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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
Home Baking Survives.

1t is encouraging to be assured that the
art Of home baking has not been lost In this
country, in spite of the multiplication OF pub
lie bakeries and the perfection which the
bakers art has attained. The Farm Journal
has been doing some investigating, as re-
suit of which it has learned that of the no.
100000 barrels of -four consumed annually
in this country the home cooks use 60,000,
COO barrels and the bakeries 3O,O0OO00
the remainder being accounted for by hotels,
restaurants, hospitals jails, paper hangers
and so forth Better still, most of the pies
and cakes are baked at home. Seventeen out
Of every 20 town and city families bake near
" all their cakes and pies, and also a large
proportion of their own bread Home baking
increases as the cities get smaller. In the
smaller places SO per cent of the women bake
all of their cake and 43 per cent their bread,
while out in the country ga per cent OF the
farm women bake their bread and nearly all
bake cakes and pies.
The result of this survey should somewhat
appease the fears of pessimistic souls who
have been lamenting the decadence of the
old time home baking habit. The modern
bakery product has been greatly improved,
and good deal OF it carries the home flavor.
Nevertheless, no would want our women
to lose either their cookery pride or their
cookery knowledge, for what is home without
home baking2 Indeed it is impossible to
think of real homes without at the same
time envsaging the kitchen, with its shining
range, its polished utensils, its singing tea
kettle and the housewife at the molding
board preparing those home made substan-
tials and de1icacies that it is the highest art
OF housewifery to produce AS long as house
wives and mothers know how to cook and
have enthusiasm for it there need be no fear
that we will cease to have real homes in this
country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
Choosing the Penalty.

A great many persons have been heard to
saw that if they were asked to make a choice
between execution and life imprisonment Tor
the crime of murder they would take the
quicker way out, which would be death. They
insist that the sudden end on the scaffold or
lin the electric chair would be much better
than to drag out ones existence in living
death in prison, cut off from all hope of es-
cape Usually such persons are very conf
dent that they know exactly what they
would desire in such an unfortunate position.
Perhaps some do, but it is certainty that
a great many do not.
This was demonstrated few days ago in
Ohio, when Joseph Fairy, a youthful muir
derer was given the choice OF death at the
hands of the law or life Imprisonment with
out a chance for pardon. 1t was to be life
absolute with one month Of the II in every
year in solitary confinement. Fairy, who had
slain woman and her son, was Is years OF
age He was in good health when convicted.
He might live to be an aged man, bent and
wrinked and gray. He might spend half
century behind the bars, for the sentence
was such as to bar pardons and paroles. If
he elected to go to the penitentiary instead
OF the chair it meant that he would go to a
living tomb never to be taken therefrom eX-
cept as a corpse.
Joseph Fairy, it is plain enough, had little
left to live for. Yet he elected to accept the
sentence of life imprisonment The electric
chair would have ended all OF his troubles
within a few seconds The terrible shock,
and it would be all over One who is not to
be sentenced could compare the two penal
ties and decide to die just because the SUI
fering of a life time would outweigh the an
gush of few days or weeks. That is, one
would think one could do that But life is
sweet Normal human beings cling to it as
long as they can, and that is why Joseph
Fairy, who should be graduating from a
college or university or getting married or
choosing his lifes work, decided to go on
living anyway.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
An Anti-Gossip Bill.
country,

There is under consideration by the Mis-
souri, legislature bill which makes any per-
son guilty of libel who repeats a malicious
or sanderous statement. Thus, careless per-
sons repeating injurious gossip are response
bic for the damage such gossip may do to
another.
One member maintains that the BILL if
made law, will take the Joy out OF life
for great many people" In this contention
he is right, for a great many people find
much pleasure in ndulging in idle gossip.
But there is another phase that deserves
greater consideration, and this is well put by
another member who asks: IF newspapers
are held responsible for injurious statements
why should not Individuals" This member
is right; it is the damage done that should
be 1essened.
Better take the Joy out of some lives than
to in1ict injury on a single person, for fire.
ouently injuries cannot be effaced by dam
ages in any amount.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
HOUSE CLEANING.

