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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
WHAT GOOD ROADS MAY COST.

From the Greenwood Is. c. Index Journal
Here is a significant item from recent is
sue OF the Dearborn Independent Cords
Weekly:
Five hundred farms were auctioned off re-
Gently in Arkansas at a federal receivers sale
to satisfy tax assessments levied against the
land for the construction of highways
The Arkansas farmers and land owners
who lost their lands and homes under this sale
cannot be expected to be boosters for good
roads at such a cost"
The Index-Journal is and has been for
twenty-five years an ardent advocate of good
roads. 1t preached the good roads doctrine
before the day of the automobile and realizes
the greater need for good roads in these au-
tomobile days, but it is not ready to sacri-
fee everything else for good roads 1t is too
much to ask of the people
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
A Case of Thrift.
From the Macon News.

Fifteen years ago the late Henry M Flag
Ter created a trust fund of 100000 for the
care and maintenance of his wife, who had
become mentally afflicted.
A few days ago the trustees gave one OF
their regular accounts of stewardship to the
court and it was disclosed that after paying
the expenses of Mrs. Flagler's maintenance
during all the years, at a sanitarium where
the expenses probably have not been hight,
the trust fund has now increased from ST.
100000 to almost $11,000000.
Here is an impressive lesson in the ability
OF money to make money, when it is wisely
invested The money was largely invested in
Standard Oil securities, not because they paid
particularly high dividend so much as be
cause they were looked upon as offering the
highest degree of interest compatible with
security.
There are many other securities which
might have shown the same amount OF &C
Cumulation.
We are dealing here in millions to be sure,
but the average man with few hundreds or
few thousands might have done equally as
well in proportion.
1t is thrift thrift, Horatio that counts
whether the figure be large or small
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
RUDE RURAL RETYMES
HELL BENT.

In ruder times, when | was young, full
many a weghty text was flung and all my
neighbors argued hot, Is there hell or IS
there not?" | sometimes let my mind review
the lown-down things my brothers do as well
as those performed by me, and am tempted
to agree that if there amt there ought to be.
Yet still | note some signs OF grace within
the meanest of the race, God does not leave
us cold and dark; His breath still blows up
on the spark, and still He speaks in gentle
tones to you and me and William Jones.
When. seh-exiled from joys that bless, we
eat our bread in bitterness the soul within
us burns and stings and drives us on to bet
ter things Though we may wander Tor
space. each crooked path we must retrace;
and as we Chamber slowly back and lrrlgate
with tears the track toward those fair heights
from which we fell. that will be hell, that
will be hell Wherever they may park the
bones of YOU and me and William Jones' and
though our souls may wander far beyond
the dimmest utmost star, God still will find
us where we are But though at last all shall
be we'll we pass through hell, we pass through
hell. BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
Georgia Primaries.

The Atlanta Georgian says The state press
seems rather united in its opinion that the
NELL primary law should be so amended IN
Georgia as to combine one and the same
primaries for county officers and-during a
presidential year-the presidential primary;
and that this statewide primary should be
financed by the state, to the end that every
ballot box in every militia district OF the
state may be opened"
AS the Georgian says there is no partisan
politics in that; there is much common sense.
The recent presidential primary in Georgia
was little less than farce. Not half OF the
democratic electors of the state expressed
their preference In number OF counties the
polls were not opened at all, i'll others they
were opened only at the court house and per-
haps in one or two precincts at which there
was a town In some counties less than lOO
votes were polled and in others with voting
strength of 1000 to 1000 the total number
Of votes cast ranged from $50 to 500 Under
these conditions there cannot be. ,full eN-
preston OF the wishes OF the people, and
anything less is cause for dissatisfaction and
distrust.,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
How Perfectly Terrible!

1t has happened no doubt, that there were
executioners who welded the axe but should
have had their. own heads rolling into the
basket. that some sherifs and policemen
should have been under arrest and wearing
handouts. that an occasional jailor should
have been locked up with the keys thrown
away, for many cuprit escapes Just because
he does not advertise his guilt. One of the
worst cases of this kind to come to public
attention is that of New Jersey prosecutor
who violated the archaic blue laws of that
state while seeking to impose on everyone
else the necessity OF their observance. The
blue laws in questions were passed in the
inspiring year of 1893
The prosecutor, however, in the vernacular
of the police court, came clean. He confess
ed his crime. Not only that, but he admit
ed that he was ignorant that he was violating
a law imagined But right nobly does he
strike an attitude and insist that he shall not
plead ignorance as an excuse Instead, he
shall throw himself upon the mercy of the
court and take what he gets. Alonysius Nc
Mahon, assistant prosecutor of the county OF
Hudson, n J., be it known can take his medi-
cine in manful fashion More power to him,
but-he must not commit the fearful crime
again
Along with undertakers who must not I'M
dertake on Sundays filling station proprietors
who must not fill jitney buses that must
not lit hotels that must not charge one price
/ Qet alone two), and various other lines OF
endeavor is included in another enterprise
which Mr. Alonysius Mcmahon says must not
make dishonest dime The legislators of 1798
have spoken thus, and modern Jerseyites dare
not contradict them The crime OF which Mr.
! Mcmahon pleads guilty. Oh, yes, to be sure
| that is important as a matter of information
| Why. he made the mistake of having his
shoes shined on a Sunday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
Your Town Debt.
From the Ashburn Farmer.

