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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-12-18
Temperance Union Warns
Against Christmas Wine
Coffee and Grapejuice Suggested as
Fine Substitute.

At the recent meeting OF the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union it
was decided to publish a warning to
the housekeepers of the county against
the concoction of Christmas daintieS
with wine.
.--Of course it is an age-old custom
to flavor fruit cake with wine, and
to make egg-nog and serve cake with
wine at Christmas TIME. But with the
passage of the prohibition law these
customs were supposed to pass out.
Some housekeepers, however, who
are absolutely on the side of prohibi-
ton still thoughtlessly adhere to these
customs. However, if they will stop
to think, they will see that it is not
only against the law but that it is set
ting a very bad example for the father
and sons of the family.
So this Christmas, ladies, instead
of putting wine in your fruit cake sup
pose you flavor it with grapejuice, and
instead of serving glass of wine
with your cake serve instead a nice
hot cup of coffee with whipped cream
on it. and you will find that it not
only tastes better but that it is tar
less disastrous in effect.
With a proportion of one white per
son to six colored people the British
Empire comprises one-fourth OF the
population OF the world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-12-18
EXPECT $500 IN c. o. D. MAIL
A DAY NEAR CHRISTMAS
Volume Has Already Reached $500 a
Day, Postal Officials Say.

The volume of parcel post cash on
delivery packages reached the peak
Thursday when more than $500 was
taken in at the Dawson postoffice.
This, it is said, does not represent
the actual total in valuation of such
goods coming into Dawson, for a
considerable portion OF it is consign-
ed to negroes who have overrated
their financial strength, necessitating
the return of the goods.
The increase began about ten days
ago, and is expected to continue until
few days after Christmas, Imme-
diately preceding Christmas, it is be-
lieved that the total will be near $500
a day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-12-18
100000 INVOLVED in A BIG BANK DEAL AT DAWSON
AN ATLANTA MAN IS GEOR-
GAS CHAMPION FATHER
Praised the Lord When His Twenty
Eighth Baby Arrived the Other Day


The Lords will be done. He has
been good to me-" exclaimed L. c.
Gentle, 63 years old, Of Atlanta, Ga,
when his twenty-eight child was
born. Gentle has been married twice.
He had ten children to his first wife
and Is to his second, Seventeen of the
children are alive
Gentle's greatest pride is that all
his children have been born at home.
Another fact of interest is that one
doctor J. F. Beck has oficiated on
p visits OF the stork to the Gentle
home.
Already we'll known as a horse and
mule dealer, Mr.. Gentle has become
increasingly famous by the regular adj
ditions to his family of youngsters.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-12-18
Terrell Fighting Cocks
Are Shipped to Mexico
Fowls Were Bred by Mrs. James
Clark, of Herod.

Ten game cocks, bred by Mrs.
James Clark, who lives at Clark's mill,
in the southern section of the county,
were shipped through the local ex-
press office. to Laredo, Texas, where
they will be transferred to Marillo
Mich, Mexico. 1t is understood that
this is the first shipment OF such
fowls that has been made from Daw-
son in a considerable period.
Mrs. Clark has been breeding game
chickens for a long time, and has
made shipments to many parts Of this
countryA Mexico and Canada.
Some of the fowls are trained for
the pit at the Clark farm.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-12-18
FIRE CAUSED A LOSS OF
$4,000 MONDAY MORNING
Origin of Blaze Is Unknown, Loss
Partly Covered by Insurance.

Loss estimated at $4,000 was caus-
ed about o'clock Monday morning
when fire of undetermined origin de-
stroyed a garage and barn of J Do
Bell, on east College street. The loss
is partly covered by insurance.
The entire stock of the Bell Medi-
cine Company, stored in the barn, was
destroyed and a practically new auto
mobile, in the garage suffered a sim
liar fate
Damage resulting from the fire was
limited to the garage and the barn.
Mr.. Bells residence and other nearby
buildings escaped injury, it is believ-
ed through the rainy character of the
weather.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-12-18
Government Building
Supervisor Is Coming
Work on New Postofice Will Begin
Early in January.

c. H. Branscombe, government
building Inspector, will arrive in Daw-
son tomorrow, December 10Th, accord
ing to advices received by Postmaster
Cheatham. The representative of the
government has been expected for
several days, as he is to be on the
scene before the erection of the new
government building is begun.
According to Postmaster Cheatham
work on the new building will be be-
gun the first of the year, and under
terms of the contract is to be com
pleted by October LIST
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-12-18
WORLDS LARGEST ROOM.