This is the time when all wise goods will
hide in cellars or on roofs, when every old
experienced bird will not be seen and not
be heard. This is the time when shaving
mugs are lost between the piled up rugs,
when all the house has gone to pot and where
things were they now are not. Hen Thoreau
had the cave man bug, and i'll his house there
was no rug. He got his food just anyhow;
he had no hens, he had no COW, but lived on
berries, Sourdock greens, molasses. corn
meal mush and beans That simple life no
longer goes, as any married fellow knows
Hank went too far, his scheme was punk;
some things we need he thought were junk
But still and all his barren shack beat houses
full of bric-a-brac. No female person fat or
spare with dustcloth waving in the air arose
to chase him from his lair. The dark to him
was as the day; he found no whanot in his
way. He did not tangle I'D his feet in heir
looms from Great Uncle Pete. He walked at
night with gleesome grins and did not cuss
or bark his shins. BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
Has Ancient Ancestry.
From the Worth County Local.

Folks who trace their ancestry back to
the revolutionary war are far outdistanced
III native American lineage by the scrub hog
sections OF eastern Georgia and the mountain
regions OF the country. Ancestors of this
queer animal came to the American CONT
rent with Columbus on his second voyage in
1903. The hogs, which were ancestors Of the
Georgia razorback" now almost extinct,
were first landed in Haiti by Columbus and
soon afterwards introduced into Cuba, where
they were bred extensively, according to the
records From Cuba De Soto started out on
his expedition to the mainland of the North
American continent. He carried with him a
drove of these hogs. The hogs were used
for food for De Soto's men and to trade to
the Indians for other supplies. When De
hogs From these 700 head and those sold
to the Indians there spread out all over the
continent the scrub hog family.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01

Edward Price Bell, chief of the foreign
staff of the Chicago Daily News, says that
while Germany was hard hit by the war and
at present is suffering hardships and poverty
it is in better condition today than any 9TH
err nation in the world to take the lead when
the great game of international commerce
competition opens. Germany has all of her
resources unimpaired, and she has few of the
handcaps of her competitors. She has liq-
Undated her war debts with worthless marks,
and all she is out is the wear and tear on
the printing presses. The American people as
sisted in this liquidation by investing near
ly $l,OOOOOO,OOO OF good American money in
marks.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
SlatOn's Sound Views.
From the Savannah Press.

Hon. John M. Slaton, of Atlanta, says that
people have become accustomed to large ap-
preparations without thinking of the burdens
which their payment would entail.
During the excitement of the war, when
taxes were imposed without regard to the
amount, because of necessity, the people be-
came accustomed to heavy levies, and it seems
that now they have become indifferent to
them. Whenever the legislature passes an
appropriation act it affects every citizen in
tie state, whether he is conscious of it or not.
Economy has become lost art Even as
to education Mr.. Slaton thinks no better les
son could be given the rising generation than
to live within ones income, and all obhga-
tons must have pay day.
He holds the good old-fashioned theory
that only enough taxation should be levied
upon the people to support a government
economically administered, and the balance
should remain in the pockets of the people.
A man who earns the money can spend it
better than the state can spend it for him.
Intelligent self-interest would suggest to
him to put his money into an enterprise
which will give employment to labor and
produce general prosperity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
Women Urge Law Enforcement.

Editor Dawson News The womens clubs
all over the country are urging strlcter en-
forcement of the laws as one of the out
standing needs for community betterment
and national progress.
Fifty parlor meetings will be held in the
homes OF leading members OF the Chicago
Womans club for the purpose OF promoting
better enforcement of law, particularly the
prohibition law 1t has recently voted unan1-
nouslv to urge all women's clubs in the
state Of Illinois to do everything possible to
oppose the weakening OF the Volstead code.
When every club woman realizes her obli-
cation to her country and awakes to her
high privileges as a citizen there will be
hope of great improvement in the matter OF
law enforcement. We play at the matter to
our peril. DAWSON WOMAN.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
Unusual.

