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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
Guns and Children.

In a south Georgia county little boy
was buried the other day after being shot
dead by another boy who, somehow, had
been permitted to have a frearm Ill his pos
session. OF late there have been news re-
ports Of similar occurrences over a wide sec
ton of the country. Some OF the firearms,
according to the reports, were not loaded,
hut they killed, anyway. So-called empty"
guns have been dealing death so long that
no one now considers it mysterious perform
ance, and persons of everyday common sense
are quite as much afraid OF the gun that
isn't loaded" as they are of others. The prac-
lice of pointing empty guns always has
been foolish; but as though to prove their
foolishness, a great many persons continue
10 do it. They may be as shocked and sur
prised as any one when there is deafening
report and victim falls dead, and yet, if
they are innocent, they will have cause to
regret their action as long as they live. There
is no excuse for pointing an empty gun. 1t
is not a pretty plaything in the first place,
and besides, great many persons will not
believe there is such thing any more as a
gun that isn't loaded"
Guns and children do not make a good
combination. 1t is not sensible on the part
OF adults to permit children to handle fire
arms. A boy OF 10 or II is big enough and
old enough to pull the trigger and kill a
PLAYMATE, but there is much doubt that he
! &c sufficiently mature to undertake the re-
sponsibi1ty which the possession OF fire.
arm. entails When adults accidentally shoot
themselves or other persons it would appear
that firearms are too dangerous for children
to own and operate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
Evidence of Thrift.

Statistics of savings deposits compiled by
the savings banks division of the American
Banking Association show that spendthrift
people though we may be, the virtue of thrift
has not entirely departed from US. The Stats
tics show that on June 80, 1922 the number of
savings accounts in the United States, includ-
ing mutual state private and national banks
ard trust companies, was 28,953526 and the
amount deposited was Sl80S7 493, 900. On the
corresponding date in 1921 the number of
accounts was 26,637,831 and the amount Of
deposits $16618, 595,000, thus indicating a
substantial gain during the year. A healthy
growth OF the school savings system is re-
vealed by the reports. During the last school
year the deposits amounted to $5,5000OO, an
increase of 40 per cent over the previous year.
The number of school systems has increased
more than 100 per cent, and still further
increase in savings and in participants is an
ticipated for the current year.
In connection with the report on savings
deposits, the savings banks division directs at
tention to life insurance, which is another
form of thrift The total life insurance now
carried in the United States, not including
benefit societies or federal, totals more than
S9U,UUU,UUU,UUU- ne, lOldl pIeILulllS pau dul :
ing the year amounted to more than $780,
100000
To indicate the extent of the holdings of
some of the savings banks it is instructive to
know that the five savings banks in the Dor
ough of Manhattan, New York city, have
combined deposits OF more than $745,OOO,OO0
One of these banks, the Emgrant Industrial
carries deposits of $224,256,236 These de-
posts only suggest the savings totals OF
New York city, as to them must be added
the savings deposits in national banks, state
and private banks, and also many building
and loan societies
Statistics generally are reckoned as dry
reading. but the figures recited in the fore
going, dry as they may be- contain much
that is encouraging and hopeful. We see a
great deal OF the other side of the picture,
and it is gratifying to realize that the VIII to
save. to be prudent has not departed from
us. The country is sustained by the great
army. of the thrifty. 1t is they who supply
tie capital for business, big and little.
people anchored to the rock of thrift IS not
likely to go far wrong.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
An Heiress and Her Job.