The worlds largest room is the pas
senger concourse OF the Union Sta
ton, Washington, D. c. 1t is 76O
feet in length, and an army OF $4,000
men could be accommodated on its
floor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-12-18
MASONIC LODGES WILL
HOLD ANNUAL ELECTIONS
Dates Announced When New Officers
Will Be Chosen.

The Masonic lodges of Dawson and
Terrell county will hold their annual
elections this week. The dates have
been announced as follows:
The Royal Arch Masons, OF DaW-
son. Monday night, Dec. II; P. I.
Schley lodge No. 229, Friday night,
Dee. 21; the Brentwood lodge, Tues
day night, Dec. Is, and the Parrott
lodge Thursday night, Dec. 2.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-12-18

The earth is gradually losing speed
owing to friction of the tides. The
days are now half a second longer
than they were in 1928.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-12-18
TWO MILLION LEPERS.

Half OF the 100000 lepers, estimat-
ed to be in the world, are said to be
in China The disease appears to be
spreading among the natives OF Cen
trail Africa.
, 1923-02-04
FOR SALE"---A Great Novel Of Hollywood Lit

from h scene of her kilijoy boorish.
ness las 1t looked to her now she
went out into the moonlit patio. The
moon seemed to mako life simpler.
It has n way OF plotting the material
details with dumb shado.g and
spreading a love light over dreamy
surfaces.
From n house somewhere near and
drowned in foliage came q music
OF guitar and ukulele and u
voices.
An automobile went by, trailing
laughter in a Glittering scarf. Over
her head a palm Tree waved an arc.
matte fan, as over a daughter Of
Pharaoh. Along tho northern sky the
mountains were aligned, built Of
some soft-tinted cloudiness as IL thew
were n wall decreed between Xanadu
Of all delights and the harsh. respect
able realms of the east, n barrier be.
tween the woeful lands of shaEbark
IL mock orange and this garden OF
almond trees and roses.
In n radiance so amorous that IL
seemed almost to COO, Mem felt that
the great needs of her soul were love.
tenderness. rapture. This yearning
was win in this light. In the
bright lexicon Of the moon there were
no such word as DON'T" Everything
wooed everything. In Mems down.
cast eyes her bosom was sllvered
with the glamour and gathered into
the same thought that unused upon
wall and flower and tree. upon the
deeps of the sky, and upon the near.
viz leaf aquake with the ecstasy of
bcing alive at night.
The air was imbued with a luscious
fragrance that delighted lei nostrils
n drew her eyes to an orange tree,
almost a perfect globe in symmetry,
and c~ur'ously forming a little uni.
verse whose support was lost in the
gloom beneath. In the round night
of its own sky hung moons exhaling
perfume n temptation.
Like another Eve she yielded to the
cosmic urge and put her hand forth
to the tree of knowledge. plucked the
II a. IidI was nut HtIS, anu Indue II
hers. 81
She die not peel the cloth OF gold
and divide the pulp, but, as she had
seen these CaliforEians do. buried her
teeth in the rudy flesh. tore u a
hole and drained the syrup.
She was too well schooled in biblical
lore not to think of Eve. There was.
however. no Adam for her to involve
in her fall: so she took the whole
fruit for herself. But then. instead
OF feeling shame as the scales fell
from her eyes. shame Itself fell from
her and she laughed. Eve had be-
come LT'ith for the moment.
She felt in her heart that there
was something wrong here IN this
new life. But then there had been
so much wrong in the life she had LEI
before. This was a city of perl. but
she had not escaped peril at home
She breathed deep of the new free
| dom. She cast off her past, resolved
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shrugged with big emotions or Rich
ard Dix's stalwart humor f1ourished.
He was whisked away, and a low
comedian took his place with high an
tics Of ancient glory. the h~orseplay
that the new critics have always de-
nounced and the classics have always
adored; the knock-about assaults on
dignity. the physical satires on pom
posity that delighted Aeschhylus no
less than Aristophanes. Cervantes.
Shakespeare. Goethe, all the big men
who were not afraid OF fun and IN.
derstood hat there is less wisdom in
n strut than In a caper. hen the
sensitive beauty of Colleen Moore
rolled by tremulous to every least
emotion as IN aspen leaf.
Before all these windows Mem
looked into countless phases of life
and emotion and character. 1t &C.
CURED to her that she was getting n
