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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
RUDE RURAL RTTYMES
THE LEAST OF THESE.

When Christ was born OF old in Bethle-
hem the world was slow to understand
the gift Of Mary mild and even yet we do
not know the value of child. For still the
mart, men turn to gold the substance OF
bodv, brain and heart. Our morning coffee
sugar has bitter with its sweets because OF
little children who toll among the beets. In
cotton field and factory they long for COM
ing night and fibre stained by chldren's
tears can nevermore be white. Let Christmas
red and green be hung and let the Yule log
glow; let Christmas candles throw their
beams across the winter snow. The little
beds upstairs are warm the sheltering walls
are tight. We love our children all the year
and most Of all tonight. But till all children
everywhere are free and glad as they, we
shall not rightly keep his feast who came on
Christmas day BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
Get Out the Paper.

The dav following a neighborly service
rendered The News, when an accident put GU
newspaper press out of commission, Ih
Americas Times Recorder said:
1t is an unwritten law in every news
paper office that the paper must be got
ten out regardless of difficulties or eN-
pense
OF South Georgia's best papers phoned
us for help. "a cylinder on our press is
broken; we can't print our paper; can
YOU help us out?" A few hours later
printer and pressman from the paper IN
trouble drove up with his forms Shat
is, the type from which the paper IS
printed. The forms, ink and paper were
placed on one OF the Times Recorder
presses; the paper was printed and car
ried MANY miles through the night. Jhe
publisher and his crew were tired, but
extremely happy. The paper was out
Disregarding cost and human energy
the subscriber must get his paper. A lit
tie late some times, but delivered Just
the same.
Printing machinery is among the most
delicate and difficult OF mechanical de-
vices. And while thousands OF extra parts
are kept on hand to supply broken or IN
iured parts, occasionally break down
comes in every plant.
There are times when the mechanical
force works for "a or IS hours without
sleep, never grumblng or kicking From
office boy to publisher there is that spirit
of loyalty to the reader, that desire ito
get the paper out regardless
The Times Recorder has stated it exact
ly. The paper must be gotten out regardless
OF what happens, or expense. There is an
other trait Of the newspaper fraternity tina
our contemporary failed to mention The,
are, as a rule as loyal to each other as t.
their subscribers, and never fail to lend
brother a helping hand in time OF trouble
Editor Eve, coming to our rescue with TIN
loan OF his press, made it possible for reader
OF The News to get the paper only lev
hours after the usual time of publication. |
had been many years, so long no one cal
remember when, since The News was lat
going to its subscribers-a record OF which
we were proud. Accidents, however, are no
respectors Of records or precedents, and Otter
occur when least expected.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
Bite a Mules Hind Leg.
From the Pearson Tribune.


If you really must get a crouch out of
your system go alone down to the swamp
and kill snake. Go out on the plains and
break the bleaching bones OF some wild ami
NAL Smash a window in some abandoned
factory; but for the love Of Mike! let other
folks alone
II you have a crouch challenge some big
man for a fist fight. Perhaps a good beating
is what you need. Try cold plunge Try
going to bed early one night in the week
Try anything that is fair to the other fellow
But let the men, children, servants and in
nocent people alone until you regain your
sanity
When you feel as cranky as holy friar
fed on hail stones eat an angle worm. When
you are as mad as bull covered with hor-
nets steep cup of lotus leaves and charm
yourself to sleep.
The crouch throws all his associates into
desperate Inconvenience, and for his temper
pays big price
Few business men can afford to get
grouchy when in company with their asso-
ciates, customers, friends or when at home
with the family
When you feel sulky, ill-humored and as
surly as butchers dog bite mules hind
leg.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
Cabbage Heads.
From the Telfair Enterprise.

If you happen to be inquisitive you may
want to figure out how mang cabbage heads
there are in the $4,000 carloads shipped to
market this year Anyway, you may be in
terested to know that cabbage has become
one OF our three most important vegetables.
Potatoes are first, and tomatoes are second.
Nearly half OF the cabbage crop comes from
ways commands the best price. Kraut is made
from the bg-headed northern type, ard has
ceased to be strictly German dish; every
body eats kraut now, and physicians say it
is full OF healthgiving vitamins. They argue
the cabbage eater is nearly always healthy
person, and that cabbage adds to vigor So
we guess we'll have to commence rating this
vegetable as among the very best brands OF
fodder the human race cans cultivate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
A Pipe Dream.

