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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
Terrell viii Still Prosper.

Editor Dawson News: The initiative taken
by The Dawson News to inspire the people
of this section and county with renewed IN
terest and hope is worthy OF the highest
commentator. Perhaps the greatest service
that can be rendered to men discouraged, III
debt and uncertain of the future is to let them
know that Others are interested, that others
care that all OF us have common interest
in our community, and that we shall stand
shoulder to shoulder supporting and sustain
ing each other, determined to win back the
prosperity and plenty that have abounded in
our section.
When we recall how our ancestors came
into Terrell, dense forest infested by saw
age men and beasts; how they cleared the
fields, drained the ponds, built homes towns
and cities, churches and schools and left us
this wonderful heritage we would be unWor-
thy of them and recreant to our own good
name if we did not grid ourselves for the
battle and go forward to success.
We can and will make good crops in Ter
re; it does not rain always. We will not be
hungry; the people are not broke; the homes,
lands, stock houses all are here. A salubrious
climate fertile soil, hard work and economy,
good thinking will bring us through.
Follow the plan outlined.
Plow up your cotton stalks.
Plant foodstuffs sufficient for man and
beast.
Grow some peanuts for the market.
Unite in your neighborhood on small acre
age of special crops.
Plant cotton (ths is cotton country), but
not too much.
WE MUST HAVE A MARKET FOR
WHAT THE FARMERS GROW.
If there was no market for them preach
ers would not preach teachers would not
teach, lawyers would not law, judges would
not Judge, doctors would not doctor, editors
would. not edit merchants would not mer-
chandise.
Then, why should farmers farm if there
is no market?
Dawson people must make Dawson a mark
ct for everything grown in Terrell county
Compare our lot with the starving people of
Europe-without TO o d, clothing money
worthless, enemies all about them, taxation
quadrupled, thousands of their loved ones
dead and buried. Is it not far better? Did
cur fathers repine and sit in supine idleness
when they returned from a fruitess war;
with all money worthless, slaves freed stock
gone houses burned, widows and orphans to
be supported? Not for a moment.
1t is time for the people of Terrell county
to prove that they are worthy sons of worthy
sires and go forth with renewed hope, deter
mined to recoup the losses of 1923 in 1924,
and combine our strength, combine our
thought, save what we make, keep it at home,
pay our debts as far as we can go, maintain
our financial integrity and wrest success from
the hands of adversely.
M. c. EDWARDS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
To Solve TerrelPs Problems.
From the Savannah Press.

The business men and farmers of Terrell
county are to take counsel together at DaW-
son to work out a program OF prosperity for
the community The meeting is the result OF
a conference held by fifty representative
farmers business men and bankers. This mi
tal gathering agreed that it was necessary to
have an agricultural revolution in Terrell il
prosperity is to return. There was a time
when Terrell was one of the most prosperous
counties in the state. 1t prded itself for sew
eral years that it had no county taxes to pay
This was a questionable prosperity, how
ever, as the fund for running the county
came from the profits of liquor dspensaries
Since prohibition Terrell county land owners
have paid taxes like the rest of us.
The proposition today has nothing to do
with the tax rate 1t goes deeper than that
The people are to be called together in coun-
sci to determine what is best to be done I'M
der boil weevi conditions. There are still too
many farmers in Terrell who have not seen
the tallacy OF an Affection crop and the pur-
pose of this town and county meeting" is
to try to show them the error of their ways
The criticism the average farmer makes of
a program of production calling for, say, five
acres in cotton to the plow ten acres in corn
or peanuts five acres of oats, followed by
peav1ne hay, and two acres in truck, is that
OF all the things enumerated cotton is the
only crop for which he knows he can get
cash. The bank will hand out the bills to a
man with bale of cotton, while, as a rule,
the man with bale of hay or several crates
OF cucumbers or peas will receive no atten-
ton.
The Dawson bankers have promised to
remedy this situation. They have agreed to
do little financing for the man who tries
to seek emancipation from King Cotton. The
meeting between the fnanciers, the mer-
chants and the farmers sounds a note OF
optimism that shows that Terrell county is
not going to sit idly by and see its rich soil
drift into unproductiveness and its wide acres
become useless from lack of incentive on the
part of the owners.
Terrell county can work back to a season
of prosperity under a program such as is pro-
posed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
MIR. Rives Hits the Halter.