Six O'Clock in the morning may be con-
sidered by a great many persons very early
hour. Between it and 10 o'clock rising time
Tor those whose most heroic efforts are made
in the direction of achieving social success,
NAV be obtained four hours OF sleep, or, &C
cording to the view taken, four hours of do
ing something of benefit in life Within four
hours one may dress, breakfast, get TO work
and labor for nearly one-half day. 1t may
be observed here too that four hours be-
tween 6 and 10 a. M are the best of the "a
as TO the possibilities of accomplishment.
One would not suspect that an heiress to
S. 100000, who enjoys dancing, formal din
ners. motoring and all the other positions
that lie within reach OF the wealthy could
get up every morning at o'clock and go to
work for the love OF doing something.
Stretching the imagination, one might fancy
an heiress doing that once or twice for the
novelty of the thing, but the imagination re-
fuses to stretch that far six days week,
month after month. Truth is stranger than
fiction, however and Miss Lydia Hopkins OF
San Mateo, Cal, rises at O'Clock in the
morning, hurries her breakfast catches a
train and gets into San Francisco in time
to begin selling beautiful hats in the milli-
merry department Of the big store that en-
poys her the minute it opens its doors. Miss
Hopkins got interested in doing something
besides society by engaging in war work. Be-
fore then she led the life of the conventional
debutante dancing, dining and attending teas
theatres and garden parties. Now she likes
her job better than an empty routine Of that
kind, for she is at work just like other peo-
pie. Work depends upon the individual point
of view, and one may learn not to hate the
alarm that sounds at O'Clock and summons
enc to a new day of labor full of untold OPP
portunities and possibilities.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
RUDE RURAL RHY MES
Nobody Loves the Dentist.

I'm linked to grief with no relief to misery
apprentiCed, because, forsooth, | have a tooth
that calls me to the dentist. Though I'm a
decent kindly man and he worthy wight,
hope he falls and breaks his leg that I
may win respite. In vain in vain my wicked
wish, in vain is all my sorrow, he will not
slip or bust hip, and | must go tomorrow:
Kids need good milk with garden truck and
fruit to build up teeth. They ought TO brush
the same in front, in back and underneath.
But | alas, in younger days, refused each
healthful stunt and when l had bad teeth
behind | chewed my food III front. If all my
teeth went back on me | did not sit and
squall, but picked out soft and juicy food
and did not chew at all. My teeth would
crunch up big beef bones with nice rich mar
row freighted, if I had sought the dentist
then and had them nickle-pIated. Alas, my
milk teeth dropped too soon, and when |
got my molars they suffered from my care
less ways and SOON were aching boilers My
father should have grabbed my hair, he
should have put on binders, then dragged
me to the dentists chair and thus preserved
my grinders. O you who have the welfare
OF kids upon your hearts, | pray you scorn
not dentists nor shun their useful arts 0
let them fill the baby teeth and keep them
in the gum, to hold the little Jaws in shape
until the others come. Behold the kids within
whose mouth Doc. Jones has never paved;
they all have bum, black, shaggy teeth; they
all are wopperjawed. BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
Seeing the Animals.
From the Atlanta Constitution.

According to a recent dispatch from St
Louis it has been suggested that COW and
Ia pig be placed in the municipal zoo there
because many St Louis children have never
seen either"
1t is stated that the superintendent of in
struCtion-.
INSTITUTED poll OF sixth grade pupils, and
he announced that OF $3.50 children ques-
toned 40 per cent had never seen a sheep,
and II per cent had never looked on pig.
Twelve children out of every hundred had
never seen a cow"
Probably, had any one of the number Civ
Ell as being ignorant of the animal kingdom
to the extent mentioned been asked to write
a composition on pig, COW or sheep, he or
she would have had to follow the example OF
the Juvenile scholar, who wrote of the horse:
THE horse has four legs-one on each cor
ner."
In this respect a poll of the same grade OF
school children in other more or less con-
gested centers might prove equally interest
ing and suggest something like a cfnTdren's
"baek-to-the- farm movement!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
81 for busting Gives One Hundred
Pounds More Lint Per Acre.
From the Progressive Farmer.