In an article on individual advertising Of
town and community the Thomaswille
Times Enterprise says that the question, DO
you owe anything to your town" would in
deed be foolish one to ask
And yet it is pointed out there are peo-
pie that act as il they under little, il
any, obligation to the towns and counties
where they have the social and business adj
vantages that make life worth while.
Every town. says the Thomasvlle paper,
is dependent on its business, and that is de-
pendent on right advertising, and
I'VE use this term advertising in its broad
est and most liberal sense, namely: the rep
utation that it is given by its responsible cit
liens. We all know there few knock
ers-disgruntled, sore old fossils who don't
get all they want without working for it and
blame the town for it, They don't count.
They are a negligible quantity, even if they
did count
But what does count big in the way OF To-
cal business prosperity is the personal word
too many well-meaning citizens neglect to
speak town advertising opportunities
they leave to others.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
The American Hen.
From the Telfair Enterprise.

II hasn't been so long since the common
hen was a by-product OF farming Little at
tention was paid to her because 1t was
thought she consumed enough to make up
fot what she produced in eggs and food In
fact. many farmers considered her hab1llty'
and we've heard Telfair county citizens de.
clare there's no money in keeping chickens
Today all this has changed. The hen, re-
sponding to the better treatment and brought
10 efficiency through careful breeding, has
become a valuable asset. A business OF more
than S2.OO0OO0.000 year is done in Affier-
ca through the hen and her chickens and her
eggs Ii has become a tremendous business.
There are numerous failures, of course, but
most of these failures are due to lack OF un-
derstanding loose business methods and want
of intelligent feeding and sheltering. No 9th
er $4,000 100000 business in the world offers
as wide a field for the man whose capital is
small. We recently read where a man in a
neighboring state now sells over SlOOOO
worth OF chickens and eggs each year, and he
started in business with a dozen hens and
two roosters.
1t doesn't require rich and fertile land up
on which to raise poultry; in fact expert
poultry men insist that soil filled with gravel
and sand. though with some grass, OF course,
really makes the ideal poultry farm.
We're not encouraging anyone to drop
what they are doing and enter the poultry
business. But we are trying to point out that
many of the things we often pass up as be-
ing beneath our notice turn out to be whales
in the business world. And raising poultry
and eggs is one OF them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
Good Seed Corn.

There is not anything more important than
good seed and if southwest Georgia farmers
arc to raise a good crop OF corn this or any
other year it is essential that their seed be
given an individual ear test. That is a fact
which stands out beyond question.
Tests on $4,000 ears OF representative seed
corn from all sections OF that state, made by
the farm extension service OF Iowa state col
lege. show only 795 per cent fit for seed;
similar tests by county agents on j0,00J
ears show only 70 per cent grows strong
The remainder in both cases is either weak
or dead More alarming is the condition OF
the crib corn. Tests on $500 ears of this
kind of seed show SO per cent strong, and the
remaining Al per cent either weak or dead
The poor and Improbable corn yields Of
Georgia could be very materially increased
if more care were taken in the selection OF
seed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
The Cotton Ghost.
From the Triton Gazette.

The cotton ghost is stalking the farms OF
south Georgia these days. He wears a dress
OF cotton bagging, belted with cotton ties
and goes armed with fertilizer note in one
hand and long loan mortgage in the 9th
er Colonel Charlie Brown, that courageous
member Of the governors staff, saw him the
other night and, fleeing for safety behind his
trusty typewriter shot the following at him
through the columns OF that great defender
OF diversified farming, the Cordele Dispatch
Here they go with the cotton propaganda
that old death rattle Some day the farms OF
this section will have TO develop food and
feed crops and cattle and hogs and chickens
That farm which is at it today is on a safe
program. 1t will not have to liquidate in the
courts. The all-cotton man IS already gone
He cannot stand another year of it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
Pointed Paragraphs.