Editor Dawson News: He that hateth is
murderer, and we know that in no muir
derer doth eternal life abide. He that loveth
not his fellow man whom he hath seen can
not love God, whom he hath not seen.-Epis-
tie of James paraphrased
Science unites with the scriptures in out
having hate, for, says science, the man who
hates creates within himself a poison that
sapS his vitality, the nerves become tangled
and this weakens all parts of the physical
man. Now | have been fighter all my life.
Being where I had no business when l was
nine years of age an accident happened to
me that has made of me cripple since then,
and | have fought disease. Later-at rs,
when my vision was cleared by an accept
ance of Christ as guide--I have with ridi-
cule, with sarcasm, with fact fought the evils
in myself and in the world through the press.
Sometimes fact alone will not bring reforma-
ton. Then other weapons have been used,
and | am told that | have been of some help
in making the world better. One thing l
know: by laughing at others and when none
others available making fun of myself,
by associating with the young and making
them forget their worries | have never in my
life felt old. | have had enemies, but since
my acceptance of Christ as my guide l have
been an enemy to no man. | let the other
fellow do the hating. He has more time, and
my work for my employer and my country
has always been my employer in the larger
sense--some TIME in a specific senSe-and
left no time to be an enemy. Employed for
43 years as agent of railroad at various
points and meeting all kinds of men, some
good some ignorant-some good whose spir-
itual liver was out of order-sitting on grand
and traverse juries, acting as judicial officer
at the front door of citizenship has been a
fine school in which to study humanity in
all OF its phases, and | have never yet found
a man who hated any human that has sue
ceeded i'll any enterprise. The time taken in
planning the downfall of another was suffi-
cient to bring about his own; so to try to
bring about saner way, from my experience,
this is written.
Any man by himself is 0, but with the
Integer Christ placed first he becomes 10.
This is Gods order. He desires that man
shall employ all the faculties given him, to
let none be unused or grow up into the weeds
of ideness and dissipation in anything, but
each in his place to "acqut himself as a man,
doing his worl-and whatsoever of brain or
hand he finds needing done is his work-so
that he need not be ashamed by reason of
slackness on his job, of dishonesty towards
his fellows, his country or God when the
final accounting comes but shall merit
through his we'll ordered life here the greater
opportunity that awaits in the future
ANDREW P. RIVES.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
The Calamity Howler.

Calamity howlers are more dangerous than
they might be because they do not tell the
truth about conditions as they are. One ca
lamity bowler believes community or a
state or a nation is on the downgrade eco
nomicaly and frightens away capital and eff
fort needed for the work of preventing the
decline Another calamity bowler employs
his Imagination to tell the world that vice is
about ten times as bad as it really is, and
gives a city or community a black eye from
which it may never recover. Then there is
the political calamity bowler who shouts out
that something entirely different in govern
ment is the need of the times He inficts
an injury that may become permanent, for
he destroys confidence in the existing order.
The pessimist, or calamity howler, always
exaggerates backward.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
RUDE RURAL RHY MES
POETIC LICENSE.

There lived orc time poet cuss whose
low-brow wish comes down to us, that wo-
men had one common mouth which he might
kiss from north to south. Admiring all female
creation I still would use discrimination You
know sometimes these poet fellows blow lots
of hot air from their bellows, and in the
songs that bards have sung we see that many
ike them young. They have taste for squads
and chicks and all their little happer tricks.
Nor is youth all for | opine most bards
would draw the color line. And as for me
like some brains; | do not care for silly
James | shun she feminist and Tartar, the
wilmer and the chronic martyr. Deliver me
from home peace wreckers from termagants
and all hen-pcckers. This bard is no polyga-
mist; few are the mouths he ever kissed. In
all the charms that he would choose his
present wife JUST meets his views; he'd have
no other in her shoes. From San Francisco
to Savannah there is no other girl like Han
nah And if the facts were otherwise | would
invent some pious les for if that gentle lady
bit me no stock size crown would ever fit
me; yea, when | reached the heavenly Dor
der they'd make diadem to order, all full of
curves and crooks and humps with nice soft
padding for my bumps
BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
Car Loads Nowadays.


