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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
The Velvet Bean.
From the Macon Telegraph.

With the boil weevil after the cotton and
the CurCulio and brown rot after the peach,
and with Europe too poor to purchase our
surplus agricultural products, the south has
two almost purely unnliXed blessings OF cot
ton-belt-wde adaptability. We refer, OF
course, to the velvet bean and the pecan. I'm
It'll recent wears the Florida speCked bean
would mature only in the extreme south, but
Providence acting under the law OF fortunate
variation, produced from this stock two
Iearly-maturing varieties one known as the
NINETY day velvet bean and the other as the
Alabama Unfortunately, vines OF the ninety
dav variety would not keep green until frost,
which fact made against 1t as summer COW
er, nitrogen gathering plant, but the detects
LOT the ninety-day variety were removed IN
the Alabama and now as far north as cot
ton will grow the velvet bean will also grow
land mature with vines green until frost With
the velvet bean, soil improvement and hog
land cattle raising have been made easier and
more economical in the cotton belt than per-
!haps anywhere else.
it has been found by actual experimental
ton near Macon that land planted in corn
with generous applications OF commercial
fertilizer in 1920 where velvet beans had not
been grown the previous year produced no
more per acre than did the same land in the
season of 1921 when no commercial fertilizer
was used but where velvet beans had been
Iplanted between the corn rows the prevl-
Ious season. The experiments IN growing
cotton after velvet Deans nave Deen almost
equally gratifying. In fact, so splendid and
Inexpensive a land improver is the velvet
bean that it is the opinion of some intelligent
farmers that they can build up their land
with the velvet bean faster and easier than
they could with stable and barn yard manures
were these available in unlimited quantities
with no expense other than hauling and
scattering. OF course. the farmer still needs
Ito make use OF all the manure possible, but
it was one OF the best days in the history
OF the south when nature furnished such a
natural fertilizer as we'll as such an unrlvaed
hog and cattle food as the velvet bean.
As any intelligent farmer who has grown
the velvet bean will tell you where it IS
grown with corn, the corn should be planted
in about six-foot rows the latter part of
March. and the velvet bean should be plant
ed in a center row in the early days OF May.
The. proper cultivation OF the will also
he cultivation OF the velvet bean. The corn
Twill mature before the velvet bean vine at
itans a growth sufficiently vigorous to inter
fere materially with the corn crop, and as
the corn natures and stops growing the vel
wet bean under favorable conditions will COW
er the corn, shade the land and make yield
lof beans that, in addition to the wonderful
enrichment that comes to the soil, will be
worth for hogs and cattle practically as much
las the corn yield. And if the same land is
lplanted in corn the next year the corn yield
Twill be far in advance OF the previous year
Nothing makes a girl laugh like dimples.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

Mr. Ford says his bank balance is between
$135OOO,O00 and $145,000,0O0-he is not GER
tain as to the exact amount. 1t is nothing to
him, he explains; nothing more than the cash
he is obliged to keep on hand to finance his
daily operations He states that he has a
pay roll amounting to, 100000 a day, and
that his daily bill for materials is $750,00O
per day. Mr.. Ford is pretty big institution.
A bank balance OF the size he carries prob
ably is the biggest ever carried by any one.
We used to think man was rich when he
had million, but here is Mr.. Ford with 135
to las times that much just as daily bank
balance Whew!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

One of Dawsons leading grocery mer-
chants makes the statement that many peo-
pie are cutting out Injuries and are making
Terrell county products part of every days
bill of fare More home grown turnip greens
peas, lettuce, etc, are being sold in the mark
ct than ever before. This may not be for
the best interest OF the grocers, but undoubt-
eddy it is good for the health and for the
purse OF the truck growers and the consum-
iers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

The bill designed to secure farmer repre-
senation on the federal reserve board appears
to have had the teeth extracted from it. 1t
does not make mandatory the appointment
of dirt farmer 1t does wipe out, however,
the specific requirement in the present law
for banker representatives. AS passed the
bill should be satisfactory to all interests con-
cerned, including the farmers, for it insures
farmer representation, if not specially requir-
ing dirt farmer. 1t is proper that all dis
cretion in the making OF appointments should
not be taken away from the president.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

Records compiled by the Interstate Com
merce Commission indicate that more miles
of railroad are being abandoned in the Unit
ed States than are being built. The commits
sion authorized 405 miles of new construc-
ton and 7O2 miles of abandonment during the
last year Among the roads abandoned were
two short lines in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

Girls of the T. S. capitol force of stenog-
raphers voted that Senators Willis and Edge
and Representatives Graham, Opp and Web
ster were the handsomest members of con-
gress. That is a new distinction for states
men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

