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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-09-09
Parent-Teacher Meeting.

The September meeting Of the
Parent-Teacher Association will he
an informal reception Monday
evening, Sept. IA. Mrs. Jesse
Mayo's dancing class will entertain
with a program of fancy dancing.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-09-09
Hittin' EARLE River.

I'VE wish some of the cities in
the resort country would harrow
the ploughed fields that pass for
streets. Amigo Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-09-09
SNARIN' SUCKERS

hev done heap of fishin'
An I've caught EN- large an SMALL
Also done lot of wishin
When | couldn't go at ALL
But about the mos excitin'
Kind of fshin' anywhere,
Is when Suckers amt bitin'
An you catch 'em with snare.
Crawl out on leanin' ellum;
Hangin jes' above pool,
Suckers swarmin,' you can tell 'em;
Fer they're always in school.
With their silver sides fashin'
Like mirror in the sun,
Then you fix yer wire-loop fashion,
An yer ready fer the fun,
Pick out one that's sort of driftin'
From the swarm that's layin there,
Gives better chance fer shiftin'
Til his gills are in the snare.
When you jerk, the wire will tighten
Like a corset round his waist,
An it seems; the way he's fightin'
By cold Nick" he's bein' chased.
They amt jest the best of eatin
Bones in bundles everywhere,
But no sport has ever beaten
"Ketchin' Suckers with snare"
E. F. Hayward
Conover, Wis.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-09-09
Have Started Threshing.

Farmers are beginning their fall
threshing and from all reports
grains are on an average notwith-
standing the dryness Of the sea-
son just passed. Potatoes are said
to be a very good crop and the ex-
hibits at the fair showed this to be
fact from the perfect samples
shown.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12
Coming to Their Senses.
From the Lexington Echo.

1t is gratifying to have reason to hope that
those who have guidance of educational at
fairs in Georgia, as we'll as elsewhere over
the country, are coming to their senses as to
the regime of our educational affairs.
AS we have said in these columns oft be-
fore we have been trying to build up
mighty higher educational structure without
giving the foundaton-the elementary and
high SChoolS-proper consideration and sup
port.
1t has taken long time for this unpardon-
able error to make itself manifest to and be
given due thought by leaders in our educa-
tonal system, but there have been many in
dications lately that many of them are COM
ing to their senses on the question.
The latest and most decided indication of
such awakening is that of Judge Richard B.
Russell. Judge Russell has for long period
OF years been prominent i'll the educational
affairs OF the state and has given education
much thought. He is at present and has been
ior long time one of the board of trustees
OF the State University and the Georgia State
College for Women, and as such has given
much of his time and effort to advance the
interests OF those institutions. But, from
speech he made at the meeting of the Geor-
gla Educational Association in Macon two
weeks ago, it would seem that he, like many
others, has come to the conclusion that there
must be radical changes in our educational
program if we would abolish illiteracy or
have educated people generally
Here are some of the utterances along that
line that are worthy to be deeply pondered
by those who are directing educational
affairs and the public at large as we'll:
81 tell you, he said, that three-fourths of
the boys and girls Of the state who are capa-
bic OF making Is per cent grade in the
State University and a large per cent of the
children of the working classes haven't the
slightest opportunity of getting college ed
ucation, even common schools.
when you tax the people to keep up a
higher education, a system of colleges which
teaches arts and classics for the benefit of
one-fourth of the people, and leave out the
get single drop, from the Pirean Spring, are
you surprised that there should be dissatis-
faction and suspicion and distrust abroad?"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12
Gee, She's Flying.
From the Moultrie Observer.