"Governor-e1ect Walker says he has
no ambition to go to the United States
senate and will return to his home in
Monroe when he retires from the office
of chief executive. That is very unusual
in Georgia politics" says The Dawson
News. We thought otherwise; Smith
and Hardwick, for instance.-LaGrange
Reporter,
Mr.. Walker proposes to retire voluntari-
ly which was not the case with Messrs
Smith and Hardwick both of whom became
candidates for the senate after serving as gov
ernor OF the state. If Mr.. Walker adheres tc
his announced intention it will be very unus-
ual in Georgia politics.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
One OGceholder for Every Two
Producers.
From the Winder News.

There are so many persons on the pay
rolls of the federal state. county and munich
pal governments that it is said that there is
one OF these public servants for every two
producers in the United States. AT least Is
100000 persons are attached to the payrolls
OF the various governments in the union.
About 50000000 more make up the workers
OF America Most children and many grown
people are not producers. Therefore it is
easily seen that for every two workers in the
United States there is one officeholder This
one must be supported by the other two
workers. No wonder taxes are. high and peo-
pie are complaining.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01

The Louisville Courier Journal contends
that Senator Ferris advocacy OF a 10-year
Legislative holiday in the states is the coun-
sci OF despair The Courier Journal comedies
that we have too many laws. and too many
laws that are unwise, but the remedy, it be-
lieves, is wiser men i'll our legislatures rath-
era than a legislative holiday. Unquestionably
If we could get wiser legislators we would
have wiser laws, but will the Courier Journal
tell where to fnd these wiser men, and, hav-
ing found them. how we are to get them
into the legislatures
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01

A notable event in Georgia next week will
be Macon's big centennial celebration on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The fete
will open with representation of the earliest
period of history covering the events OF that
splendid city until the present year and close
with grand spectacle in which 5000 Macon
boc form, the past, present and forecast
of the future Preparations have been made
for the entertainment of thousands of visi-
tors. In the opinion of this newspaper Macon
is Georgia's most attractive city. We con-
graduate it on the prestige it has achieved
and wish it continued growth and prosperity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
Hail, Sir William!

The long neglected and generally anathe-
lnatized goat is slowly but surely coming
into its own. Says the Triton Gazette:
An industry that has attracted little
attention, yet has yielded neat profits, is
the raising of goats on cut-over pine lands
in south Georgia Only within the past
few years has the goat industry attained
considerable proportions here, but now
those who have not had occasion to
come in contact with the industry would
be surprised to know how many carloads
OF goats are being shipped from south
Georgia to the eastern markets-princi-
pally New York. ust what is done
with the little animals we know not
whether the lymph is used in effort
to make the old young again, or wheth-
er the meat is sold as lamb, as some say
but we are inclined to the belief that a
discriminating taste has found, what the
average south Georgian knew all the
time, that kid, rightly handled, is one
of the choice delicacies among meats,
and, furthermore, is meat that any one
can eat with safety.
The Pearson Tribune, another soutl
Georgia contemporary, also speaks. in term
of praise and esteem of the goat, and say
the animal is being raised in its section il
large numbers and proftably marketed.
On his farm in Epson county Col William
Y. Allen, of Thomaston, has a large goa
ranch 1t is stocked with 81 purebred Sws
Starbergen mich goats, 90 or more Anger
goats and large number of the ordinar
hill bllies" He finds ready market for hi
goat products at hospitals and sanitariums i
Atlanta In conversation with the writer h
expressed himself as well pleased with tn
experiment so far. He believes there ar
great possibilities in goat farming.
AS our Triton contemporary says, there
no meat more savory and wholesome than ki
when properly cooked, and in view of tn
value of goat meat as food and the littl
work and expense necessary to raise goats
is surprising that there are not more of then
However, their tribe is increasing
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
WOULD LOOK A FRIGHT.

