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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-01
NEGROES IN NORTH AND WEST

TN late issue of the New York Times
I there is an article written by a colored
~ man who is forecasting the negro vote in
various states for the November election
[ am interested in the figures he furnishes
In West Virginia there are $500 colored
voters. In Ohio the total negro vote is
10000. There are $1,000 in Oklahoma
The understanding is that while the nation
al vote will be Republican, these colored vot-
ers will vote for Walton because he OPP
poses the Khan. Kansas has 800 coored
voters. Indiana has 81 900 colored voters
Maryland has 149,10O, most of them living
in Baltimore Philadelphia had $4,000 in
1900. Oregon has only 1900.
The colored Republicans are confident of
carrying Minnesota for Coolidge.
OF the 5,816,00O colored voters in the
United States 80 per cent will vote the Re-
publican ticket. 1t is stated that the. co1ored
vote in New York state will go for Roosevelt.
Cross procession in New York City which
begun at 2 p. m. and was still going at 6
p. m. I saw vast numbers of colored per-
sons, more women than men, as it seemed
to me. 1t was the greatest war exhibit I
ever saw, and I could make some guess at
the number in New York state of colored
voters.
From our part of the country Michigan
seems to be the favored locality for Geor-
gia colored folks. Washington City has vast
numbers. There are a great many in Cali
fornia.
1t is said that there are many negroes in
Montana Outside the Solid South this vote
is sought by all parties.
The New York Times article is decidedly
suggestive. Generally they are all anti-Klan.
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If a hog could be changed into a man he
would make first-class egOtist.
No respectable cat would look at a king
If there is mouse in sight.
Most of the golden opportunities are only
O1atp1
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24
Promoting Prosperity.
From the Americas Times-Recorder.

Members of the Moultrie Rotary club
provided p boys in Colquitt county with
nure bred Jersey calves. Each member OF
the club signed note jointly with boy IN
Davment of calf A Colquitt County Jersey
Cali club was formed by the boys and the
club is growing Already more calves are
being applied for.
The Moultre Rotarians are serving their
CITY and community, applying their motto,
"He profits most who serves best in tan
gible lasting form.
That was fine things to do, and is wor-
thy of emulation. Such as this will better
condition and put Georgia on sound basis,
saws The Dawson News. "A Jersey calf CLUB
would help Terrell county"
The Triton Gazette, commenting on the
service of the Moultrie Rotarians, says:
Members of the Moultrie Rotary club
are assisting in promoting this good
work member of the club signing
note for each calf with the calf club mem
Der. 1t shows the interest OF the Col
quit county boys in better farming
methods that there were more boys ap-
Dlving for calves than there were calves,
and the interest of Moultre business
men in promoting better farming meth
DDS is shown by their willingness to
assist the boys in securing calves
A booded Jersey calf on every farm in
Sumter county will not only add to the
prosperity of this community, but it will en-
list the interest OF our boys in better stock
II we would keep the young life on the
farm we must make the farm interesting and
profitable to them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24
Here at Last.

Summer finally arrived and wonderful
changes have occurred as a result. Cotton
and corn have at last begun to grow and
the hope of the farmers to revive. Farmers
who never had heard of any one raising crops
in cold weather have had their interest in
life revived and are counting the weeks left
in which cotton may mature. A good grow
ing season still may be had.
Temperatures OF above IS made them
selves felt with the final arrival of summer,
but higher ones may be expected any time,
since June usually is month when that is
a natural climatic condition. Complaints too,
have been heard. One woman petulantly re-
marked on the street that it was perfectly
horrid' for il to be so hot. But that's the
way it always is. Everybody simply cannot
be satisfied Those who do not like summer
weather will have to make the best of it. Out
in the country and in the gardens of the city
where things are growing to feed everybody
the compliments included, summer is indeed
welcome even if late in getting here.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24
Biennial Sessions Would Help.

1t is much easier to find fault than it is
to make constructive criticisms. Accordingly,
in taking the easiest course one invariably
takes the easiest subject to attack. This, at
the present, is politics There is too much
politics in Georgia. Politics is in representa-
tive government what fumes are in brass
foundry. The brass and the representative
government are good, durable metals" but
the fumes-politics as Welfare nauseous and
even destructive if taken in habit forming
quantities.
There is a platitude directing crusaders,
both amateur and professional, to strike at
the root" of the evil and, accordingly, our
crushing blow falls upon the head of the
grand old legislature
There are too many sessions OF the legis-
lature One faction appears, at these sessions
to be trying to do something while another,
it would seem, is bent upon preventing any
such rash action. After considering what the
first is trying to do one is inclined to be-
lieve the second is fairly near to being right.
Moral: Swat the too frequent sessions OF
the legislature and curtail politics. Biennial
sessions and four-year term for the gov
ernor would help wonderfully.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24
TOO Nice to Work"
From the Savannah News.