divine purview of the world. Life to
her looked much what life must look
like to God. He must see billions Of
souls uurolling their contInuities be-
fore him in all varieties of grimacc,
frenzy, collapse. appeal for pity or
laughter. Humanity must dance be-
fore him as before her until each life
was cut off or vanished In its final
fade-out.
She wondered more and more why
the moving pictures should hav
been greeted with hostility and con-
tempt or fear. She did not understand
that they who teach the worlG a new
language. or open a new world. or
bring golden gifts of any sort to the
people are always Crucified at first
by the Pharisees. Later, their con-
verts become Pharisees for new Mes.
slabs.
She was ignorant Of the primeval
eternal habit OF the critic mind to
lash out at all that is alive and eager.
Why lash the dead2 They cannot
feel the sting of the whip.
She knew only that the moving pic.
lures were abhorrent to multitudes
and 1t seemed to her pitiful that this
should be so. All these actors and
hClIGbbtS anu pbOlObI dlJAlGlo "Gle
merely trying to illuminate life. to
pass dull hours away, to quicken the
spirits of the lonely and the weary,
The artistic beauties of the pictures
made her ina~rticulately happy. Sh6
knew nothing of painting or sculp'
ture or architecture. She loved sun
sets and moon dawns and light on
leaves and the textures of fabrics
embracing shadows in their folds
She loved the war OF gloom and glow
She found the pictures overwhelming
" beautiful to her eyes, Kaleidoscope
IF leading masses and lines, sym
phonic tempests OF shape n color.
For n time Mem was In a heaven
Of tumultuous OBSTACLES. But gradu
ally the delight turned to torture, thC
'orture of envy.
She was young and she had beer
told that she was beautiful. She hat
realized with shame and anger anC
disgust at first hat she seized the
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lection room was a larger screen for
the laboratory chief "a learned scien-
tist) and his assistants and occasional
directors who came with problems of
photography requiring immediate so
luton.
The conversation was in a foreign
language to Mem but the Jargon grew
gradually familiar and she kept an
eager a alert for information. She
decided to master the trade in every
detail.
1t was fascinating at first - q
strange and fairy business.
Like n chorus of gir:s at spinning
wheels these maids sat and unrolled
from the magic distaff romance un-
ending and of infinite variety.
Mem was supposed to keep her
mind on her own screen, but 1t was
impossible not 20 glance at the other
pictures. Now there was a glittering
flood of waters roaring almost au-
dlbly through a canyon, and in them
a spun and tormented canoe that Fl.
nally flung into the waves a fugitive
woman and cast her on the rocks.
Some one told her that SO great an
actress as Mary Alden had spent
thirty minutes In those Icy waters
while they photographed the scene
This went again and again in DIFF
ferent takes" by different cameras.
as II Miss Alden had been killed and
brought to life again repeatedly 10
respond to encores OF death.
Over against this tremendous rush
OF nature there appeared suddenly n
yet more thrilling cataract of human
passions, a battle In a Chinese den,
where frenzied criminals, Chinese and
h~alf.castes and policemen struck and
stabbed and shot and broke over one
another's heads furniture of exquisite
carving or hurtled from ornate bal
comics and splintered embroidered
screens and jeweled Idols: Lon
CLANCY leered and bed and let demo-
MAC thoughts flicker across his mask.
Parallel with this flowed a torrent
of luxury. a reception in a home of
wealth. designed by Cedric Gibbons,
lover Of arches and interlaced per.
spectives; beautiful women in CLEAN.
ing dresses lance or listened to love
stories or let tears drip like diamonds
upon their fans of white peacock
feathers.
A vast mountain range shouldere1
the clouds aside and a posse of vigil.
lantes chased a pack of ~Gesperadoes
on desperate horses or d~esperadoes
chased Tom Mix as a fugitive hero
who sent his broncho ieaping. slid.
ing. galloping down cliffs and UP "a.
vines. a swallow darting away from
falcons.
In a closeup of huge detail VIII
Rogers whimsical face twisted with
cowboy impudence and embarrass
ment and pathetic wit.
In another. the cinematograph'c
features of Helene Chadwick exploit,
ed her subtiest moods in a language
that could not be misunderstood; oil
Claude Gllingwater's Jovian brows
, 1923-02-04
BY RUPERT HUGHES

