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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02
A Happy New Year 4!

/ By an arbitrary division of time yesterday
ushered in what is called new year. And,
sentimentally, we have grown to regard this
period as a season OF beginnings, Of good
resolutions, of entering upon better habits
and better relations with our fellow men.
But the mere passing Of day does not
make different year from the 365 days pre-
ceding it. The new year is no different from
the old year except as we, in its passage,
make it different
OF course this thought is at the bottom
| OF all new year resolutions and plans and
hopes 1t remains with each of US to carry
out these plans and realize these hopes or
to see them wither in a few days or weeks,
according to the humorous tradition of the
new year ideals.
Whether the new year will be a happy
one or not depends in part upon the indi-
vidual citizen, and in part on great causes
and effects over which the Individual citizen
has little or no control The nation is pass
ing through a serious period but the signs
Indicate that the march toward prosperity
has been resumed on firm road and with a
clearer goal in sight.
The individual duty in the new year is to
set ones face toward this goal, to set one S
feet in this hrmer, better road and to go
ahead courageously and loyalty, believing in
ones self, in our country and in the great
destiny of our people.
If we could all adopt this new year atti-
tude, if there could be restored that faith in
ourselves and each other on which the great
ness of any people most depends the solution
Of the problems that confront us would be-
come simple indeed.
AS a step toward the restoration of that
faith new year resolve made and kept by
each of us to walk uprightly, to deal hon
esty and fairly and to act in our mutual
relations of citizenship according to our best
ideals would bring wonderful results.
Perhaps it is too much to expect that this
step will be taken unanimously. But even
if taken by but few it will help. And in the
faith that the suggestion will meet with the
approval of its friends and its family of read
ers The News extends to each and all Of
you the greeting of the season,
A Happy New Year!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02
RUDE RURAL RHY MES
HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Fhe earth has swung around the sun, an
other year has Just begun. With health and
wealth and joy in store it comes, | hope, to
bless you more than any year that's gone
before l wish you JOY but any chappy who
thinks he's here just to be happy has missed
the reason for his living-1ife is not getting
life is giving Life is real, life is earnest, ere
old satan has us furnaced let's bulge in and
do our derndest My middle years are slip
ping past, | grow no younger very last, and
though in bracing winter weather | jump
and crack my heels together the hair is fall
ing from my knob, and young folks call me
Uncle Bob. But though our backs with years
be bent we're not too old yet to repent. This
is a time of new beginnings let's quit our
meanness and our sinnings. The god who
named this month for us, old Janus, was
two-faced cuss; one face looked forward
down the track the other mug kept looking
back And so the last day of December it
does no harm if we remember the bitter
fruits of sin we've tasted, the precious hours
of life we've wasted, and how some times
our selfshness ignored fellow mans dis
tress But when the New Year rises snappy
let's cut some capers and be happy, let's
dance jig with mann and pappy. This VIM
ter time has wrath and rigors, yet Cleanses
strengthens and envigors; it makes us bet
fer men, by jiggers. Our sins do easily be-
set us. but we can shake them ere they get
us We have few nobler institutions than
this of New Years resolutions.
BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02
The "Unburied Dead"

A speaker before the chamber of commerce
Of western city referred to the people who
are so absorbed in their pleasures that they
have no time for civic duties as the city
"unburied dead" Among others he mention
ed the card players of both sexes; those
who have the hoof and mouth disease, the
golfers, who walk all day and talk about it
all night" the automobile nuts" those who
mortgage their homes and put up their life
insurance as collateral and whose "benzine
buggies go day and night purposelessy driv-
en- about" These are the people, he declared,
who, so far as taking any part in the life of
the community is concerned, are absolutely
dead 1t is not to be assumed that the speaker
includes all who play cards and golf, and all
who drive automobiles among the city
'funburied dead" but unquestionably many
people who devote themselves to these pur-
suits deserve to be so characterized. The list
might be extended without great difficulty.
Every community has its "unburied dead, "
people who make no return to the communi-
ty for what they receive from It; people who
absorb, from the community only, like
sponges Every town and city have people
who give to the city service, who cannot
be relied upon for any expenditure OF time
or energy in civic undertaking, who seem to
have no civic spirit or pride, who, in such
leisure as they have seek only their own
selfish enjoyment. So far as the city and its
interests are concerned these people are abb
soutely dead People of this kind are OF no
value to the community; they are liability
and not an asset Every citizen owes some
thing to his community in the way of civic
interest and civic service. By no means does
the citizen discharge all of his duty when he
paws his tax bill We would have better
towns and cities if there were fewer "un-
buried dead" in them. 1t is the "unburied
dead" who retard progress, who are respon-
sible for disagreement and for the lack OF
cooperation that mars so many cities. 1t
is the duty of every individual to make GER
tain that he is not among the "unburied dead"
of his town.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02
MIR. Crisp's Speech.
From the Savannah Press.

