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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25
SAVE THE WILD FLOWERS.

Naturalists and nature lovers everywhere
are engaged in cutivating sentiment tor the
preservation and conservation OF the coun-
trys wild flowers. Many wild flowers have
disappeared as a result OF the cultivation OF
the land but there still remain places where
they grow. The greatest menace to these sur
viving plants is the thoughtless and indis-
criminate plucking in which so many people
engage. The season is now at hand when the
invasion OF the woodlands and the meadows
! begins. During the poisoning season visi-
tors to the country may be seen returning
with hands ladened with plucked wild flow
ers. They do not seem to know that they
are but fastening the coming of the time
when there will be no wild flowers. In the
process OF picking the flowers many plants
are pulled up by the roots and every flower
taken reduces the quantity OF seed produced.
This is both needless and needless waste OF
plant life Wild flowers wilt quickly-few
survive the homeward journey How often
one sees a handful of wilted wild flowers
thrown away before the homeward journey
has even been begun. The wild flower is new
er so beautiful as in the place where it grows,
in its natural environment. 1t is there that
it should be permitted to remain, to delight
the senses Of all beholders. If you would
worship at the shrine OF beauty go where
beauty has its habtation do not attempt to
remove it from its natural setting, for the
result is inevitably unsatisfactory and often
disastrous.
In the United States national parks one Of
the most delightful. features is the plant life
the surprisingly lovely wild flowers that
grow so abundantly. In some Of these parks
and it may be in all Of them-the federal gov
eminent strictly forbids the plucking of flow
ers In the Mt Rainier national park ia
nous for the wealth and loneliness of its
plant life, and in other parks signs confront
the visitor on every hand warning him OF
the penalty for picking flowers. Botonists
who desire to study and make collections are
required to secure federal permits. 1t would
be well if similar rules were enforced in all
public parks state and municipal as we'll as
federal
The indiscriminate plucking OF wild flow
ers, if continued, will inevitably result in ex-
termination Of this form OF plant life. We
Of the present generation have no right to
deprive the coming generations of the delight
and enjoyment of the wild flowers and their
loneliness. Let's preserve them for our own
satisfaction as we'll as Tor the satisfaction Of
our children and our children's children. 1t
should be our aim to leave the earth, when
we come to depart from it, not less but more
beautiful than it was when we came into it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25
CONTEMPT FOR LAW.

Omaha World Herald: Familiarity breeds
foolish subjects, makes the law familiar and
contemplate. Foolish laws breed rdcule and
the rdicule soon breeds ridicule for all law.
Foolish laws that cannot be enforced because
seriousness is the greatest part OF the majesty
of the law make the law weakling, joke,
a thing to be lightly handled a thing to be
laughed at. We have many Of these foolish
laws. We are getting a new crop Of them ev-
cry year. Legislators, forgetting about the old
Jeffersonian doctrine of the least governed
people being the best governed, grow to be-
ieve that they can cure any alleged evil or
dsagreeable situation by merely writing a
law on their statute books and then forgetting
about it. twenty-five thousand New York
ers, and many other thousands in other cities
who are fastening after permits to carry guns
show that the Legislators are sadly mistaken
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25
WENT AND CAME BACK CLEAN.

From the Triton Gazette.
Our boys returning from over there
Brought relics, curios, brides and whatnots
but one thing they did not bring judging
from visible indications. They did not fetch
the hand kissing imbecility. Thanks, boys
The movies, running foreign features, supply
all the demand and more 1t may be that
French maidens have prettier hands than lips.
If SO, let their lads fall to and have their fill
but the lips of the American damses are the
proper lure for men on this side and the
French custom hasn't even a hngerhold"
notes The Dawson News. The boys came
home little contaminated by pernicious in
huences abroad. They were busy on the job
when they were there, and so anxious to get
home that they brought little away The
little old United States, its people and its
customs was good enough for them. No
other army in a foreign country in the his
tory OF the world made a record so clean.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25
Items and Interest.
Five-Thousand-Dollar Watch.

What is said to be the most intricate and
complete watch in the world has just been
completed by a London firm for an Amer
lean scientist. A score of men were employed
in the making, and the watch is valued at
$5,000. 1t is an astronomical watch, and it
tells, in addition to ordinary time, the moon
phases, the equation OF time, or the position
of the sun before and after the clock the
movement and constellation of stars, and
many other chronological facts 1t has taken
some years to make it, for the order was given
before the war, and the work was delayed
Some special functions of the watch are
those of clock watch, striking hours, quar-
tiers and minutes in passing, and also repeat
ing hours, quarters and minutes at any time
at will. 1t is also capable of chime as well
as silent work. On the back of the watch
there is a dial of the "a hours or siderea
dav
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25
Women and Politics.
From the Augusta Chronicle.