Georgia, especially south Georgia., speaks
casuaIly nearly every day now OF a shipment
nj carload of this and carload OF that and
carIots Of other commodities from the rural
oesemh1v places for stuff Yet the memory
of a middle-aged man can recall when the
carloads moved the other way-when Geor-
gia towns shipped by carloads nothing put
Cotton and lumber and naval stores. The
trains moved, long freights coming this way
from the west loaded with hay and corn ana
meat from other directions loaded with cab
bapes and potatoes and fruits, from still
other areas loaded with chickens and eggs
and butter. There is still Tar too much OF
that direction OF movement-ot some meat
less corn, still less hay and much eggs ana
butter. But there has been change that IS
marvellous when its chief points are hned up
for a review. Cotton seed in mass as great
as the cotton itself started the new carload
movement from" Georgia-there was a time
not many wears ago when cotton seed was
waste. Savannah industry changed all that
for here first OF all the products OF the cot
ton seed were perfected and here IS the larg-
est cotton oil mill in the whole world. Peach
es then took the rail-and then Watermelons,
hundreds of cars Now nearly every small
railroad station in south Georgia ships few
TO several hundred carloads of commodities
from one seasons end to the next. Hogs and
goats and cattle, sweet potatoes and lrlsh
potatoes cantaoupes and Cucumbers, peanuts
and corn and hay beans and peas and roast
ing ears, plants for the truck gardeners OF
the whole land even colard seed. Colard
seed bv the carload and bee colonies IN spe-
cial carlots, some shipped to Europe. Lar
lots" are common-evidence of better agrl-
culture and of progress and prosperity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
Surely Not!

It IS indeed gloomy picture drawn by
the poultry men who say that the Thanks
giving turkey is becoming extinct. Such a
development would be nothing less than a
disaster. It's qualifications would be so en-
ve1oping and extensive as to constitute a
calamity Surely it is not true. Surely there
has been mistake. As in kaleidoscope,
there reveals before the minds eye the pass
ing of other things along with Mr.. and
Mrs. Gobbler. There flashes the delectable
cranberry sauce The dressing, too, and the
gravy. Horrible thought! Also revealing
tantalizingly before it passes with the rest
the pumpkin pie.
OF what use would the autumn be if
Thanksgiving should fail to maintain itself as
a dav of feastng as we'll as one of grateful
reflection? The harvest moon would lose
much of its alluring beauty, Indian summer
would pass without a thought going beyond
it to the time when festive boards would
creak and groan surrounded by smiling faces
and good appetites. The frost on the pump
kin would cease to mean what it has meant
for such long time. None would have the
same keen interest in the football scores. 1t
would be simply terrible without turkeys at
Thanksgiving.
A fat hen makes fairly good substitute,
but somehow the turkey has made its way
so closely to the hearts of America on its
way to the inner man, woman, boy and girl
that thoughts of its extinction are sorrowful
indeed. Those poultry men have helped to
make these melancholy days the saddest of
the year. They might have waited at least
until after Thanksgiving unless they want
ed to pave the way for higher prices weeks
ahead
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
OgIethorpe's Remains.

