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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
MoIlycOddling Criminals.
From the Concord Times.

Chief Justice Thompson, OF the supreme
court of Illinois, says there is entirely too
much mollycoddling of criminals. Murderers,
highwaymen, thugs and burglars are treated
too much as household pets rather than as
enemies he adds.
There is much food for thought in this
declaration. No sooner is man convicted OF
crime than a wave OF maudlin sympathy
sweeps over the community and in few
months or years he is pardoned' the judge
said. Continuing, Judge Thompson says:
The criminal understands but one intu-
ence force. He arms himself and goes out
to rob and kill and the only way to meet his
campaign is by the prompt use OF the force
of government and making his punishment
certain and immediate There has been too
much mollycoddling OF the less than one-third
Of one per cent Of the population which IS
deliberately criminal
III the well-meanng citizens who waste
their sentiment on the murderer will use that
sentiment in alleviating the grief OF the wild
ow and the orphan the fight against the
criminal of violence will be materially aided
I'VE have continued to provide criminals
with music and flowers and libraries and
theatrical entertainments and hot land cold
running water and paroles and pardons, I'M
til what was originally intended as punish
ment is no longer punishment. The sooner
society understands that the criminal is its
enemy and deals with him as such the SOON
er it will be freed from the menace OF crime
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
Only a Dog.

The city of Nome Alaska, was in the grip
of diphtheria epidemic. Its physicians were
calling for anti-toxin. By radio the call reach
ed Seattle, and the toxin was dispatched by
Leonard Sappala, who dared the waters OF
Norton Sound, barely escaping death. By
him the toxin was given to Gunner Kasson,
who started on the 650-mile trip to Nome
with his train of dogs. Sappala had no story
to tell newspapers, neither had Kasson. All
Kasson did was to point to BALTIC; and BALTIC
is only dog, but he did it.
BALTIC did it! He led the dog train. When
Kasson was blinded by the icy blasts and
hurricane-driven SHOWS BALTIC scented the
trail and kept the dogs in it. When the dogs
from sheer fatigue threatened to lie down
Balto's barking stirred them to further en-
deavor, until the serum was at last delivered
to the waiting physicians. Sappala hero?
Yes Kasson a hero: Yes. But both are as
modest as BALTIC, only dog whose story,
too, will never be told
The news that BALTIC is not dead, as was
reported, will be received everywhere with
pleasure The dog heroes OF the north arouse
almost as much interest and admiration as
the courageous men who drive them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
"WhippOOrwiII" Work.
From the Fort Gaines Georgian.

The services OF many persons are not ca
gerly sought because tasks assigned them
usually are performed somewhat after the
fashion a whippoorwill makes nest.
Probably most people who were reared on
Georgia farms are aware that the night
whistling whippoorwill labors but negligibly
and apparently with but little concern when
preparing place in which to lay eggs and
hatch its young. In fact, these birds OF noe
turnal habit seem to be satisfied with the
most rudmentary nesting place, merely
choosing for that purpose almost any con-
venient, comparatively smooth spot on the
bare ground and calling it day so far as
building is concerned.
And that's the way lots of men and wo-
men, boys and girls do their work-just give
it lick and a promise Their slovenly
performed duties nearly always bear the inn
press OF slouchy hands directed by "scram-
bled" brains. And yet these exasperatingly
inefficient folks doubtless wonder (if they
ever really think why it is difficult for them
to get jobs and even harder to hold them
after being obtained
Deliver us from the habitually Sloppy
worker Wen have none of his kind around
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
People and Thrills.
From the Gaffney Is. c. Ledger.