1t looks as if experiments have now gone
far enough to prove that busting weevil in
tested cotton with calcium arsenate gives one
hundred pounds more lint cotton per acre
for 81. In other words all that the farmer
gets above seven cents pound for his extra
one hundred pounds of lint is net profit, alb
sOlutely velvet to him.
Three weeks ago reported the results OF
the North Carolina experiment tests in 1922,
These showed 328 pounds seed cotton gained
per acre at cost OF $4.88. With cotton at
twenty-one cents this showed a net profit of
S24S8 per acre.
Now comes the Virginia Carolina Chemical
Company which last week reported compare
tive results on PSI farms in Alabama. Geor-
gia, North Carolina and South Carolina. On
these PSI farms undusted fields averaged 562
pounds seed cotton per acre and busted fields
$50 pounds, showing a gain of POS pounds
per acre for busting. And the average cost
OF arscnate, labor, and depreciation OF ma
chinery totaled only 500 per acre
II you would like to make 100 pounds ex-
ira lint per acre at a cos OF seven cents a
pound in 1928 it looks as if the way is open
for you to do so, provided tie >rices OF cal
cium arsenate do not skyroci7et 700 fast.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
SHOULDN'T OVERDO 1T.

Sherman Democrat: More construction
public and private, is under contract or pro-
ccted than could be completed in one year
under the most favorable circumstances. AT
the fifth annual convention of the Common
Brick Manufacturers Association, in Cleve-
residences to cost $200O,0OO,0O0 and other
buildings to cost $3,OOO,OOOOOO are planned
or financed. Every town in the land has inn
provements in progress or in contemplation
Factories OF all sorts are operating at capaci-
ty. The people have plenty OF money, known
as small capital and an immense volume OF
large capital seeks investment. Prices have
begun to rise, and signs, which obviously are
true indicate that the trend will continue
upward. 1t is time to be optimistic, to be
confident, but not to be exuberant Make
hay while the sun shines, but do not become
too attentive to the hay; keep glance to-
ward the sun.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
Keep Your Own Counsel.
From the Butler Herald.

If you are good citizen you will be care
ful to keep your own counsel Matters which
do not directly concern you will not bother
you, and you will not listen to or repeat any
scandal; YOU will not be prying into the past
life OF other good citizens or spreading evil
reports about anyone. If your neighbor is
unfortunate or has made mistake that is
his business and you should not put any
counsel. Attend to your own business Help
others if they need help and if YOU can say
nothing good of anyone don't say anything
at all Follow this rule and you will have
made friends Pedde scandal and you will
and kind.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
Too Much Advice.

Editor Bacon. of the Madisonian thinks
this expert CD business has been run into
the ground' and adds: Some OF our farm
4r friends and big business men who at
tended the great anti-boll weevil convention
IN Atlanta said, upon their return, II they
had not already known anything about the
weevil and its control they would not have
learned anything there. There is too much
advice and too much boasting OF the Sher-
win+Williams companys calcium arsenate
going on by said experts
We agree with our Madison contemporary
that there is too much of the expert bus
mess. In every line Of endeavor the expert
i thrown in the face of the public.
These alleged experts are chocktul OF talk
and theories. and if their advice was
followed there would be a much greater
number of failures. The men who are max
ing success of farming in Terrell county
are working along practical lines and using
methods their own experience and observa-
ton have proved to be best They pay scant
attention to ''experts" who are hired to adj
wise them and to others who offer advice 1or
the purpose to currying favor for some selfish
purpose OF their own. By attending to their
own business and using their own practical
and intelligent methods they are making a
success of farming. They know great deal
more than experts" will ever teach them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
: A Much Needed ENTERPRISE.

The Dispatch thinks the cold storage plan
recently established in Cordele will contrib
lite much to the prosperity of that section
1t says:
The cold storage capacity Of the Cor
dele creamery is being rapidly pushed
to the limit smoking annex is soon
to be ready and many tons OF meat will
go out this year sugar cured and pre-
pared for market that has long sought
lust that product. The farmer has
in cold storage available all the year
opportunity to raise and sell meat, for it
is not only saved at any time at the
creamery, but it is prepared for open
market and can be sold at any season
the grower may choose. We think this
has become a wonderful advantage to
the local farmer. We want to tell him
over and over again that he need not
sit down and wait for the negro and
the mule and the weevil to determine
the value of his land, the destiny of his
offspring, and the future disposition of
his estate. He has another way to go,
and he may go at his own choosing.
A number of south Georgia towns have
cold storage plants and others, among them
our neighboring town of Cuthbert, have
movements on foot for similar enterprises
One of the largest and best equipped plants
Of the kind is at Ashburn, where the farm
er's meat is not only cured but is smoked
and sacked and turned back to him ready
for the table or for market. 1t cannot &C
all the meat raisers who desire
to patronize it. Another successful plant is
at Fitzgerald.
Dawson is greatly in need of an enterprise
Of this kind, and should have one ready for
use by next fall. Besides being profitable to
the owners it would be OF tremendous bene-
fit to the farmers of this section in removing
all risk in curing the meat killed for their
own use as well as for market.
Let's get busy now, and have cold stor-
age plant in Dawson by next winter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
CURRENT COMMENT.
HooRAY FOR THE CLOWNS.

