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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17
CapitaIizing Notoriety.

1t has been definitely announced that Fred
Beauvais, Indian guide from Canada and CO.
respondent in the sensational Stillman divorce
case, will appear in motion pictures He Of
course, will offer himself to the public by
trading on the advertising he got in the trial
of the suit Not only does Beauvas capitalize
his individual notoriety but the production in
which he will appear is to have the further
lure for the morbidly curious of scenes taken
in and around the Stilman summer camps al
ready familiar to the public.
New York is helping Beauvais along. The
state board of censorship has reviewed and
approved the film, and a New York film ex
change has made arrangements for distribu
ton of copies New York also furnishes most
of the principals of the suit, thus providing the
groundwork of sensations which the film
is based, and is now taking advantage, with
true metropolitan enterprise, of the opportuni-
ty to make money out of sordid episode in
the lives of the people concerned.
Such capitalization of notoriety is at once
an affront to the public, but large part Of
the public may be glad enough to see Beau
vais in his picture The producers would be
counting on that or they would not be max
ing the attempt to show the film. The de-
velopments show a decadence that is deplor-
able and unfortunate, but which cannot be
corrected as long as there are agencies to
produce things of this kind and people will
ing to spend their money in justification of
the promoters business judgment
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17
AN IMPRESSION OF HARDING

From the Worlds Work.
The outstanding characteristics of the con-
ference have been its urbanity, its serenity, its
patience Its work has been hard and steady
but without haste. These things reflect the
qualities of the president. A personal impress
sion of him is of middle western farmer boy
who has grown into a kindly man of the
world, who has acquired dignity without loss
of still boyish indebtedness and charm
and whose mind is serene, both because his
vigorous body is healthy and comfortable and
because his conscience is untroubled. He is so
obviously honest direct and human that he
inspires trust in all who meet him. This is
not merely a negative lack of suspicion; on
the contrary, he radiates a positive and active
quality of the spirit that generates in others
a motor inspiration to good works.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17
The New Skirts.

Pencils, pads and a love for calculations
have enabled economists to make some fright
ening estimates of what is going to happen
in this country if the American women obey
the fashion dictate coming from the Rue de
la Pax and lengthen their short skirts. The
astounding statement that longer skirts will
force demand for 25,000 100000 yards of
cloth in excess of that sold last season is the
first thing to hold the attention. This will
force the textile mills to work overtime and
to employ 10000 more workers. Perhaps long
skirts are coming for the purpose OF help
ing to solve the embarrassing problem OF I'M
employment Another thing: Approximately
/ 100000 dresses will be scrapped They will
become detrop, because of the edict from the
Rue de la Paix. One suggestion brings a
CHEEKY glean-maybe the short skirt will do
for the little sisters.
The Paris modistes have issued their or
ders to the rest of the world, and dealers i'll
America say they must be obeyed The IN
sfructons are that skirts must come to with
lin six or eight inches to the ground. That
means that high shoes will have to go back
into the closets or stay on the shelves, tor
with short skirts out of date, out OF style
places how could bit of shimmering be
shown unless worn with oxfords? Certainly
the shimmerng silk must be seen, at least
little bit of it, or a lot of it, all depending
upon the style of the skirt, whether long or
short or wide or narrow. The long, narrow
ones have almost as much hose-revealing
qualities on occasions as the strictly short
ones, and maybe after all, the skirts will not
be wide Women simply will not yield every
prerogative, and that's all there is to it. (Mere
men have nothing to say about it except those
modistes in the Rue de la PaiX)
A positively night-marish though has OBJ
truded according to some of the guesses be
ing made in prosaic America about the new
Paris style Nothing has been guaranteed that,
to save the cloth, as in wartime the women
will not take off surplus goods from the tops
of their frocks to make long skirts possible.
Just one ray of hope is permitted to hitter
through all this haze, and that is that TINS
cannot be done because there are no surplus
goods at the top of the present day trocks.
The chances are those mills will have to work
overtime, obeyng the simple law OF supply
and demand Fashion must be served
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17
The Credit System Going.
From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.

The old worn-out bankruptcy 3O-day credit
business is fast playing out More and more
the business houses are cutting out the charg-
ing of a cigar, nickel's worth OF salt or
paper of pins to the gent who could never be
found on the first of the month, when money
was needed to pay the wholesale bill 1t was
right convenient to step into store, buy a
cigar and say charge it," but it sent many
a mercantile concern to the bankrupt court
Speed the day when everybody pays cash or
does without it. 1t will mean better day for
the buyer and the seller.-Worth County Lo-
cal. 1t would be great thing for the country
if we could get to the point where the Charge
it" system would be cut out entirely. 1t might
put some of US to considerable inconvenience
for awhile, but we'd get used to it after try
ing it out, and when we did all of us would
get along a whole lot better
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17
Farm Bloc TO Carry On.

