The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-01-10
WITH GEORGIA EDITORS.

The Pearson Tribune suggests the COW, the
hog and the hen as the means of tiding over
the hard times. Editor Allen says:
"A lady OF Wildwood some years ago eX
planned to the Tribune editor how it was
that many people, who were always complain
ing of hard times and not having any money
could get the WhereWithal to attend a circus
or other show. She said: Why they sell their
whooies, their sooies and their shooies for the
money. The editor has pondered over the
lesson couched in this reply ever since. The
COWS, hogs and hens of a community have
always played winning part in every emer-
gency. So now they seem to be in requisi-
ton to bring order out of the boil weevil
chaos. The Tribune bids its farmer friends to
look we'll to their source of financial relief.
The COW, the hog and the hen can work won
ders if given the proper attention"
An income tax for the state is the subject
of more or less discussion. The Sandersville
Progress contributes this:
"Georgians have been paying several mil
lion dollars to the federal government as in
come taxes-about six times as much as they
pay into the state treasury through the pres
ent plan of taxation and yet there are many
men who are wondering how the state can
expect to collect enough money from income
taxes to support our state institutions. Just
ask the federal tax collectors how they get
theirs. We are not in favor of the plan, but
if the United States government can collect
thirty million dollars as income taxes there
is no good reason why the state should not
collect five million by the same methods"
The advantage to a community of meat
curing plant is told convincingly by the Met
ter Advertiser:
Proof that meat can be we'll cured in the
local curing plant is found in the fact that
several hundred pounds of this product was
Monday purchased by Meter merchants at
rs cents roundabout IS cents more than
could have been obtained for uncured meat.
The meat was raised by Mr.. George Hartley
and was brought to the plant of the Meter
Ice and Cold Storage Company, where it
was carried through the various processes of
curing, including smoking, and was sold to
local dealers at approximately the same fig
ure they pay for foreign cured meat"
The State Sanitarium for number of years
(the first contract having been made when the
editor of The News was a member of the
board of trustees) has been buying Georgia
raised beef for that institution. Recently the
officials of the sanitarium contracted for Geor-
gia beef to be used this year, and in COM
mending this action the Triton Gazette says:
The Moultrie packing house was the sue
cessful bidder, and TIT cents was the price
paid. The quantity called for is 1000 pounds
weekly, and this should open good market
for Georgia cattle. If all the state institutions
WOulu specify GcOIBld pIOuuClS Ill pldClIlS
their contracts we would be we'll on the way
toward providing home market"
Inspiring optimism comes from Putnam
county. Says the Sparta Tribune:
Putnam county farmers produced only two
hundred bales of cotton this year and still are
not discouraged. This shows that Georgia
counties can get along without the staple.
The sooner we learn this fact the better off
we will be, and the more we learn about rails
ing other crops the greater will be the bene-
fit to ALL"
A note of warning is sounded by the Early
County News in the following:
Cotton planting will be a risky proposition,
to say the least, should we not have some cold
weather before winter fades into spring Up
until now the pesky boil weevils have not
been driven into Information, due to an I'M
usually mild season"