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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CAMPAIGN.

The interest aroused in Sunday school
work in Dawson by the recent active cam
paign for increasing the attendance has
continued through the past week with I'M
abated zeal the enthusiasm OF those leading
IN the movement being contagious. Large
numbers of men, women and children have
responded to the personal invitation extend
ed them to enroll in the church school OF their
choice, and every department Of the Sunday
schools is going forward with renewed activ-
ity. Any movement looking to community
betterment depends for success entirely on
broad spirit of cooperation which has IN
mind ''the greatest good to the greatest num-
Der" Denominationa lines are merely for
convenience Only the efforts founded on the
golden rule, which is the spirit OF Christ
looking to the brotherhood OF man will ever
count for anything worth while. Any lower
motive than this is but Sounding brass and
a tinllling symbol" That the campaign will
result in great good to the churches and the
city is assured.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11
CONTROLLING PRISONERS.

Benevolent persons interested in prison re-
form may protest against the use OF force TO
compel the obedience of criminals in custody,
such as was employed by Capt. Wesley
Westbrook lat Chicago, but the majority OF
public opinion could be expected to rate him
as a regular warden, one who understands
his Job and is determined to do his duty.
4'You bet your life it's true" Capt Westbrook
declared when asked if clubs had been used
to break up a mutiny in the jail. He then
told how the prisoners had refused to obey
orders and enter cells to which it was desired
that they be transferred Then the clubs.
Criticism of officers of the law for employ
ing violence in dealing with desperate char
acters of the criminal world has been heard
everywhere since society undertook to pro-
tect itself from evil-doers. Wardens sheriffs,
policemen, detectives and jailers have been
arraigned by public opinion for chastisement
of criminals who offer stubborn resistance
The plea has been made that the officers of
the law took advantage of the opportunity
offered, did not give the prisoners an even
chance to defend themselves.
Why should an officer who is representing
law and order imperil both himself and the
principal of right by meeting criminals on
even terms?
The law takes-and is supposed to take
advantage over criminals just as criminals
always try to get the upper hand Of society
The difference lies in the fact that while the
criminal element is predatory the law is not
All the law requires of anybody is obedience
and it must have that or it fails.
No doubt some officers of the law employ
violence too quickly and in too great amount
1t is entirely possible that warden, po-
iiceman or a jail guard with his own safety
in jeopardy, would magnify the danger and
exert himself accordingly. That side OF the
question ought to be considered by those
who hasten to condemn the employment Of
force as brutal. Officers of the law are fully
convinced that most criminals are hard
boiled" citizens who must be firmly dealt
with at all times
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11
CURRENT COMMENT.

Salt Lake Tribune: Five billion dollars is
the amount the United States will save during
the next fifteen years through ratification OF
the naval limitations treaty, according to tg-
ures compiled by naval experts. These hg-
ures are based upon estimates of savings to
be accomplished through the scrapping OF
thirty capital ships the abandonment OF the
policy of building two new capital ships a
year, the economy effected by abandonment
OF work on new dreadnaughts and battle
cruisers, and by the cessation of work on
naval bases and other shore establishments.
The cost OF maintaining a modern capital
ship is approximately $3,000000 year. I'm
der the Hughes plan the United States is to
scrap thirty capital ships, making yearly
saving of $o0000,000. Abandonment of con-
struction of two new capital ships year
would save $80,000000 to $l00000,000. The
third heading on the list of economies con
sidered by the statisticians is that resulting
from the agreement to scrap thirteen new
capital Ships which, when completed, would
have cost the United States S520,00000O. AS
$330000000 has already been spent on these
ships the saving amounts to approximately
S190000000, which should be compounded
over the fifteen-year period. The last item
has to do with the saving on shore establish
ments, which is estimated at S10,00O,OOO
year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11
BACK TO THE HOME.

