap
py appearing people on the afternoon side
of life.
One may reasonably wonder whether many
of the single young people of today will, fifty
years hence, enjoy such anniversaries. There
does not seem to be that serious responsible
viewing of wedlock which once prevailed. The
world-the youthful element OF the world
has, in these latter times. become immensely
and carelessly wise. Fenininity is no longer a
vine, clinging to the masculine oak. The old
time custom Of setting up housekeeping on
modest scale, following marriage, is out
Of favor Parents continue to coddle, and
then spoil, their children after they should
assert their own powers Of survival. This
results in number Of marital follies.
Out of all lack of wisdom, devotion and
independent striving there loom visions OF
the frequent divorce court, rather than the
glorious golden wedding of the reverent fire.
side. in the more distant future.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21

1t is now generally understood that the
United States will not take part in the eco
nomical conference to be held at Genoa
Italy because it feels that Europe has not
attempted to help herself by reducing armies
and balancing budgets, because it is suspect
ed there will be talk of ''cancelling war
debts" and lastly there is distinct aversion
to sitting down and dealing with Lenine and
Trotzky as equals. All OF which seem to be
perfectly good reasons
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21

The records show that Hon. John M.
Slaton made one of the best governors that
Georgia ever had. We would like to see the
people of Georgia right the wrong done him, -
says the Greensboro Herald Journal That
is true; Jack S1aton is one of the ablest and
truest men in Georgia. For many years he
served the state we'll in the legislative halls
and the gubernatorial chair, and has the es-
TEEN and respect OF very great number Of
Georgians
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
NOTICE OF APPRAISAL

GEORGIA, Terrell County.-I.o H.
J. Fullbright, state tax comtnlS.IIlo t.s
J. O. Russell, tax collector, I f.ar
county, Georgia, Mrs. /. E. klrK IS.
H. L. Kirksey, w. F. Kirksey N a..
w. G. Chambless, Mrs. ". y u II
mold. Miss Ida Kirksey, Mrs. u Y
Christie, J. F. Kirksey, Mrs. NJ Il !
Leverette, heirs at law OF W.. 4
Kirksey, deceased: You and eaCH Ne
you are hereby notified that on Ia
10th day of February, l9Zz' al ARE
O'Clock a. m. at the Ordinary o u %
in Dawson, Georgia. will prq 2E!.LssT.
appraise the estate of w. W; h ltsri-.
deceased in accordance with I illnUi
ance tax laws of the state OF Geot99 a
L. c. HOYL, Ordinary, SeleG'eO
sole appraiser.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21

The Dalton Citizen says: "After all, the
Ford offer for Mussel Shoals is mostly at the
expense of the government. Interpreted it
means that Uncle Sam pays for the work,
and Henry Ford gets the use of the develop
ment by paying very low rate OF interest. "
Evidently, our contemporary does not be-
eve Mr. Ford is the great and good philan-
thropist some newspapers and politicians
crack him up to be-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
JOE HALL AND HIS DOG.

From the Jefferson Herald.
Hon Joe Hill Hall paid his respects to the
present tax law in no uncertain terms and
his reference to the tax on dogs created much
merriment. He said the state was bad off
when it could find nothing to tax but dog.
ed him if he had dog. NO said Mr. Hall,
There is one here, but he is my friends and
stays here with me. If you want tax out of
him you had better see him about it."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
FOR YEARS SUPPORT.

GEORGIA, Terrell County,.
whom it may concern: Notice Is o %
by given that the appraisers apPo4 ,ao-
to set apart and assign a year I'D
port to Mrs. L. M. Jennings, t1S haze
ow of ]. w. Jennings, deceased a. and
filed their award, and unless goUs gi1
sufficient cause is shown, the sam, At
be made the judgment OF the Sonrt d
the March term, 1922, of the S ,S55
Ordinary. This February o. yTTsrsa
L. C. HOYL, Ordinary
County, Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21

The Greensboro Herald Journal facetious
1y remarks that "the man Of the hour is the
one who refuses to watch the clock" and the
Conyers Times observes that "the man who
did not watch the clock is the man with the
lob now"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21

Claude H. Hanlon has left the "Old Man"
and the Triton Gazette, and is now the edi-
tor and publisher Of the Lanier County News.
He has already put new life in the paper, and
is doing some splendid work for the develop
ment of Midtown and section.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
MISS ALICE.

From the Savannah Press.
The Dawson News has a very lengthy ed
itoria1 headed "A Talk With Miss Alice" 1t
refers to an interview with Miss Robertson,
the woman congressman from Oklahoma. But
there is nothing in it half so interesting as the
Interview Jack Mccartney of the Central rail-
way says he had with the lady while in Wash
about it.