All women do not take" to politics. There
are other calls to them than "the vote" and
office" and the hastings"
The Dawson News discusses these things
interestingly, and in the course of an editorial
on Back to the Home" says:
A middle western woman politician who
has been in the game" for 80 years has
Just quit it, saying she is going back to
the home" She declares successful politics
for woman is fools gold, dead sea
fruit, and she thinks she would have been
better wife and mother if she had stay
ed at home those 80 years She thinks it
meritOriOus for a woman to be able to
bake a good apple pie, and so it is She
also thinks some knitting, a good book,
rocking chair and a house full of chill
dren" better than a political position
Members OF her sex will not unanimously
agree with her. Some have no children
and do not want them, and they would
not understand what the poet meant
when he said 1t takes a heap O livin' in a
house t make it home" That, too, is with
IN the personal right Of the woman to de-
eide for herself If she wants political Of
fee instead of home and children she has
the right to offer herself to the electorate,
but as time goes on voters are going to
demand what they would call a $3.50
proposition" with no, favors shown on
account of sex but with everything de-
pending on merit.
1T is perfectly safe to saw" comments
the Albany Herald that nothing a woman
can accomplish in politics, no office she can
WIN and ever so acceptably fill, no service
she can perform on public or semi-public
board is ever worth the price of scutt1ed
home, OF neglected children, OF a disheartened
husband, OF perverted wifehood and mother
hood. The home is OF incidentally greater
value than anything for which it NAV be bar
tered and to preserve a home is worth any,
thing its preservation may cost The women
should vote, and they owe it to themselves
and to social and governmental institutions
70 seek to so understand the issues and prob
ems OF the time that they NAV vote intel1i-
gently, but no call which comes to the mod
ern woman from platform or forum or official
station can justify her in turning her back
upon her home or negleCting for 2 moment
the loved ones in whose dependent lives no
other can take her place"
Politics will not make the average woman
desert the home any more than politics have
made the average man neglect the home.
More intimate participation in public affairs
does not necessarily mean that woman is
to become less lovable or more mannisb The
franchise will swell the heads of few of
them and some OF them will make spectac1es
OF themselves in politics, just as some men
do, But the rank and file will not the less
value the home, nor the more desert the
nome 1or the reason that they have been
gwen equal political privileges with the men.
1t is good habit to examine your habits
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25
Birds Born in Full Plumaee

The megapodes or mound birds of the
East Indies, Australia, and other islands of
the eastern seas do not resort to incubation
TO bring forth their young, says the Ameri-
their eggs in the ground, something after the
fashion OF an alligator, or lay them on the
bare ground, and then, industriously scratch
ing, they heap over them an enormous mound
of earth, dry sticks, and fragments of rotten
wood-sometimes almost as much as a car
load of such materials
Neither OF the parent birds ever sees the
egg or eggs again, the process of Matching
being left to the heat of the SUM- But what
is still more singular when the young are
born their plumage is complete and they are
otherwise highly developed. Off they 60 as
soon as they can make their way out of the
mound, and none of them ever sees its par
ents.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25
Why Women Talk So Much.
From the New York Evening Mail

British scientist says he has answered
the riddle of the ages-why women talk so
much. 1t is brocas convolution which is to
bame-if the conversation of the ladies can
really be called blameworthy Brocas con-
volution is an assemblage of brain. cells hav-
ing some mysterious connection with the
tendency to speak, and he says it is larger
and therefore more easily stimulated in wo-
men than in men. Hence when friend wife
starts up conversation along in the evening
when the worser half begins to long for
sleep it is her broca convolution which must
accept responsibility
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

Editor Shannon, of the Commerce News
wants to wallop the boil weevil, but he seems
bit particular as to how it shall be done.
That contemporary, noting that many farm
ers of its section are looking for something
as substitute for cotton which will bring
ready money, says: 1--WE trust tobacco will
never get a foot-hold in this section. There
are too many good things to eat that can be
grown and sold for money to think OF grow
ing that filthy weed"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

A Washington engraver, after nearly three
years, has almost completed the painstakng
task of engraving the national capitol includ-
ing both house and senate wings, on the
head of pin, but makes no announcement
Of what he is going to do. with it after it is
finished. A painter once portrayed mill in
exquisite detail on the small surface Of a
grain of corn, even the miller with bag
of grain his back being faithfully shown.
The same devotion of purpose with the en-
ergy turned in the direction of producing
something of utility value might be better
way for the expression of singular talents
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