Georgia is not dead She's not in serious
condition. She's not even ailing or poorly.
This great commonwealth is still hefty. She
is able-bodied She is doing things and going
ahead. We had thought that Georgia was
moving along with quite little pep, but the
following, garnered from the Savannah Press
shows that she is humping" or maybe flying
"A prominent citizen of Georgia, being a
guest of a big banquet in New York recently,
was called on for a speech. Like all good
Georgians particularly after having partaken
of those things which go to make up real
banquet. says the Georgia Railroad Courier
and reprinted in the Augusta Chronicle, he
told them what prosperity meant in his glorl-
Gus state in the following verbage:
did it ever occur to you, Mr.. Chair
man, that if the cotton raised in Georgia
annually was woven into cloth 1t would
make sheet large enough, to cover the
entire face of America and Europe and
lap over the toes of Asia?
"'Or that the poultry we raise each year {
were one hen it would take the largest
county in the state for her to make
nest, and that the she'll from her egg
Cf in the proper shape) would be large
enough to build hotel twenty stories
high with 100 rooms to each floor?
"'Or that if the live stock we raise each
year were one COW her milk would float
q cargo Oh llle CleeSe dlIu DullCl llOlI
Savannah to New York, and while she
grazed on the vegetation along the equa-
tor her tail would switch icicles off the
North Pole?
"'Or the mules we raised annually were
one mule it would consume the entire
corn crop of South Carolina at one meal
without swelling its sides, and could kick
the spots off the sun without waggng
its tail?
"'Or that the hogs we raise annually
were one hog that animal could dig the
Panama Canal at three roots without
even grunting, and its squeal would jar
the cocoanuts off the trees along the Ca
nal zone?'
"And yet they say that Georgia is no
longer an Empire stated Last year there were
35,823 couples wed in Georgia and there was
an increase of 20 per cent in the income of
taxpayers in this state revealed by the
collector of internal revenue"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
THE MASTERS EYE.

When l was young long years away, off
down in Nicholson, Pa, we used to read in
Swinton's Third a rhyme about robin bird
who woke his pals and chirped to them in
summer time at five a. m. The poet asked
what brought him out and what in heck he
chirped about No to put that up to me,
very seldom wake to see, and if folks rouse
me out of season they'd better have darned
good reason. But | have now an enterprise
which chases slumber from my eyes. | late
~ hired an excavator, and though myself a
second rater with the long shovel elevator |
helped to make dirt barage in digging for
"a new garage The ditch well dug, l up and
went and found a gang to place cement |
got, for fifty cents an hour, two men of sinew
and of power, to mix the grout and tote and
toss it, third to watch the job and boss it,
to true the form and sight across it. Now
since | note when | am there and working,
too, each does his share but when | leave
they slack the pace, as you and | would in
their place, I'm better able to suggest what
maybe broke that robins rest-he'd hired a
gang to build his nest, and early birds were
likely best SO Father Robin said, "My dear,
it will not do to linger here. For while in
bed the owner sticks the workers do but
seldom ticks" BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12
Get a Job, Young Man.
From the Jackson Progress-Argus.

Every young man should have some
sort OF job. The harder it is and the
more hours he has to work the better it
is for him; it will keep him out OF trou-
Bile. Every young man has some sort of
job in view that he can get There is
nothing in the world that causes so much
trouble as idleness. You seldom hear of
an industrious boy, one who will work
at anything he can get to do rather than
be idle, ever getting into trouble. If
boy is seen loahng about the streets day
, after day no business man wants to en-
ploy him.-Dawson News.
Not only get job, young man, but stick
to it after you get it. Quit chasing around
looking for greener fields The young man
who sticks to the job he has, masters it in
all its details, learns the business from the
ground up will never lack for promotion
This is day OF half-baked methods We need
more thoroughness and efficiency. Great rail
road executives and great captains of indus
try started at the bottom. They had charac-
ter and ability to fight it through to learn
all about the business and promotion came
as a matter of course.
The loafer of today will be the loafer OF
tomorrow The business world shuns the
young man who is afraid to work. The man
who has job and sticks to it is the man the
world needs and his success is assured.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12
She Wanted Men Jurors.