In spite Of the opposition of the white house
and OF senators from the manufacturing and
financial centers of the east who have in
weighed against it as a sectional movement, the
agricultural or farm bloc will continue its de-
mands upon congress for legislation i'll behalf
of the farmers Senators Kenyon of Iowa,
IMcNary of Oregon, and other republicans OF
western agricultural states have given this as
their definite answer to the criticisms heard
at Washington. Senators Smith of South Car
DINA Kendrick of Wyoming and other DEM
ocrats Of the south and west have joined to
make it bipartisan movement with one in
terest only-service to the millions who live
on the land, and who feed the other millions
living in cities and towns.
The attacks OF the eastern senators who
sought to take the agricultural notes from the
ewes of the bloc members before removing
the corporation beams from their own only
have served to solidify democrats and repub
licans in their determination to represent the
farmers as they should be represented The
principal need of the farmers now is a
Strengthening of the organized movement to
provide a market profitable to them, and by
increasing the value of the farm dollar to
protect them against impositions from other
producers. Legislation is now pending which
provides for the appointment of dirt farm
err on the federal reserve board, which would
operate to give the farmers more flexible
credit accommodations and banking sys-
tenn to more fully meet their needs.
1t needs only glance at the opposition to
see why this conflict has developed Senator
AZ o4 cboir ~ fba
ate banking and currency committee, is one
of the leaders in the fight against the agri-
cultural bloc Senator Edge, of New Jersey
is another who is fighting the bloc. He
frankly lets it be known that he is the cham
pion of the manufacturers Senator Edge be-
lieves that if the Smith amendment of dirt
farmer" to the federal reserve board is passed
the manufacturers ought to have place on
the board to represent the manufacturing IN
terests. His point is not well taken tor the
reason that the manufacturers are not hard
put as the farmers are because they are for
tunate in having absolute control of their
own business. Nobody tells the manufacture
er what he may have for his product the
only governing things being competition and
the law of supply and demand The farmer
must take what he can get with somebody
else setting the price.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has just
shown how the farmers dollar is worth only
SO cents The farmers are receiving less for
their products than in 1913 before the war.
They are the only ones doing that yet they
are paying as much as $3.50, according to
Mr.. Wallace to get what they bought in
tn he
of the agricultural bloc: carry on. II there
lis anything wrong with sectional legislation
let adjustment of it affect everybody equally.
1t is about time the farmers of the country,
who are doing such great part of the ma
TONS work, should get reasonable return
for their labors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

Candidates for reelection to congress and
the senate used to boast of the large appro-
priations they got for their constituents 1t
is a safe guess that in the future large pro-
portion of them will be Boosting of the ap-
preparations they defeated The voters are
thinking more about taxes than they are about
pork barrels.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

When you think about it we are all closely
bound together in a community like this.
When the farmer gets low price for his cot
ton even the smallest business and the day
laborer suffer And community with well
established and prosperous banking institu-
tions always means a community where pros
perity is almost universal.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

Practical persons will wonder why great
amounts of money are to be spent on scien-
tific expedition into the regions of the ANA
zon, the main purpose of which is to pro-
cure some rare insects for the city of Chi
cago. Surely, Chicago is not short on bugs!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

Why does it never occur to a boy that he
will some day know as little as his father?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

Many Georgia towns are making vigorous
war on loafers as step toward improving
conditions There is no room in Dawson for
oilers and the sooner the city officials make
this known the sooner will we get back to
more PROSPEROUS times.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

While the governor of Kansas was lectur-
ing to a New York audience and telling them
how they could avoid strikes as Kansas had
DONE by enactment of proper arbitration
law, a bowling mob of 1000 wives and rela-
tives OF striking coal miners was storming
a mine near Pittsburg, Kan, and preventing
the strike breakers from resuming work
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

Some very promising early spring gardens
were laid low by the freeze Thursday night,
but nothing daunted the enterprising garden
ers are already putting in more seed i'll the
hope of better luck. Home grown lettuce OF
fine quality is on the market in Dawson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

There was a time when they said the hog
was the farmers mortgage raiser, but at pres
ent old Bossy seems to be doing her share.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

Georgia has increased her wheat acreage 81
per cent while the country as a whole has
decreased IL per cent, says the Augusta
Chronicle. That's a fine record.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

LESS talk more work" is being urged in
Savannah. Fine for any community Espe-
cially good for Dawson
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

Will Dawson ever have the government
building congress authorized ten years ago?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17
To a Skeleton.

