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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
RUDE RURAL RTHYMES
ARBOR DAY.

We farmers ought to use our land the way
the Great Creator Planned. He spread His
valleys like a floor and added humus more
and more The higher lands not too much
tilted were also fortified and slted, For
husbandry He gave those fields, repaying toll
with fruitful yield But other spots He set on
edge and filled with boulder and with ledge.
He says to man by every sign, This rough
and rugged land is mine. Here will | ripen
at mine ease the long, long harvest OF the
trees. Though You may drive your strong
plows through it, yet you shall starye the
while you do it and wiser grown, at length
agree to give my forest back to me- So
when the spring rains call again to all the
husky sons of men, let's leave our mansions
and our novels, and loading up with spades
and shovels, before the young trees sappy
juices begin to rise up through their sulces,
let's set some little pines and spruces. Let's
start some timber on our places in all the
rough and rocky spaces. Ere we with other
angels roost let's give posterity boost, that
what we plant our sons may reap when we
are lying six feet deep. BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
The Lions Share.

Statistics released by the United States de-
partment Of agriculture show that the farmer
gets only 1870 cents OF each dollar paid him
for his cotton One and 4 fourth cent goes
to the railroads for hauling the cotton, and
the remaining 1885 cents goes to middle
men. The farmers part in producing the cot
ton consists OF planting, fertilizing, working,
growing picking ginning and marketing
while that of the middle man is simply hand
ling it. Following is an extract from the re
port made by the agricultural department:
The farmer gets 1879 cents out OF each
cotton dollar for planting, working. fer
tilizing and growing his cotton, and the
railroad gets "a cents out OF each dol
/ lar Tor hauling the cotton from the de
pot. where placed by the farmer. 10 Its
Mace OF delivery. Out OF his share the
farmer pays for the picking and ginning,
and the railroads pay for the compress
ing. but most roads own or control the
congresses The remainder OF the cotton
dollar. or 79.85 cents, is gobbled up by
the factors commission houses, manu-
iacturers, jobbers and retail dealers
The answer TO this appallingly unfair di-
vision OF value produced by cotton IS that
the farmer is the only unorganized unit in a
highly organized field, He produces the cot
/
ton and sells it at the buyers price and then
buys its back at the sellers price. This is
true OF other farm products, as well.
Throughout the ages such maXims as hight
fire with fire" and others have been handed
down. Their effectiveness has been proved.
The cotton Interpretation Of the plan is fight
organization with organization" With APP
proximately 80 cents of every dollar OF value
represented by cotton going to the various
middle men for only small percentage OF
value added before the cotton product reach
es the ultimate consumer the farmers sit
uation is plainly presented.
There has always been a demand Tor cot
ton. but there has never been market.
Scientific selling or cooperative marketing,
which is the name it is best known BY IS
the only means so far whereby the farmer
NAV realize a fair return upon his effort III
growing his crops
The farmers position is not due so much
to lack of credit or more and cheaper mon
ev as ii is to his inability to get fair share
OF the value OF the products grown by his
own labor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
COOPERATIVE Marketing.
From the Newman Herald and Advertiser,


Statistics show that more than two billion
do1Iars' worth OF business was done last year
Inv farmers organizations operating upon the
20 lucrative plan 1t has long been contend
ed that the farmer is and should be, prlmarl-
u. a business man, but it is only in late years
that he has compelled recognition from the
business world by adopting the up-to-date
methods OF business men IN other lines III
the south the success OF the Co-OperatiVe
Marketing Association IS an example OIL What
NAV be accomplished when farmers band to-
orther for their mutual protection and bene-
IN and the cooperative plan has been found
equally successful in marketing other farm
products Dealing with this subject the 81
Joseph (Mo) Gazette says:
collectively the farmer is the greatest OF
capitalists, as he is also the greatest OF pro-
ducers His weak point has been distribution.
When he learns to distribute his products as
manufacturers do he will have his business
bui1t upon a rock Through cooperation and
the employment OF skilled executives to nan
die his goods he may do for himself more
than the government can ever do for him.,
The fight of the producers of farm crops
for a larger share of what the consumers
nav is now on in earnest The middleman is
n necessity, but their methods have been IN
efficient Consequently they have had to take
too large a toll for the service rendered. A
smaller number could have rendered the same
service. even a better service, and would
have had to take less toll for it.
The best thought of the world today is
seeking method OF getting the products OF
the farms to consumers at less cost The et-
forts thus far made seek a more direct road
from the producer to the consumer less
cnng OF the number OF middlemen and their
profits and more efficient marketing thereby
reducinO costs and increasing returns to the
producer while lessening costs to the con
sumner.
In the south most attention has been to
the better marketing of cotton because it is
our most important money crop. The prog
rcss made in organizing a better method OF
selling the producers cotton has been rapid
and it has now developed to such dimensions
that it is attracting the attention OF cotton
Spectators the country over
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
A NEW BLASTING RECORD.
From the Kansas City Star.