President Coolidge gave some mighty good
advice to the graduating class OF Georgetown
university when he told the young people
that the market for trained intelligence will
never be overstocked, but that high collars
for the mind" should not be worn unless
the graduate wants to find the world a bit
cold toward him. The best advice Tor a col
lege graduate is that he shucl his coat, at
least metaphoricaly and start in to work
hard all day and every day, toward the right
sort of success that waits for every man who
is willing to work for it. The man who is
too nice to work will find that the rewards
of work are too nice for him. There is pen-
ty OF opportunity now for any young man;
to say that there is not is to fail to realize
that the successful men of today will be gone
and forgotten in two more decades Who is
going to take their places? Their places must
be filled, and the men who will fill them are
the young men who right now are working
with a combination of brains and muscle
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24
Yes, Most COpiOusly.
From the Wilkes County Forum

A writer in last weeks Atlanta Journal
asks. DO schools waste time and money!,
That they do both is self evident TACT and
the writer should have used his quest in an
other form: How much time and money
90 the schools throw away
They absolutely throw away time from
about the last of May until sometime in Sep
TENDER. or about one-fourth OF the year Just
how much time is thrown away during the
other three-fourths of the year it would re-
uuire an astute bookkeeper to figure out
A good proportion OF it is consumed in
baseball, basket ball. football and then they
bawl for additional taxes to keep their ball
business going.
In an article last week Superintendent OF
Education Ballard gave quite an unfavorable
report OF education in Georgia, and while he
was too gallant, perhaps, to say much he
did say that some OF the colored teachers
hardly knew their A. B. Cs.
Education in Georgia is very much like
charty-it covers a multitude OF sins for
which the taxpayers have to atone.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24
Jesse James Would Weep.

If Jesse James were alive today he would
weep to realize that he was misplaced in his
career of more than a generation ago, when
purses for train robberes, like those for
prize fights, were insignificant. Jesse got
only few thousand for his most daring
most spectacular feats; today train robbers
get millions Anyone who doubts that it is
a progressive age may have that doubt dis
PEELED by looking over the reports of the loot
taken in these times. The piker has vanish
ed Jesse James must have been one in his
line. Just as were John L. Sullivan, Jim Cor
bett, Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Jeffries in
theirs
Indeed America can boast OF its advance
ment France, a few weeks since, kindly call
ed attention to the fact that She too, had
become a modern nation. France had had
her first train robbery. AS with skyscrapcrs
crime. motor cars and various other things
this country also stays ahead in providing
the biggest loot for robbers ever known
America will stay ahead, no matter what
the cost
A 100000 haul by the train robbers who
took scores of pouches of registered mail al
ROunQOuT, ILL.,, Is something " DOaot VI
That's big business-for the train robbers
men of daring, enterprise and Imagination
Reports following the sensational robbery
point to the possibility of it having resulted
from an inside tip. The robbers are believed
to have known all about the heavy ship
nents OF currency and negotiable bonds, ano
to have been prepared for the cleanup they
made
The peculiar thing about robberies OF thi
kind is that they succeed again and again
1t will not be long until another like thi
will happen The foolish policy OF taking
chances when millions are at stake seems t
be perpetual. Mr. Ford certainly did MI
lanes favor by putting a bullet throug
him which saved him from deep chagrin tina
would have come when he made compar
sons of his own swag and that of the up
to-date bandit
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
ADVICE TO CAMPERS.

I'm very glad that Henry Ford IS shippinqs
Aivvers free on board, that likewise MI
Chevrolet is turning his'n loose each day. as
we'll as certain other gents who give us ooa's
at small expense I'm very glad because OF
that to find the proetariat, whose pocKe'
books are darn near fiat can still go scoot
mo here and yonder as Tree as any bioated
bender | much admire in sun1ner weather
to see the Joneses out together. lhey con
stitute camping party, and every kid Is
brown and hearty They boil their pot and
warm their beans amid seductive sylvan
scenes then pitch their tents beneath the the
stars and leave the road to other cars, TN
Pheobus bids them cease to snore and rise
TO hit the pike once more, O brothers. leave
your camping site as slick and clean as when
YOU light. Amid your horse-play and your
laughter remember those who follow after
and do not curse the haunts OF Pan witt
cracker box and salmon can. Yea, quench
your campfire that no spark, escaping from
it in the dark, may scorch the scene you
found so fair and leave a desolation there. l
bless the honest careful tourist, alike the
iunlkman and the jurist but darn the man
who scatters matches and spoils our nice
green forest thatCheS. -TBOB ADAMo'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24
Voters Unmindful of Duty.