Short ladies should avoid much trimming
on their skirts, says fashion writer. Yes,
and so should long ladies if their husbands are
short.
Our idea of plucky man is one who re-
fuses to be plucked.
Women and opportunity like to make calls
when you are out
Never Judge man by the talk he lets out
in his own behalf.
The price OF liberty is eternal vigilance,
but the cost Of repairs is extra.
Talk less and think more. This is good
advice to give but hard to take.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

The last race OF the county democratic prl-
mary was gotten over with Wednesday, and
all OF the candidates have published cards OF
thanks and declarations that they harbor no
i'll will against those who did not vote Tor
them. The primary was unique in several re-
spects Among these were the absence OF
"mud-slinging" on the part of the candidates,
and the fact that women voted. If the last
named fact had anything to do with the first
the women should be given two votes each,
as a guard against future dredging by can
didates.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
Sunshine Sonnets.
By Muriel Brewster.

by WuTIeI bTeWSter.
Sweet modest Spring still has her charming
face
The suns caresscs have not won her heart,
But each day, counting her with gentlest art,
He wins long step forward in the race
Today he found violet her check
Uncovered for her kisses; yesterday
\ vine, close to the ground. with blossoms
gay
Arbutus, in her game OF hide-and-seek'
Beneath her thick green leaves, his warm rays
caught.
And threw her perfume high into the air,
Carrying clear the message that he sought
From Spring his well-beloyed lady lair.
She will not tarry long behind her flowers.
They are the heralds OF her joyous hours.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
The Frenzied Senators.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger


The situation in the senate has come to
be impossible The upper house has worked
itself into frenzy. 1t has made itself the
home OF arsenic squads who poison reputa-
tons and OF we'll prisoners who destroy char
acter Weeks ago it wandered afar from the
main and principal aims OF its Investigations:
1t is now the haunt of political gunner. II
these are the breed OF senators that popular
vote sends to Washington, then it was an
evil day for the nation when it approved the
seventeenth amendment. Disgust with senate
tactics is rising to danger mark. The peo-
pie OF this country are fairminded and be-
licve in fair play. They are now realizing
that the senates actions are the very pith
and essence OF pettiness. There is actual dan
ger of a backfre OF national disgust that will
dlscredit all Investigations and all investiga-
tors A wearied and resentful people is about
ready to cry out to both parties, "A plague
on both your houscs!"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

The farmer is getting a great deal OF ad-
vice. There are thousands of fellows sitting
around in cities who after completing g.
hour day at high wages, tell the l2-hour toiler
on the farm how to make money and how to
get out OF his present difficulty OF taking
low prices and paying high prices. But it is
striking TACT that there is no rush OF the
short-houred men OF the cities to get out in
the open air midst the sunshine about which
they rave in poetic fashion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
Water Over the Wheel.

Money going into the cash registers OF
Dawson's stores is water over the wheel"
and this is the power that makes for the
prosperity Of Dawson. Spend your money
in Dawson, and it will return to you mani
iold-in the form OF municipal Improvements.
in q growing town and consequent increase in
your own business, and in knowing that you
have done your part towards improving the
lot OF your fellow citizens.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

Noting Georgias endorsement OF w. q.
McAdoo for the democratic nomination Tor
the presidency. an Alabama newspaper de
clares: AT any rate, Georgia has run true to
form and backed native son. Whatever may
be said OF Georgia the state is loyal and
however much the local and internal politics
may be OF the Kilkenny brand those people
drop their squabbles among themselves and
unite for the glory of Georgia when the oc-
casion demands it." As the Georgia Railway
and Power Company declaims: 1T is great
to be Georgian"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

An amateur writer makes the doletul dec
laration that fewer and fewer people are writ
ing for arts sake and more and more are
writing for pecuniary gain. True, but people,
even writer's, must eat. But, returning to
the aesthetic side of the question, America
reeds more artists 1t is well to note that an
artist isn't necessarily writer, painter nor a
sculptor A person who makes really delicious
biscuit is none the less the artist though such
persons are much fewer in number than 9th
cr artists"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

The liver" declares an American scient-
ist is the seat of love and not the heart,
as one would suspect around Valentine day.
It is a wonderful opportunity for medicine
advertisers Who knows but that the love
philters of the middle and earlier ages were
liver pills dissolved in wine?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