What might be called sex complex was
working in the mind of Mrs Darby Day,
the young Chicago wife who threw acid i'll
her husbands face and nearly destroyed his
sight, and has just been tried for the offense
and sentenced to one year and few months
in prison She insisted that jurors only
should be accepted by her attorneys. She
wanted no women to be in the box when a
verdict was to be returned.
Mrs Day is described as pretty. The pict-
ures published of her since she went into a
tantrun-while on her honeymoon-and
sought to blind her husband bear out this
statement, which may be more or less un-
usual Mrs. Day is also young and other
wise attractive in the eyes of men, So she
desired jury of the gentler sex-gentler
when women are on trial for crimes, and
especially gentle if they are young, pretty
and fetchingly CARRIED.
Darby Day. the husband also came in
for a description in the news reports of the
temperamental wife's trial He is said to be
disfgured for life, the acid having SCARED
his face For a long time he was in hos
pital with surgeons fighting to save his sight.
The acid went into his eyes and temporarily
DHlQeu llIl NOW, DdIDy was Sdlu " HdNG
been comely in the eyes of women before
coming in contact with the acid thrown by
his bride The thing to remember is that a
pretty woman is attractive to men, and that
good looking makes the same impress
sion on women. Therefore, Mrs. Darby Day
figured that if there were women on the
jury they would sympathize with her hus-
band, and she desired the undivided sympa-
thy of twelve honest, true and impression
able jurors.
More newspaper pictures of Mrs. Darby
Day appeared as the trial progressed. She
looked her best, wore her most fetching APP
parel, and made an effort to appeal to that
jury of men only. Women would not have Civ
en- her the kind of chance she wanted. They
might have given her justice but they might
also have mixed it with punishment. Men
are the gentler sex-when pretty woman is
concerned
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12
Preserve State Rights.
From the Athens Banner.

The federal government is rapidly en-
Icroaching on state rights in many ways. Con-
gress by legislation, has opened the way for
the government to take from them rights
which belong to the states. The act creating
IAN estate and inheritance tax should be re-
pealed The states need all the revenue pos
sible for the support and maintenance OF the
state government. In time of war there may
be some excuse for the government levyng
extra taxes, but in peace the federal govern
ment should not exact from the states such
incomes from local taxation. The states
should protest any action Of the government
calculated to bring on double taxation
Double taxation has a tendency to destroy
and drive from the borders all capital and
industries. The principle is wrong, and as
Webster said: The power to tax is the pow
er to destroy" A truer thought was never
uttered. and unless our people awaken to the
danger of double taxation it will not be long
before the effect OF such Legislation will be
felt and result disastrously to those states
so affected.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12
Worse Than Worthless.

The Early County News pays its respects
to some individuals who are to be found in
almost every town. 1t says "When man
habitually complains that his town is dead it
may be taken for granted that he has done
his worst to make it dead, and that he is
even deader than his town. A preacher once
said at funeral service, The late respected
corpse was member OF this church for forty
years There are lots of towns like that I'M
fortunate church, in that they have respect
ed corpses' in the population"
Such persons are corpses alright, but we
do not agree that they respected. The
individual WHO constantly criticzes his town
is less than worthless as a citizen, and does
not deserve and seldom has the respect of
the people among whom he lives. He would
help things by moving
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12
Whose Dough Is It?
From the Baltimore Sun.

William Jennings Bryan's resentment of
the publicity given his accumulation of wealth
by real estate investments in Florida takes
form in the shape of a confession that he has
gained comfortable fortune. Estimating by
his tithes to church and charity, wealth is
still rolling in at a gratifying rate.
Irreverent writers refer to the commoner's
present job as that of ballyboo artist for
la real estate development, his daily talk be-
ing hkened to the usual spiel OF an auctioneer
But there is suggestion that the money
he gets is not honestly earned and Mr. Bry-
an complains with some justice that it is no.
body's business but his own how he earns
it or how much he piles up.
Our eX-presidents are prohibited by Gus
tom and by regard for the proprieties from
engaging in money making activities that
merely capitalize honors public favor has be-
slowed upon them. But we have never set
up a standard of behavior for ex-president
candidates To lick fellow who runs for
president three times and then to prescribe
what he shall do and shall not do to earn
bread and meat would be carrying matters
too far.
Perhaps Mr. Bryan's critics are concerned
about what he is going to do with his dough.
They may fear that like Mr.. Micawber he is
merely falling back for a spring, and that
when the next presidential campaign arrives
he will be found again as big as life, trained
to the hour, ready to take charge of the
democratic party-and with a barl to back
his efforts.
That is not altogether a pleasing prospect
for those who do not like Mr. Bryan's polti-
cal vagaries. But, according to his own state
ment, he appears to have an income now of
something like 100000 a year. He is sailing
it down in Florida where state income tax
leeches cannot get at it and where other A.,
nancial inducements are held out to the ultra
rich& He should worryl
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12
Snobs and Snobbery.