The Wilkes County Forum, which is edit
ed by Boyce Ficken, Sr, member OF the
legislature, says in a recent issue:
Hon. J. D. Weaver, president OF the
Farmers Union, says farmers are not
paying much attention to politics. tie
should try and get them more interested:
It is a distressing condition that out OF
half million votes in Georgia not half
of them go to the polls. but after an
election cuss themselves blue and black
about slick and incompetent men being
voted into Office"
What the Wilkes county paper has so
truthfully stated has attracted some attention.
J. B. Nevin, writing in the Atlanta Georgian,
says: at is, as this writer frequently has
observed, pity-even a shame-that Geor-
gians are so unmindful of their rights and
duties of voting. With a potential voting
strength-men and women OF at least 600,-
600 it is rare that we have a state election
in which more than 10000 votes are cast"
Mr. Weaver is mindful not only OF the
things which will benefit the members OF the
organization OF which he is the head. but is
interested in the welfare of the state as a
whole, and may be depended upon to exert
his best efforts in its behalf
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

From the Jones County News

A great many more young men and wo-
men are sent upon the road to ruin by wealth
than by poverty AS rule the devil wants
no better chance at boys and girls than to
have their pockets filled with cash and to
have them sit down in some popular road
side inn or country club where the whine
of the saxaphone lulls them to unconscious
ness. The revelry OF today for youth with
an automobile and little ready cash. is as
great temptation as the young people of
this SCARED old world have ever faced.
Check up the early graves filled by the young
people from the homes of the rich and you
will be surprised.
This is not the wall OF a pessimist; it is
rather a note of warning from an observer
who would call upon the youth of today to
meet a condition that will try their strength
and wisdom
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24
No Need of BilIboards.

The representation or the billboard posting
companies that millions of dollars have been
invested in the business that thousands OF
persons have gainful occupations because Of
outdoor advertising, and that the publicity
thus given is service helpful to the trade
does not convince The News that there is a
demand for this kind of exploitation which
could not be satisfied through other medi-
ums The nationwide movement against bill
boards, in which some OF the civic organiza-
tions of Georgia have enlisted, shows the
trend of public opinion against clutterlng up
the highways with what the Kansas City
Star calls "uglies." Their elimination is the
hope Of various organizations now devoting
themselves to the protection OF the country s
scenic beauty which cannot be sateguarded
if constant reminders OF trade are to be seen
wherever the eye is turned
1t is not at least surprising that visitors
from abroad find America peculiar in her
business habits No matter where they go
they see glazing, garish billboards announc-
ing the prices and the quality OF market COM
modites American business is thus made to
appear obtrusve. No one can get away from
it. The kind Of gasoline one should use IN
ones car, the special brand OF breakfast food
that should be on ones table the soft drink
that beats them all, the pills guaranteed to
cure every ache and millions of other artl-
Giles OF commerce are forever obscurlng the
vision of travellers in this country, no matter
where they turn. 1t is likely that Europeans
have been helped in their characterization OF
| Americans as dollar chasers" by the eX-
travagance of outdoor advertising methods so
long in use in this country.
If there were no other mediums through
which manufacturers and merchants could
reach the public there would be some excuse
for the continued existence OF the billboards
But there are mediums which perform bet
ter service without giving offense. Various
publications, from the daily and weekly news
papers to the periodicals. get the message OF
the advertiser to the consumer OF goods with
far more force than any billboard possibly
could 1t is doubted that the general public
paws any attention at all TO the advertising
appeal of the billboard, whereas persons who
feel that il is a nuisance actually may be in
Auenced against the commodity thus offered.
The war that has been declared on the bill
board is one that has just cause. There is
not more offensive thing i'll the public eye
TODAY than the billboards that are to be seen
here. there and yonder robbing the country S
natural beauty by interfering with its appre-
citation and enjoyment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24
Money Well Spent.
/. B. Nevin in Atlanta Georgia

'Sixty-fve thousand people broke all at
tendance records at the annual Kentucky
derby. and paid several hundred thousand
dollars to see some horses run for a few min
utes. We may be hard up in this country,
but we are not so hard up that we can't spend
millions OF dollars for amusement when we
want to, says The Dawson News.
As a matter Of fact, the money We spend
upon amusements in this country IS not
wasted 1t all gets into the channels of trade.
in wages and salaries, and so on: and. ANYWAY.
we can not be a well-balanced and we'll
regulated people unless we have our recrea-
ton and amusements. Life is relative. Moth
ing is amusing or entertaining by way
of contrast
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

