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\ ow about groceries—isn't it tinm;
y got on the downward trend i’i}
ice ? |
ggs are brifig&ng a fancy price—
{ those who dught to have lots of
em to gell have mone. That's &
rry piece of-news here in (‘n‘a-n}
unty. 1t onght not to be so. |
Some of our farmers have moie fa'..‘.;
3 pride now lhhn eggs. If that wmw-i
st 80, these very proud and thought :
ss farmers would have more asseis
aich they could turn into money,
“If we had a million dozen c;nmlrj."
sgs, we could sell all of them now
fa good price. Where are the good
':i.rmers who used to make smnuthim.c‘
;a the gide with the egg crop?
§ GRNke e
;‘;Jt we were a citizen of Macon, we
?ould not be very proud of the Ma
?m date line over the mews maticr)
Sming out” of the Shepard "(Tfifg«-.‘
ort Valley i getting away from this
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'WE ARE KEEPING COMPANY.
;
. The big trouble about mob law
and 'other acts of lawlessness is ‘
the effect which it has upon |
those people who practice it ;
No man can take the law in his ‘
own hands ‘“without weakening
himself. No section can tolerate
lawlessness without suffering.
Russia and Mexico are both try
ing it and failing.—Valdosta
Times.
Well, why worry? When we won
e world war, we permitted a politi
wal stew to keap us out of the peace
naking. So far as this country it
oncerned, like Russia and Mexico,
ve are still at war. .
It is a wongieflul note of pessimisn
o sound, but:is there anything wors:
n the wild viot of lawlessness now
g then bredking forth in the mobs,
han there ig in the presistent refusal
I‘llauonal.ly to make peace with the
érest of the world and proclaim our
%{‘eturn to regard for establshed cus
%:toms of safety umlvhonem dealing,
_ope nation, one people, with another?
g[{ you are an honest man, what sa)
fyou? 43
;iMexico is a stage all set for bri
‘gands and robbers. Russia hag bect
‘plundered and burned, its established
institutions destroyed and ‘forgotter
The United States 'is keeping com
‘bany with {hfis type of «nation so far
{as peace is concerned.” ('an we com
§plaiu when our “citizenship absorh
fay individuals, Su:mething of what we
gax‘e nationzllly”? ;
g It is all foelishness. We are non”
EEM these bad ‘fhings that are painted
§ but it is true that the atmosphere can
%not bg clenred@ of the idea of taking
éme law iuto fthe hands of the mob
‘;‘ when we are not rigidly and faithful
| Iy tracking the law as a nation in our
relations with other nations, Mob
law i¢ older than the world war, bu!
it should not:have new glories added
through anything that occurred in
‘ihe war, It must be downed. Wo
M}t exist with it. i
;;_; CHILD 'onsznv‘prnqst
;}k‘i; mous_ educator wh“’,“‘.’@fi*
fitho go with the qevelop
ment of three powers; |
1. Accurate robservation,
TB, S;mid judgnient, |
3, Energetic action, |
i Accfirate observation naturally de-{
welops . comparisons and contrasts
that ‘lead to correct judgment, The§
level-headed judgment Dbrings a con
yiction of right and wrong that pro-%
‘ducey thie most energetic persisiency }
in any line of conduct. What finer
result ean education attain n.'lzann.thc‘
%tyong, energetic character whosel
judgment can be relied upon and
whose facts will stand all testing?”
And yet we leave our little c¢hildren
in a hazy world of confused, senge
impression, ‘rarvely even calling on
them to use any judgment; and o’ften}
timeg not satisfying their eager ques
tjoning with accurate statements ‘o?j
the things about which they are in-;
quiring. lls this not due to the pre
vailing belief that it does not matteri
what little childvren hear and see or
with what they occupy themselves go
long as they keep well and are not
too much trouble? ‘
- The comment of a well known edu
cator and father who has made a fice
success of bringing up hiy famiiy of
children is worthy-of our considera
tion. He said, ‘“The parental atti
tude and next to that the ieaeher at
titude toward the higher things ol
the mind is of paramount impHtince
egpecially in young | children. "The
offentimes contemptuous indiff2rence
with which mature people trdat the
presence of children, displaying be
fors them habity, manners and con
vergation that are anything but desir
able,; is to me one of the paralyzing
wonders of contemporary life.”
Children all around us are obsery
ing the manners and listening to the
conversation of ‘the adults about them
and the general hearing of most
chiliren is a direct reflection of their
home surroundings. If “conduet is
dignified and conversation is aleng
the line of some noble or far reaching
theme the child will be gremtpr bene
fifged. Llt ganversafion {g. vetty .