(The manuscript of this poem, which APP
peared during the first quarter OF the nine
teenth century, was, said to have been found
in the museum of the Royal College of Sur
geons, in London, near perfect human skele-
ton. and to have been sent by the curator to
The London Morning Chronicle for publica-
ton. 1t excited so much attention that every
effort was made to discover the author, and
a responsible party went so tar as to offer 4
reward OF fifty guineas for information that
would discover its origin. The author pre-
served his incognito and has never been dis
covered)
Behold this ruin! Twas a skull
Once of ethereal spirit full
This narrow cell was Lies retreat;
This space was Thoughts mysterious seat.
What beauteous visions filled this spot!
What dreams of pleasure long forgot!
Nor hope, nor joy, nor love, nor fear
Has left one trace of record here.
Beneath the Wondering canopy
Once shone the bright and busy eye;
But start not at the dismal void
If social love that eye employed.
If with no awless fire it CLEANED.
But through the dews OF kindness beamed
That eye shall be forever bright
When stars and sun are sunk i'll night.
Within this hollow cavern hung
The ready, swift and tunetul tongue;
If Falsehood's honey it disdained
And when it could not praise was chained;
If bold in Virtues cause it spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke
This silent tongue shall plead for thee
When Time unveils Eternity.
Say did these fingers delve the mine,
Or with the envied rubes shine:
To hew the rock, or wear the gem,
Can little now avail to them;
But if the page of Truth they sought,
Or comfort TO the mOurner brought,
These hands a richer need shall claim
Than all that wait on Wealth and Fame.
Avails it whether bare or shod
These feet the paths OF duty trod:
II from the bowers OF Ease they fed,
To seek Affections humble shed;
If Grandeur $ guilty bride they spurned
And home to Virtues cot returned
These feet with angel wings shall vie,
And tread the palace OF the sky.
ANONYMOUS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

The former crown prince OF Germany is
said to be at work. making horseshoes which
are selling at $40 apiece. This illustrates how
foolish great many people are when it
comes to collecting souvenirs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

Debs having arrived home and been kissed
by the mayor and various other admirers it
is now to be hoped that some Of his real
friends will give him some good advice, and
that he will allow his program Of emptying
the jails to wait little while Most of the
rest OF us are quite sure that if he were sue
cessful in emptying the prisons there are
enough people outside who ought to be in to
fill them up again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

No fault can be found with the people for
harboring the notion that they must be care
full about contracting more public indebted
ness-bonded or otherwise. This is no time
to dig more tax money out of them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17
KNOCKING OR BOOSTING?

From Americas Times Recorder
The eggnog flowed freer in Americas this
holiday season than in many years And it
wasn't shine" but genuine red liquor that
furnished the kick
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17
WITH GEORGIA EDITORS.

The stay law proposed by Representative
Knight, of Berrien county, is being unani-
mously condemned This from the Madsonian
is generally the way it is viewed:
Its mighty poor business. That's about the
size of it. When this great country, blessed
as it is with every natural advantage, with
honest, sympathetic people, gets to the place
it needs a moratorium or stay law 1t Will
be time to holler for the devil to take his
own"
Editor Garwood, of the Donalsonville News,
has visited back home" and tender memo
ries were stirred within him. This describes
the feeling of all of us at such times:
The walls of fellows memory are never
really re-calsomined until he visits the old
home and the old home town after some
twenty five odd years absence. The scenes OF
a happy childhood rise before him as he
wanders from place to place; faces that are
older, but no less familiar except for the
traces and crosses of time smile welcome to
him. the creek and the wildwood; the old
'neverythng just seem to shake off
the cobwebs that the years have accumulated
and fellow really feels that life is dearer
far and sweeter still when he goes back to
rest while in the old house-and with moth
or
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

According to a recent order postmistress
can still hold the Office if she gets married
Just why a woman should want a postoffice
and husband, too, beats u.s.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

What has become of the old-fashioned
young woman who used to say: Il can't go;
| have nothing to wear?" Does she go any
way?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17
WITH US AGAIN.