to bend her head n her back no
longer under remorse, but to stand
erect. to run, and dance. and to be
beautiful and rich and famous.
Like Eve, she felt that the first
necessity of her new era was clothes.
If she had, had n she would have
called a taxicab and dashed away to
the Hollywood hotel. She felt that
she could dance with anybody or with
nobody. She could be Salome and
dance herself into half n kingdom.
dance everybody's head off. including
her own.
But it has been so arranged that
whenever a woman is set on fire
with a high resolution to do some
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eye and charmed. Now, as in almost
every other way. she was SO revoluT
tionized that what had hitherto sem
ed to her odious was beginning &c
seem admirable. What had been her
evil was her good and her good her
evil.
II God made her pretty It was be
cause he delighted in beauty and
wanted 1t known. He did not grow
flowers in cellars. He was not afraid
to squander the sunshine.
II the art of mimicry vas a God.
given gift, It must be meant for use.
She had acted once before a camera,
there in the desert. She had felt the
possession OF an alien agony. She
had shot tears from her eyelids. She
had brought tears to the eyes of
strangers. She had tasted the sweet
poison of v:carious suffering. 1t was
accounted divine on a cross; why Ola.
bolic on a screen? She was an &C.
tress by divine intention.
She sat in a dark room and watch.
ed other peoples pictures flow by.
1t seemed wrong. wicked. cruel.
Yet she was educating herself un.
consciously in the complex technics
of acting. learning dramatic anaiNs
and synthesis.
Foo.s who knew nothing about act.
ing spoke of 1t as II 1t a no intel.
lectual element. They thought that
the commonenough ability to write
| impudent scurrilities about the brain.
lessness OF actors was a proof Of
brains.
Mem came to see how difficult a
science, how bewtldering an art the
mimetic career requires. She would
learn the nnguishes Of self control
and self-compulsion h q must be un'
dergone when the actors soul
saueezes Itself into the mold Of an.
other character. She could already
see how many ways there were of
thinking. holding hands, of looking
love or hate, of kissing. crying
| laughing. rising up and sitting down.
She was mad to act.
CHAPTElS XVII.
Among the professions OF types
that maFCneO past hieHh Ssee 10 shs
sat ut her magic window in the pro-
lection room-among the innumerab'e
! American types, good ana bad. rich,
I poor, foreign, native. rural. urban.
the aliens of every cline and age aHs
costume the animals and the birds.
the plunging horses of the cowboys
the lions, the wolves, n rattlesnakes
went many children IN rags and tags
and velvet gowns.
She saw Booth Tarkington's Ed
gar" family and the other tiny ar
lists of the colony; exquisite Lucille
Ricksen; the essence Of boyhood'
Johnny Jones; the plump BUDDY
Messenger; the adorable Robert dc
yilbiss. She saw at the movie houses
the little master of comedy. Wesley
Barry, with his skin a constellation
OF freckles: and the all-conquering
Jackie Coogan.
! Continued Next Sunday.)
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glorious thing, an elbow demon al.
ways brings her back to the dust by
whispering. You have nothing fit to
year, Otherwise the conquest of the
world would not have been left to
laundering. hesitant males.
Mem went into the house. The
moon was all very well for beautiful.
moois but 1t was impracticable; it
did not provide the wardrobe for the
deeds It inspired.
She went into the house like n prls.
one granted a little exercise in a
walled yard. then driven back to her
cell. She was awake in her perptexi-
ties when Leva and her friends came
home. The young men rallied the
ice box. then went Their way.
Leva was SO drowsy hat she could
hardly get her hair down. but she sat
en- the edge Of Mems be. and dis.
cussed the future.
Leva advised new duds by all means
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CHAPTER NXV-Continued.)
TT the sunlight was OF a gold re-
fined and somehow enriched, the
shadow was also of a deeper cool.
lust inside It's edge the sun was walled
out. They had set above their
houses the roofs of wintry climates.
and one might still see in older Los
Angeles obsolete homes whose slant
ing shingles were ex~cellent.y ar.
ranged TO let the snow slide off. Since
there was no snow to slide, they
served as furnaces for the hot sun.
Next came the low roof with the
wide fla caves casting n heavy
Shade about the windows. But this
made the houses chilly, and the now
school brought the tiles just to the
brim OF the walls: and these walls
we're not often glarinE white as be-
fore. but brown. dove gray, salmon
shrimp, olive.
Whore the shadows lay along the
lawns cr the walks they were of I'M
usual d sign, not dapplings of round
ed leave as in the midwest, but the
long scissored slashes of palm fronds.
the thready reeds of papyrus, the
pepper's delicate flounces.
Even n this Eden, however. there
was distress anxiety. II hard
times that were freezing the outer
world were threatening the rigging
prosperity of Los Angeles.
Studios were closing overnight.
Supposed millionaires were depart
ing abruptly in search of n to
meet their payrolls. Stars who had
been collecting SO 900 a week or less
were left stranded in the midst OF
unfinished pictures and unfinished