Snobbing is a thing which occurs every
day almost everywhere The world is unfor
tunate in that it has snobs distributed through
out its settled areas. No doubt they may be
found in savage tribes. If Eve had had sis
ter able to obtain larger and more beautiful
fig leaf she, too, might have run crying to
Adam that she had been snubbed because her
sartoral display had been eclipsed.
A banker tells story of snobbery that
illustrates how far this uncharitable practice
may be carried. A young man of good family
and recognized social position took employ
ment as driver of delivery truck. He was
happy in the work. He liked driving motor
vehicle, and daily he could be seen on the
streets delivering purchases to his employers
customers The employment had several di-
rect results. The principal one was that the
young mans health, which had not been good,
was greatly improved. His job kept him out in
the open where he inhaled vast amounts of
fresh, invigoratng air, just what he needed.
Another result and one that might have
been disastrous if the young man had been
sensitive, was that many of his former friends
and associates quit speaking to him. He I'M
failingly hailed everyone he knew when he
started in on the new job. AS might be said
he made no bones" of the work he was do
ing. The job paid him well both in money
and good health. He was pretty we'll salts
fed He began to notice, however, that occa-
sionally he was cut by persons he had known
all his life Fortunately for him he refused
to let this make him unhappy although, &C
cording to the banker, his friend the young
man did discover that it made him happier
than ever when his greeting was returned by
others He was finding out that there was a
difference in people.
The banker in telling the story chuckled
over the inference that the snobs thought the
young man had gone through with his in
heritance The banker had handled the boy
property several years. The driver OF the
delivery wagon was worth, according to the
banker, from $4,000 to 100000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12
Jury Not InfalIible.
From the Cordele Dispatch.

Setting aside jury verdicts is a mighty
poor way to enforce the law. And this
applies to governors as we'll as to others
who set aside verdicts. When a jury ar
rives at verdict OF guilty it seems that
it should stand unless new evidence
should be found and in that case a new
trial should be granted. 1t seems out of
place for the governor to take cogniz-
ance of new testimony and mitigating
circumstance" and set aside jury YER
dicts-Dalton Citizen.
And this statement should not stand
when a jury arrives at verdict it might
once in great while be a verdict not in &C
cordance with the evidence. That's a ground
for setting it aside. Then it might be a YER
dict not in accordance with the law in the
case That's a ground for setting a verdict
aside.
Furthermore, when a board of pardons
which body has the right to do so under the
law, recommends to the governor commute
ton of the sentence of death imposed on a
woman the governor may, under the present
laws OF the state of Georgia, exercise that
right and commute the sentence That's what
Governor Walker did in the case of the
Hughes woman. She would have been hanged
under the verdict of the jury in her case.
1t might have been just that she should
hang. That's another question. She didn't
hang because officials holding public office
in the state exercised their legal right to in
terfere and commute her sentence to life
Imprisonment
Is it right to keep on trying to make the
present governor look like crminal-peren-
NAL outlaw himself? The fellow that keeps
that thing up forever is more than likely to
appear to some people before long in the role
of-What he really is
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12
Motor Car Accidents.

