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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
My Auto, IT'S of Thee.
From an Exchange.

Ny auto, It's OF thee, short road to power
ty, OF thee / chant. l blew pile OF dough
on you three years ago, now you refuse to
go. or won't or can't.
Through town and countryside you were
my JOY and pride, happy day, l loved thy
gaudy hue, my nice white tires so new, but
row you're down and out OF true, in every
way
To thee. old rattle box came many bumps
and knocks, for thee l grieve. Badly thy top
is torn, frayed are thy seats and worm thy
whooping cough affects thy horn l do be-
lieve.
Thy perfumes swell the breeze, while good
folks choke and sneeze, as we pass by.
paid for thee price, twould buy a mansion
twice; now everybodys yelling ''icer'-I
wonder why?
Thy motor has the grip. thy spark plug
has the pip. and woe is thine. l. too. have
suffered chills ague and kindred ills, en-
deayoring to pay my bills, since thou vert
mine.
Gone IS my bankrol now; no more 'twould
choke a COW, as once before Yet if l had the
dough so help me John, I'd go and patron
ize the auto row, and speed some more.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
Increased Murder Risks.

Within two months juries in Chicago muir
der trials have found five slayers guilty, and
the Judges have pronounced five death SEN
fences. All the men will be hanged unless
the various agencies that seem to exist Tor
nc other purpose than to thWart justice are
successful in the efforts they are determined
to make. Justice still must run the gauntlet
Of postponements, writs OF supercedeas, COM
mutation of sentence and sentimental inter
ference from an element of society that has
more sympathy for the destroyer than tor
the destroyed.
AS the Chicago Tribune observes, treat
ment of this kind will make murder unpop-
ular because sit is extremely discouraging to
murderers and the profession Of crime in
general" Society thus make an impression up
oil slayers, who are given solemn warning that
killing is dangerous business. The risk to
murderers ought to be made great In no 9TH
err way can the criminal be impressed with the
gravity of his crime. He holds life cheaply
when it is anothers he can be depended
upon to value his own and protect it when
he is made to realize that the scaffold awaits
him if he kills. Sooner or later, as in Eng
land, the answering policy of imposing the
heaviest penalty will have its effect, and the
number Of murders will be reduced.
Bernard Grant, 20, was the last man SEN
fenced to die on the Chicago scaffold He
was tried for the murder of policeman and
was found guilty although he did not fire
the fatal shot. His guilt, however, was es-
tablished because he was the robbery &C
complice of Walter Krauser, who has con-
fessed that he slew the officer. Grant con-
trbuted to the policeman's death. He was
with Krauser and was armed. Both were de-
termined to perpetrate the robbery even at
the cost of other persons lives. 1t was only
an incident that it was Krauser and not
Grant who fired two bullets into the heart Of
a courageous policeman. Both morally anc
legally Grant is guilty.
Grant when being led back to his cell al
Ter sentence had been passed, said to Kraus
err "They gimme the rope" Then Krausel
wept, for he realized that his sentence would
be merely a formal proceeding. He admits
killing the policeman. That will make six tc
die on the scafold and others are to BE-
tried
Persons who believe in being enient witt
murderers might be puzzled if asked wha
ought to be done with criminals like Bernard
Grant who declared that his experience hac
taught him nothing but to avoid the police
Grant insisted that, if he had opportuni
ty to live life over Rgain, he would go bacl
to the old gang ard do as he pleased, tina
he had been satisfied with the way he haC
lived and that he would not change his asso
ciates or his habits. That means he woulC
land in the same place if given anothe
chance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
Escaping the GaIlows.
From the Savannah Press.