Every woman must decide the question OF
politics herself She has the vote, and most
public Offices are open to her If she can I'M
press the electorate that she is worthy OF its
support In exceptional cases oficeholders
must be male citizens of certain require
ments. which, until amendments are put
through by legislation, bars the woman.
1t would appear that since general recog-
milton of woman's right Of franchise has been
established, the only thing demanded OF her
when she presents herself for public Office
would be her fitness for the job, AS to that
the voters themselves are to determine her
fitness. or what they believe it to be, so the
woman candidate must produce on her own
responsibility convincing proof that she is
qualified. Is she, then, naturally equipped
for public Office as man would be? In some
respects, voters might indicate, she surpasses
the man, and in others she falls short. Wo-
man is declared to be more upright yet some
men would question it, and to have higher
ideals than man. AS opposed to this more or
less generally admitted condition she has not
the physical strength to undertake the work
some offices impose nor the adaptabity de-
lnanQeQ. 1neTe IS QlNiSlOH u qudIliSdtiOio'
and the voters must decide which sex has
more of them
A middle western woman politician who
has "been in the game" for 80 years has
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 stayed at home
those 80 years She thinks it meritorious for
woman to be able to bake good apple pie,
and so it is. She also thinks some knitting,
good book, a rocking chair and house
full of children" better than a political posi-
ton Members of her sex will not unani-
mously agree with her Some have no chill
dren and do not want them, and they would
not understand what the poet meant when he
said 1T takes heap O. Twin in house t
make it home" That, too, is within the per-
sonal right of the woman to decide for her
self If she wants political Office 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 swhat they
would call $3.50 proposition" with no
favors shown on account of sex but with
everything depending on merit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11
RUDE RURAL RHY MES
THE MILKY WAY.

The rose is red, the violet blue, wise scouts
drink milk and so should you. OF all mean
words to say of Minnie the meanest are
"Shes awful skinney," but milk has vitamines
and fats to put the pumpness on her Stats
Josephus Spriggs, though lank and lean,
built like stringess greenpod bean by drink
ing milk would soon appear as chunky as
roasting ear, not pale and thin and phantom
like but plump and Golden Bantamlike Con-
slider Cassius, Brutus' chum, who stabbed J.
Caesar in the tum. He had lean and hungry
look and see the wicked course he took Yea
l will bet you what you dare that Jeremiah
was also spare. He makes grim and grouchy
noise that shows his need of avoirdupois.
Twas lack of brindle cows think, that put
the ancients on the blink. Had they drunk
milk so fresh and snappy they might have
been much less unhappy, not half so mean
nor half so scrappy. bob ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11
WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES. .

1t is the continual bobbing up and down OF
hog prices that makes pork production a
gamble pure and simple, for the producer,
says the Louisville Courier Journal. Continu-
ing, the Louisville paper declares: The con
sumner of pork products buys in market
which is easily readily and regularly read
justed, so that the packer and the distributor
may retain margin OF profit at all times.
Hogs are higher now than they were any
time prior to the world war. That ought to
satisfy the everlastingy complaining farmer,
in the opinion OF certain critics who know
nothing about the problems OF the dirt farm
CT. It would satisfy even the farmer who
hasn't hogs to sell if he had any reason to
believe that if he should begin breeding mark
c. hogs there would be as good market
next June or next December as there is to-
day. And the consumer as we'll as the produc-
er suffers from the Instability OF the livestock;
market"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11
UNLIKE THE SHOALS ON PAPER.

Arkansas Gazette: After members OF the
house military affairs committee and the SEN
ate committee on agriculture had inspected
the nitrate and water power projects at Mus
sci Shoals they said the actual Mussel Shoals
is quite unlike the Mussel Shoals on paper
Representative Hull, OF Iowa, the ranking
member of the house committee, who declar-
ed that his committee never will consent to
the plant being scrapped, said the visit OF
the two committees had shown many new
angles to the situation not covered by the
hearings in Washington Senator Norris, OF
Nebraska, chairman OF the senate committee,
said he would invite the presidents OF the
American Society of Engineers, the American
Society OF Chemical Engineers and the Amer
lean Society of Mechanical Engineers to APP
pear before his committee at once. Any trip,
at public expense, of members OF congress
is "junket" in popular view. This trip OF
members of senate and house committees to
Mussel Shoals has given them valuable in
formation and new understanding OF that
important matter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

The president, in his remarks on the pre-
vailing disrespect for the law, rebukes those
thoroughly respected and respectable mem
bers OF society" who are known for their
defiance OF the prohibition law, although he
mentioned no names and did not specifically
refer to prohibition A very large measure
Of the growing and menacing disrespect for
the law is chargeable to the thoroughly re-
spected and respectable members of society
who openly fout the 18th amendment They
are doing more at present to breed disrespect
for the law OF the land than any other mem
bers Of society. The president does not over
emphasize their cupabity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11
A Pernicious Law.
From the Jackson Progress-Argus.