What is believed to have been the biggest
blast ever set off in the history OF industry
was recently fired near Ogden, Utah. to pro-
vide material for constructing the fills that
are the approaches to the Great Salt Lake
trestle OF the Southern Pacific railroad Earth
and rock to an estimated volume OF $4,000
cubic yards was raised and shattered by the
explosion, which used $4,000 pounds OF
special process powder equivalent to 100000
pounds OF black powder A hill 275 feet high
and covering face OF approximately 1000
feet in length was lifted up and separated
into fragments. The placing OF the explosives
in tunnels, aggregating 400 feet in length,
occupied 25 men for IS days.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
Farmers Buying Buttermilk.
From the Commerce News.

Writing about COWS, cream, buttermilk, and
farmers the Cordele Dispatch says
I'm this land Of milk and honey-in this
community where is the largest volume OF milk
and butter fat production in Georgia in this
community from which recently was shipped
the first solid car OF butter this state has
ever sent without its borders man who is
cassed as a farmer walked 2H miles to town
today to buy buttermilk to take back home
for use
II buttermilk was the only thing farmers
came to town to buy it would not be so bad,
but that is just one little item. They come to
town to buy hay, corn, flour, meat, lard pota-
toes, etc, all OF which can easily be grown
in any part OF Georgia. It's tragedy that
we have so few cattle in Georgia. Every fam
lily should have COW. Many tenants and
their children are strangers to milk. There
are millions OF dead babies that might have
lived if led on proper food. But, bad as it is,
this is the first time we have ever heard Of a
farmer coming to town to buy buttermilk.
Stove wood next
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
An Unfair Division.

The people OF the United States spend for
food more than $50,00O0OO day nearly
S2O,O000O00O0 year Of this amount the
farmers, who raise the wheat and corn, and
potatoes, and meat, and milk and eggs, and
sugar. and fruit etc. receive Approximately
one-third. Transportation and distributing
agencies get the other two-thirds. Certainly
the farmer has kick He doesn't get what
is rightly coming to him. And he won't as
long as the influences of those $13,00000O0OO-
a-year middlemen's organizations continue as
powerful as they have been in our national
and state capitals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
Women and Smoking.

Every once in awhile we wonder how long
this cigarette smoking by-women thing is 60
ing to last, and how far it is going to go.
And we shudder when some one tells us the
day IS coming when il. will be cemmoner than
bobbed hair Down here where the cotton
grows we think too much OF mothers wives
sisters daughters and sweethearts to believe
that any such thing is possible. Yet, every
now and then we get first hand information
about what is going on in universities and
colleges and social circles in the larger cities.
We happen to be strong for personal liberty,
and do not dispute womens right to smoke
cigarettes. We do not dispute their right to
chew tobacco, either, but we would hate to
live. with one who is addicted to the use OF
cuspidor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
The Strife of Tongues.
From the New York Times.

1t was stated yesterday at Washington, as
if it were a message OF good cheer to the
country, that the senate finance committee
will report out the tax reduction bill at the
end OF two weeks more. That is supposed to
mark a high rate OF speed for the senate. Fully
ten days ago Senator Smoot, who was chat
ing at the delay and was asked what was the
cause OF it, replied in one word, talk II
he had not feared to be verbose himself he
would doubtless have expanded this into
talk and politics" The evil is growing, and
is one from which other countries are sui
fering as we'll as our own. An English politi-
cal philosopher has recently written an article
on Government by Talk, which he thinks
is breaking down. An acute parliamentary
observer, in constant attendance at the house
of commons since the labor government took
office gave it as his opinion that its chief
weakness was "loquacity." And i'll France, at
the time when the senate was celebrating
so long over the financial proposal OF the
government, an article of protest in the
Temps was headed Too Many Geese at the
Capitol" Their Cackling was not OF the kind
that saves the nation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
Then and Now.
From the Wilkes County Foru

One hundred years ago to be eligible for
governor of Georgia the candidate had to be
possessed OF at least 500 acres OF land in this
state in his own right, and to have $4,000
worth OF other property, and whose estate
had to be- on a reasonable estimation conf
petent to discharge his debts over and above
that amount.
Now person can be elected governor
without possessing a dollar (but his friends
have to possess many dolar), if they eX-
pect to land him i'll the executive chair.
A member OF the state senate had to have
at least $500 of real estate in his own name,
or possess at least $1,000 OF other taxable
property, while a member of the house had
to show $3.50 worth of real estate or $500 OF
other property one year before his election.
Many changes have come about in the
past one hundred years. Now fellow may
be as pennyleSs as a convict, yet if he pos
sesses a good bass voAe and pair of leather
lungs he is considered tp-top subject, and
is fully equipped to tread the marble halls
of the capitol and grind out laws ad lbtum.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
KEEP FLOWERS FRESH WITH DOPE.