Hon. Charles R. Crisp, the Georgia member
of congress from the Third district, recently
made a fcrcible presentation OF his endorse
ment OF the bill for an amendment to the
constitution. This amendment would forever
prevent the issue OF taX-eXempt securities
He is convinced OF the necessity tor leg1sla-
ton which would stop the vast fortunes OF
this country from escaping taxation by beng
invested in tax-exempt securities, and the one
way to do it, he thinks, is by a constitutional
amendment President Harding himself JUS
tilted the proposal to change the constitution
so as to end the issue Of non-taxable bonds.
Secretaries of the Treasury under Woodrow
Wilson called attention to the evils OF tax
exempt securities, as does Secretary Mellon.
Congressman Crisp says that this subject
has been given careful consideration by tax
associations and tax experts. Mr.. Crisp is OF
the opinion that the wealth of the country is
not bearing its just burden of responsibility
in evading taxation by being invested in these
tax-free securities. The general government
lacked nearly $200000,000 of collecting as
much tax from incomes in 1920 as it collect
ed the year before. There has been a falling
off in income taxes This shows that the
great wealth of the country is now going in
to tax-exempt securities and avoiding taxa
ton
One of the great manufacturers of the
country is quoted as saying he could with
draw from active industry, invest his capital
in taX-eXempt securities and net tour tunes
as much as he now receives.
Mr.. Crisp made very thoughtful speech
on the subject He said he did not blame the
rich for this practice. If he himself were rich
he would probably do it. He admitted that
the amendment if adopted, would probably
increase the rate of interest on state and
municipal bonds, but he was alive to the
benefits to be derived from stopping further
issues of tax-free securities.
The amendment, if it passes congress- must
be submitted to the states, and the states and
cities will probably have something to say
on the subject
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02
Too Much Money.

Mr.. Hayes who has been stirred by the
latest development of sensational character
in the motion picture colony at Hollywood,
Cal, and who seeks to destroy the evil in
fuences that are hurting film stars and their
productions, no doubt will learn a great
many things if he carries his investigation
very far. He no doubt will agree with some
Of the leading producers that enormous sal
aries to bright particular stars should be cut
down. Opulence is one of the contributing
causes of such sensations as that in which
"a noted film actor is now the central figure
Poor today and rich tomorrow film stars,
Ike great many other persons, find tempta-
tons in their way and they fall. Today ex-
haustng all the conventional methods of en-
tertainment and tomorrow seeking something
new they find it because they have the mon
ey with which to pay.
Producers of films are determined to cut
down salaries of film actors and actresses.
The $4,000 a week pay envelope proably will
pass entirely That brings more than a quar-
ter of a million dollars a year to the actor or
actress owning such a contract. That is
lot of money At 10 per cent it represents
the earning capacity of $2,5OOO00. Many an
average person who found himself III such
opuence after struggling along on normal
salary might come to grief. A great many
persons cannot be trusted with great wealth,
Riches have made lot of fools outside the
screen world. 1t is now said that the high
salaries that have made the motion picture
world such an attractive place for handsome
men and beautiful women in which to de-
velop their dramatic talent will soon be cut
down Some producers already have acted
and others will follow.
The motion picture actors and actresses
will be the direct benehciaries of such pol
icy of retrenchment. If they do not have
fabulous salaries they will not be able to
spend lavish amounts, to live recklessly and
fast, to indulge in things that bring them to
ruin and that hurt the business in which they
are engaged. That would make normal per-
sons of them. They could live in comfort
without worrying how to get rid OF their
surplus cash. To give an uneducated man
houor and revolver is to help him on his
way to kill somebody. To give an ordinary
person a quarter of a million dollars salary
and an environment that is dazzling and
binding is to start him to destruction. 1t
requires real strength OF character to resist
the temptations that too much money brings
The newest story from Hollywood is one
that shocks and startles, but there have been
dope fends from other walks of life. This
story was more startling because the drug
victim was well known, popular on the
screen He, too, had too much money to
spend or he would not have succumbed to
the temptations What the motion picture PEG
pie now will have to do is to bring the high
stars back to earth and keep new ones from
reaching zenith too lofty in the armament
Of dollars
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02
Cotton Spinning in the South.
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