New York is in great danger OF getting
too good too suddenly The courts there re
Gently were asked to restrain the showing
OF a medical film to a group consisting Who'll
" OF physicians and nurses on the ground
that it might have tendency to corrupt their
morals. Anthony Comstock probably wouldn't
have gone that far.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

Judging from the tough language employ
ed by Chicago young woman on trial tor
murder and whom the prosecution is trying
to hang. it would take a good strong rope
to accomplish the purpose OF the laws pen
altY
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

Leasing Mussel Shoals to anyone for 100
years is simply another step in the trans
ference to private control of our national re-
sources. following naturally what was done
in the oil leases that have become such a ma
tinnai scandal
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

An astronomer has figured out that the
earth is o,OOOOOOOOO years old. That is
passage OF time that may be even more i'm
pressive when it is realized that the Christian
era is only little more than O000O0,0OO
minutes
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

Recently "human fly" climbed the out
side OF a 16-story building in a Georgia city
as one OF the feature acts OF benefit held
there. Human life is held to be dear, but not
half 50 valuable as human amusement.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01
WE APPEAR TO BE LEARNING

From the GAINESVILLE News Gazette
Georgia is a great state. but her own people
do not properly appreciate it. Its citizens
ought to make good use OF all its natural adj
vantages but it is not being fully done at
present. Georgia ought to produce very large
ly all that its citizens need in agriculture live
stock and kindred lines. Why should Geor-
gans have to buy their beef pork butter
eggs, poultry. corn and meal and innumer-
able other products from outside the state
and send our money out OF the state for them?
We can produce these things and keep our
money at home.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

We have come to fairly revel in scandal OF
our public men and in the character assassi-
nation OF our public officials. 1t is a greater
crime than charged against the alleged trans
gressors for it destroys that confidence in
humanity that is the very foundation of all
government and all civilization
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

A sew style Tor women is distinctly boy
ish. The hair is to be combed back fiat and
slick, the ears exposed. A Tuxedo coat must
go with the suit, and there also is a waist
coat Mlady will be able to swing cane
with the best OF them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

His plea OF insanity some years ago hay
ing served to prevent the imposition OF a
penalty for murder upon him Harry Thaw
will now try to prove that he is sane 1t is
not the first time that has been attempted,
and it would not be the first time the scheme
had succeeded It has been done more than
once here in Georgia
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

To the rotten mind and heart all things are
rotten-political, business, humanity. But the
rest Of us know it isn't so.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

Mr. Daugherty has at last retired from the
cabinet The wonder is that, under the cir
cumstances. he was able to stay as long as
he did. He has had strenuous career.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

There will yet be serveral months OF poll
tics The state compaign will now open. and
continue through the summer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

Farmers OF Butts county would not make
a mistake to put a good acreage in sweet
potatoes this season Georgia yams are bring
ing a good price now says the Jackson
Progress-Argus There is no county in the
state in which potatoes can be grown more
successfully, both as to quality and quantity,
than Terrell, and the farmer who plants them
as q side line will make some money.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

Al Jennings, reformed train robber, poll
tician and evangelist though it isn't quite
clear Just which classification the word ere
formed" pertains TO- has promised startling in
formation when he takes the stand in the
spree OF investigation in which the senate is
now INDUCING. After his varied career he
OUGHT 10 be able to accuse almost everybody.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-01

1t sometimes staggers a man when he dis
covers that it is impossible to get a drink
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-23
S|[)ENT
PUTS No
BAN ON
PLAN
Visitors Should Be Allowed to
Dance, be Says Parade
Still Undecided

President Coolidge has put his
foot down on the proposal to hold
either a ball or a reception on the
evening of Inauguration Day.
March A.
He win not attend either one
of these events, if local interests
should decide to hold them. This
was stated with finality by a.
spokesman for the President today.
President Coolidge has no objec-
ton to an inaugural ball being
held. and believes that any per-
sons in Washington who are visi-
tors here should be given an un-
limited opportunity to dance if
they desire to do so. Howeverl
he will not lend his presence to
such an occasion on Inauguration
Night.
Wants Chance For Dancers. !.
As between a reception or 4.
ball, the President thinks that IT
might as well be a ball, so as to
give the dancers a chance. He
viii not, however. have anytime
to do with it.
AS to the other items of Inaug.
ural Day celebration in Washing
ton, including the parade, no def
mite decision has been reached
IKE President has been informed
", the Joint Congressional Com
n'ttee that thc inauguration 81.
1920 vas the most satisfactory ever.
held in Washington He, ID In
clined to agree with this opinion.
especially in view Of the uncertain.
weather conditions that usually
prevail! in March.
The President and Mrs. Coolidgs
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