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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
Red Cross Needs You.

Until summed up in cold type before ones
eyes few people know just what great works
are being done by your Red Cross
In the southern division this past year Red
Cross nurses have made 130,553 visits to
homes where accidents and sickness threaten
ed precious human lives among the humble
folk who need help most.
Ex-service men to the astonishing number
of 54,947 have been assisted in settling gov
eminent claims from disabilities arising from
war services, and many have been helped tc
procure the necessary data which will give
them needed hospital treatment which they
did not know how to get.
In many communities the Red Cross chap
ter is the only welfare agency giving con-
structive help to 1854 civilians, who must
be helped back to self support and human
relations
The teaching OF scientific methods of res
cue from drowning the gathering of nearly
100000 children under the Junior Red Cross,
the care of the injured in southern disasters
and the rehabilitation of $500 homeless ones
alone.
Volunteers have made 10,S05 garments for
distribution to the needy in times OF fire,
flood and storm.
Here in the southland, as everywhere else
on earth, the Red Cross workers the
first on the field to minister, help and heal
In 702 southern commJnties this work
has been done without question of creed or
race 1t has answered the cry of human
need 1t has taken money to do this-ust
few dollars from many thousands OF people
The Red Cross membership is just one
dollar You cannot do less for human need
The annual campaign for members will be
gin today-Armistice day-and continue
through Christmas. Remember that you Oh
your community may be the next to neec
the Greatest Mother of All"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
Once More Oats.
From the Commerce News.

No. a newspaper man knows nothing about
farming That's what some of the farmers
say But, there are few things we do know.
We know the crop of corn is unusually short
this year We know that because the farmers
furnish the information. We know another
thing: We know that the price of corn is
unusually high now and we have every reason
TO believe that the price will be higher next
wear. We know another thing: That oats
sowed in the drill in the fall of the year us
uallv make better crop than oats sown in
the spring We know another thing: That
if oats are to be SoWn this fall its time they
were being put in the soil We know an
other thing: The fine rain that came recently
put the soil in mighty fine condition to sow
oats We know another thing: The cotton
is nearly all picked We know that, because
the farmers say it is true. Now then II these
things are true-and they are-it's high time
that the oat sowing fever should be common
all over this country. There has not been
enough corn made in this section to supply
the demand. A good crop OF oats will aid
much in reducing the cost OF making anoth-
err crop. Oats make a fine feed for horses
and mules. Oats are better for them III hot
weather than corn. After the oats have been
harvested crop of peas can be grown and
that will make some peas and possibly some
hay So, there are three angles to the oat
problem. Now, it is true that an editor
knows nothing about farming but if a two
horse farmer will sow five acres in oats, use
one sack of fertilizer to the acre, sow the
oats in the drill, then next spring use one
hundred pounds of nitrate OF soda to the
acre he will likely make some good oats. In
fact we know farmer in Franklin county
who promises to foot the bill of any farmer
who follows this plan and fails to make
good crop OF oats.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
Education Week in Terrell.