‘Puerile »g_ol‘@lp abop.t the limitations
of one’s nglghbors, the child’s’ mind
is feeding upoun that non-nutritious
supply; if conversation ig bittedr and
contemptuous criticism of really high
and noble moi'.vos of the world’s best
people, the child’y fnind is feeding up
cn that poison, for after all, it is the
opinions of the peofi]o we look up to
that educate, the majority of us more
than any one factor of life,
(‘al; you recall now any of the
bright spots in your child observa
tions? Surely you can, Kind one of
if you can which stands as an object
lesson in unfair, dishonest dealing.
Find another that spelled in your
child mind the ideal of goodness in
somebody you knew. lHow often
have these loomed up in your mem
ory and weighed in your conduct fol
lowing? Can you measure the con
gciong influence of the examples of
good and bad you saw in others in
the tender ,v(v\.u'rs- of child obgerva
tion as these have applied in your life
You certainly can not estimate the
unconsecious influence.
We must know that the tender
vears are years of vital importance
in the moulding of character for the
littlo ones, 'We must face the res
ponsibilities. They cannot be shirk
ed. The manhood and womanhood
of the future all depend on the c¢hild
impressions of home and school in
the very earliest years.
BOTH CLASSES HAPPY,
The San Diego Tribune cites
the fact that the “wheat farmer
is glad cotton is down in price
and the cotton farmer is glad
that wheat is coming down.”
Why couldn’t the paper in a seq
tion where the people can look
impartially ‘at the matter conduct
a "glad” exchange-—so that both
wheat and cotton farmer can en
joy the enjoyment of the other
clasg?-—Savannali Morning \o“x
Under present .. conditions = beth
classes have ('auséum "be happy-—the
one ot the other's expense. Are lmthlz
clagzes willing to stand hiteched? Are
we willing to take less for the cotton
if we caun buy flour cheaper? . ... }
~HOW WE WASTE COTTON.
ev s 4 S
avening Post somohody “has’ struck
Rlchaid Spnlwp 850 itdrcih!y,‘ that he
drives hard in the Philadelphja Pub
lic Ledger against the evil of hand.
ling cotton in the wasteful manner
which prevailg in the south. Many,
many arguments have been made in
the papers by various writers who
seck to remedy this waste, but it nev
er is rectified. When will the south
realize that much depends on the
baling and hagdling of cotten in price
»a}nd 'flpréfit.;m e i e
. The farmer dismisses it with the
idea that it is the other man's task.
He loses in the price of his cotton be
cause the consumer figures against all
thig waste, He cannot keep his busi
ness going if he does not. Have we
any right to suppose this waste in cot
ton is one of the reasons why the
producer gets about half what iv
eventually paid . by the consumer
peund for pound for the crop?
~ln Boston, in Havre, in Bremen, the
consumer pays for that which reaches
him. The price i higher, to be sure,
but the consumer gets a different
package from that which left the far
mer, butchered and sliced mercilessly
for the samples. Some of the differ
ence i in the waste and it is a far
mer’s loss, after all, If all the cotton
the farmers offers in his bale went
to the émwumer, what lis called the
tare would be less. The loss iy made
up in the difference in price. There
would not be so much tare if cotton
were handled properly. Tt is a grow
er's problem, pure and simple. 1t
will never be righted till the grower
gets hold of it and prevents this long
habit of waste. Anything he can do
to help maintain a larger price to
the grower, will be his advantage,
and he ought te be at it.
The groner must fight the waste
for he thus reduces the percentage
of - margin between what ig*paid for
the cotton at the mills and whatl is
paid the grower at the warehouse.
This is an unexplained trouble which
can be eliminated: so far as waste
goes. We grumble when we have to
take fifteen cents a pound for the cot
ton and find eventually that the mills
pay thirty cents a'pmm& for the.same
cotton, 'The mills, it must be re
membered, get the same cotton we
sold at the warehouse, less the waste
which is all taken care of in the fif
teen cents a pound we failed to get
when ‘we sold it. If we make it *
sible ta deliver all we sell, we can
reduce that margin of profit absorbed
somewhere between the grower and
the consumer. :
Have we made it plain why we loze
s 0 much in waste cotton? Please do
not presume that the grower i 3 not
paying for this waste, He is at it.
You are at it, and all of us will- con,
tinue at it as long as our cotton i
handled in such wasteful manner.
We have told you about it. What
are you going to do?
What will the president say in his
last mesgage to congress, ‘“‘Merry
Christmas to youw.” is our suggestion,
' Just \\"-I—l:::\::—{hink \\'.(;:.:nn make
both ends meet, somebody moves the
ends.