Some one with a pocketful OF sharp pen
ellis has just figured out that the autos used
in our country have power equivalent to
more than 3OO,O0O,OOO horses Or, in round
numbers three horses for every man, woman
and child This shows how machinery con-
centrates and multiplies human energy in
production. In many commodities the intro
duction Of machinery has not lowered the
price
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

We have been progressing" at a wonder
Jul pace in the last few years. and have run
the overhead expenses of state. county, mu-
nicipality, schools, etc. up to figures that are
really alarming Retrenchment is seemingly
impossible without the elimination of many
things we have come to regard as necessary
and indispensable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

The annual convention OF the county COM
missioners of the state, held at cambridge
the past week, was one OF the most largely
attended and the best in the history OF that
organization. The people OF cambridge were
royal in their entertainment OF the visitors,
leaving nothing undone for their comfort and
pleasure Nowhere was a gathering of any
kind ever more cordially welcomed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

Down in Wilkes county they have pledg
ed to use and buy nothing but products from
old Wilkes 50 long as the home product can
be furnished. That's what we call getting
down to brass tacks," says the Commerce
Observer. If adhered to old Wilkes will
prosper and wax fat as never before. 1t
should be practiced in every county in Geor-
gia. The trouble heretofore has been that
movements of this kind have ended with
printing the pledge in the newspaper
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle might as well go
back home if he expects to tell bigger ones
stock farmer says fairies eight inches tall can
be found on her place most any time. Maybe
the same thing is the matter with both her
and Sir Arthur
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

In addition to the proposed 1875, 100000
bond issue for roads we have gentleman
up in Atlanta who is advocating the issuance
of $1,50O,O0O OF bonds for building school
houses That's a million dollars for each
county, and is going some.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

Disaster overcame the farmers in other sec
tions of the state last year. In this connection
it is interesting to note that there has never
been crop failure in Terrell county. Soil
climate and intelligent cultivation make a
combination that even the boil weevil has
been unable to overcome
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

The current issue of the Swainsboro For
est-Bade prints twpty-four columns con-
tanning Us sherif's sales for taxes due Eman-
uel county and the state Yet, there are
those among US who would increase public
expenditures impose new taxes and increase
present tax rates and assessments.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

We think this radiophone business is like
ly to become menace. 1t is related that the
delicate instrument which made the wireless
telephone possible and practical can be made
to amplify sound in such a manner that even
plants can be heard to grow. If the d;ngbatus
is capable OF being attached to photographs a
person will have no use for eyes at all-and
walls will afford little protection.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

Mr. Harvey HARRISON is now editor OF the
Conyers Times, and is keeping the paper up
to the high standard it attained under Editor
Brown Tyler. Both the new and the retired
editor are able newspaper men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

Word comes that England is getting ready
to make the United States remittance on
its indebtedness however. reading the item
further, it seems to be conditioned upon that
country's successful collection from its debtor
nations in Europe. That being the case we
think it would be unwise for congress to be-
gin thinking about how ii is going to spend
the money
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

Courts in some sections OF the country
may be very busy but not those OF Arkansas,
in which state a circuit judge is trying. to de-
eide whether a school board can legally bar
girl student because she is a devotee Of
fashion and style
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

The election of eleven women as treasurer5
in Michigan towns and villages shows how
the honesty OF the sex is trusted in that state
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

Life would have fewer dull moments ii
there were not so many people with single
track minds
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

The preacher who declares to his congre-
CATION that the aapper will cause the next
war did not find it in his Bible.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

In north Georgia very little blowing has
been done. Down here in Gods country cot
ton chopping is the order OF the day on most
farms
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

First thing the public knows an effort will
be made TO put on grand opera IN the prisons
% take the sting out" OF the sentences.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

1t isn't possible that Mr.. Cox and Mr..
McAdoo constitute all OF tn> available demo
cratic presidential timber. 1t is time the party
was getting away from the dead past and
look forward to a better day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

Mr.. Tumulty now has an opportunity to
write another book. entitled Woodrow VIII
son as I Do Not Know Him
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25
AN OPTIMIST.

From the Ocilla Star
Now Hawkinsville is about to find oil The
Star firmly believes that oil will be found in
Georgia at some time When that happens
if it is in paying quantities, oh boy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

ANYWAY, the women smokers are getting
we'll scented up, and won't have TO buy any
perfumes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

All OF the liberty bond issues are now
practically at par in the money market. An
other evidence that the condition OF the coun-
try is steadily improving.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

Uncle Sam says the retail cost OF FOOD
decreased in March Had you noticed II:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

Editor z. T Dake is again at the head
OF the Douglas County Sentinel and great
improvement Is noted in that paper. Glad to
welcome him back
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

1t is good habit to examine your habits
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-25

All women do not take" to politics. There
are other calls to them than "the vote" and
Office and the hastings"
The Dawson News discusses these things
interestingly, and in the course of an editorial
on Back to the Home" SAYS:
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-05-11
PICNIC.