HIOIH TIE JdCkSOH FIOSTSSS-AISuS
Why should the paper of the national
government, the state or municipality be
exempt from taxation? Ii no more tax
free bonds, state or national were per-
mitted tax lodging would not be so
easy. The rush for tax exempted securi-
ties by people with money, that they
might evade the payment of taxes, has
made the most git-edged security on
earth, the farm mortgage, pay higher
rate of interest. Taxing farm mortgage
Con property which already pays its full
proportion of tax is double taxation,
while the man who has thousands invest
ed in government or state bonds escapes
taxation altogether.-DaWson News.
There should not be such thing as
tax exempt securities. Bonds, stocks and Sc
curities OF all kinds should be made to pay
their just share OF taxation The great trou-
bic with the country now is that real estate,
both farm and city property, is paying more
than its proportion of taxes, while millions
and billions OF tax exempt bonds and stocks
and invisible" property get off without pay
ing anything into the Golfers. 1t is not right,
and something should be done to place all
property on an equal and exact basis.
The country, as read signs of the times,
is just beginning to wake up to the evil of
tax exempt paper. Think of the corporations
that made multiplied millions during the boom
period of the war issuing additional stock
to escape the payment of an income tax. If
all property bore its just Share OF taxation
the burden would be light on all AS it is
now it is heavy a few.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11
IN LIGHTER VEIN.

"How's Jig Fiddlin's rheumatism by now?"
asked an acquaintance.
Well" replied Sam Flat OF Straddle
Ridge Ark, "'pears like it's better. His
mother-n-law made up some liniment out OF
bone-dry Ticker and one thing and another,
and | reckon she didn't weaken it down
enough Tennyrate, Jig rubbed it on his legs
and sixteen seconds later jumped through the
window and lit out, hitting the high places
for the tall timber, yelling in an unknown
tongue at every jump Took him three days
to get back and he says that either the eX-
ercise or the Imminent cured him, and he don't
know which.
Mrs Hatfield accosted colored woman
who was passing. Do you know any one
can hire to help me clean house?"
Nom. l amt knowing any colored ladies
what need work, but | knows a colored man
what cleans windows and does some other
kinds of house cleanin'."
What does he CHARGE?
Sixty cents an hour
why he makes more than some school
teachers, doesn't he?"
"Yesm; but school teachers only has to
use de haids."
After all sorts of hints finally Johnny sue
but he failed to thank her for it. Whereupon
the mother, somewhat ashamed OF her off
springs rudeness, demonstrated:
johnny, you are aWfuly forgetful What
should you say when you get something's"
Il can't tell" was Johnny's only reply
you can't tell? Why, Johnny, it's awful.
What does mamma say when papa gives her
money?
is this all?"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11
1T IS A PULLING QUESTION.

From the Triton Gazette
We confess we cannot see the justice in
forcing railroads to operate trains that do not
pay expenses. A business firm that continued
particular line which failed to show a
profit would be headed toward failure, and
the same rule applies to railroads. We expect
them to pay high wages, and the stoc<hold-
ers expect them to pay dividends, while state
and national commissions regulate the rates
they may charge. On top Of this, to force
them to operate trains at loss looks like
bad business judgment. 1t is difficult now to
induce people to invest in railroad securities
after awhile they may not invest in them
at all. We are convinced that we have en-
tirely too much regulation in this country
unless this regulation was wiser.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

Death is a monster that claims all con-
ditions for his own. Last week a man was
playing poker in Baltimore. He drew royal
flush" (whatever that isl, and when he look
ed at his hand he fell dead. Monday man
visited the court house in Davenport, Iowa.
to learn the amount OF the taxes he owed
When he was shown his tax bill he dropped
dead. We are beginning to fear death more
since learning that JOY sorrow or surprise
may send one hence in an instant. Some
day some paper will bring the news that the
Georgia political factions have buried the
hatchet or that capital and labor have har-
monized their differences. We know such
good news would shatter lfes golden bowl
and snap LIES silver thread in the twinkling
of an eye
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

A visit to the country now discloses the
old familiar scene, the farmers in the field
preparing the soil for the new crop. What
ever may have happened to the farmers dur
ing the last year or two nothing has hap
pened to the land. Other things have vanish
ed, but the soil remains with its fertility and
productivity undiminished. This fact affords
substantial foundation for the unconquerable
optimism of the farmer for he is in truth an
unconquerable optimist. He has his periods
Of depression and Encouragement, but they
are only momentary, and in the end optimism
always triumphs. Seed time finds the farmer
with hope renewed in his heart, and with
faith strengthened that the harvest will be
abundant
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

No more difficult or important task was
eyer attempted by Legislative committee in
this state than that of overhauling the tax
laws. Many difficult problems are involved
but il is very important that the citizens who
nay the money be given as much consldera-
t5on and the spender OF it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11
OLD-TINE WAY THE BEST.