Claiming that the wishes of 100000 peo-
PIE in the south would be realized by remov-
ing the body of Gen. Oglethorpe who laid
the foundation FOR government in the states
of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, DIR.
Thornwell Jacobs. president of Oglethorpe
university, undertook to bring the remains
from England. The body was found after a
long search reposng in lead lined elm wood
casket bronze plate identified it as that
OF the famous Britisher who died 1873 years
ago after deyoting many years OF his life to
settlement projects in the south. The plan to
bring the remains to Georgia met with earn
est protest both IN Britain and America, and
has been abandoned.
Among thosc who did not appreciate DR..
Jacobs effort were Georgia officials of the
Society of Colonial Wars, who vigorously
protestated to the American state depart
ment that the remains of the early settler be
not disturbed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
Homeless Automobiles.
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

A correspondent says $3OO0OOO worth of
automobiles usually are parked overnight on
the streets of Washington. Scarcity of garage
space accounts for the existence of this in
viting field for the automobile thief, who,
however. according to the same correspond
cnt, is strangely indifferent to his opportuni-
ty.
The owners OF these automobiles do not
own their homes They are boarders and
apartment jewellers. A transportation vehicle
means more to them than home. 1t at
iords them more pleasure-no doubt of
that; and that is the arresting feature of the
truth.
riding to home proprietorship into modifying
their standards and ideals; but we shall hold
ourselves in readiness to oppose their I'M
expected petition to congress to provide gar
age room for homeless motor cars in the
District of Columbia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
Sox de Luxe.

The average man goes through life with
out much concentration of thought on his
sox Some men even go through life with
out sox wherefore this habiliment of mod
ern sartoriai effect never causes them pen
nyworth of worry. There have been sockless
statesmen and others who appeared to be
sockess when they were not, due to the dis
appearance of the neither garment downward.
On the whole, however it may be said with
assurance that sox do contribute much to
the comfort of man and also to his appear
ance whatever be the material of which they
are composed Sex, it is widely recognized
have won their place through many steps.
Sox de luxe do not worry the average man.
He has them not and neither does he want
them, but Mr.. Letter, of Chicago, who eth
err wanted them or whose valet wanted him
to have them, IS not an average man. Sox
numbering III pairs aud costing at retail $l2
were said by plaintiff haberdasher in a
lawsuit to have been delivered to Mr. Letter,
who has not paid the bill, according to the
complaint, which amounts to 1882 The sox
de luxe evidently resulted from the aesthetic
fancy of a de luxe valet. The average man
may translate de luxe in its last application
as meaning unnecessary. Mr.. Letter will
probably darn those sox de luxe now and
forever, or fire his valet or both. Any way
out will be a better way than staying in
such company. Six dollars a foot for soX
is as the villainous vaudeviian says, much
too much"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
ONE HOMICIDE AN HOUR.

From the Dearborn Independent
Every hour, somewhere in the United
States, a mans life is taken. There were more
than $500 unlawful" homicides in this coun-
try in 1921. One of every $1,000 Americans
is murdered every year, whereas the figure
in Europe is one out Of every $4,000. A
prominent writer states: "When a prospective
assassin in America is about to pull the trig-
ger he knows that he will have three pow
erful friends if he commits the deed These
three friends are Sentimentality, the New
TRIGGER and takes his chances"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
MAKING A FINE IMPRESSION.

From the Early County News.
Our people have been more than pleased
to have Judge NJ. J. Yeomans with them this
week. His affabie demeanor, both on and off
the bench. is drawing our people close to
him. While the judicial duties are new to
him, he is making mighty fine start and
we predict that his career as judge in the
Pataula circuit IS going to be one of which
cur people will be just as proud as they were
OF his immediate predecessor and the long
list OF other able jurists that have passed
to their reward
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

An old enemy of the common people has
bobbed up again just when coal bills once
more are to be paid. The government reports
show an Increase in the cost OF living in 20
cities of from | per cent to g.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

Hollywood IS said to be getting ready for
the bursting of brand new scandal among
the motion picture people. That's odd; no
one knew that Hollywood had to get ready
for things of that kind.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

Georgia politicians have already begun to
consider the matter of delegates to the ma
tional convention. With an early start they
will have a fine chance to make their us
ual error of backing loser.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

and the Greensboro Herald Journal hastens tc
reassure us that it wasn't a congressman.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

The girls are to be congratulated. Short
skirts being on the way back they easily
can cut long one down-or up.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
NECESSARIES FIRST.