mortgages and jewelry bills. The les
ser fry were being cast ashore In
heaps. like minnows after n tidal
waves recession.
The girls at Leva's were wondering
how long their jobs would last. y
mere cut in salary would be a vel
come mercy, q respite from a death
sentence.
This was devastating news to Mem.
for she had landed on this tropical
isle in the expectation of at least a
. hTeaQITUlt Tree. I1tl A
told her story to Leva, who held out
moro hope than she inwardly enter
tanned,
"Never say die. Mrs. Woodville,"
she SAID There's always a chance.
The companies are turning off their
oldest. most experienced people in
droves, but every now and then they
take in a ewcom I'll speak to the
laboratory chief. Anyway. your board
and lodging won't cost o anything
as long as we've got either here. eh,
eirls?"
The girls agreed. Their adventur'
spirit included a reckless hospi
tality and they put off care TIL tomor
row in the hope that 1t would never
come.
After the dinner the victrola was
Eet whirring again and Mem was in
vlted to forget her troubles in a fox
trot.
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She gasped at this. She a never
learned even n lamb-trot. Her faith
er's church did not permit dancing,
and while 1t overlooked the sin in GER
tain of its parishioners. there would
have been scandal indeed II the par.
sons daughter had ever lifted her
foot In aught save solemnity.
But Mem was not allowed to ex-
plain. She was dragged from her
chair and forced to copy the steps
set before her. 1t would have been
impossibly prIgg:sh and insulting for
her to plead religious scruples, anG
she put her best foot foremost.
The dance mood was innate and she
had n natural grace of rhythm tina:
had languished unheeded. The steps
were simple, and their combination
at the whim OF the dancer who led.
Mem was soon whirling about the
room, with more or less awkwardness
which only NAH fer laughter. mad
with n swimming intoxicatIon thai
left her painting and dizzy. but
strangely, foolishly happy.
She had learned a new alphabet of
expression. She mis.spelleCr the words
n jumbled the syntax. but she was
getting along somehow on n new
planet.
When three or four men drove up
in a car AMI invaded the house with
invitations to CT nee at the Hollywood
hotel. Mem declined. of course Her
refusal was ignored as of no import,
ence.
'It's Thurslnv night" said Lrvn.
and it's our religious duty to show
up at tho HOLLYWOOD. Everybody =
there. You might meet somebody
who'd give you n job"
Mem begged to be excused. She
could not dance and she was very
tired.
That's when you're at your best
cried Leva, who was an entirely other
woman from the shrouded Arabian
that Mem had met at Palm Springs
While Mem protested Leva mo
toned one OF the men. a young &C
tor to make her dance.
In spite of her struggles she was
snatched from her chair into the
arms OF this faun whose manly beau,
ty was his stock intrades 1t was the
first time any man except her father
and her brothers had embraced Mem
since Elwood Farnaby had thrilled
her with his love. She lid not coun,
the brief duel with Tom Hobby in
Palm Canon, since he had made nc
effort to overwhelm her resistance.
But this laughing satyr. Mr.
Creighton. held her tight and com
PEELED her to dance.
Giddy with the whIrl and suI1er
with the outrage Mems anger blazed
into open disgust. Creighton said he
was horribly sorry and only meant II
in fun. and by his abject contritior
mad Mem ashamed OF herself. She
id not know what to do or say.
This was her first experience of the
confusion that comes from being toe
respectable on n holiday. To esclpe
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her own account until Mem could find
a job and begin to pay. 1t was har'
rowing to Mem to think that she
must take on a burden of large debt
before she could hope for small
wages. But the need was impera'
tive.
The next morning Mem acquired on
tick the brief trousseau of a little
business bride. Then she went to the
studio with Leva and was assigned
without delay to the laboratory pro
lection room at s25 n week. A hun
dred pretty actresses got no jobs at
oil for they were seeking glory and
wealth,
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T"e SIZE of the. stud o astounded
Mem. 1t was a vast factory. This
company's assets were $4,000 900: its
last years gross income IS coo. 900. In
a score of years a toy unknown be.
fore nae become the fifth largest in
dustry in the world. a mammoth tar.
get for every sort of critic.
And now Mem hal entered the ma.
chine shop. II not the art.
CHAPTER XVI.
Al. day she sat in a dark room and
ran a little projecting machine that
poured forth moving pictures before
her on a l.ttle private rec She
u watch out for typographical
errors, a ito" for a too n slip of
grammar, or a mistake in an actors
or a characters name. Her common
school education was gooG enough for
this. though 1t was by no means 40
marvellous as Leva had told her EN-,
ployers It was.
Later Mem was permitted to study
the films for belmishes scratches,
dust specks, bad printing. bad tinting.
bad assembly, bad any n Of a score
Of things.
There were I've other young wo,
same task. each with her Little pro
lection machine and her little screen
an her little picture racing ahead Of
her past the continual night of the
laboratory. Al one end of the pro