, Headed by that progressive and efficient
group of women, the County Federation OF
Women's Clubs, American Education Week
will be observed in Terrell county from
Monday November 18th, to Sunday, Novem-
Der 23rd
The United States bureau of education has
called upon the states to focus public atten-
ton upon the needs of the country from the
viewpoint of general education of mind body
and spirit
To this end each day in the week beginning
next Monday will be devoted to some phase
OF the community welfare Monday is Con
stitution day. when respect for that marvel
Gus document inspired by the fathers of the
republic will be inculcated On Tuesday
Phases of Education will be stressed by adj
dresses and speeches, and on "Wednesday
School and Teacher day will bring to public
attention the necessity, economy, wealth and
happiness producing results OF well-built,
commodous and we'll equipped school houses
and well paid, efficient teachers for the chill
dren of the land Thursday will be Illiteracy
day, when the supreme disgrace OF our glorl-
Gus country will be brought to view with con-
structive advice for the adjustment OF lgnor-
ance so pointedly brought out by our Amer
lean Legion. Friday Physical Education will
be considered, the great need of better health
conditions in town and country, and the re-
iteration of the first principles OF hygiene
given prominence by men and women COM
petent to speak upon the principal need Sat
urday will be Community day, when the re-
lation of neighbor to neighbor will show the
value of complete and wholesouled co-opera-
ton of all for the good of all, and Sunday,
as is fitting, will hear wise counsel from de-
voted pastors as to God and country.
The children of Terrell county are worth
more than all its live stock or agriculture.
They are the supreme embodiment OF the
future, and no sacrifice of time or money IS
too great for their lasting good.
Education Week should have the co-opera-
ton of every right minded generous and
patriotic person, and the splendid women OF
the Terrell county clubs should have the
help of every citizen
The school and the church and the home
are the three pillars upon which are built
the welfare of the human race. One week OF
intensive consideration of the school is little
enough, and we apprehend generous par
ticipation in it by every one in Terrell county
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
LET ME TELL IT.

Some folks have vertebrae as soft as those
canned salmon hshbones. They have no back
bones in their backs-all they have got are
wishbones. The way | see it that is why our
laws are not enforced, why married people
will not stick but up and get divorced We
parents do not dare to speak good resound-
ing NO" nor chase our children up the
path where children ought to go. The young
STEERS still in knee length pants are smoking
cigaroots. and when bald bards rebuke them
they grin and make up shoots; while little
GIRLS, whose dolls aren't weaned, are painted,
prmped and pranked. They should be seized
by small pink ears, then taken home and
spanked I'm glad to see maturer DANES deal
wisely with cosmetics, but young girls need
no beauty dope except good dietetics:: If
they'd drink milk, eat garden sass and keep
their inwards going the identifying blood
would soon through cheeks and lips come
flowing. Now as for me, if | should rise to
break black coffees feter and eat less starch,
and exercise, I'd felt darned sight better.
The good advice | sling so free need for
home consumption, but let us all together
strive to have more grit and gumption.
BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
Too Much Pretense.
From the Telfair Enterprise.

We asked we'll known man the other
day, man who spent several years OF his
life in a large city, why he prefers to live i'll
a small town His quick response was: There
is too much pretense in the city"
It's very good answer and one we wish
all OF our readers would study over. We meet
from time to time someone who pretends to
be something they are not; people who pre-
tend to have that which they haven't got;
who love to boast of rich relatives residing
elsewhere, or of how much money they paid
for a piece of furniture or a dress or some
thing else than they really paid; people who
pretend that things are too dull here and
that people do things so much better in 9TH
er towns they have lived in. You know the
type we are talking about, and you are prob
ably glad that there are few of their stripe
in this community, and that you don't have
to sit and listen to them very often.
There is no place for pretense in a town
of this size. You may practice it in large
city and get by but it's different here, where
everyone is a neighbor and secrets do not
long remain secret; where honesty is still the
best policy and where the truth has habit
of cropping out at unexpected moments.
When our friend said he liked the smaller
town because it is not so full of pretense he
gave a mighty fine argument in favor OF the
place he has picked out as his home. Let
all of us try to keep pretenSe i'll the larger
cities or at least at a safe distance from
here
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
Mighty Slow Work.
From the Winder News.

If we didn't have great faith in the triumph
of truth many of us would become discour-
aged in our efforts to improve the human
race. In spite of our schools, our churches,
our laws, our courts, and in spite of the re-
suit of crime, itself, upon the wrongdoer,
men continue to break the laws of God and
man and bring down upon themselves the
terrible consequences of their disobediences,
The schools and churches have been teach
ing the evils of whisky these many years.
The newspapers have published the awful
consequences of whisky drinking and have
shown the desolation and despair that follow
in its wake Yet men, and women, too, con-
tinue to beard the lion and to dare the devil.
They are always defeated. They always suf-
fer. 1t looks like the redemption OF the human
race is mighty slow work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
Love Apple" Second Largest Crop.
From the Jacksonville Times Union.

