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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17
Keeping the Home Fires Burning.

In 1923 the people of our country destroy
ed by fire $535,372,782 worth of property. This
almost unbelievable loss is over twice that
of 1918 and nearly three times as large as
the loss of 1908.
To matches and smoking is ascribed the
largest part of the loss, $29,O45 0O7. Second
comes defective chinrneys and fues, which
caused loss OF $2O,828162. Then comes
stoves, furnaces, boilers and their pipes with
$18,658,248; spontaneous combustion with
S16,110,945; sparks on roofs with $15931 ,342,
and electricity with $14,091,789
II the aggregate fire loss in 1888 is to be
any less it must be accomplished by individ-
ual effort. If the loss continues to mount by
1888 this, also, will have been accomplished
by individual effort, or, it might better be
said, lack of effort Which way will the bal
ance swing?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17
Too Much Education.
From the Newman Herald and Advertiser.

From
This is the day of the specialist. In law,
in surgery. in medical practice in the ma
chine shop, the tannery, the shoe factory,
glass factory, or any other factory, even oper-
alton is the result of systematic study to save
motion. Colleges and schools specialize IN
education and almost everything in life IS
reduced to a scientific system. Success re-
quires specialization. The all-round man, the
handy man, cuts but little figure.
Not so long ago science contended that the
farmer must specialize in his crops. Thous-
ands OF young men were trained to go out
on the farms. analyze the SOIL and encour-
age specialization in crops tor which 1t was
best fitted Today specialists INSIST and have
convinced the president that concentration on
wheat crops corn crops, hay crops and cot
Ton crops is the real cause of trouble with the
farmer. He is now told to diversify-to junk
his special equipment and become huckster
if he would be successful. With all this ad-
vice the farmer is between the devil and the
deep sea. The only thing he is sure OF is his
mortgage and the interest which consumes
all his profit
But the farmer has been doing some spe-
ciaiizing on his own account He has been
keeping a cost system, just as manufacturers
do He is not guessing at results any more
He knows And he knows that he works Il
to IS hours per day the wife works just as
hard; the boy and the girl do a mans work
but there's not money enough left to repair
the machinery or buy Sunday suit
No, the real trouble on the farms is too
much education in the business end OF things
The farmer wants the same treatment and
opportunity given manufacturers He hasn't
quite made UP his mind how that is to be
brought about-but he's doing heap of
thinking.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.

From the Minneapolis Journal.
The person with the small trouble in life
makes the greatest outcry about it. When
l find myself giving tongue noisily over my
little troubles and rushing into the neighbors'
homes to relate my annoyance atvprovidence
and its dealings with men | know that some
thing is wrong with me- | look around Tor
the man the woman with the real trouble.
become ashamed of myself stop talking about
the little woes and grow properly thankful
that things are no worse than they are. The
huflan mind is a kind of selective machine.
1t finds about what it is looking for. Quite
a number of persons are loose iii the world,
looking for trouble. They pick it out OF the
air.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17
Doctor Sleep.
By Janet Begbie.

O you who give new lives for old,
Who heal and never ask for gold,
Kind Sleep receive and make afresh
This tagging mind and weary flesh.
At nightfall, as the shadows do,
My cares grow tall and threatening too
| doubt the cause for which all day
/ wore the golden hours away
And as | stumble to my bed
The beauty OF the world seems dead.
O. best physician, l resign
This treachery-tainted heart of mine.
Which, like a sword, l prithee make
All bright once more before l wake;
Anoint these eyes, too weak to stare
Straight up and see the glory there; y
O, steep my soul in seas of dew
And make me clear and brave and new.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17
Must Increase Production.


q
The Dawson News is probably correct in
the following view as to increased cotton
acreage this year:
The farmers are just now receiving
the usual advice not to increase the acre
age in cotton. How many of them will
heed the advice remains to be seen. But
there is one thing certain-if an increas-
ed acreage is planted the price of cotton
is bound to go below the cost of produc-
ton. 1t is for the cotton grower of Ger
gia to decide whether he is farming for
profit or farming for loss
Fewer acres and increased production per
acrea should be the endeavor of every cot
ton farmer this year. They should make two
acres produce as much as three to five have
been producing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