Memphis Commercial Appeal: Boys and
girls OF the present generation will read with
absorbing interest and enthusiasm the an
roupcement that there is to be clowns con-
vention. The boys and girls undoubtedly
would be shocked if they realized that the
purpose Of the convention is to protect the
respective tricks and bits OF fun-makng that
seem TO infancy to be as accidental as they
are ludcrous Would it be anything less
than sacregous 70 bring to juvenile minds
the conviction that the running into a tent
pole is a studied piece OF work; that the Jes-
tiers OF the saw dust arena rehearse carefully
all the blows they deliver to one another;
that the policeman who arrests the chalkedi
faced lester is other than real minlon OF
the law, or that the farmer who gets INTO
so much trouble along the hippodrome track
is well-dressed individual with very urban
views ON all subjccts2 1t would be nothing
less than heartbreaking to cause: such dlsi-
lusionment, just as poignantly distressing as
il would be to bring undeniable evidence to
bear that there is no Santa Claus.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
The Constitution of the State.
From the Augusta Chronicle.

A great many Georgians believe Their
should be a constitutional convention. /
great many Georgians believe that the con
stituton, as it stands, is all right and shoulC
not be tempered with, at any rate during tn
next or the succeeding generation.
The Dawson News prints a criticism b.
some one that the present constitution IS "tot
old" and gives in retort the rejoinder of Hon
Boyce Ficken, of Wilkes county, that veteran
legislator saying:
THE constitution of the United States
is a great deal Older than that of Georgia.
so, if age is detrimental, then the Colonel
should tackle the federal constitution and
rejuvenate it; then he could turn his at
tention to Georgia's. Bob Toombs' con-
stitution, made As years ago, has had all
kinds of shocks hurled at it, and it still
stands like the rock of Gibra1tar-its ex-
terror may be dishgured slightly by
scratches made on it in the shape of
amendments made by some pigmy
statesman, but its foundation and super
structure is as sound today as when he
turned it over to the people half CEN
fury ago."
The constitution has been patched unit
it resembles a crazy quilt" comments Thu
Dawson News, but at that it ID great dea
better than any that could be reasonably ex
pected in these days Of political quacks anC
governmental fads. 1t will be the part o
wisdom to ''Iet weW enough alone'-as bac
as that may be-"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
WHEN WILL YOU DIE?

From the Rome News.
When will you die? The average length
Of life in country now is So. This is
three and half years more than in 1916 and
Is years more than in 1870. The figures are
supplied by DR.. Livingston Farrand, presi-
dent of Cornell University. He says the
average life could be prolonged 20 years if
all people could learn and profit by what
health experts know. Health education has
a lot to do with it. In ignorant India the
average man is destined to die at "a. Longest
lived people in the world are the progressive
New Zealanders. They live 90 years on the
aYerape
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
PROMISE OF GREAT PROGRESS.

From the Lavonia Times.
Georgia has the chance to make wonder
ful progress during the next ten years With
agricultural interests advancing, with mark
citing associations beginning to function, with
better breeds and pure varieties being in
stalled, with the factories OF the north turn
ing their eyes southwark, with our unlimit-
ed water power there is every possibility for
cur state in the near future The good things
are coming our way if our people will Just
wake up and grasp the opportunities as they
appear.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
HAsH1MURA, A SLAB o. THAT PIE!