The announcement by the National Bureau
Of Casualty and Surety Underwriters that
motor cars killed 10000 people last year and
injured 100000 Others is more impressive
when it is remembered that in the majority
OF cases the tragedies we're preventable, and,
therefore. unnecessary. The figures become
more startling when it is seen that every day
there was an average of 81 persons killed
and $3.50 hurt. Atlanta has population of
about 225,000 Imagine the horror OF all the
people in Atlanta and as many more being
hurt in motor car accidents in one year.
1t probably is no exaggeration to say that
so per cent of all motor car accidents could
be avoided if automobiles were operated care
fully. with consideration shown by all driv-
ers. There is no excuse, for example, for
collision of two automobiles at a street in
tersection or a crossroad Likewise, there is
no excuse for a driver of a motor car having
a collision with a locomotive on a grade
crossing Such accidents would not happen
at all if drivers were careful.
In city driving motorist easily can con-
troll his car and avoid collisions at street in
tersections. Ii he drives it at a speed that will
permit him to stop his car before he reaches
the intersection he can avoid an accident no
matter how fast another automobile is driven
in front of him. The same rule applies to
the crossroad AS to the grade crossing, the
driver always can proceed carefully make
sure there is no danger and then drive over
the tracks No automobile ever was hit on
grade crossing by train that was not there
at the time.
The road hog is responsible for accidents
at street intersections and crossroads. The
right OF way is an obsession with many driv-
ers They insist upon it under any and all
circumstances. They put the responsibility
of avoiding accidents on all other drivers,
shouldering none themselves The road hog
and the careful driver almost never collide
at street intersections and crossroads for the
simple reason that one Of them has his car
under control. Frequently, however, two
road hogs meet at such places Neither yields
his se1f-appropriated privilege of driving on
without stopping. They collide as matter
OF course. 1t happens every day, and the sad
part of it is that others than road hogs are
killed or injured.
The motor car is not dangerous thing if
handled properly The automobile is perilous
to human life and limb only when fools abuse
it. This abuse comes from the manner in
which it is operated, II the motor car were
treated right by everybody it would be no
great peril to life or limb
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12

Noting that Georgia farmers have borrow
ed twenty-four million five hundred and thir-
ty-three thousand six hundred and sixty-fye
dollars from the federal bank the Commerce
News remarks: There are thousands of these
farmers who signed away their homes and
will never own another. What's more, the
federal government has no business lending
money Its function is to govern-not to en-
gage in business" Our Commerce contempt
rary has sound views on the subject, and
speaks the truth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12

The current issue Of the Fort Gaines South
west Georgian announces the sale of our con-
temporary to Mrs. NJ NJ. Padgett of Tellu-
ride. Colo, and the retirement of Editor w.
c. Kelley who has been in bad health two
years We extend fraternal greetings to the
new owner and editor and welcome her to
this section of Georgia. AT the same time The
News sincerely regrets that it IS necessary
for Editor Kelley to quit the newspaper
game and to lose him as a neighbor. man
of high ideals and an able and fearless writer
who was loyal to the best interests OF his
town and section he left an impress for good,
and will be missed The News will miss him
as neighbor, and we trust his health will
soon be restored and his strength renewed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12

There is altogether too much crime, but
the newspapers are not responsible for it. and
if every newspaper suspended publication
crime would not stop. On the contrary, it
would go on with greater fury than ever.
The thing to do is to publish the news OF
crime and at the same time make the Grim
inal who committed the crime look like a
criminal instead of a martyr when evidence of
his guilt is established. We have our share
Of criminal heroes here in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12

The statement that few persons own
most OF the wealth OF this land is pure bunk.
T 1t is fact that some of the interests have
too certain a cinch, but they do not own
these fertile south Georgia farms that are the
source of great wealth. Even Terrell county,
one of the smaller size in area and popula-
ton, is paying the taxes and upkeep at
least million dollars worth of motor cars
largely used for JOY riding.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-12

There never was time when business
men or farmers did not complain OF hard
times There isn't anything new in the sit
uation; products never sold for enough to
satisfy the husbandman, and men never got
hold OF their share OF the circulating medium
After all progress has been made all along
the line all the time.