The Greensboro Herald-J Journal, whose
versatile editor is OF unquestioned veracity is
authority for the statement that a recent
wind-storm in that county blew plate from
table in the home of A. H. Thompson
and carried it 50 yards, deposited it on the
ground unbroken, and then blew cup from
the same table and placed it in the plate with
out breaking either of them. Our contempt
rarv characterizes it as unique" occurrence,
which we say it was. Georgia leads in every
thing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24
Pointed Paragraphs.
green apples are always ripe enough

Little green apples are always ripe enough
for mischief. -,
A man never looks SO well as when ne
looking for another man who owes MIN
money.
A woman's idea of strategy is to spend
dime to save a nickel.
Widows and widowers in all conditions OF
life want repairing.
Age is uncharitable; woman never gives
it away, but it tells on her.
An optimist believes in mascots and
pessimist in hoodoos.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

Whatever else may be said OF the demo-
cratic convention, it won't be cut and dried
affair. 1t will hold public attention to the
last moment What a wonderful opportunity
for some -forceful young man to make a
striking speech and stampede the conyen-
ton to his bannerl Being unknown would
not be a great handicap at this time as the
public is eager for fresh and vigorous young
leadership.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

The slayers of Robert Franks in Chicago
do not seem to be greatly disturbed by the
crime of murder they have freely confessed,
One of them expects two years in prison
and insists the experience will be the max
ing" OF him. Young Leopold and his &C
complete. Loeb probably are comforted
somewhat by the fact that their fathers have
millions for their defense Meanwhile the
public is worried lest those millions being
used for the defense of the murderers may
result in them escaping the kind OF punish
ment they ought to have.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

We should be careful in these days Of So
called reform unless we get in the child mind
that the exclusive business of the child is to
play Congress is going far when it makes
the age limit 49, Many boy does mans
work before 18; many girl has household
RESPONSIBILITIES before 49,; we have school
teachers at Is.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

Time was when we did not have candi-
dates for the presidency, but now they can
vass for the office just like candidate Tor
bailif in militia district. They do not wait
for the office to seek the man, but they get
their gun-made of gold-and go out after
the Office" says the Commerce News Such
tactics have cheapened the great office OF
president and the men who seek. They have
brought it down to the plane of practical pol
itics and the general public does not respect
aspirants to or occupants OF this greatest OF
all positions as they once did.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

The Georgia Legislature will convene to-
morrow There are no outstanding matters
for consideration, and the indications are that
proposed state bond issues will monopo-
lie much OF the time One OF the best ser
vices the body could render the state would
be to provide Tor the renovation Of the CAPT
tol building, which is in a disreputable state
of repair.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

A party of Dawson gentlemen who re-
Gently went through several South Georgia
counties report that crops were in splendid
condition No where however, were they
more promising than in Terrell.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24
AND, AFTER THAT, WHAT?

From the Eastman Times Journal
The proposal to cut Is per cent off of your
income tax sounds good because it will give
us more money to buy more tires and gaso-
line and thus contribute more tax to the gov
eminent so that we will get more back the
next time there IS government melon"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

One may not know who is going to be
the next president, or how long the freaklsh
weather will last, or whether Henry Ford
ever will get hold of Mussel Shoals, but one
ought to be reasonably safe in expecting very
little from the cotton crop unless the boil
weevil is fought persistently and intelligently
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

That radica1-progressive, LaFollette, is
ready to throw his hat in the ring If he can
find the ring.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

Wonders will never cease. Now it is pro-
nosed to issue millions of dollars of state
bonds and pay them off without taxes. Just
how it can be done the proponents OF the
movement do not tell
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24
HIS KIND BADLY NEEDED.

From the Greensboro Herald Journal
The Dawson News says Jack Slaton is safe
and sound But, wouldn't Mr. Slaton make
Georgia good governor? His kind are very
badly needed in dear old Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

Senator Harris has let it be known that
he would accept another term in that office
The senator is held in high esteem by large
part OF the electorate, and The News is OF
the opinion that he will succeed himself
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

On the whole it seems safe enough to ven
ture that neither Smith nor McAdoo VIII Dc
offered to the voters.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

The long needed hot weather has come,
and now if the weather man will have old
Sol to keep the skies bright cotton will
thrive
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-24

The motorist who runs down pedestrian
and then steps on the gas puts himself in
the gunman's class, and should be treated
accordingly.