What strange shibboeth has stealthily
crept into American life in modern days
which teaches a scorn of honest labor2 How
many times have you heard parents say that
they were going to see that their children re-
ceive a college education, OF which they were
deprived? 1t is a lamentable fact that all too
many parents have held the glamor OF a
college education in front OF their children,
pointing them to professions or white collar
jobs when they should have been apprenticed
to useful trades at an age early enough so
they would naturally and logically have ma
tured into useful citizens.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

Edna Bond West Virginia mountain
girl. was convicted OF bootlegging and given
a sentence amounting to IS years in the pen
itentiary The judge fined her 10000 in addi-
ton to the imposition of seven years impris-
onment, and since she has no money and no
friends she must serve out the fine, which
adds % years to her sentence. A fine state
of affairs this when male bootleggers are
able to escape with fine OF hundred OF two
dollars or few months in the Changing.
The governor OF West Virginia ought to
commute the girls sentence until it meets
the demands OF common sense and reason
ableness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

The peach festival edition OF the Fort Val
lev Leader-Tribune is a handsome publica-
tion. It contains much interesting and at
tractive news and advertising matter and IS
a credit to Editor Jones and his enterprising
little city. Both have ample cause to be
mighty we'll pleased
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

The recent lynching in Screven county was
the first to disgrace Georgia in more than a
year. No matter how wrong it is or how
much we may deplore it there will be mob
law in the south long as the crime is COM
mitted that provokes it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

Everybody has heard OF Captain Jinks, OF
the horse-marnes, who fed his horse on pork
and beans" Some OF his relatives must be
stationed out at Guam in the Pacific, for there
they are feeding the government nags on
a strange diet, namely, cocoanuts, and the
beasts seem to thrive on it. And now on the
island Of Guam when horse gets frisky they
do not say he feels his oats" The marines
have gone two or three better than that, and
say "he's just plain nutty.'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

Offers Of Thanksgiving turkeys to the pres
ident are, to say the least, premature. There
are many things to come yet before that holi-
day arrives. Baseball bathing beauties, spring
house cleaning, palm beach suits, B. ". DIS,
and all sorts of ups and downs. Why, even
the pumpkins for the Thanksgiving pies have
to be raised in the interim.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

Remembering what followed official inter
ference with prices in the past the Balm
bridge Post Searchlight sounds this note OF
alarm: Somehow we hope that the officials
will let the gasoline business alone before
they run it up to dollar gallon. Every
time one of those big dogs starts out to run
things he raises the amount bit and we are
sick of that kind of business"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

Announcement OF dividends by oil COM
panies may be expected right along. seven
cents more for every gallon OF gasoline sold
will bring scores OF millions to the lucky
Stockholders.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

Fort Valley will put on her best bib and
tucker next Thursday and Friday and cele-
brate the annual Peach Blossom Festival.
Thousands of people from all sections OF the
country will be there and partake of the hos
pita1ity and enjoy the entertainment provided
by this game little Georgia rity
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

A little news item in the Sylvester Local
gives evidence that we are still in the land
Of plenty despite the boil weevil and the
high price Of gas" The Local says c. H..
Strangward, of Worth county, has sold a
bunch of fat Hereford beef cattle raised on
his farm for more than one thousand dollars.
This part OF the world is far from starvation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

The socialist party has voted to go its own
way, leaving its temporary alliance with the
LaFollette gang, probably forever. Thus does
the third party movement, proclaimed with
eclat and such trumpeting as the country
seldom heard, collapse like an inner tube
which has just made the acquaintance of a
tack.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

So far March has proved what wonder
full thing it is TO have the advantage OF
good example, and in consequence, everyone
feels grateful to February for her splendid
conduct
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