From the Gaffney Is. c. Ledger.
So many OF us are in a hurry and don't
know where we are going. 1t is characteris-
tic OF the age-constantly seeking a new
pleasure, a new sensation.
A young man bought a new automobile,
had it few months and boosted he had run
it ten thousand miles
Where have you been?" he was asked.
And he answered. oh, no place i'll par
ticular-just around"
circles
He was out in search of thrill that he
had never experienced before, and he had
been place.
And many folks not so young are endeav-
oring to live on thrills
There are people who literally trembe at
the thought OF being left alone at home one
evening with themselves.
The art of enjoying an evening of relaxa-
ton with good book has largely been lost,
because of the nervous unrest that abounds
and the demands OF the multiplying aCtvi-
ties that take us away from home.
AS a people we very generally have ceased
to form opinions of our own based upon
sound judgment, but are content to accept
secondhand views being moved by selfish
appeals that are based upon prejudice or
greed pettiness.
We may have wonderful machines to do
our work and for our amusement but no
machine will ever take the place of the mind.
The greatness of America will spread and
have benign influence over the world, due
to our per capita intelligence rather than
from our per capita wealth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
Keep the Home Fires Burning.

Noting that it is possible to become NOR
in improving the condition OF tn
farmers in the remote sections OF the country
than we are in improving the conditions o
our own business, the Moultrie Observe
makes pertinent comment that is just as tru
of Dawson as Of Moultrie. The News repro
duces it for the benefit Of our own readers
with the suggestion that they give it loca
application Says the Observer:
There is an opportunity for doing some
home mission work in Moultrie. There is
an opportunity for Frightening up things
here, and setting the business house in
shape for 1925. There is more than an OPP
portunity for it, there is an actual need
for it. We need more industries, and as
a step preliminary to getting them we
need to give a boost to the industries we
now have
The mercantile business in Moultrie
needs the cooperation OF the Chamber OF
Commerce and the other civic bodies We
have reference to both the wholesale and
retail lines of merchandising. We should
draw more people here from the sur
rounding section. The markets here, the
banks, the stores are our dependence for
drawing these. 1t is the trade OF the sur
rounding section thdt must DulId our CITY
along with the manufacturing that is
done here. We must wisely 60 after
this outside business.
The mercantile business especially has
had hard row. Ii needs a good tonic.
The first tonic that should be given it is
a re-baptism of the trade at home spirit
among the Moultrie people. The next
thing it needs is cooperation and en-
couragement from trade bodies and civic
bodies. We need trade building cam
paigns These are matters to engage the
thought of those who are trying to do
something for Moultrie and Colquitt
county. The best thing that can be done
for Colquitt county is to build Moultrie
into large city, and thus create a home
market for the products of the farm.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
The Age of Luxury.
From the Valdosta Times.

The people of colonial days went back in
to the forest and made their cearings built
their log cabins and lived in contentment.
They were comfortable they were we'll led
There was game in plenty in the forests. and
the new land yielded an abundance. They
were not dependent upon any outside inHu-
ences. They made their own clothing from
flax grown upon their lands and upon the
backs OF sheep that they raised in their own
pastures. The women carded, spun and wove
the fabric into strong and durable clothing.
No one was wealthy and none were so poor
as to suffer for the need OF food or other
necessities OF their frugal lives.
Another generation brought ideas OF a
higher or more easy condition, and each sue
ceeding generation has sought for some ease
and luxury, until today there is nothing too
good and never was Roman emperor more
luxuriously fed, housed and clothed than the
average well-to-do citizen OF today.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
MIR. Arbuckle's Address.
From the Nations Business.

If only few more speakers had the wit
and courage Maclyn Arbuckle the actor,
who was invited as the principal speaker by
some organization or other! The usual thing
happened. The organization was changing
officers and the ceremonies were long and
wordy. The outgoing president told OF his &C
complshments and the new president told
what he was going to do-the difference in
the time taken by their speeches measuring
the usual discrepancy between promise and
performance. Then a song or two by the
Glee club, and some vice presidents dug up,
who seemed to hold with Antony that
| am no orator as Brutus is,
-. | only speak right on.
And while they spoke on and on the actor
awaited his cue. 1t came at Has, after a
seventeenth minute introduction in which the
chairman of ceremonies finally reached his:
Mr.. Maclyn Arbuckle the speaker OF the
evening, will now give us his address"
Up rose Mr. Arbuckle, looking at his
watch. Said he, My address is the Lambs
club, New York city. Goodnight and good
byel"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
Pointed Paragraphs.