The Cordee Dispatch has been consist
ent critic of those who let sentiment run
away with their ideas of justice. Charley
Brown doesn't think there is sufficient ade-
duate punishment for the evildoers OF Geor-
gia There are too many pardons and too
many combinations and too much probating
to suit him. And he argues his case we'll lie
quotes The Dawson News, which says that
hanging is not as bad as murder and that a
SLAYER thus disposed of doesn't murder any
body else, and makes this comment:
Here's the truth coming out again We
need more men in leadership OF state al
fairs who believe the same way about
it. Humanity the wide world over, ought
to know the difference between mercy
and justice. They ought to know that
society sets up a warning to all who
take human life-that the law exacts a
life for life. They ought to understand
that the individual who takes lite does
it with knowledge OF this standing
warning The murderer fixes his own
moose when he Stays. If the sob stuff
could be effaced and the cold tact held
up to public gaze it would help some
Charley Brown has some mighty sensible
ideas sometimes and he drew on his gray
matter when he penned that paragraph. 1t
has become so in Georgia that when jury
finds a man guilty of murder-especialy a
white man-and the judge sentences him to
the gallowS he becomes a first class lie IN
surance risk The state puts its protecting
arms about him and not only doesn't hang
him, but sees that he leads such an eXem-
plary life he is likely to live longer than the
Biblical allotted span.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
But Its Song Is Golden.
From the New York Evening Post.

In the early leafless spring one would
scarcely associate this quiet bird, feathered
in modest browns and ashy gray, with the
brilliant soloist Of the summer woods, writes
S c. Bishop in a bulletin issued by the Uni
versity of the State OF New York to the
schools. Certainly there is nothing in its
We may even see it in a city park without
giving great heed except to note it among
the early arrivals from the. south.
But the summer woods ring to its melody
and we forget its sober colors listening to
its song; peace reigns when from the seclu-
sion of some cool retreat the liquid notes of
the hermit thrush drip through to earth:
peace and quiet, as if Nature were attending
her vespers No hint of weirdness as in its
cousin the veery's song nor is its tranquil
richness equaled by the wood thrush. In the
hush OF evening it falls as a dispassonate
benediction on the woodland world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
Ways to Get Hurt.
From the Toledo Blade.

One insurance company paid 100 claims
last year to people upon whose fingers au-
tomobile doors had slammed. Accidents in
the cranking Of cars produced 897 claims,
Nearly 100 persons were paid money be-
cause they were jolted" to a degree they
could prove injurious Slips and indscretions
while making repairs responsible for
1,127 claims More than 200 car owners met
with painful trouble in their own garages.
Nnety-sx drivers were unlucky enough to
get foreign objects in their eyes, and were
reimbursed by the insurance concern. The
claims for overturning, ditching, skidding
and collision amounted together to 1885. One
need not fear that if one is going to be hurt
by an automobile it must be in some COM
monplace way. There is variety OF methods
to choose from some of which nearly clas-
sify as exclusive.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
The Tax Orgy.

South Carolina seems to be the equal OF
Wisconsin in the matter OF levying taxes. Al
though South Carolina already has a state
income tax law it is proposed now in a bill
passed by the senate to levy an occupation
tax of 81 year on every person, trm or
CORPORATION in the state working or doing
business for gain. The bill also levles tax
on the gross receipts OF all individuals and
corporations receiving more than $500 a
wear. No one will escape this tax, not even
the poorest negro in the field When the peo-
PIE of South Carolina get through paying
their federal income tax, their state income
tax, their local property and other taxes and
their occupational tax they should feel that
they have been quite thoroughly trimmed.
The South Carolina program however,
differs but very little from the one proposed
in Georgia The new taxes proposed in this
state include a state income tax an increased
sales tax on gasoline, state tax on tobac-
co products, a tax on admissions to amuse-
ments, tax on toilet articles. For some rea-
son the tax explorers in Georgia have over
looked tax on every occupation, from
which South Carolina expects to realize
return of $3,0O0000 to $500O0O0 year.
We are told that these proposed taxes in
Georgia are not to be additional taxes, but
are to be applied to reduction of some OF
the taxes now levied; in other words, that
they are to be utilized to shift part of the
burden of taxation from one set Of shoulders
to another set Anyone, however, who ac-
cepts assurance that these proposed new
taxes would not result in an increase of taxa
ton in this state permits himself to be de-
ceived 1t is inevitable that they would add
to the tax burden. The purpose back Of
them is not wholly a redistribution OF taxes,
but contemplates as we'll augmentation Of the
states revenue, to keep pace with its ex
penditures.
The News repeats hat it is opposed to
any new taxes. 1t believes that the effect of
certain of them would be disastrous to the
state 1t is opposed to any increase of taxa
ton The News believes that those who are
proposing new taxes are approaching the
problem from the wrong starting point they
are getting the cart before the horse. If they
were to devote as much energy to curtailing
expenditures and to killing schemes that
leach the treasury they would be doing the
state a better service. During the last few
years the various governing bodies Of this
country have been engaged in vast tax
raising and tax spending orgy. The money
has come so easy that public extravaganza
has been encouraged, public expenditures
have increased at an amazing rate, and pub
lie officials who handle the funds are in dan
ger of losing their heads. 1t is time to bring
the orgy to an end. 1t is time to get our
feet on solid ground. Never was there great
er need of prudence and wise spending than
at present.
The News hopes that Georgia will not get
into the Wisconsin and South Carolina CLASH
fication on taxation matters.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
KNOW HOW TO GROW COTTON.