President Harding is the most unreason-
able man. He wants the cash in sight be-
fore he is willing to O. k. legislation carry
ing appropriations The customary method
in both national and state legislative bodies,
is to pass the appropriation first and worry
about the money later.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

II the world has not been informed con-
corning the Washington conference it is not
because the press has not been on the job.
The list of correspondents accredited to the
state department contains 512 names and it
is estimated that half as many more are act
live on the side lines. Every country OF any
size in the world is represented, the press
men including all kinds, from plain reporters
to journalists OF high degree. 1t is one OF
the largest and most distinguished gatherings
LOT newspaper men ever assembled
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

The men who carry concealed weapons are
usually burglars, thugs, murderers, robbers
and criminals in general. They are the ones
who do the shooting. Peaceabe people are
not practicing to kill.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

How to raise money for bonus without
laying direct tax on the country that Will
estrange as many voters as the bonus is eX-
pected to satisfy is now the big problem at
Washinpton
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

Only 9,OOOOOO,0OO barrels OF oil in the
ground in the United States, say official ex-
,perts. just enough to last twenty years. That
need not worry joyriders; something else will
come along in the meantime that will make
the old buggies go.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

The mail man knows that spring is near
when he finds package Of government seed
in his days cargo.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

According to the census there are 4,267
persons in the United States who are one
hundred years of age or over The tabulators
failed to distinguish between whites and
blacks, but did give data as between the
sexes. OF the number given only 1901 are
men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

A Chicago man tainted at his divorce case
hearing when his wife's attorney asked when
he kissed her last. The suspicion, IS strong
that the memory test was too great for him.
Besides, who kisses his own wife in Chicago?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

Express rates are outrageously high, al
most to the point of conhscation, and at the
same time salaries are being cut, help in many
Offices is being eliminated and the companies
are putting up the bluff that they need higher
rates.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

William J. Bryan got in such good prac-
tice running for the presidency that his new
friends down in Florida are now running him
for the United States senate
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

1t is plainly manifest that there can be lit
tie more of paving roads with permanent
materials until the cost OF such materials be
come great deal lower, and the cost OF farm
products a great deal higher.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

Uncle Sam will not permit married wo-
man to pose as fapper when going abroad,
and has refused to sign passports without
the prefix Mrs" being employed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

Jack Frost seems to have distributed him
self over a wide area of country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

No normal person objects to young boys
having all the good times coming to them,
but when they amuse themselves by mutilat-
ing promising young pecan trees, as has re-
Gently happened in Dawson, by cutting them
almost to the ground, it is time for something
to be done to impress the miscreants with
the seriousness of the offense.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

A contemporary observes that human de-
sire has no limit; that we never have all we
want. 1t is perhaps true that the more peo-
pie have the more they want. Desire is
swift footed, and sets pace that acquisition
cannot hope to equal. However, people who
work and save catch up with many desirable
things. Everything that is really desirable
it may be added is within the reach of the
individual who has the patience and the wis
dom to labor and to save. The race is not
to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07

Nothing makes a girl laugh like dimples
The National leader., 1922-03-20
Bible in the Schools

Editor National Leader: Do the public school chill
dren love our flag or do they worship it? Are we
making our great statesmen of the past heroes,
brave men, righteous and just or do we make the
creature greater than the creator?
At a parent-teachers' association meeting held in
our schoolhouse someone suggested teaching the
children the United States Constitution and to sa-
Lutte the ag then stand with right hand still raised
to heaven and repeat the Lords prayer reverently.
We also discussed the advisability of opening the
school with chapter from the Bible, without COM
ment. 49,
Some of us thought the farmers might use this
ceremony. They could demonstrate in town with
parade through the main streets, bearing banners
in honor of Mr.. Townley, the farmers beloved
friend and emancpator Of the common people, The
federation of labor might join us when we reached
the suburbs. Then stop at the schoolhouse and,
after singing America, salute the flag and repeat
the Lords prayer reverently, then march home
silently The teachers participating Of course. This
would be very effective if we all celebrated the
same day, say Washingtons birthday, or Labor day.
But it would not do to discuss the Bible in school,
until we are all one in deed and in truth, both
church and state MRS. A. SHORTEN.
Emmett, Idaho 4,
The National leader., 1922-03-20