Women dress to please themseves-and
to displease their neighbors.
AS soon as a girl gets married all the mar
red women OF her acquaintance begin to
watch for wrinkles on her forehead
There would be no labor troubles if every
man had job on easy street.
The man who is always going to do lot
of great things usually ends by doing few
small things. -
Woman may be a conundrum, but she al
ways has ready answer
You can't always measure a lovers sin
certify by his signs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
North Carolina.

Those who have been holding up North
Carolina as paragon of progress worthy to
be patterned after by Georgia haven't pulled
wool over the eyes of the cambridge Post
Searchlight, which says in its current issue;
Now much has been blown about North
Carolina by the road bond advocates.
But they lose sight of the fact when
they blow that there is more illiteracy,
poverty and moonshine in North Carolina
than any state and the tax resultant on
those bonds is driving the people out
of there in scores. There are more people
in either Virginia Georgia or South Car
DINA that pay income tax than this old
north state can show, and less poverty.
1t doesn't pay to be too rash spending
public money and running into debt
The fact is North Carolina is in bad
way financially. Besides bonded indebted
ness of $80,000000, sadded upon the people in
the past four years, the state has current
debts of 100000 and an empty treasury.
What Georgia is trying to do is to keep
the sheriff out of the front yard and pay
off some of her present obligations. If North
Carolina prefers to do otherwise that is her
business. We once knew a man who lived
i'll the finest house in his town. He lived
there two years, and then the sheriff took
possession. Georgia doesn't want that kind
OF an experience.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

Speaking OF trusts. the veteran editor OF
the Pearson Tribune says: Country news
papers comprise the greatest trust on earth,
declares an editor in another state That's
true The country newspaper trusts every
body. gets cussed for trusting, mistrusted for
cussing, and when it busts for trusting gets
cussed for busting. No other enterprise on
the face OF the earth has such trusting
friends"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

A university professor says only 40 Of 4O43
millionaires are dishonest We don't know
how he found it out Milionaires however,
are just folks, and it is reasonable to suppose
that about the same percentage OF honesty is
to be found in them as among other classes
of citizens
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
AS TRUE AS GOSPEL.

From the Dalton Citizen.
1t would be a godsend to the country
if every child sixteen or eighteen years
old could have enough work to form
steady habits OF industry instead of hab-
its OF ideness.-Dawson News.
That's true as gospel If a boy is eigh-
teen years old before he has been taught, OF
learned. to work the chances are he will new
er amount to anything.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
Little Things Help Wonderfully.

Jackson Progress-Argus: The milk and
butter dollar, the chicken and egg dollar, the
pig and calf dollar these little things" help
to make business better for all concerned.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

The highway problem i'll Georgia at this
time seems to be working on political in
stead of engineering lines Without reference
as to who is right or wrong in the present
middle it may be safely said there will be
no state bond issue for roads. That propo-
siton is deader than the proverbial mackerel
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
Georgia Press Talk.
Will Promote Diversihcation.

Cuthbert Leader: The Bank OF PARROT adj
vertises that its policy will be to extend
credit to farmers who grow sufficient food
crops for their farms. That is very effective
means OF promoting diversified agriculture.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24
Farsighted Business Men.

Sylvester Local: The fellows up Dawson
way who have turned a big cotton warehouse
into a garage are far-sighted business men.
They know the public garage will get the
money when nothing else will
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

A fashion note says men are now wearing
cross word puzzle ties, but it fails to say
what kind OF men Perhaps this was not con
sidered necessary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

A little money from every property owner
saved and invested in some good home indus
try or utility that builds pay rolls and makes
ones town better place in which to live IS
nothing less than duty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

The woman who was divorced from one
man and married TO another all IN ~ minutes
was not as keen for freedom as Tor variety
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

Senator Borah says paying up" is the most
eloquent expression OF gratitude either a MAJ"
or a nation can make
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