1t may be worth $4,000 year for a man
to serve in congress, but there has been no
dearth of candidates at the old salary, and
there are plenty OF folks who are not salts
fed that congressman have been earning
what they receive
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

Sugar is expected to follow gasoline's lead
on the price list Fudge and Joyrlding seem
destined to become expensive luXurles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17

The drinking of germs by young English
scientist to discover the action of food poi
sons on the human stomach seems to be do
ing too much in the interest of science. 1t is
not greatly different, however, from injuries
knowingly suffered by men who experiment
ed with the x-ray and radium. In the last
year some notable lives were forfeited in that
way
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-17
SUCCESS DEFINED.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
A successful wife is one who can listen to
a man and three children while planning din
ner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-14
Cost Of Food HIGHER In 1925.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Oct. H.
The U. S. department OF labor, thru
the bureau Of labor statistics, has
completed the compilation showing
changes in the retail cost Of food in
"a Of the 81 cities included in the
bureaus report.
For the year period, September Is,
1924, to September Is, 1925, all OF the
"a cities showed increases as fol-
lows: Atlanta, 10 per cent; Louis
Vile, ~ per cent; Jacksonville, Min
neapolis, Norfolk, and st. Louis, IL
per cent; Memphis and Scranton, 10
per cent; Bridgeport and New York,
. per cent; Baltimore, Charleston, s.
G., New Haven, Richmond, and Roch.
ester, per cent; Cleveland, Fall
River, Indianapolis, Mobile and Pitts
burgh, per cent; Providence, 8 per
cent; Dallas, s per cent; Manchester
per cent; and Milwaukee, 3 per
cent. .-.A---..- s.ss * =.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-14
STREET FIGHTING AND
BLOODSHED over HIGH
RENTS IN PANAMA CITY
Especial to Tho palIy worker)

Especial to The Daily Worker)
BALBOA, Panama Oct. 12-Police
OF this city have Instituted a reign
Of terror against huge masses of
workers who engaged in demonstra-
tions against high rents beginning
Saturday night.
Marlcano Morones, one of the
leaders Of the demonstration, was
murdered In the rlotng Saturday
night and today the streets were
damned with indignant workers de-
rnonstratInu at his funeral. All re-
serves were called out and the en-
tire police force modified in a
Vicious drive to dispense the crowds.
Fighting In the streets is raging
turnout the whole city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-14
fContinued from page 1)


you, it associates itself with the
American Federation Of Labor in de-
claring that there shall be no revo-
luton in America, today to morrow,
or any other day" shouted Berry at
the top Of his voice The brief ap-
plause was thin and scattering.
Il am glad to bring this message
to you," concluded Berry Il wish
for you the greatest happiness and
success
Teehniealities Clog Debate.
But with the report of the resolu-
lions committee, the delegates got
suarled up with technicalities, espec-
tally over the question of injunctions
and contempt proceedings, with the
result that the time for the noon re-
cess arrived and none of the pro-
gressive resolutions. were reached.
In response to the notification by
the British delegates of the sudden
death of Fred Bramley, prominent
British trade unionist. general secre-
tary of British Trade Union Con
gress, and secretary of the British
trade union delegation to Soviet
Russia, the convention rose for a mo-
ment in tribute
Executive Report Criticized.
Delegate John Frey, of the Mold
ers' Union threw the first bomshell
when he urged that a statement on
in executive councils report
Delegate John Frey, Of the Mould
ers' Union threw the first bompshell
when he urged that statement on
wages be inserted in section on wage
reductions, to the effect that puchas-
ing power Of workers be increased in
proportion to the increasing produc-
tive power of the working class.
Frey got the floor and gave the
delegates a lecture on wages accord
ing to the theories Of Adam Smith
and John Stuart Mill, all of which
was Greek to the delegates assem-
bled. In the present era of super
abundance the workers are not able
to consume all they produce, declar-
ed Frey, but he made no mention of
the fact that this was contradic-
ton within the capitalist system it.
self.
Delegate Lynch, Of the Printers
Union, was drawn into the discussion
and urged an addition demanding con-
tinuous reduction in the work day to
meet this problem. When every one
interested was firmly tied up in a
knot the matter was sent back to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-14
Commuters Rates to
Be Raised on Roads
After |. G. c. Award