needs any help, but I object to being taxed any
longer to buy automobiles and pay fat salaries to
the hordes Of "advisers" who are growing more
numerous every day.
Bossburg, Wash. MRS. A.. E. WOOD.
EDITORS NOTE miss Gray explained the first
articles thus signed began to the wonans
who writes for various magazines and
modest living that The editor vouches Miss
good fah and ability to discuss political
tons from progressive point of view The article answering
Mrs Woods first letter requested of Miss
editor SO that the other side of the
is at the Leader office as this is written and
Il with everything Mrs. Wood has
except what she against the
the next the last paragraph which
she mentions the law and what she the
graph, which to be intended efecton per-
sonay instead of what wrote But let it OF course
we could save taxes by cutting out the public schools county
road work and county sheriff but the people demand such
and it would not be true abandon them
deciding what kinds Of public they
city county, state and national governments, and how much
OF they want and second in getting 81 worth
every VI spent Some communities demand
service from government local and
ties Those communities which want and better
mental service must pay for it. vast majority Of the
OF the naton and think of the too demanded better
service in protecting mothers and babies
the law passed and pay
her few cents along with all of addi-
ona governmental service that afford,
that establishing it is humane civilized act,
Will 81 of value needed 81 spent
Mrs. Wood doesn't That's all there is to it." :
The National leader., 1922-03-20
HARDING ALSO GETS TAX
MONEY-FOR "ENTERTAINING"

: Isn't it about time that General Dawes would get
his pruning knife out and prune out his friend
Pershings allowance, and probably thousands Of
others that we know nothing of?
This mornings daily paper tells one that the
small allowance of $4,000 extra has been given to
President Harding for entertainment purposes at
the White House. So the taxes mount.
If the deserving widows were getting the $4,000
Mrs. Roosevelt is drawing, if the ex-soldiers who
need it were getting the $500 which Pershing is
getting, and if the mothers and babies would get
directly the money under the Sheppard Towner law
in better living conditions would willingly pay my
share, but reiterate, we simply being ridden
to death with advisers bureaus commissions,
agents, nurses etc., and it is time to call halt.
These people little for us-only to get the fat
salaries.
have written over my real name. Will not
Miss Gray" please tell us her true name and post
office address? Does she pay taxes and if SO, is
she wading through foot of snow to the barn be-
fore dawn to milk cows, slop hogs, feed poultry,
ETC., to earn the money to pay them? I am in
the open in this argument and Miss Gray should
come from under her cover and let us know who
she is. She asks: "Where are our women's
hearts?" will say mine is where it has always
been, in sympathy with every human being that
,-4-@ s-ss 4tS17Ss5
The National leader., 1922-03-20
FROM A FRIEND

Editor National Leader: I have been
reader of your paper for several years and
am very much interested in the stand you
have taken in behalf of the farmers. My
husband has been a farmer for many years.
We have neglected renewing our subscription
and i think it is overdue. But am going to
take advantage of the opportunity of getting
Mr.. [Townley's picture, as we are both ad-
mirers of Mr.. Townley, and renew now. We
hope he is free now, as we think him a good
man and that he has been punished for things
we all thought but dared not speak. 1t is the
noble and true that have to be prosecuted in
this world. Success to the Leader.
Boulder, Col. MRS. J. p. EDWARDS.
The National leader., 1922-03-20
THE aPAGEn .Y1CTORIOUs

The wonnan's page has triumphantly stood The
shock Of reader criticism. It stays as regular
Leader feature because we have had a practically
unanimous demand that it be kept, as result of
print all the letters we received on the subject,
but may find space for some more Of the good
ones later. 81 .ss
The National leader., 1922-03-20
Yes, Do'' mo, Don't
Readers Differ About Opening page to
Discussion of Birth Control

Discussion of Birth Control
- HE, subject of birth control is causing
IT, hEaI a hot controversy among women all
lbsSSM sa over the country. The woman's page
lES editor asked readers in the February
7a 20 issue whether we should open "the
-----.------3 page" to discussion of BOTH SIDES
of the subject. The Leader did not expect to take
any stand in the matter, butt if readers thought it
advisable said we might let advocates and oppo-
nents of birth control have their say, merely ON
account of the general interest in the subject.
We have received large number of letters, not
only as to the propriety and advisability of our
carrying on the debate in the Leader, but for and
against birth control Some of the letters follow.
We said we would use initials only but letters re-
ceived without the FULL AND TRUE NAME
AND ADDRESS Of the writer are not printing:
By all means you should cendaes the birth control debate
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commit crime under present laws il she asked and adj
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cont s @ mo- law against that and it
There no logical objection Of
columns to discuss and this live subject But
With ten Naturally enough many oppenents
OF birth sonT 5 don't don't want to argu
MRS. p, St Paul. Mimi l'e'''0As Nle
BAD IDEA
sSbjss
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WANTS BOTH SIDES
families % Hsi ehidren eas
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Children has enough work
asm wa o that So1s
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The National leader., 1922-03-20