1t may be some time yet till spring, but
signs OF approach, are now seen IN shop
windows. incidentally the blue bird has about
lost his job as the first harbinger OF that
glad season.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

A news dispatch from Paris advises that
the war is over and that this is final" The
last member Of the American expedtionary
force has sailed for home. If the Americans
had been as slow in going over as they have
been in coming back home the decision in
the greatest battles of all centuries might
have been different.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

Boy corn kings and girl pig and calf cham
pions somehow seem to be more welcome IN
the public eye than leaders in divorce the
best dressed woman and the "handsomest
man"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

1t was all wrong about President Coolidge
being so slow When Miss Vada Watson, a
comely miss of the middle west, presented
him with bag OF grain at the white house
and told him that Kansas raised the best
wheat in the country he came right back and
expressed the opinion that her state also pro-
duced the best looking girls, which was not
so bad for a start-if that was really his mi
ital performance in that line.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

Ii is not more taxes or new taxes that
Georgia needs, but less taxes
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

There is no doubt that state income tax
would bring huge sum OF money. But there
is no assurance that it would tighten the
heavy burden already on those who pay the
taxes The federal government is setting a
praseworthy example by reducing taxes.
Why should Georgia take the other track
and increase taxes? And is it fair to make
this increase in taxes under the pretense OF
decreasing property taxes?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

Here is the other side OF it. A motorist
who drove his car onto Southern Pacific
track and went to sleep caused locomotive
to be damaged, and the company sued him
for repair costs. Why not? The motorist
has no right to go unscathed after causing a
wreck that damages property or kills passen-
gers. This suit along a new line of thought
may establish a precedent for automobile
responsibility that may directly affect the
$4,000 automobile killings every year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

Mr. H. NJ Atkinson declares that the great
est need OF Georgia farmers is more indus
tries and less politics. Additional industries
would benefit the farmers as much, If not
more, than any development in the state. Al
SO they would do as much, if not more, than
any other factor in increasing the demand
for the output of the farms" Mr.. Atkinson
has stated a fact concisely and clearly. Ev-
cry new industry helps business of every
kind. Dawson's greatest need is industrial
plants
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

Congressman Sherwood, OF Ohio, seems to
recall the good old days with little sadness
as he looks back over his career in the SER
vice Of his country. He has pointed out as
he approaches the Doth milestone OF his lie
how the times have changed in this country
and how new conditions have been wrought,
and it is apparent that, in some respects, he
is not iavoraby impressed with the progress
made In fact, no doubt, he is right. AS the
world has moved forward all things have not
moved in the right direction with it. Still,
there has been progress, and the bad came
along with the good That is always the way.
No doubt one old in years and experience
when General Sherwood was a child could
have made a similar comparison.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-02-24

Noting that Atlanta is passing anti-pistol
laws the Savannah News says: Haven't we
good, sound state laws regulating the ps-
toll? Isn't there in every city law locally
regulating the handling OF pistols in the re-
tail trade? What's needed, it might seem,
more than new laws is real, rigid enforce
ment OF the laws we have already" The Sa-
vannah paper speaks the truth. There are
more than enough laws to deal with every
conceivable crime, and the real need is their
sure and speedy enforcement.
New Britain herald., 1925-07-02

Governors from states all over the union gathered at Poland Springs, Me, for seventeenth annual conference. Left to right, front TOW: Ex- Gov. Townsend, Md; Cows. McMul- len, Neb.; Jackson, Ind; Robin son, Del; Brewster, Me; Ritchie, Md; Martin, Fla; Billings, Vt.; Fuller, Mass. Back row, left to right: Cows. Smith, N. Y; Ham, mill, Ia.; Hoss, Wyo.; Trinkle, Va; Whitfield, Miss; Mcleod, S. C.; Lt.-Gov. Clark, Cal, and Gov. Trapp, Okla.
New Britain herald., 1925-07-02