From the Pearson Tribune
The Dawson News says 1T is a strain OF
cynng ths scat once T eI bH e 9vf ro(T eUe
land and Woodrow Wilson" Ford has been
a life long republican, and the Tribune i'm
AGNES he would look like a fright clad in
democratic harness Democrats once tried to
harness up Horace Greedy, but the republ-
cans wouldn't let EN-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01

The Hearst press has made the discovery
that Chief Justice TAFT was provided an an
rJity by the late Andrew Carnegie amount
ing to $4,000 per year, the income from
bonds OF the steel corporation. Well what
OF it, What possible harm IS there in that:
What a lot OF impudent busy-bodies we are,
uosing around trying to discover something
tc the discredit OF somebody. 1t is small
business
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
FOOL MOVEMENTS.

From the Jackson Progress-Argus.
More fool movements reforms, isms and
ologies originate in the big cities than any
where else on earth There is more common
sense to the square inch on the farms of
Georgia than in all the big cities combined
A lot OF the city preachers, women and re
formers" are not happy unless they are try
ing to save some cause or other" 1t is to
laugh.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
The HIGH Cost Of War.

The Washington Star has been doing
some figuring in order to ascertain what be-
comes of every 500 collected by the fed
eral government in taxes. The calculation
shows that the larger part OF the $500, or
1882, to be exact is paid out on account OF
war-either past wars or TO MAINTAIN estab-
lishments for the present and future defense
OF the country This part Of the $500 is ex-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
THANKS, SIR ROBERT!

From the Griffin News and Sun.
An Orlando, Fla, man declares he prefers
The Dawson News to the big dailies. 1t is
one OF Georgias brightest newspapers. Typo
graphically is it a beauty and its editorial
pages compares favorably with the larger
Gailies
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01

One of Terrell county's best farmers was
heard to remark: Il fear that | should have
planted more peanuts and less cotton, judging
from the tendency of the market on both
crops"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01

The dancing marathon is about the silliest
thing that has been devised in a month OF
Sundays. But why seek to restrain any one?
II people wish TO make fools of themselves
in that way let 'em go to it. Finally they
may break something besides records
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
Salaries. expenses, etc, members

The figures show how relatively little
the federal government expends for the pur-
poses Of peace and how great are its ex-
penditures for the purposes of war. Nearly
three fourths of every 500 collected from the
people in taxes is expended account of
war, past, present or future. Surely, war is
costly business; and these figures only re-
veal the money cost of it.
The analysis supplies the very best reason
for abolishing war.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
SWAT EN- EARLY.

rom the Talbotton New Era.
The early fly's the one to swat,
1t comes before the weather's hot,
And sits around and files its legs,
And lays at least a million eggs,
And every egg will bring fly
To drive us crazy by and by.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01

1t is a talky world, but there is a vast
deal of speaking to little purpose. The ndi-
vidual who says something when he opens
his mouth to speak is rare bird. 1t is i'm
possible to draw water from an empty tank;
but many a man essays to speak from an
empty mind
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01

Any 37-year-old man who will violate IL
year-old girl merits sudden and violent
death.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01

Paris has astonished the world by discov-
ering play that even French audiences can
not tolerate Now, who says the world is
not growing better?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
pended as follows:

A further analysis OF these items shows
that the navy pay roll gets SAY, the army
pay roll $124 that the army air service gets
Sc cents, the marine corps 81 cents, the navy
for subsistence 90 cents and the army for a
like purpose IS cents, maintaining fortifca-
tons 10 cents and soldiers homes % cents,
and that Al cents is spent by the navy in re-
cruiting and transportation. Almost half OF
the veterans bureaus 1906 goes for voca-
tional rehabilitation. Three cents goes as al
lowances to the families of disabled veterans.
This, however, does not account for all OF
the $500. What becomes of the remainder?
Here is where some OF it Gf not all of it,
goes:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01

The long neglected and generally anathe-
matized goat is slowly but surely coming
into its own. Says the Triton Gazette:
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-10
ENGLISH CREEK.