From the Abel News
The Savannah Morning News gives the fol-
lowing worthwhile recipe which will be of in
terest to those who love flowers: "A new and
thoroughly demonstrated method of keeping
cut howers-of some varieties, at least-fresh
has been found by Georgia hower-lovers. For
example, chrysanthemums have been kept, at
ter being cut. perfectly fresh and live for six
weeks by dissolving in the water in the vase
in which they were kept tablet OF aspirin, re-
newing the dose every few days. Science has
been prescribing medicine for growing plants
for a long time, but the common use of SIM
pie remedies to keep the blossoms alive and
fresh is not generally in fashion,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
Too Many Billboards.
From the Columbus Ledger.

Bilboards- OF them-will be torn
down in Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Ari-
IONA and California by the owners-the
pany announces that its policy hereafter will
be against billboards marring the scenery
along public roads The billboard menace will
have to be halted by law, later, unless the
scenery spoilers voluntarily follow the oil
company's lead. Scenery is about the only
beautiful thing left in Civilization. Billboards,
like everything else become nuisance and
menace when overdone. Our highways in
Georgia and Alabama partly covered by
unsightly billboards and the beautiful natural
scenery is married to a great extent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

The recent chicken special" run by the
Seaboard Air Line railroad was a success far
beyond expectations Stops were made at 80
Joints from Americas to Savannah and it
required two cars to haul the chickens sold
by farmers The two railroads that serve this
immediate section, the Central OF Georgia and
the Seaboard. are doing much to encourage
diversified farming and promote prosperity.
The News knows OF no agency that is doing
more important work
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
What Taxpayers Think.
From the Kansas City Star.

Congress ought to know what the taxpay-
ers think about it-everybody else does They
think and are saying although they have no
witness stand to say it on--that congress is
mostly concerned with next November's cleo
ton. They think it is more. concerned for
party than Tor the country. They think it
wasn't too busy TO have needed the presidents
recommendation for p per cent reduction in
income tax. and that the reason it didn't heed
it was because one party was afraid the other
would get credit for doing something They
have noted that congress isn't too busy to
listen Tor hours every day to political stump
speeches
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
OUININE LONG USED.

Quinine is the powdered bark OF the chin
chona tree and its use dates back to the sew
enteenth century. The tree is native to Peru
but since about 1860 has been successfully
grown also in India. where. because OF eli
mate conditions its efficacy as a drug was
realized as worth the effort to transplant
some OF the chinchona trees. The trees died
en- route but the seed remained alive.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

Former Governor Cats is again a candi-
date for that office in Florida. and Dawson
citizen who has recently returned from that
state thinks he will be elected. Although far
inferior to the late Georgian in intellectual
power Cats in Florida is somewhat similar
10 Tom Watson in Georgia. He has been per-
secuted by political enemies, and that &c
counts for much OF his strength among the
people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

There is general complaint as to the bad
condition of the Florida Short Route, espe-
cially through Chattahoochee county, and
the probability is that tourist travel now
using this highway will be diverted to the
I.umpkin. Cuthbert and cambridge route I'M
less the authorities can be prevailed upon to
do some much needed work on this long
neglected thoroughfare 1t is a matter that
concerns Albany, Dawson, Sasser, Parrott,
Weston and Richland, and the authorities
and public spirited citizens OF these towns
should at once take earnest and decisive &C
ton to have the Short Route put in proper
condition.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

BY paying lower salaries than other states
Georgia is losing many OF her best teachers,
SAYS the Jackson Progress-Argus. According
TO figures compiled by the state auditor the
sum ot Slo,275000 was spent for the support
OF the common schools OF Georgia in 1928 and
OF this sum S1OO0O0O0 was for salaries II
The News has been correctly informed no
other southern state is doing as much, and
hut few in other sections are doing more,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

The Lexington Echo is advocating ten
year terms OF office and the abolshment OF
primaries Our contemporary is on "cold
trail" But, seriously. with the negro disfran-
chised and republicans and everybody else
voting in them what is the use OF primary
elections: They are both troublesome and eN-
ncnsiXc
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

Many ridiculous things happen in politics,
hut the most absurd OF recent occurrences IS
the election by the democrats Of Michigan
OF delegates to the national democratic con-
venton favorable 10 Henry Ford who is an
avowed supporter OF President Coolidge.
Michigan democrats. ii there are any, are sure
enough donkeys.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