A picnic was given at Spanish Fort
on Sunday and a delightful day was
spent. Singing and dancing were
among the pleasures of the day.
Among those present were Floyd
Lagarde, Ethel Anderson, Lula Mae
Besson, Dot Wilson. Anna May Con.
Alice NJ. Vinet, Cecilia, Patricia and
Harriet Muntz, Martha Adams, Agnes
O'Donnen, Marjorie Wright. Edith
Humphrey, Mary and Bernice An
derson, Helen Charleville, Fannie
Golf, Maude Lennox. Cecilia Spell
man, Carmelite Golf, Alton Humphrey,
Jos. Lennox, Aloysius Serpas. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mcpherson, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Redmond, Mr. and Mrs. John Ander-
son. Mrs. Leblanc, Mr.. and Mrs.
Anderson, Mrs. Flanders, E. A, and
Robt. Flanders.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-05-11
Spring Festival
Charity Hospital
Social Service

Algiers for the first time, is now
represented on the Social Service
Works committee of the Charity Hos
pital.
We have been assigned a booth at
the May Festival which will be
given May 18th. on the Charity Hos
pital grounds. The ladies are most
anxious to make the Algiers booth
grand success and are appealing
for donations towards this end.
J. NJ. Hogan is general chairman
and the following ladies comprise the
committee: Mrs. l.. Hymel. 240 Ber-
muda Street; Mrs. F. Klienkemper,
/ 337 Verret Street; Miss 4. Nelson,
! 335 Olivier Street; Miss f. Mcdonald,
/ 3l3 Pacific Avenue; Miss c. Richards,
/ 213 AlX Street: Miss X. MahOney,
524 Pelican Avenue; Miss S. Murphy,
416 Olivier Street.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-05-11
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
OPENS CAMP Align

Last nights parade through the
downtown streets of New Orleans in
augurated Loyola's campaign for
81, 100000. Enthusiastic workers in
every ward in the City have been
thoroughly organized, and begin to-
day their house to house canvass.
The teams will report their collec-
tions at the noon luncheons given
daily at the runewald Hotel.
The Algiers Division. under the
leadership of Mr.. Peter Z. Muntz,
with Mrs. Henry Vallette, as Vice
Chairman, is determined to do its
part nobly for higher education, and
the establishment of a perfect uni
versity under Catholic auspices in our
own City.
All volunteer workers who intend
to help in putting this campaign over
the top for the welfare of education
in Louisiana are requested to be pres
ent at a meeting at the Knights of
Columbus Home in Algiers next
Tuesday night, May 10th, at o'clock
sharp. All citizens are asked to aid
because Loyola. opens it's doors to
every student irrespective of creed
who has the proper qualifications and
aims at being a better American
citizen.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-05-11
TROOP NO. 80, BOY
SCOUTS OF AMERICA.

A meeting was held last Tuesday
night at Z o'clock p. m, with large
attendance of Scouts. Deputy Com
missioner Thomas A. Fox paid us a
visit and gave the boys a long talk
on character building and scouting
Scoutmaster Charles A. Hughes
went on a trip to Kenner last Satur,
day with a large attendance of boys,
every one enjoyed themselves.
A promotion court was held last
Saturday by Scoutmaster Hughes and
the following passed tests: F. Col
lette, S. Fonseca, Leo Willie, James
ellis, A. Sutton, r. DeRocha, Adolph
Hotard, p. Singer, F. Arsago, c.
Caruso, and B. Cantin. Election OF
Scribe. Patrol Leaders, Assistant
Patrol Leaders and Flag Bearers. This
troop is expected to take part in the
field meet May 81.
LAWRENCE STINGER,
Senior Patrol Leader.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-05-11
CONTINUED on Page 81
PUBLIC INVITED TO MEETING
OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN
AND ENGINEERS

There will be a special meeting
held Monday, May 18th, at Pythian
Hall at p. m, under the auspices
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Engineers Lodge No.
267 in regard to Railway Wage Con-
ference"
Among the speakers will be Vice
President Maier of the B. of l.. F. and
E. who has recently attended the
wage conference held at Chicago.
There will in all probability be
speakers of note from other crafts.
The public in general is invited to
attend. All union men, in particular
should be present at this meeting as
it is they who will benefit mostly from
same.