The New Orleans Times Picayune says
that tomatoes form the second largest crop
of vegetables raised in the United States
The potato is the largest vegetable crop and
cabbage is the third; and in all of these fine
things which go toward supplying the tables
and filling the market baskets of the people
of the country Florida is at the front. That
tomatoes should stand second is matter for
wonderment, as it has been but short time
since the delicious fruit-vegetable was adopt
ed for food. The Times Picayune says:
What is the largest vegetable crop in
the United States? Potatoes! of course
you have guessed right but how about
the second largest? Now you begin to
scratch your head and we doubt whether
more than so per cent will guess correct
ly. Our second best is our tomato crop,
although only two generations ago the
belief that tomatoes were poisonous was
widespread and single generation past
large communities attributed heart dis
ease, cancer and a few other pleasant
ailments to the tomato, originally known
as love apple" And now for our third
vegetable, what is it? 1t is the cabbage,
of which each year $4,000 carloads are
marketed, without counting those the
farmers wife boils with salt meat for the
home table Two-hfths of all the cab
bages are the early product OF the south
ern states accredited to Florida, Texas,
South Carolina, Virginia and Alabama.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
Chem Good Old Days"
From the Sylvester Local.

A farmer in conversation With the wri-
ter few days ago asked, inJeeming de-
spar: What can farmer raise and ex-
pect anything for it when he raises it?"
When the writer was a boy sweet pota-
toes were thirty cents and forty cents a
bushe1 They are selling now at a dollar
and quarter. Cotton averaged seven
cents pound 1t now averages near
twenty-five cents Corn sold as low as
forty cents bushel. Eggs were fifteen
cents Dozen friers fifteen any twenty
cents a head. Hogs could not be sold.
Beef cattle were eight and ten dollars
head. Syrup was twenty-five cents a gal
lon. Velvet beans and hay would not sell.
There was no market for cream or for
butter In this section there was no
market for vegetables. There was no
waterrnelons or peaches. The men who
farmed back there will, many of them,
feel like smiling when they hear fell
low assert now that he cannot sell any
thing after he raises it.-Moultrie OBJ
server
That fellow was thinking of them goo
old days when you could give a negro
mule and plow and he would make ten o
fifteen bales of cotton which would sell 70
from six to ten cents per pound. But ''ther
good old days" are gone forever in Georgia
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
Great Is South Georgia.
From the Pearson Tribune.

Hon T w Wrench, who recently returned
from a trip through middle and north Geor-
gia tells about it in the Charlton County
Herald, concluding with the following para
graph:
Georgia is great state, so big that our
friends OF the mountains think we folks of
the wregrass are a different set of folks. Yet
with the thoughts of the red clay oozing be-
tween my toes in childhood | fail to see
wherein they have anything on us in any
way-c1imate, people, soil productiveness.
confess my weakness in saying | had rath-
er live in South Georgia than any other part
of the state. Its opportunities are boundless,
property is within the reach OF every man
who wants home, and living can be made
with less effort though l think we ought
not to admit that Success comes only to
those who labor with Drawn and brain. Try
it and be convinced"
1t is a noticeable fact that South Georgia.
praises are sung loudest by people who come
from other sections. Mr.. Wrench came to
South Georgia after reaching manhood and
he seems not to regret it. He has made good
in Charlton county, and he tells people that
Charlton county is good place for intelli-
gent farmers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
More Factories for Dawson.