Mr. E. F. Greene, New England spinner
whose company also owns mills in the south
was invited by the Lawrence, Mass. Rotary
club to speak on some of the problems Of
cotton spinning in New England. Respond
ing he described these problems, declaring
that chief among them should be listed the
opportunities of the SOUTH as follows
Cheaper and easier coal transportation,
cheaper labor more hours of labor to
the working day, lower cost of living,
cheaper and more regular supply of cot
ton, less stringent industrial laws and less
burdensome taxation-all these are fixed
advantages with which the southern
manufacturer begins to compete with
the manufacturer of the north.
Commenting upon these significant re-
marks the Mobile Register says:
THE effect is that the New England in
terests, instead OF putting money and en-
III the south. The humid atmosphere of New
England can now be produced in the mills
artihciay and there is now no longer a
valid argument against this region for the
manufacture of the finer grade Of goods.
The number Of spindles in the south has
increased III per cent since 1901, while the
number in the north has increased only 23
per cent. This is evidence of the rise of the
industry in the south and its wane in the
east"
Some parts of the south are better adapted
to manufactures than others, as we well
know. In Alabama, for instance, there is nc
manufacturing problem of low water supply
and consequent idleness of machinery. This
truth ought to be kept in mind.
We have a state generously lined with nat
ura streams of varying sizes. The potential
water power possibilities of Alabama are IL
limitabe-even now Alabama is sending
power to some Of her sister states.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02
A SOCIAL TRAGEDY.

From the Cordele Dispatch
Now and then we see a great tragedy
walking about in the clothes OF woman
who thinks she is the top of the social strata
has to think so to be such tragedy. She
is an intelligent woman and, of course, knows
it, and yet hasn't enough sense to realize that
she must win her place in the hearts of her
friends with service-with devotion to those
things which all good women love to see
interviewer into the character of human
being How foolish to spend ones choicest
moments clarifying self when there are so
many noble unselish things that can be
done and in the doing would themselves
glorify you.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02
THE FAULT FINDER.

From the Dalton Citizen
Fault-fnding is an easy and generally
useless task What the world needs is
somebody to show how to correct the
faults, and that is where the fault-hnder
fails when it comes to a show DOWN
Dawson News.
Constant faut-fnding is usually cause,
by nerves" twisted outlook on life or in
digestion. While it may be easy, it is ais,
hard on the constitution.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

The failure of local governments to en-
force the law prompts many communities to
insist that the federal department take a
hand. An overburdened department Of JUS
tice means tardy justice at best. The most
effective curb upon illegal activities can be
imposed by the local government. When the
citizens who demand outside assistance in
law enforcement properly interest themselves
in local affairs the need of help from this
quarter will be overcome.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

The Valdosta Times thinks we smoke ant
chew too much, and gives US the benefit o
its observations as follows:
Heart disease IS on the increase III the
United States. $4,000 dying annually
from the disease which is present in
about one out OF every fifty The cause
of heart troubles is traceabie to rheu-
matism. the excessive use OF alcohol, to-
bacco. tea. coffee and poison drugs. The
increasing use OF tobacco among Ameri-
cans is bad for heart troubles. The aver
age American uses about IL pounds OF
tobacco per annum. and is undoubtedly
the greatest consumer of the narcotic
weed in the world; hence the weak hearts
and deaths from the failure OF that organ
10 function properly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

That progressive bloc headed by Senator
La Toilette bids fair to be a menace to the
nation unless the senators and representatives
are alert to their every move Both democrats
and republicans in the national law-making
body should repudate La Toilette and his
bunch of radicals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

Some country justice up in Oregon has
just rendered an opinion worthy of Solomon.
He decided that young woman must return
a talking machine to young man after their
engagement had been broken. Sure. The
young man is entitled to talking machine
if he wants it, and as his plan to marry one
failed it is perfectly proper that the other one
be returned.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02
GOOD NEW YEAR RESOLUTION

From the Blakely News.
Include among your New Year resolutions,
Mr. Reader, a resolve to boost and stick by
your home town during the coming year.
A stronger spirit of cooperation is badly
needed and would be big help towards a
bigger and better town if put into effect
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

The police who poured so gallons of whis-
ky into a sewer must have been suspicious
as to its character.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

If the immigration restrictions are to be
changed at all they should be frightened
rather than relaxed, Indeed, it is not unlike
1y that a complete suspension of immigration
would be of benefit to the country
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

One reason why railroad crossing acct
dents have become more numerous seems to
be that in former years drivers could rely
on the intelligence of the horse, but now
they are running automobiles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