From the Albany Journal.
Recently compiled statistics show, it is re-
ported that ownership of homes is decreass-.
ing in the United States. That may be- II
it is it's because many people cannot afford to
own both a home and an automobile.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

The Vidalia Advance wants to see more
tobacco grown. And that, too, just when the
campaign to deprive lovers of the weed" of
their pipe and quid
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

A sure remedy for the boil weevi is offer
cd bv the Commerce News, which says:
The best remedy yet offered for the
total humiliation of the boil weevi1 is to
plant no cotton for two consecutive years.
That would result in war if enacted into
law. but even with war it might be worth
while
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
Debt Paying Time.
From the Commerce News.

The debt paying era is drawing near in
this north Georgia section. When cotton be-
gins to move its time to begin to pay debts
1t has always been said of the Primitive Bap-
lists that they pay their debts. It's a mighty
fine characteristic Its well worth while to
have the reputation of being a debt payer
When one has the contrary reputation he is
III bad row OF stumps. Many an honest
man obtains credit-not SO much on his as
sets as on his reputation as an honest man
and a debt payer. 1t is wonderful how fast
a dollar can travel and how many debts it
can pay in a short time if kept on the go.
We have seen it demonstrated. In a COM
pany Of half dozen men one day one in
the party pulled out a dollar and handed it
to another saying: Here's the dollar | owe
YOU" 1t was handed at once to another of
the party on a dollar debt. That same dollar
passed all around and every one of the party
handled it once, some twice, before it finally
found a permanent lodging. This serves to
illustrate the debt paying ability of a green
back dollar. 1t has paying power, if kept in
action. When not in action it has no more
value than an oak leaf A few days ago a
business firm to which the News is indebt-
ed, in sending statement, sent with it the
following:
III you owe man and pay a man
As soon as the bill is due
And the other man pays another man
The money he got from you,
Then the money paid will lend its aid
In settling bills galore.
And will soon return, as you'll quickly
learn,
To pay a Jew bills more"
That's mighty good gospel! If everybody
will adopt this policy there will be thousands
and thousands OF dollars that will change
hands within the next few months.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

The farmers are waiting for a good rain
to enable them to sow big grain crop.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

The murder of nurse who believed in the
power of a negro voodoo reveals that this
is an age in which superstition has by no
means been outworn.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

Senator Watson of Indiana hit it about
right when he said the worst thing the mat
ter with the country was too much COM
plant about imaginary ills.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

Farming the farmers is a pastime that may
not last always. The Winder News says:
The farm bloc organization has not
been able to do much for the wheat grow
ers OF the west Some of these days.
maybe, the farmers are going to realize
that organizations headed by politicians
are made to farm the farmers and not to
enable the latter to farm their lands sue
Cesstully
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

If the present increases to the public pay
roll continue there should be no unemploy-
meat soon. Everybody will be working for
some branch of government.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

Mr. T. A. Barrow is now owner and ed
itor OF the Pelham Journal, and has already
made decided Improvement in that paper. The
News extends MIN fraternal greeting, and
hopes he will ind pleasure and profit in his
new work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
Georgia Press Talk.


The Greensboro Herald Journal makes
suggestion that would go a long way to,
ward bringing prosperity to the state if act
ed upon. Says that paper:
Georgians should demand home-ras-
ed products. You can't expect other
states to purchase Georgia products when
some OF our people do not make such de
mandS
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

The gasoline TAX that went into effect on
the first is expected to produce $2250000
revenue to the state A right neat sum-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

The largest submarine power cable in ex-
istence is in japan. 1t is q miles long and
weighs six tons per 1000 feet.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

Oklahoma people tired in short time of
their freak governor, and have made dis
approval of his record emphatic The attempt
to boom Walton as a candidate for the sec
ond highest office in the country is the kind
OF thing that brings politics into disrepute.