The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-23
Knockers Should Put Up Their
Hammers and Leave Off Hard
luck Stories. U. S. Survey
Shows Terrell a Strong Leader
Among Counties of State.
D., A E. Gibson, County Agent.


Almost daily we hear somebody
n ia about not making anything on
, ,@n f5rm and in the stores. 1t rained
lpo mich. or it rained too little, or we
Nv short Of labor, or had mule to
az 3;s or something else.
uI 0no of the most successful men we
~ ever known told us that he had
l lS' on the verge of breaking num-
w.. n times, but he always kept it to
p p:,Y The trouble with we Geor
nm ns is that we advertise our hard
ga, 70 the world, and such a program
lu'H his will not induce many people
1.on other states to come to our sec
I l;o, and share our hard luck-especial-
i, The desirable type of citizenship.
H. hear folks talk about Florida, the
.",ny opportunities that state affords,
h tna' only last week we saw two former
rIorida citizens feasting on patch
u blackberries along one of our Ter
eli county highways. These fellows
i'd not appear to be pulling off any
movie stunt, either, but seemed to be
u earnest We would not for any
limo detract from our sister state, but
here . we're two able-bodied young
n ,i men who had left Florida and
WERE actually satisfying their hunger
IN PRODUCTS of Terrell county that we
allow TO go practically unnoticed.
Huge Receipts From Terrell Farms.
A recent survey made of Terrell
county reveals the facts that last year
Me- gross receipts from farms was ST.
4n942.O0. while that of Tiff was only
81 sos. $4,000, and Crisp showed gross
farm income of only $952,4Sl.00.
The gross receipt per farm as re-
oorred bv the U. S. bureau of census
& Terrell county was $4,000, while
that OF Tiff was 10000, and that Of
Crisp S46400 The gross receipts per
raoita of pGrrell was $4,000, Tiff
Sll500 and that of Crisp was $500.
We talk about hard times, and if we
really did have hard times in Terrell
county last year with a gross per cap
tia receipt of $3.50 what about those
fellows in Crisp county who had
gross per capita receipt OF only ST.!
There are some good counties IN
Georgia. some wonderfully progressive
counties. but we believe that there are
none that will surpass Terrell, and
this TACT will only be revealed to the
world by the citizens OF our county.
We will experience a rather difficult
task in convincing the world that Ter
rell county is a great county to live
in so long as we go about advertising
to everybody that we are broke and
are thinking OF moving to Florida.
Sorry He Left Dawson.
We received a letter from former
citizen of Terrell county last week.
and in that letter he stated that he was
sorry that he ever left Dawson, and
was coming back. He said he was
making some money in Florida, but
Terrell county was better place to
live
We are persuaded that il we were
to boost Terrell county as much as
we boost other sections and work as
hard here in Terrell county to make
a success as we would have to work
in some other popular sections of the
country it would only be short time
before the owners OF some OF these
Big busses would inscribe on their
sides Terrell County Bus, and would
be running on regular schedule into
Terrell county from the north, SOUTH
east and west.