From the Madisonian.
We notice that Bori, Galli-Curci, Gigli Mar
tinelli, Pedro, Bunco, ct al are to be in At
lanta again this spring.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

Talk of a 100000 purse for the heavy
weight champion is one of the things the new
year brought The faith of promoters in the
gullibility of the public remains mistaken.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17
On the lob Always.

AT time when most of the forces of life
appear like a ship that is composites, sailless
and rudderless there is one modest little
creature that keeps her eyes glued to
the mark of her high calling. She is the
American hen. Neither conservative nor rad
ical, standpatter nor bolshevist, her energetic
toes hug the line of standard duty, and in
every market her pearly shelled product is
constantly and steadily at or above par This,
from the Worth County Local, records an in
stance OF her value and importance to COM
munity:
"One man in Sylvester, J. A.. Parrish,
alone paid out 81 292.47 during the month
of December for eggs and poultry. There
are number of other shippers from the
county, including several merchants in Syl-
vester and other towns of the county"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

The Cordele Sentinel sees the doom OF the
tenant system in South Georgia, and blames
the boil weevil. 1t says:
The boil weevil is going to destroy the
tenant system of farming in this section OF
Georgia. That is the blessing we are going
to get out of the coming of this delightful
little insect The landlord cannot send the
negro to make cotton now and go fishing. If
he does he might as well stay fishing. The
tenant is no hope for the farm owner in the
battle to raise cotton while the boil weevil
is here. Our tenant system is going to fail
if the weev stays with us"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

The women are paying a stupendous price
just to attract the men, thinks Editor Shack
elford, of the Lexington Echo. Hear him:
See it stated that the women OF the Unit
ed States use o,592,000 worth of dope i
year to redden their lips, revive their com
plexions, chalk their noses and perfume their
handkerchiefs. And to think they do all OF
that just to attract mere man, whom they
profess to disdain or rather distrust in political
affairs"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-17

That advertising pays is again conclusively
proven. The Jackson Progress-Argus cites the
latest instance:
another business that was built up from a
small beginning has been recorded in the sale
of Tanlac for two million dollars. 1t reads
like romance. A few years ago the COM
pany was projected on a small scale. Con-
slant, steady, wise, judicious advertising built
the business up to the point where it was sold
for two million dollars in cash. Score another
point for advertising. Advertising of the right
kind never fails to bring returns"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-08-25
BONUS BILL NOW
TAKES LIMELIGHT
IT is BELIEVED BY MANY THAT
THE.PREsIDENT's VETO CAN
BE SUSTAINED.
PROBABLY MODIFY MEASURE
Tom Watson Changes His Mind and
Will Vote Against the BiII-Dem-
ocrats Ask Immediate Action
But Republicans Delay

Washington.-A sufficient number of
votes are in sight to sustain a presi-
dental veto applied to soldiers com
pensatiOn legislation. A poll OF the
senate was completed, showing 80 SEN
ators pledged to vote against overri
ing Mr.. Harding's veto. This is two
more than enough to prevent effective
action.
Those opposed to the bonus now are
relying on a veto when the bonus bill
Is passed. They have made careful
inquiries regarding the presidents at
titude and feel absolutely convinced he
will not approve the meaure as now
drawn.
Those supporting the proposition
realize that situation and are planning
to make the bill acceptable by chang
ing it to meet some of the presidents
objections. 1t is not known whether
or not this can be done.
Consideration Of the bonus was
deferred until the middle Of this week.
This was done for the purpose of per
hitting the senate leaders to confer
with the president and ascertain just
what can be done in the direction of
modifying the measure to obviate the
presidents objections.
Senators have been deluged with re-
quests for early action on the bonus,
kilograms and letters have been pour
ing in from nearly every American Le-
gion post in the country. All were re.
Quested to communicate with the sem
ators from their respective states and
stir them up to moving with more
speed.
Opponents Of the bonus have made
all preparation for a hard fight. 1t will
include the exertion Of pressure upon
the president to stand firm and utilize
the veto.
Predictions are made that the op-
position will gain some recruits as the
debate proceeds. Watson of Georgia,
heretofore an ardent advocate of sol
diers' compensation. has turned turtle
and will not support such legislation
at present. IT will not vote for any
BILL" said Watson, that adds one cent
Of taxtaion to the burdenc of the
American people"
There might be no objection, said
Watson, to using part of the foreign
war loans in meeting bonus require
ments, but in his opinion these funds
will not be available for q long period,
II at all. He does not see any assist
ance in sight from that source.