The frost king is back on his throne, but
Georgians still feel grateful for his long con-
tinued absence when he might have been at
work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

The United States government has done
some things which has met with disapproval,
but fortunately it has not yet reached the
extreme of folly where it desires to reform
a lot of nations which refuse to be reformed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

The latest in yarns of antiquities is the
claim that the tomb in which Eve was buried
has been located. Now some one may come
along and claim he has found the core of the
celebrated apple.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

1t is easy to rail at congress for failing TO
decide public problems but the blame is di-
rectly with the body polite the private citi-
zen. Congress never will be greater than
the mass of citizenship from which it re-
ceives its authority. Government is very
much an individual affair.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02
Georgia Press Talk.

The woman who buys her wearables out
of the home town (there are some in Daw-
SOM has been found by the Thomasvile
Times Enterprise, which prints the following
about her:
Buy at home An instance to illustrate
this point: A certain woman OF Thomas
Vile was down town the other day, Drag
cling about having bought her shoes her
hat and her coat out OF town. She might
she wore, but we didn't get that When
asked why she did 50, she had no good
reason. We butted i'll rather severely, and
told her that we were going to all the
merchants affected. about her purchases.
If you ever heard commotion she raised
it The key-her husband was IN bust
ness here also and did business. lot of
IT, with the very fellows she had cheated
out OF business by sending away.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

1t is reported that coal is going to be
cheaper next summer. This report is about
as refreshing as the thought that ice is going
to be cheaper this winter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02
He Wrought Well.

Samuel H. Rumph, of Macon county,
dead at the age of seventy years. needs no
other monument than that built by his far
visioned policy and broad thinking when he
laid the foundation for the peach industry
which has brought to his state fame and
fortune THE man who builds only for to-
dav and thinks only in terms OF the present
will leave only a slight impress on the an
rails Of his time" This pioneer had the faith
that looked beyond mo,Rentary needs and the
aaatience to expend his great energy in per-
~ tent effort forlthe general good. His useful
bore e1oque4t witness to the fact that his
rs, e2ztstes1 sbove sell and hi: s. lab Dor OF
- uctrs is own community and the state
LeoUes AXE for ~" 5 he that have made Geor-
Is prospe,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

A barber college student in Georgia city
was overcome by gas last week. After work
ing at the trade awhile he will be immune
from gas attacks.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

If you want lower taxes you must be sat
isfed with lesser service. Possibly we have
been going too fast, asking and receiving
more than we are entitled to. 1t is up to the
people to modify their demands and live
within their income, and not ask for cake
when they have only money to pay for bread.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

From the way speeding motorists tear
around the streets in some places one might
think they were observing the hunting sea-
son by trying TO bag the pedestrians
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

The Indiana farmer who is producing a
strawberry with an onion flavor or an onion
with strawberry flavor, is wasting his time.
Who wants his onion spoiled that way?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

1t certainly is not fair for moonshiners to
have trained skunks on the job when pro-
hibtion sleuths' noses are trying to find their
way to hidden stills
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

The world continues to hear the Europeans
say the allies need the influence of Uncle
Sam, but it fails to see the allied powers
taking the necessary steps to obtain 1t. II
the Europeans would talk less about war and
more about business and going to work they
might get somewhere with the United States.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

On January /, 1918 the government took
control of the railroads and managed them
for 20 months The cost to the treasury by
this paternalistic adventure has been estimat-
ed by the director OF railroads at $1,20OOOO,
coo. And the accounts are not yet squared
up This is the feast to which the advocates
OF government ownership invite taxpayers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

We read in many south Georgia exchanges
of the bringing in OF high grade mich cat
tie. This section is turning to dairy pro-
duction, which is a happy augury for the
prosperity and comfort of its inhabitants. 1t
can easily become land Overlooking with
milk and honey, with a generous supply OF
fruit on the side-a land of peaceful homes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

One of the troubles with our reformers is
that each has his own little hobby, and can't
see any sense in the other fellows hobby.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

The Washington correspondent Of the Kan
sas City Star is assured that eX-President
Wilson is not coming back to the extent of
editing a magazine, or writing his memoirs,
or punging into the maelstrom OF politics.
He will write some letters, he will confer
with friends and may issue a public state
nlent from time to time, but those who have
had visions of him OF again becoming a
dominant figure are certain to be disappont-
ed. He is still an invalid, and he will con-
tinue to be one for the rest OF his life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02

New York woman has dropped out OF
society because she can't find her husband.
Maybe he will come home now.