From the Savannah News.
There is this to remember, however: In the
south Georgia countless where great produc-
ton of cotton was the rule for many years.
and where the number of bales was cut by
the weevil from a third to half and even
much larger reduction two years ago, last
season there was more cotton made in near
1y every county reporting the ginnings than
in the season OF year before last. Farmers
have learned how to fight the weevi-and
they know this year much better than last
how to make cotton despite the pest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

1t now develops that former Justice Clark,
who resigned from the supreme court to lead
movement to force the democratic party
tc inject the League of Nations into the next
presidential campaign as paramount issue
bolted the party in the last election and re-
fused to vote for Cox, the democratic noml-
nee for president, and also the democratic
nominee in his state for the United States
senate. In view of the disastrous result OF
the election two years ago it is hard to con
ceive of anything that would please the re-
publicans more than for men like Mr.. Clarke
to shape the policies OF the democratic party,
We refuse to believe they can do it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

Spring tonics? To be sure, says DIR. Her
man M. Biggs, New York state commission
er of health, but not the sulphur-molasses or
other connections OF our grandmothers' day,
nor any kind of dope What then? Natures
remedies-fresh green vegetables and fruits,
plenty of fresh air, more outdoor exercise and
an abundance Of sleep. That is the way to
tone up the body in the spring time. The
home made mixtures and the dope, DIR. Big
gers asserts operate for the most part to up
set the stomach and for that reason should
be avoided. II you suffer from the spring
fever try the fresh air cure. 1t is cure that
has this virtue, namely: it works untailingly
when taken in liberal doses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
Honesty Not Uncommon.

Honesty is not, after all, such an uncom-
mon virtue among business men in general"
The quotation is a tribute by a writer in the
Omaha Price Current to business man re-
Gently deceased. He is described as a man
honest in his thinking and in his living-a
man who was something more than merely
honest. but who also was an honorable man
whose sense of personal honor was high.
The News is in agreement that honesty is
not an Uncommon virtue among business
men, The man who is extolled in the Price
Current is not unique. 1t has been more
or less the fashion to discount the honesty
of business men in their dealings with the
public, but The News is persuaded that a
higher standard of honesty and honor never
existed in business than exists today. The
modern business man is ethical. The motto
OF modern business is Service" Fair dealing
is honesty, and fair dealing is the rule Of
trade today 1t is the aim of the modern
business man to conduct his business, not
only with profit to himself but to the profit
of his customers. He enforces the rule OF
honesty in all his contracts-with his custom
ers, the public with his Competitors; with
his employees, and in his relationships and
dealings with non-competitive lines 1t is not
true, perhaps that the quality of personal
honor is developed alike in men; in some it
is finer than in others. Nevertheless there
is nothing that the business man values
more highly or guards more carefully than
his personal honor. 1t is recognized that
what is known as SHARP practices" still sur
vve in business men, but sharp practices no
longer have any standing in legitimate bust
mess among honorable business men. The
business man who will engage in sharp prac-
tice may make it go for a time, but he will
not last for he is despised by his fellows
and distrusted by the public The writer in
Price Current spoke not without knowledge
when he asserted that honesty is not an I'M
common virtue among business men, and
anyone who will take the pains to make in
quiry will discover that it is true.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