Mrs. VIM. Force and son Preston.
and Hildreth Steelman, visited their
mother. Mrs. Mamie Steelman, in
Brooklyn, N. Y, Sunday, and also call
ed on their aunt, Mrs. Jennie Preston,
who is in Brooklyn hospital, eonya-
leseing from a series OF operations.
Mrs. J. B. Willetts returned home
Sunday, after spending three weeks
in Pleasantvilie.
owing to illness of several mem
bers, the Ladies Auxiliary Of Asbury
NJ. z. Church did not hold its regular
meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Woolbert, OF
P%leasantyille, were calling on relatives
in English Greek OF Sunday afternoon.
Some of our farmers took advantage
of the thaw last week and got their
ground plowed and peas planted. This
week they are under a white blanket.
Rev. A. Burr will leave the early
part of next week for the Annual NJ.
E. Conference, which conyenes at AS
bury Park on March IA. Rev. Burr
has been asked to return to Asbury
for another year.
Miss Martha Frank is spending
some time in PleasantYille, at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor Shar-
rock.
A large old willow tree in front of
Mrs. Kate Woolbert's home blew
across the road during the high wind
on Wednesday, but the ~obstructing
part was soon cleared away, so the
traffic was not held up.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-10
BAReAINToWN GRANGE

\ fine musical treat was given on
Friday, March ?, when the Bargain
town Grange introduced their recently
forme d chorus. The program, in
charge OF the Lecturer, Charlotte M.
Dick, was as follows:
Selection: Long Wave Old Glory, -
StuTtz; Grange Chorus.
Soprano Solo: Starlight of Hope, -
Romberg; Miss Margaret Gordon.
Contralto Solo; Just a W~earyin' for
You Bond; Mrs. Jessie Anderson.
Reading: Too Late for the Train, ,
Anon; Miss Marion Dick.
Selection: BLOW Balmy Breeze, "
Warner; Grange Chorus.
Baritone Solo: "Roseland." Russell
Lester A. Dick.
Duet: q Love a Little Cottage. y
OfHara; Misses Dorothy and Esther
Todd.
Duet: Somewhere" Harris; Miss
Gordon and Mrs. Anderson.
Address: Mr.. Henry Scull.
Duet: Underneath the Trees
Newton; Miss Gordon and Mr.. Dick.
Selection: Softly Fall the Shades
Of Evening" Marchand; Grange Che
rus.
Accompanies: Charlotte NJ. Dick
piano; F. Justin Dick, violin.
At the close Of the program refresh
ments were served and dancing was
enjoyed until a late hour.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-10
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Rev. T. M. Simanton, Pastor.
SERVICES SUNDAY AS follows:

Services Sunday as follows:
1870 a. M, Worship and Sermon. Sub
ject. Getting Right With God"
2.30 p. M, Sabbath School. Attendance
now is over 200. The new song books
are popular. Join the class preparing
for church membership under Mrs. P. b.
Adams.
6.45 p, M, Christian Endeavor for all
ages. stewardship" Leader, Mrs. j.
L. Zecher.
100 p. m, Service; subject, why
Were You Born?"
Tuesday, 7.90 p. m, meeting of Session
in Chapel.
Tuesday. 7.45 p. m, meeting of all wo-
men Of congregation at home of Mrs.
Samuel Ireland.
Wednesday night at 7.SO lecture on the
Sabbath School lesson.
Thursday. $50 p. m. Sabbath School
Association and election of officers.
Friday, at 7.30 D. m, in the Chapel,
intermediate Christian Endeavor.
The CrucifiXion'' will be rendered by
the Choir, assisted by Prof. Henry Cur
ney, March IS. at s p. IN.
Reception of new members and Com
muniOn, April /.