CHICAGO, Oct. 12-By granting an
increase in commuters rates on the
Chicago G. Northwestern railroad to-
day, the interstate commerce COM
mission has put the Illinois com
MERGE commission in a position to
grant similar increases to other
roads.
Such action is expected to be taken
when the state body again takes up
petition for increases which has
been before it. The interstate com.
merce commission in handing down
its ruling ignored a request from the
state body that action be deferred
until its hearing was ended.
The authority Of the interstate com.
merce commission TO regulate rates
within the state was established sew
eral years ago when the state com
mission refused to follow an order
raising the statutory cents a mile
to 3.6 cents, issued by the interstate
commerce commission.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-14
RIFF RIFLEMEN
keep SPANISH
BUSY AT ADJ|R
Mountaineer Moors TAX.
ing Pot Shots
Especial to The Daily wOrksr)

PARIS, Oct 12-Reports from Nor
Deco show that the Spanish dictator
Primo de Rivera, is having no happy
time. The Riffian troops have re-
appeared on the hills surrounding
Adjir, which was captured recently by
the Spanish, and keep dropping Span.
iards with pot shots at long range as
the soldiery expose themselves while
strolling about the streets of Krim's
captured capital.
Down on the beach below Adjir
where the Spanish soldiers aspire to
battle and wash the inhabitants from
their clothing, bullets from Riffian
snipers. have made the Spanish go
dirty "as they were." Even in the
night campfire or light brings a
hail of well-aimed lead from the crack
shots among the mountains.
Orders have been issued forbidding
groups Of Spanish troops concentrat.
'ng in the streets or elsewhere.
1t has been found that the Riffians
have well fitted dressing stations for
their wounded hidden in sheltered
caves and ravines among the mount
aims, and although their wounded must
get to the stations without stretcher.
bearers, they get fairly good treat
ment. 1t seems to the Spanish that
Krim has the services of good Euro.
pean surgeons and modern methods of
caring for the wounded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-14
STRIKEBREAKER BERRY PERFORMS
BEFORE A. F. OF L. SESSION IN
CHEAP HARRANGUE ON REDS

committee for reconsideration and a
new report
Delegate Furuseth led a lone fight
in heated discussion Of contempt pro-
ceedings.
Confused on Courts.
Some Of the delegates seemed to
rally to the defense of the capitalist
courts, demanding that jury trials
should be sought in all contempt
cases, which some claimed involve a
fight for rights Of bootleggers and
keepers of disorderly houses. Others
only wanted to make the fight for
jury trial in labor cases. Delegate
Mccullough, printers, who was for
years editor of the capitalist Omaha,
Nebr, Bee in defending the former
position declared more newspaper
writer's than labor leaders had been
hit by contempt proceedings. He re-
ferred especially to the case of Carl
Magee in New Mexico. AS for the
bootleggers and keepers Of houses of
i'll repUte they seemed to be able to
take care of themselves, he said.
Furuseth and Lynch in Battle.
In spite of efforts of delegates yell
ing for question, Furuseth again got
the floor and said that some one had
been smearing fat on the lips of the
delegates and they were trying to find
an easy way out He attacked the
much-lauded Clayton act as a
damned fraud" and said that Dele
gate Lynch had adopted sane ideas
on the question Of injunctions be-
cause big Six" the New York Print
ers' Union, was beginning to use the
injunction against him. Lynch got
the floor on point of personal privil-
eye and denied big Six" had insti-
tuted injunctive proceedings against
him. Secretary Woll Of the commit
tee also got the floor and said GLAND
er was talking about injunctions. Eff
forts to refer back the committee re-
pot were defeated and the commit
tee report was adopted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-14
Wheel-Ch Denizens
Disgust British Union
Delegate to A. F. of L.