HE, subject of birth control is causing
a hot controversy among women all
over the country. The woman's page
editor asked readers in the February
20 issue whether we should open "the
page to discussion of BOTH SIDES
The National leader., 1922-03-20


ing you few cents" or 'this adds very little to
your taxes" 'ths will be no burden on you," ETC.
For instance, where congress had passed a.
resolution giving the widow Of ex-president Roose-
vet an allowance of $4,000 year. wrote to Sena-
tor Jones of ourstate asking him Why in the name
of justice and humanity, congress had given this
princely sum to woman whose husband left her
estate of half million dollars, while there
were thousands of widows and orphans in coun-
try who did not know where their next meal was
cesaling from. He replied as follows:
81 confess to you that do not see very much
justification for this, but after all it isn't very
much, and this amount can not add very much to
the burdens Of our people It may not be the right
thing to do, but it has been the custom out Of
courtesy, etc."
What person who reads this would consider a
gift of $4,000 year "lttle thing?" Think what
$4,000 for year would mean to about nine
tenths of the farmers who taxed to pay this al
1owance to Mrs. Roosevelt.
also saw picture of fine old mansion located
at Roslyn, L. H. and underneath was the statement
that congress had made allowance of $4,000
year to General Pershing to pay for the lease of
this house. He allowed $1,000 for fuel and
81, 500 for lights, and it was stated that with his
salary of 10000 general in the army ($2o,700
in ally he could live Every comfortably"
In the same paper, the Lincoln (Neb) State
Journal, I saw that two young men, ex-soldiers,
were stopped on the street when walking along and
taken to police headquarters and locked up, al
though they vigorously denied that they were
vagrants and would be glad to work if they could
find work to do. I did some of the hardest think
ing ever did in my life. General Pershing with an
income of over $2O,OO0 and these two youths who
did the real work in the war jailed because they
were without money work! I also wrote to
Senator Jones concerning Pershings allowance, and
he replied by saying he had heard of no allowance
of the Sort and then told him it was no wonder
the peoples backs were broken whenever our con-
gressmen did not know these allowances were be-
ing made.
The National leader., 1922-03-20
Mrs. Wood Again
Objects to Any More Taxes Against
Maternity Law

DITOR National Leader: Miss Gray
says concerning the Sheppard Towner
maternity bill which is now law:
"Why tax Mrs. Wood tiny little bit
?" will say that every time
a taxnavar objects to a hill for annrn.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-05-24
London Stock Exchange
VIII Probably Change

LONDON. NAY 24.-I4onger hours.
Saturday opening and dealings on
the pre-war account system instead
of all transactions being for cash
are foreshadowed in new Stock Elk
change rules published These rules
have been passed by the Committee
FOR General Purposes and are sub
iect to confirmation on May Is
One OF the proposed new rules pro
vides for markings up tos 3 30
p. m. or ordinary days and up % l
O'Clock on Saturdays, which would
Indicate that the House will close
at $3.50 instead Of 3 o'clock ard
chat the present Saturday holiday
will be abolished.
Forward bargains for settlement
on fcr.nightly account days are pro
hibited in all Bgftish funds and col
onjal and provincial government Sc
curities. which means that dealings
for these will continue to be only
for cash.
In other stocks and shares there
are to be fortnightly settlements
Dealings for foreign clients resilient
abroad are ONLY to be allowed fo'
cash sin view Of the state of the
foreign exchanges" Options will not
be allowed for longer Than three
months.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-05-24
RENEWED TESTIMONY

No one in Juneau who suffers
backache, headache, or distressing
urinary ills can afford to ignore this
woman's twice-told story. 1t is con-
frmed testimony that no resident
can doubt.
Mrs. Emma Wilkinson, 1907 Main
St, Oregon City, Ore, says: Il used
Doan's Kidney Pills for back and
kidney trouble and received relief.
believe Doan's are an excellent
kidney remedy and am glad to en-
dorse and recommend them for the
fasting relief that they gave me. p"
(Statement given April 4, 1879.
On April 20, 1920, Mrs. Wilkinson
said: II gladly confirm all | said
in favor of Doan's Kidney Pills.
Doans helped me when l used them
and | know they are just as good
as represented.
Price coo, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same
that Mrs. Wilkinson had. Foster
Milburn Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
advertisement
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-05-24
Travelling Caravans Of
Statesmen Under the Ban

PARIS, May 24.-Premier Poin-
care was quoted, before he took up
the reins of government, as charac-
terizing the conferences of the SUI
preme Council as a moving picture
show" He announced when he took
office that he disapproved of this
sort of travelling caravan of Allied
statesmen around Europe.
He was obviously i'll at ease on the
occasion of Prime Minister Lloyd
Georges flying stop in Paris ON the
way to Genoa to find himself cor
nered with Lloyd George in the com
parsmcnt of a sleeping car with no
curtains to shut out the gaze OF the
indiscreet, no way of escape and
dozens of cameras levelled> at him
through the window
He gave unmistakable signs of re-
Lief whem the train pulled out and
gave little chance to photographers
or. reporters. He jumped to the plat
form and strobe rapidly to his auto
mobile.