Chicago BARRIERS certainly are the mean
things They have boosted the price Of
bobbing hair to $3.50 and of hair cuts for
girls thereafter to ST. The Chicago girls are
right in protesting the double standard OF
prices.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

A woman is always telling man that she
doesn't understand lot Of things that she
really knows more about than he does.
The man who persists in doing his fellow
man usually ends by doing time.
A st. Louis doctor refuses to allow his
wife to raise ducks because they make such
personal remarks.
1t is the easiest thing in the world to for
give yourself for the sins you condemn in
others.
Even liar respects veracity-in the 9th
er fellow.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

The senate of the United States is sup
posed to be a deliberative and legislative
body. But it has neither deliberated nor leg
islated so far in all the months OF this SEES
sion Nothing but talk and a poor grade OF
talk at that
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

Thrty-two United States senator's are to
be elected next November. This helps us to
understand why senators now in Washing
ton would rather play politics than do any
prosaiC work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

Lenine who was the leading spirit of Rus
sian bolshevism, once declared that the diff
ference between the two parties under the
two party system" was that rested
while the other worked. He meant the one
in office when he spoke Of rest
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

Uncle Sam shows that the per capita wealth
in the United States has increased $1,000 in
the last twelve years, but many individuals
who look into their own pockets for the
proof will not believe them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

sought to Gust the secretary OF the treasury
found one MelDon not ripe enough to pull.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
Rucus in McAdoo Ranks.

All is not harmony in the McAdoo camp.
The Newman Herald and Advertiser brle1-
w and fairly sets forth the cause OF the STRIFE
as it appears on the surface. 1t says:
The trouble grows out of the action
OF McAdoos managers at campaign
headquarters in Atlanta in naming the
delegates in each OF the one hundred
and sixty counties, instead of allowing
the various county executive commit
tees to make the selections--a preroga
tive enjoyed by the local organizations.
AS a casual and disinterested onlooker
The News ventures the suggestion that the
protest would have come with more grace
and perhaps been more effective, il it had
been made before the election when the rule
under which the delegates have been chosen
could have been changed. Not a voice was
lifted nor line written then The delegates
have been named by those with the author
lied to make the selection under the rules pro-
mulgated by the state executive committee
with the provisions of which everyone who
keeps informed upon the political affairs OF
the state was familiar. The fact is, the
"rucus" is a renewal Of the old fight between
rival political leaders of Atlanta, and the man
ner Of choosing the delegates was seized upon
as an excuse to open hostilities in an en-
deavor to secure control OF the state conven-
ton and dictate the personnel OF the delega-
ton to the national convention.
In the opinion of The News much more
important matter and one that deserves more
criticism than the method of choosing dele
gates, is the action of the committee which
Il ,+.,+, ,,,t -.
convention Every county that declared foi
Underwood in the primary will be misrepre
scented by a McAdoo delegation. 1t is un-
democratic and dictatoral 1t sets up one
man power. and smacks of boss rule.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

The farmers are now planting their 1924
crops and if they are wise they will provide
against the shipment of corn into this sec
ton next year The farmer who buys feed
and food will make stupendouS failure.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

OF course it is not a pleasant thing to
know OF a wife knocking her husband down
and sitting on him and otherwise mistreating
him, but somehow the reversal OF the usual
order carries an undeniabe appeal to ones
sense of reciprocal justice.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

The local elections are all over, but no one
is possessed OF enough assurance to say the
same thing about the winter
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

Senator Harris would stop all immigration
to this country for a period of five years. He
is on the right line There is entirely too
much Of Europe's riff-raff here now. Most OF
the trouble and unrest in America is due to
the immigrant class Of citizens.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

A good many so-called dirt farmers who
run for Office are in reality poor excuse OF
q sidewalk farmer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

After all Stacker Bergdoll is not coming
back 10 America Immediately, but since the
country can get on very well without him
the interest in what he does is not as keen
as it was when he first escaped from Gus
tody.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

The one crying need in Georgia just now
is less cheap politics. fewer political ma
chimes. and more farm hands, graders and
road drags.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

That Vanderlip fellow may think he is
making name for himself at Washington
and he probably is, but whether it will be
the kind he wants is another matter entirely.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

The experts who have decided how much
Germany really can pay in reparations may
never live long enough to see the fact that
they were right demonstrated.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

The dove OF peace is evidently a total
stranger to the Georgia McAdoo followers
There are now talk of two delegations to the
national convention.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
Pointed Paragraphs.

A lawyer minds his own business when he
attends to the affairs of other people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

toothache may be classed as neces-
sary evil when you haven't got It.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15

All is not harmony in the McAdoo camp
The Newman Herald and Advertiser bret
w and fairly sets forth the cause OF the STRIFE
as it appears on the surface 1t says;