Grand Duke Alexander of Russia has APP
pealed to Christendom to save Religion IN
his country, which appeal is promise in IT.
self that the fanatics who are trying to de-
stroy the spiritual life as well as the ma
terial values in that suffering land will not
succeed indefinitely. The answer to the
grand dukes cry for help is in his own coun-
try The Russian people who want religion
and good government may have both saved
to them by an unceasing struggle for the
right. Sooner or later the evil masters OF
Russia will lose their power, and when that
time comes there will be leaders who be-
ieve in Christianity and service ready to take
their places.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
PALACES OF FoREcAsTING.

From the Omaha Bee
Seldom does a man carrying dynamite toss
it carelessly down-abOut once in a lifetime.
Those government bureaus that collect and
disseminate statistics on trade and industry
are handling high explosives, and it behooves
them to exercise more caution than was
shown in the recent forecast OF sugar condi-
tons by the United States department of
commerce.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

"As for being president, it didn't mean
anything to him." says the hotel waitress
who waited on President Harding at Angus
ia. Which is a sincere compliment to Mr..
Harding's simple modesty and lack OF osten-
taton
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

How odd it is that millions OF residents in
the big cities where clocks are to be put
ahead an hour will continue to waste much
daylight by not using it. and that all the
farmers who object to the change in time
are going to save all the daylight they can
by working from dawn to dark
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

The Oglethorpe Echo notes that the Sa-
vannah News would substitute "Patronize
Home Farmers" for "Patronize Home Mer-
chants" as a good slogan to follow A better
plan would be to patronize both. Neither can
have real prosperity without the other.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

A couple in New York city wasted more
than SO hours while establishing a new
worlds record for endurance dancing. And in
England they held a 50-mile race for moth
crs wheeling baby carriages. What pity
that everybody can't have gainful occupa-
ton that would profit society as well as the
Individual
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
SPRING HAS SPRUNG.

From the Pearson Tribune
Spring is here; no doubt about it; the
hooking birds trill can be heard in the early
morning. One perches himself on a limb near
our chamber window and sings a matin OF
praise TO the Great Creator OF this beautiful
world and makes it so pleasant to live in, for
had not sin appeared, it was a veritable Gar
den of Eden.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

The Dalton Citizen says Underwood is a
big man, and would command votes and re-
spect north of the Mason and Dixon line; he
is the souths best and only chance to get
to the white house" Our Dalton contempt
rary is right The Alabama senator is recog-
nized by every section of the country as a
statesman of unusual ability and safe lead
or. Now is the south's opportunity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

If Uncle Sam were not such good pay it
would be easier for him to take up his obi
cations when due. All OF the Victory loan
certificates and war savings stamps have
been called for redemption yet millions OF
dollars worth have not been presented by
their owners. About $100,000000 in stamps
still are outstanding and drawing no interest.
People cannot be very hard up when they
are so needless as this situation indicates.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

If music really will cure disease maybe
little of the real kind would help everybody
to recover from what jazz did to them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

We never realize how widely and how
closely The Dawson News is read until an
error is made and then the fact is brought
home with unmistakable force that every
line is scanned by at least big majority Of
the people. Mistakes loom up larger to the
office force than they possibly be to those
on the outside, but there has never yet been
newspaper, no matter how well regulated in
which errors are not made All that can be
done is to correct mistakes as far as posi-
BILE
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

The editor OF the Schley County News
saws "a high powered car with low pow
cred mentality at the wheel is a serious
danger" How true.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

Perhaps the judges who awarded a prize
to the New York girl who washed dlSheS
and did housework as having the pretteSt
hands considered that there was a beauty
to be found in utility.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

The modern QUESTIONABLE is developing
lot OF particularly intimate information, but
it is not nearly so important as it is lntl-
mate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

Miss April will be April and in that she
is quite as wiful as Miss March.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

If you'd ban the "skeeter's" sweet refrain
screen your windows, ditch and drain.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

The bluebird has arrived. Hail spring.
Evening star., 1923-01-07
BLAME PEDESTRIAN
IN MOST M|SHAPS
Statistics Show Fault in
Traffic Is Only 5 Per Cent
Against Motorists.