Commenting on School Commissioner
Hutcheson's desire that the schools of Allan
ia go back to the old-time method of teach
ing the three R's-at least "spellin,," which,
despite its initial, is fundamental of the
R regime-the Savannah News says:
perhaps if the old Blue Backed Web
sters Spelling Book were hammered in
to heads of the rising generation as it
was into the noggins of its fathers and
grandfathers there might not be the
complaints from business men and col
lege faculties that the young women and
men of the present times do not know
how to spell. 1t was not the easiest way
to teach or learn spelling it pro-
duced the best spoilers ever"
Many of the methods and customs of the
time school could be reinstated to the adj
vantage of all concerned, especially the chill
dren. There are many things conneced with
present-day education that are not only not
helpful but are positively detrimental to the
child. They get the wrong idea of life and
its responsibilities.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

Some Of our contemporaries are printing
whole pages Of state and county tax sales.
Although the tax burden has been unusually
heavy and the farmers have had comparatively
small returns from the sale of their products
there has not been a sale OF property for
taxes in Terrell county this year, and there
were only two such levies by the sheriff in
1920.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

The drinking habit cannot be eliminated by
Legislative fiat, but it can be largely eliminat-
ed from human nature by continuous war
through the government, through the schools,
through the churches and through the news
papers. The day of responsibility for booz-
ing is gone forever, so far as this country is
concerned
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

Taxes on farm property under the present
deAation OF prices seem to be higher and high
err But as a usual thing the taxpayer gives
vent to his indignation by cussing the pow
ers that be in general about the time he pays
his taxes and lets it go at that for the rest Of
the wear.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

The News joins others of his contempt
rares in congratulations to Editor John H.
Jones' of the Lagrange Reporter, on his re-
cent marriage to Miss Couden an attractive
and popular young woman of Rockmart.
They have the sincere good wishes OF The
News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

A newspaper is criticized most severely by
the dead-beat subscriber, the one who spends
the least in either time or money to better 1t,
and very often by the people whom the editor
could make hang their heads in shame If he
xpo1ld print the bare facts only about them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

North OF Dawson are, great beds OF lilies
as delicate and beautiful as the rarest Easter
flowers offered by florists. These may be
gathered by handfuls without injury to the
plants Just now they are tavorlte Hover
ornamenting many homes; but they bloom
for only short season, This wealth OF bloom
is hidden away in marshy section some
distance from the highway.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

Every candidate for political Office this
year will have plank in his platform advo-
eating reduction of taxation. Candidates
always are for reducing taxes, yet that does
not seem to have reduced any taxes Will
the time ever come when promises will be
translated into performance?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

Dame Rumor nearly always wears heavy
veil so no one will recognize her, but she
has the art Of making herself alluring SO
that many seek her.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

The strike is on. The coal miners and the
operators are at war. Meanwhile the sympa
thies of the people are first with themselves
before they are with either of the contending
parties 1t is the law of self-preservation, and
the public may be thankful that summer is
coming.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

Right away now effusions of spring poets
may be expected; they are as natural as the
mating OF the birds, the greening OF the
grass and the bursting of the buds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11
SCIENCE IN POLITICS.

President Harding has installed radio out
fit in the white house. The next thing in pol
itics will be wireless-puling.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

Will Mr.. Ford please tell Mr.. Mellon the
truth about that $29,O0OOOO of war profits?
1t would be shocking to learn that Henry had
been four-hushing in this matter
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

Wheat was king of American agricultural
exports in 1921. Russia may come back as
wheat producing country some day, and
then wheat may be dethroned as the king OF
American exports American exports last
wear were p per cent less in quantity than
in 1920 and they decreased 4O.3 per cent in
value. It's the value that has played havoc
with the American producer. A big price
slump made his pocket lean.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11

A Colquitt county citizen has hen that
layed an egg which predicts Jesus Is Com
ing Soon" 1t is very remarkable, OF course,
that this hen should have been chosen as the
medium through which to make an announce
ment Of such Importance to the entire human
race. but it must be remembered that this
hen is in Georgia, and what Georgia has
done and can do will fill many volumes. Dis
patches from Moultrie say that some people
are taking the warning seriously.