From the New York Globe.
1t is not only the impecunious and the
very thrifty who lunch in our "nickel-in-the-
slot" restaurants. The other day Japanese
servant accompanied his master into one OF
them got his paper wrapped food Tor him
cut Of the containers and stood properly be
hind his chair throughout the meal. 1t made
considerable of sensation for the rest OF
the diners
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

The News regrets to learn of the bereave-
ment OF our neighbor and friend, Editor w.
C. Kelley, Of the Fl. Gaines Southwest Geor-
gian. His father, Judge Joe w. Kelley, died
at his home in Buchanan on Friday morn
ing. Judge Kelley was ordinary of HARRISON
county, and was one OF the best known and
most highly esteemed citizens OF northwest
Ceoroia
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

THE reformers haven't come out against
a man whipping his wife down here in dear
old Georgia" says The Greensboro Herald
Journal Our brother should be patient They
haven't got around to that yet Now they
are giving attention to the use of the switch
in schools, and the regulation of discipline
in the household may be expected next.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

Too many individuals are thinking about
making borrowing easier; too few of them
are counting the cost of paying debts. The
future is being mortgaged to an extent
which is appalling. Somebody is going to
Pay the bills, and when pay time comes the
groaning will be painful
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

Dressmakers strikes have been in progress
for sometime in the two biggest clothing
centers of the country, and still the girls ev-
erywhere have plenty to wear, which might
suggest that the dressmakers are not the
most important persons in the business world
al, the time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

Senator Brookhart has submitted to the
senate list OF % railroad officials whose
salaries aggregate $1,452,635 year. Well
supposing the amount were halyed how
much would that permit freight rates to be
reduced?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

Mr. McAdoo's heated defense OF the civ
ing wage" is overstrained and unnecessary
No one is opposed to a living wage
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

1t is reported that Russia is exporting
grain while millions OF her own people are
starving That sounds hard, doesn't it? But
the United States was exporting coal few
months ago when people of the northwest
ern section were freezing
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

March has many surprises in her bag OF
tricks. She was at her loveliest at her en-
trance, but she is as tickle as the winds and
as little to be relied upon. There will be
days of another kind before All Fools day
dawnS
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

"What business will appreciate most is a
definite period in which there is no threat OF
annoying, bureaucratic legislation" said the
president recently. To which the business
world will reverently add Amen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

The enormous amount due Uncle Sam for
maintenance of the American army of occu-
patton may be collected with the same
rromptness attaching to some other Euro
pean, debts TO this country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

Now they are making fuss over mem
bers OF congress playing poker, under the
shadow OF the capitol dome Don't they
know member OF congress wouldn't be
statesman if he couldn't play poker?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

The French have loaned Poland 4OO,0OOOOO
francs but have made no effort even to out
line their debt policy for the benefit of the
United States which, to say the least, is not
as courteous as their reputation for polite
ness might suggest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

If government statistics are reliable the
average American woman spends 81 a year
for cosmetics, says the Des Mones Register
We have some women who look as if they
spend that much on their complexions daily
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

Some one took the time to figure out that
there are 100000 100000 telephone converse
tons in this country in year, but that's
nothing in comarpson to the number there
would be except for lines busy"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

The time lock on the safe holding New
Hampshire's public funds refuses to unlock
/NNouldn't Georgia be lucky if something like
that happened.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

The biggest democrat OF them ALL is the
wav the Pearson Tribune speaks OF Senator
Underwood. That's the almost universal opln-
ion OF democrats north and south, and ii
the party wants strong man as a candidate
Tor the presidency it will pass up the small
frv who have been prominent the past sew
eral years and make the able Albanian
the standard bearer in the next campaign.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

AS warm weather approaches sportmen viii
begin campaign against the fnny tribe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
A Disabled DEFINITION.

From the Baltimore Sun.
You can't trust the dictionary. 1t says allies
are those who make common cause
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13

Baseball is right on us. Other towns are
getting busy. How about Dawson'