When an accident occurs between
n motorist and pedestrian II IS sell
dom both parties are responsible.
How often is the motorist at fault
and how frequently is the blame to be
laid directly upon the pedestrian?
And after the responsibility has been
placed what should be done about il
and how can further and future acci-
dents be prevented?
Secretary Fred H. Galley Of the Ma
tional Association, himself a veteran
motoriSt and Il pioneer student Of
traffic, offers an interesting answer
TO the above questions.
III is matter OF undisputed record"
saws Mr.. Galley. that between 90 and SO
per cent OF all the accidents that occur
result from the neglect of the indi-
vidual pedestrian and less than 6'per
cent are caused 10y reckless use of
the official, "a set OF traffic rules
figures somewhere are from to D
per cent of the acciduest where both
parties are responsible
Rules Hard to Prepare.
Simple as It may SEEM" continues
the official. . Il set of traffic rules
and regulations that will work out
III practice is not easy to prepare.
the surprisingly simple principle that
two parties cannot occupy the same
space at the same time II follows
that those rules and regulations
which will work out are those that
Will permit vehicles and individuals
freedom without coming in contact
with each other. This IS the A, d, {
Of traffic regulation.
"The first example OF a strict com
Evening star., 1923-01-07
SURPRISING INTEREST
IN GOOD ROAD MEETING

with the North Carolina state high
way department demonstrating how
IL uses the radio from the state capi-
tal in supervising highway construc-
tion throughout its state. With a,
dozen or more women highway con-
tractors and women road officials
present as delegates; two or more
Sioux Indian chiefs, Red Bird and
White Eagle, in attendance as dele
gates from the Custer Battlefield High
way Association, and many recently
developed road-building machines or
exhibition Some of which are as
large az Baldwin locomotives - no
good roads meeting ever held will
surpass in novel features the thir-
teenth American good roads congress.
to be held at the Congress Hotel in
Chicago, January Is to 19 next.
This big event, like the great eX-
position of road building machinery
methods, materials and appliances to
be held at the Chicago Coliseum dur
ing the same week, will be under the
auspices of the American Road Build
ers' Association, the largest and the
oldest good roads organization in the
United States. This association will
also hold it's twentieth annual con-
vention in connection with the con-
YresS and show.
Evening star., 1923-01-07
MOTORISTS ASSOCIATION
OPPOSES SENATE BILL
Fight Is Begun Against Measure
Which Would Require Bond

The National Motorists Association
Is opposed TO Senate Sill 4237. under
which an indemnity or insurance
bond in a sum not to exceed $4,000
would be required of each operator Of
a motor car in the District of Colum-
bia. IL believes this Legislation to be
unnecessary and discriminatory as 70
motorists.
Through its National Capital D:vi-
sion the y. NJ. A. will present an
argument to the District Of Columbia
committee of the Senate in support of
its opposition to this measure.
The clause which limits the stay
of motorists in the District Of Co
lumbia TO fifteen days is Objectionable
from different standpoints, but par
ticularly as IL strikes at the vitals Of
the principle of reciprocity. The Ma
tional Capital is naturally and prop
erly the mecca of Increasing thou
sands Of motor tourists annually
There IS every reason why their stay
should not be limited, but be attended
by as few inconvenienceS as-poSSible
In giving ont the above statement
Raymond Beck. field secretary Of the
National Motorists Association, re-
marked that the only benefits as far
as he could see which would result
from the operation of Tire proposed
law would be to insurance companies
which already have WaXsd fat at the
expense Of owners and operators Of
automobiles.