According to the Savannah Press the state
OF Georgia owes the Confederate veterans a
total of $4O0O0oO; and the tobacco tax,
which was designed to relieve it. seems utter
1y inadequate to the job. Tax Commissioner
John NJ. Vandver says the tax is being
evaded in a sort OF wholesale way, ali over
the state" The estimate of the late Major
McGregor of $6,500,000 to be obtained an
nually from the tobacco tax-delivered while
the Georgia legislature was in session last
July-seems to Jim Nevin, vino writes inter
esting Current Events" for the Atlanta
Georgian, TO have been a sort OF midsum-
mer's pipe dream that isn't coming true"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
Practices What He breaches.
From the Mobile Register.

Thomas Jefferson, so the tradition runs,
set an example of democratic simplicity" by
riding his horse to the white house and
hitching the animal to post. In 1924 CALVIN
Coolidge, sprung from thrifty. New England
stock shows congress and the nation how
to economic by travelling to Chicago on
board regular passenger train and occupy
ing an ordinary pullman. He effected
a saving Tor the government estimated at
approximately $170O This amount means
nothing to congress accustomed to spend
ing billions, of the peoples money, but it
means something to Mr.. Coolidge, with his
New England ancestry. Naturally, opinion IS
divided in Washington as to the wisdom of
Mr., Coolidge's course, but Mr.. Coolidge is
not worried by the controversy he started,
and he has had the satisfaction OF proving
that he can practice what he breaches.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

Governor Walker is right in his opposition
TO the proposed sale OF the states terminals in
Chattanooga for $3,OOO,0O0, and the people OF
Georgia Overwhelmingly approve his posi-
ton. 1t would be a great mistake to sell
this valuable asset OF Georgia for 100000
or any other sum. As soon as state bonds to
that amount were retired active campaigns
would be inaugurated by various interests
and organizations to bond the state many
times that sum, very likely a hundred mil
lion The governor is expected to set tight
on the lid
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
Many Uses for Yams.
From the Triton Gazette

Robert w. Carver, negro scientist at
Tuskegee Institute, claims to have develop
ed 1l8 commercial products from the sweet
potato l76 from peanuts IS from the pecan
and more than 800 from the common clay
OF the south. Carver says that no books go
into his laboratory, but the way he is to
do it and the thing he is to do come to him
from God. In discussing the sweet potato
before a New York audience he said THE
sweet potato is the source of three or four
kinds OF flour that makes better bread than
any kind of cereal. and also coffee, vinerar,
ink, shoe polish, paints, dyes tapioca break
fast foods starch, face powders and many
other products. A large factory now is be-
ing erected, outside Tuskegee, where paint
is to be produced from the sweet potato"
Now, what we are interested in is seeing
somebody start up some plants to put some
of these products on the market and use I'D
the materials, which can be produced in
the south in such great abundance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

A man was sitting in railway car alb
sorbed in a book when another man, alb
sorbed in his thoughts, boarded the train and
sat beside him In silence the two men sat
together for three hours. When the train
reached the destination OF the first man he
closed his book and put it in his grip. The
second man turned to him and said cordially,
you get off here? Well, l want to thank
you for your company" He was grateful for
the silence that had been maintained, for
there are times when one gets more from an
absorbed silent companion than from talk
alive one.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

The state OF Missouri has elected to the
Office of governor a Missouriar by the name
of Sam Baker He is little under 50 years Of
age. He earned his way through college by
tending furnaces He taught school He was
9 brakeman on a railroad He has been mar
ried about 20 years, and in Jefferson City he
has been living in a fiat, Mrs. Baker is a
stenographer and has not forgotten how to
answer letters She helped her husband dur
ing the campaign.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

THE experience OF the past few years GER
tainly shows that Georgia needs more than
one cash crop Cotton will probably always
remain the great cash crop OF the south, but
there should be other things planted SO that
il cotton is failure the farming operations
will not show loss" says the Jackson
Progress-Argus. Our contemporary is right
Cotton will always be the principal crop OF
Georgia, but it needs to be backed up with
other useful crops which will supply the
farmers tables and bring in some ready
money in the off seasons when it is badly
needed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

The farmer has particular interest in the
subject OF good roads, and any program which
is to be adopted in Georgia looking to high
way Improvement should have the approval
OF the farmers at the outset. Otherwise it
might be expected to encounter opposition,
not only in the rural districts but i'll the
cities as we'll.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

A Washington dispatch says that the re-
publican reactionaries and the democrats are
likely to join forces in tax legislation. II true
it would seem that the democrats have not
learned one of the lessons of the recent cleo
ton If any one thing is certain it is that
the country has become Disguised with the
half-baked socialists OF the west and their
program of destruction.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

Colorado motorist, returning from trip,
put his loaded revolver down on the table
where his fve-year-od boy had no trouble
reaching it. The child pulled the trigger and
shot himself, dying OF the wound. This faith
er is in the same class with those who claim
they didn't know the gun was loaded.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