Undoubtedly the Kiwanis club is on the
right track for the improvement OF business
and future prosperity in Dawson when they
make a determined drive for cotton factory
in the best cotton growing district in Georgia,
which means the best cotton district in the
world.
The enthusiastic and far-sighted Kiwan-
ians deserve the support of everybody in
Dawson in this praiseworthy effort to bring
to the city a new payroll, new avenues OF
work for the residents and new residents for
the city.
New England has ceased to build new units
in New England for cotton manufacturing.
North Carolina by determined effort has
become a great cotton manufacturing state,
and as North Carolina grows in number OF
spindles new avenues for the investment OF
capital must be sought nearer to the source
of supply. In CASTOR county, North Carolina,
with its over one hundred mills three fourths
OF the raw material is imported adding to
the cost of the finished product Again, North
Carolina is beginning to do its own weaving
closer to the cotton plantations.
This is the psychologist moment for driv-
ing for cotton mill for Dawson The COM
mittec appointed is efficient and competent
and it should have the support of every resi-
dent of this city.
Dawson needs more payrolls, and here is
the chance Let's goi
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
Pointed Paragraphs.

A feminine idea of spendthrift is another
woman who lives beyond her alimony.
Walking in the sunshine will not always
enable man to escape the shadow of sus-
pcion.
Many homely woman derives a lot of
satisfaction from the belief that she is clever.
No man fully appreciates hash until after
he has eaten dinner at cooking school.
Every man is introduced to lot of people
who don't care to know him.
Fads may come and fads may go, but a
hobby goes on forever.
Every spinster insists that she is one be-
cause she wants to be.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

Jacob Franks, OF Chicago, is wise in es-
tablishing a trust fund to combat efforts for
the freedom of Leopold and Loeb, who killed
his son. He believes that "a lenient governor
shrewd lawyer and an Indifferent people
will set the stage properly for the release
of the kidnapers and murderers." Therefore
he puts aside large amount of money to
defeat such an attempt as may be expected
after a few years, for, beyond doubt the
time will come when steps will be taken to
turn the convcts out of prison.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

An earnest effort is being made by Peter
S. Twitty the state commissioner OF game
and fish, to build up a sentiment for the
better observance of the state and game laws.
lust now he is appealing not only for the en-
forcement through the courts of these very
wise laws, but to the farmers to interest them
selves in the more effective enforcement OF
these laws in their own interest. Mr.. Twitty
is one OF the most active and efficient officials
who has held that office.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
Peace Panaceas.

Six wears have passed today-Armistice
day-since the echo of the final shot brought
to a close the greatest war the world has
ever witnessed 1t was war to end war,
a struggle to bring about universal peace.
And these six years of peace have given us
what? Chickering's, distrust quarrels racial
enmities, restlessness, dissatisfaction-every
thing in fact but open strife on a large scale
OF peace we have had little. OF panaceas
we have had many. These recipes have run
the gamut from the treaty OF Versailles to
the Box peace plan, and not one OF them IS
worth the paper on which it is written. Why?
Because each seeks to apply man-made rules
to a God-given virtue; because each seeks to
solve with few legal superhclalities ques-
ton which is fundamentally a moral one.
The authors, be they nations or individuals,
are like the man who tries to make dead
tree come to life by tying nosegay on one
of the branches.
Peace is not of the head. 1t is of the
heart 1t is not matter of thou shalt nots y
1t is not a question of laws, but rather one
of ethics The voice OF the soul and not the
command OF International statutes is what
will eventually cause men to i've III peace,
harmony and contentment with their fellow
men. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self" is the noblest peace plan ever written
And it is the only one that will work. 1t Is
slow process, this roofing out OF hatreds
and suspicious and replacing them with the
seeds of peace. But it is the one sure way
and the efforts Of all our well-meaning paclt-
lists to graft their schemes on the rotten
branches at hand will yield nothing more
than has fallen to our lot in the last hv1
years.
Peace is not matter of rules, or OF trea
ties, or of international associations, or OF
disarmament conferences, or of anything il
the nature Of man-made law. 1t is virtue
that must spring from within the heart, anc
until we cultivate this virtue all the panaceaE
of Christendom will not bring peace.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