(Py Pacific & Atlantic) These eight survivors of the fisherman Rex, run down on Grand Banks by the Tuscania, arrived in New York aboard the Tuscania with one shipmate be- low in ships hospital and the body of the Rex's master.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-27
ROME

Rose Estes Of Wilton is visiting her
brothers, David and Ralph French of
this town.
Mrs. Mary Blaisdell Of Leister.
Mass, was a weekend guest at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. George LeBaron
Mrs. Joseph Bleck went to Boston
Mass. Saturday for a few days visit
Howard Tracy and family have
moved into the house recently vacated
by Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Farnham.
Mrs. Fred Gray returned to her
home in Portland Saturday, accom-.
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Tracy,
who will visit there for a few days,
they making the trip by automobile.
Mrs. Annie Tracy Jenkins of Au-
gusta is visiting at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tracy.
Russell Grant is building new
stable.
Ira T. Wentworth has purchased a
pair of horses.
Quite a number OF the members of
Mount Phillip Grange attended Cas-
cade Grange at Oakland Saturday eve
ling. Mount Phillip Grange has been
invited to New Sharon Thursday, Oct.
20, and will furnish the program.
Mrs. Angelina LeBaron returned
home Sunday from Oakland and Wat
erville, where she has been visiting
friends and relatives for the past
week. PIX
Mr.. and Mrs. Leighton Fader of
Waltham, Mass, are visiting at the
home Of Charles Trask.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-27
Belfast Band Plays
To Large And Well
Satisfied Crowd

Many have expressed the opinion
that not since the days of Frank j.
Rigbys leadership, has the Belfast
Band made such a fine appearance
and given such a pleasing concert as
that on Friday night in the Colonial
Theatre when the musicians were
given a benefit. The ensemble Of rs
men under the able leadership of
Lloyd McKeen included two altos,
three saxophones. three drums, two
bases, two baritones. one tenor, two
trombones, four clarinets. five cor
nets and the program well balanced
was wholly delightful. The audience
expressed its appreciation in no I'M
certain manner and it Is hoped that
these concerts may be continued
throughout the winter. The program:
March, Electorate; Overture. The
Golden Scepter: popular. Let Me Call
You Sweetheart, Yearning; March.
Seated in the back row with a big
bass horn the audience was much
surprised to see the veteran bandman
Of Belfast Robert p. Chase, one of
the old-timers in the musical annals
of Belfast who has never lost his in
not played with it for more than Is
years.
Lloyd McKeen has but recently
taken the leadership Of the band but
already 1t has shown such remark
able improvement that 1t bids fair to
BECOME what it used to be in days Of
Rigby (now of Portland) one of the
very best in the State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-27
UNITY

Irvine Holt of Clinton was In town,
Saturday.
Walter Bailey. Mrs. w. S. Bailey
and Mrs. E. B. Hunt were in Portland
over the weekend.
Mrs. Mary Thompson and daughter
Violette Of Waterville, were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Smith, Satur-
day.
Mrs. d. NJ Jones is with her
daughter in Waldoboro.
Mrs. George Barney who has been
the guest of friends in Pennington
and Waterville returned home Satur-
day.
Clarence Reynolds Is in the Brad
bury Memorial Hospital at Belfast
for surgical treatment.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Whitehouse and
Mrs. G. A. Stevens were in Bangor,
Friday.
Miss vinetta whitehouse, a stu
dent at the University of Maine, was
at home over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. d. Connors were
in Bangor. Thursday.
Mrs. George Leadbetter, Mrs. c. L.
Written, Mrs. j. c. Van Deets and
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Farwell were
in Winthrop. Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ware enter
tanned friends from Hampden, Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. E. ]. Bagley are en-
tertaining friends from Boston, Mass.
DIR. X. S. Sulley of Skowhegan was
at E. B. Hunts, Sunday.
C. w. Taylor. Henry Foster and
Lloyd Tozier returned Saturday from
a weeks hunting trip.
The Edgerly brothers returned
Saturday from a hunting trip, each
bringing a deer.