Setting the ban against youthful employ
ment at IS years of age IS likely TO defeat
any such proposed legislation or amendment
II lad doesn't work before he is Is there
is strong probability he never will work
willingly. The News is one of many news
papers that has always opposed child labor
but The News also believes that every child
should learn how to work 1t is inhuman to
make industrial slaves out OF children. Like
wise, it is a crime to permit youngsters to
grow up in idleness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

Mushy sentmentality and lack OF sense
Of proportion are the great breeders OF crime
in the United States. 1t is difficult to punish
anybody for anything. The lighter penalties
are evaded with quite the same ease as the
more severe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

Christmas is just around the corner and
the Dawson merchants are busy filling or
ders for Santa Claus.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

The innocent spectator can hardly be cen
sur,d i he mildly inquiries whether the navy
belongs to Uncle Sam or Roosevelt family
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
Dairying Brings Cash to Crisp Farmer.

Cordele Dispatch: One farmer with eleven
dairy cattle in Crisp county in the past two
years has gathered in fifteen hundred dollars
from his cream checks has made his crops
besides and has borrowed only fifteen dollars
during the time
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

If congress thinks the publication OF in
come tax reports has not produced the desr-
cd amount OF irritation it might enact law
requiring postal authorities to open and read
all letters written and mailed by rich men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
THRIFTY HOUSEKEEPING.

From the Washington Star.
Here is one public official who has taken
Mr. Coolidge's program OF economy to
heart: William NJ. Stuart, director of the CEN
sus, has returned between $4,000 and $780,
600 to the treasury from his appropriation by
congress. He did this by bringing the most
elementary economy to bear upon every
phase OF his great organization No waste;
no lavishness because I'VE don't pay for it"
but plain thrifty housekeeping
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

Lovers and politicians are not backward
when it comes TO making promises, but they
are usually slow in coming forward for the
purpose of making good.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

Women governors aren't 50 rare, after all
Most every man has one.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
Pointed Paragraphs.

Some men look for happiness with Ian
tern when the sun is shining.
1t may be better to be happy than to be
rich but no poor man ever derived any sat-
isfaction from the thought.
The skeleton in the closet might be all
right it it would only stay there.
1t takes more than the sunlight to illumi-
nate shady reputation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
Georgia Press Talk.
Who Can Give This Information?

Northeast Georgian: Why is it that man
will look at his watch to see what time il
is, and as soon as he puts his watch back
in his pocket he can't tell you the time? We
have done that very thing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

Our Peach county friends are still jubilat-
ing over their recent big victory, and their
friends over the state are jubilating with
them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

The day following a neighborly service
rendered The News when an accident put our
newspaper press out of commission, The
Americus Times Recorder said:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
The Farming Situation.

Though the situation of the farmers is far
from ideal the average condition of the Amer
lean farmer has improved nearly ten per cent
during the past year.
The revised estimates OF the Department
of Agriculture show that 1923 crops had a
total value of about ten billions of dollars,
an increase of more than billion in one
year.
The total value of exports Of principal agrl-
cultural products from the United States for
eight months ended February %, 1924, was
$1,3O8, 338OOO, as compared with $233,7l6OOO
for the same period during the preceding
year, an increase of six per cent.
In a recent statement the Department Of
Agriculture says: "The general agricultural
outlook for 1924 indicates that farmers are
undertaking normal production program.
1t is apparent, however, that agricultural pro-
duction this year will still be attended by
difficulties arising from high wages and other
costs. Domestic demand for agricultural
products is at a high level Foreign markets,
on the whole, seem likely to maintain about
the present level of demand"
Crop prospects in Georgia this year are
the best in several years, and if no unforeseen
disaster occurs the farmers Of the state will
experience greater prosperity than they have
known in a long while
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
APPRECIATION.

o I have friends Of high estate and friends
who carry hods; I've friends who farm their
fellowmen and friends who farm the clods.
But of all men of all degrees the best of
those I know are they who like the Rural
Rhymes, and write and tell me so. To meas
ure off these stove-length lines, it keeps me
saving wood; and some l know are awful
punk, and some | think are good. These
friendly reader letters in sunshine or in biz
gard, they cool my brain in summer they
warm my winter gizzard. Dear Bob, l read
your weekly rhymes and offer thanks to you.
find them rather crazy, but | am crazy too y
Dear Bob, the sentiments you versed have
caused my face to soften and though it
cracked when first grinned, aim to do
it often" l read these notes and swell my
self till heart and brain are bigger, and then
attack my usual prunes with more than usual
vigor. Some men can sling wicked saw
and some can write sonnet, some women
build luscious pie and some luscious bon
net Though now in health, we may not
know how soon old Death will faze them.
Before he comes to cut them off let's rally
round and praise them. BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
Fewer Widows Remarry.