ATLANTIC CITY, Oct IL. - Ben
Smith. rugged and ruddy-cheeked
British fraternal delegate to the
American Federation of Labor conven-
ton, was taking the air on the At
lantic City boardwalk when one of
the wheel-chairs peculiar to this
boulevard came past with two plump
specimens of the idle rich inside and
a hard working chairpushed behind,
straining at his burden.
"The lazy blighters!" snorted Smith.
Imagine an able bodied man pushed
around like a baby l wouldn't ride
IN one of those things for ten pounds"
And he strobe along for his consti-
tutional with the motive power nature
gave him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-14
CHINESE BOYCOTT OF
SHANGHAI INQUIRY
FULLY SUCCESSFUL
Especial to The Daily wOrker)

SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 12.-
The inquiry into the riots and
shooting of Chinese students by po-
lice in the foreign settlement on
May 80 last has reeonvened here,
but every indication points to the
futiity of the inquiry owing to
Chinese refusal to participate.
Justice Finley johnson of Manila
presides.
Counsel retained by the municipal
council has announced that three
Chinese . have offered to testify
despite the rigid Chinese boycott of
the proceedings and the Chinese
chamber of commerce order to
Chinese to Ignore the inquiry. The
Chinese chamber is daily running
a full page of denunclatlons against
the inquiry In the leading foreign
newspapers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-14
ATLANTIC CITY
WORKERS HEAR
RED EDITOR
EngdahLMeeting RiUaIs
That of Green
Especial to The Daily Worker

ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 13.--ursine
the slogan Of "loin the unions" J.
Louis Enadahl, editor Of the DAILY
WORKER, spoke to a mass meeting
In Grand Fraternity Hall here tonight
that nearly rlvaled in numbers the
gathering called by the central labor
union that was addressed by President
William Green, Vice President Mat
thew VOL and heads of the various
printing trades unions Of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor attending the
Atlantic City convention.
President Green made his usual at
tack on the militants in the trade
unions, but the gathering listened in
silence.
Engdahl aroused great enthusiasm
thru his explanation Of the growing
world struggle for trade union unity
the organization Of Negro workers,
many of whom were in the audience,
and other progressive measures.
second Meeting Success.
The meeting held in Atlantic City,
at Moose Hall, at which Engdahl, +.
Yuditch, labor editor of the New York
Freiheit, and James V. Fitzsimmons,
delegate Of the Canton, Ohio, Central
Labor Union, were the speakers, was
also an unexpected success, showing
the demand for organization among
the workers even of this parasite
pleasure resort.
The executive committee of the Chi
cago Bank Clerks Union has wired
reputation here of Shafir's resolu-
ton on class collaboration basing at
tack on Chicago Daily News report,
which claims fiat opposition to labor
banks and insurance companies The
resolution attacks only "the establish
ment Of labor banks, workers insur-
ance companies, ETC., which have moth
ing in common with true cooperative
enterprises"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-14
Generations TO
COME WILL find
Child WORKERS
Such Is Green's Dark
Prospect for Labor

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Oct. H.
President William Green of the A. F.
of L. told the convention of that or
ganization that the new campaign for
the child labor amendment to the
U. s. constitution will "go on as long
as we live and into succeeding gener-
ations," if necessary. From the con-
tinued policy of "non-partisan' pol
itical action and opposition to a labor
party, the succeeding generations will
probably find it necessary to keep up
the fight.
The principal opposition to the
amendment, says Green is the farm
ing population. who think that the
amendment would forbid their sons
and daughters to do work around the
farm" He pointed out that the amend
ment does not at all prescribe the age
at which child shall work, but only
enables the congress to pass laws that
would set a minimum age for child
workers.
Green said that public opinion" was
once in favor of the amendment, but
that it was changed by vicious pro-
paganda" Of chambers of commerce,
manufacturers associations, hostile
textile employers and those who pro-
fit by exploitation of child labor
These, he said, were the enemies, -
although he did not explain how he
finds it possible to collaborate with
them in the civic federation and else.
where.