The south is protesting against the con-
tinuance Of the 81 bill, which the north wish
es kept in circulation. The south says the
bill is unlucky, but the north insists it is
needed in making up payrolls. A superstition
has attached to the bill for some years and
it is not unusual to see it refused as legal
tender Just why this bill has been consid-
cred unlucky has never been explained, but
some persons would rather be broke than to
have one in their pockets.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

After all, what difference does it make how
much income tax anybody pays as long as
they live as decently as the rest of us? No
man is rightly judged by the amount OF
money he has, but by the kind of man he is,
IT he has money and is a good citizen he is
lucky. If he is just a good citizen without
money, he is as good as anyone else. II he
isn't a good citizen the amount of income
tax he pays won't make any difference in
what his neighbors think of him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

The Jackson Herald calls attention to
condition that is doing much, or more, than
any other one thing to retard the agricul-
ture independence and prosperity of this sec
ton Says our contemporary: mot single
cotton state in the south has produced
enough food and feed stuff to maintain its
respective human and animal life for pc
Rod of six months. Hardly one cotton grow
err in fifty will have enough food and feed in
his barns to supply the necessary demands
of the farm for the next ten months. Corn,
the great staple farm food for man and beast,
will most likely cost every cotton grower
who must buy it next spring from SloO to
81 per bushel"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

Three motion picture stars and a director
have just been made happy principals in two
Los Angeles weddings but the public be-
lieves it is only a question of time when
they shall be unhappy parties to divorce ac-
tons Motion picture people do find it most
difficult to stay married.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

Secretary MELONS taxes amounted to
more than $100OOOO and Senator Couzens,
OF Michigan, who constantly has assailed the
head of the treasury department for his tax
plan, paid only $500. Yet, Senator Couzens
is multi-millionaire. Senator Couzens has
his money invested in tax-free securities and
escapes the annoyance OF heavy tax levy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

The investment OF the American people in
automobiles. according to figures made pub
lie by automobile dealers, is seven and halt
billion dollars, or nearly third OF the ma
tonal debt. This, it was pointed out, is thir-
tv dollars. apiece for every man, woman and
child in the country. Yet the country still
seems to be getting on fairly we'll Bankrupt
cies are no more frequent than they used to
be. and there is a good deal of prosperity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

Even though Mr. Ford has found that he
no longer needs Mussel Shoals we think it
ought to be used. Others are ready to bid
on it with offers that seem even more adj
vantageous than Mr. Ford's. The offers
should be carefully analysed and, il comply
ing with federal water power laws the best
should be accepted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

Highway and motor fatalities in the United
States increased by thousands last year until
thew reached the amazing total OF 1888.
Deaths due to collisions with locomotives at
railroad crossings are not included Ninety
nine per cent OF these deaths were avoidable,
which fact only tends to emphasize the trag-
edy of it all.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

Forty-two women in Vienna have gone in
to court and asserted that Julius Gruenwald
was their husband. Scientists, no doubt,
would have a merry time OF it if they under
took to discover just what was the matter
with that man.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

There is no doubt that President Coolidge
in his economy plans is on the right track,
but he certainly has a hercuean task ahead
of him. The tax eaters know no politics
except to support those who dish out the
most public tax.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

Our grandmothers would start the winter
season by knitting wooden stockings, and our
grandfathers would smear tallow on their
long boots and clean their guns for the big
hunt. But now women discard the furs they
have worn all summer, cut the sleeves OFT
their dresses, buy few pairs of silk hose
and announce themselves ready for winter
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11
UNCLE SAM MIGHT DO LIKEWISE.

From the Cordele Dispatch
Free distribution OF fifty million trees and
shrubs to prairie farmers by the Canadian
government during the past few years has
proven to be a far-sighted and beneficent
public policy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

Out OF 146 homicides, taken at random, on
" one person paid the death penalty, accord
mo TO a published report of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company. Little wonder hui
man life is cheap and murder on the increase.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-11-11

Anyhow, the biennial sessions amendment
to the state constitution was ratified IN Oeor-
gia That compensates for a great deal else
that happened last Tuesday.