Some statistician or other has figured it
out that fewer widows than formerly remar-
ry. He assigns several reasons-unhappy hrSt
marriages desire for more fortunate ones II
contracted larger degree of independence OF
women, and so on But he omits the most
important reason of all, so far as women with
children are concerned. Men do not desire to
marry encumbrances.
Men more than women are Sinking the
responsibilities of home. They may deny this
ever so emphatically, but the facts convict
them. A large proportion of them content
themselves with supplying limited cash and
not only expect their wives to get dollar
and half worth for every dollar given them,
but to assume full responsibility for children
and everything else. The annals OF the di-
vorce court are very enlightenng.
Women may be fooled once, but few OF
them can be fooled twice. They have their
faults, but the most common fault is not in
/ consistency. If the statistician is right the
evidence of his figures support this conclu-
sion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
Dawson as a Cotton Market.

For wears Dawson has ranked as one OF
the largest inland cotton markets in Georgia.
Through all conditions, adverse and other
wise, it has held its own, and now that the
yield in this section this year promises to be
almost normal the receipts are expected to ex-
coed those of the past several years.
Wagon receipts have always represented
much the larger part of the cotton handled
in Dawson. 1t has been the backbone OF
business, the sellers spending much OF the
proceeds from their sales for merchandise
needed by themselves and their families
Prior to the appearance of the boil weevil
the receipts at Dawson by wagon ran from
10000 to $4,000 bales during season. and
while they are not expected to reach those
figures this year they will greatly exceed the
number of bales that were marketed here IN
the fall of 1923.
AS heretofore, the farmers OF this section
will find exceptionally advantageous facilities
at Dawson for the marketing of their cotton,
including modern fire proof warehouses with
a remarkably low rate of insurance for
those who do not desire to sell Immediately.
Beside. there will be number OF buyers
here representing mills and export firms,
which will insure competition and the highest
possible prices.
Altogether, the outlook is encouraging Tor
a prosperous season for the farmers and
business interests.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
Afraid Of the People.
From the Atlanta Constitution

The defeat of the bill providing a four
year single term for governor, in the house,
was foreseen long before the measure came to
vote.
The same influence that brought about this
defeat is expected to bring about the defeat
of the biennial session bill.
1t is inconceivable that the will of the
whole people can be as ruthlessly disregarded,
as is being planned on this one measure.
Fully 90 per cent OF the voting voice OF
Georgia is in favor Of session of the gen
eral assembly every two years instead OF
every year as at present.
Not only are they in favor of it on ac-
count of the needless and unJusthabe ex-
pense OF around 100000 year that could be
saved each alternate year, but on account OF
the business and Industrial unrest that the an
nua1 session creates.
The men and women of the farms and the
shops of the villages and the towns of the
school rooms, the factories-everybody al
most to voter, exclusive of those who have
specific reasons for annual sessions-are
pleading for relief, relief from much poll
tics, relief from legislative agitation and I'M
rest, relief from the factors that tear at the
very vtals of material welfare
The bill merely proposes to submit to the
people the question.
Let there be a record vote on this question
when it comes before the house. 1t has
already passed the senate.
Let the people of Georgia know who among
their legislative representatives seek, by their
vote, to keep this annual Legislative yoke,
long ago discarded by every state in the union
except four, around their necks.
1t will make interesting reading.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
Does Not Apply to Jim Democrat"
From the Savannah Press.

The Dawson News expresses the opinion
that people eat too much, thus overtaxlng
their digestive organs and producing con-
dtion that sometimes ends in sudden death
The News says:
An insurance company official has
reached the conclusion that as rule the
American people are eating too much.
Food consumption statistics gathered
from several countries show that Amefi-
cans eat more than any other people.
Anaysis OF death causes in company
risks" discloses a preponderance OF dis
eases due to overeating, especially OF
foods that are not nutritious. This 9TH
cia1 would have greater attention paid
to diet-to both quantity and selection
of food.
This. OF course, does not apply to Jim
Democrat the old colored democratic mas
cot who is said to have consumed food IN
the la carte service at the Pennsylvania
Hotel in New York to the tune OF about Sl4
meal.
BY the way, the man who did the radio
work for the public at the New York con-
vention says he will be ashamed to look
ham sandwich in the face again. For more
than two weeks he consumed at the Madison
Square Garden this form of CONNECTION. We
are told that the Earl of Sandwich used to
have two slices OF bread with ham between
brought to him at the gaming table to enable
him to go on playing without intermlssion.
The Garden sandwich was a creation, and
when reinforced with the tep1d orangeade OF
this historic building was not exactly food
for gods but was about all that the politl-
clans during the famous one hundred ballots
could consume.