Seed Rye and Qats
We offer Rosen Rye, South
Georgia Black Rye, Texas
Rust Proof and Fulghum
| Seed Oats. Seleeted stock
at the right prices.
HEARD GROCERY COMPANY
CORDELE, GA. |
WE SHIP PROMPTLY AND COLLECT PROMPTLY
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
- SAVINR IR ROWRB. BILLS, .
' The amount saved on 'bills' for
fght in o@é vear alone by the people
iot«()a'litornla by hkv!ng their rates
Pnsteud of the rates prevailing in
Georgia 1g $12,195687, according to
’t_he average rateg for light in Cali
}tomia and Georgia given by the Bu
reau of the Census in its report with
reference to eleetrical industries in
the United Stateg up to and including
the year, 1917. The idmportance of
this fact to the people of Georgia
coupled with the frequent mention
of the wonderful progress of the
Stute of California made in connec
tion with the campaign to advertise
the state of Georgia causes us to call
particular attention to our own power
prospects in the future. The age
ahead of us is an electrical age. This
is not assumption, It is truth. We
are so rapidly convertirg the wheels
of industry into one solid motor-dri
ven mass of energy that our power
I costs are already of great concern and
interest, g
| Kconomic . advantages have 1)
igreatér promiges anywhere than in
‘ths water power development which
fbecomes an asset when applied to
" the electric motor. We have the
:prohlem to gettle hecause other com
lmodities are settling it for themsel
| ves. To remain dormant while other
businegs centers develop and com
mercialize their water power advat
tages will spell the end of business
grownth in afiy live community. We
say this as applying to Cordele. Ag
]upp)ying to the state in general, we
want to impress the importance of
legislative. action which will make
it possible for Cordele and other com
mercial centers to do what they will
toward developing their own adja
ecnt water powers. On the Flint
River ig the dead energy which will
one day make us indeed a live husi
ness community. We ought to have
the legal right to go out there and
develop our needs, And when we say
#ight, we mean that authority as a
municipality which woulld make it
possible to buy the site and build
our plant on the river which would
give is a limitless gtore of elegjric
power. g *j %
Would you support x mensuretn the
state legislature = giving ‘us that
)I'ight? We could not invest in lands
[and power sites like we are. We
veed the legal right aud the fight is
now warming to fever .heat in the
istate legislature to s~cure thai right,
%}'rivute interests areg, ol ecurse, try
ing to prevent it because ‘this would
; mak'e it possible for every muni‘?ip:‘x%
th to create its own nower at mini
!mum cgst. Those I">rivaté interests
”uh‘eudy owning powers in,_ . Georgia
l(‘ugh( not to be permitted to keep us
from the legal right to develop ani
own ours, That is the gimple stors
of 1t all, .
GOING TO QUIT FARMING?
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Says the
Jackson Progress-Argus: “The Pro
gress-Argus has absolutely no pati
ence with the man who says he is
going to quit farming because of a
drop in prices, or the business man
}\\'ho says he is going to retire. Such
talk is mere foolishness. None of us
i 3 a quitter. We must all do the hest
}we can, and continue to work and
hope for the best. The South hyd'
four years of the greatest pros"périgy i;
any nation ever knew. Because things
are in the dumps now we r'nu’t re
solve to go ahead and do the best
we can because the present condi
tion will Jast long.” That is the prop _!
er view to take of the situation. All
the days can't be br’ight with sun~!
shine. If they were we soon would|
lose appreciation of them. The rain: |
must come with their dark and
glocomy days, in order that we may
appreciate the bright ones. The sea
gon of prosperity that we have en
joyed has made us forgetful of the
fact that®there is such a thing as|
adversity in business affairs. Havingz
Leen’ more or less extravagant iti
goes against the grain a bit for us o
get down to hrass tacks and bott
hieels, - but we must de this very
thing. Conditiong have changed and
we must accomodate ourselves to the
change. And let us:remembher this:l
Conditions .are rarely ever so bad‘
that they could not be worse. Keep!
this in mind and be thankful. e
OLD HOME TOWN @ - E :
OF LINCOIN TO B
" RESTORED SOON
Springfield, 111, Nov. 29.—Restora:
tion' of the willage of New Salem
where Ahraham Lincoln worked as
grocery clerk, fell in love with Ann
Rutledge, carried the postoffice in
higs hat and whipped the champion of
the “Clary’s Grove Boys,” will be
next spring and with the addition of
the Old Salem museum, will be
thrown open as the Old Salem State
Park, according to announcement of
State Architect Edgar Martin,
Log huts as they were in Lincolns
day have been rebuilt. Their location
and arrangement are exact. Founda
tions were found undisturbed ex
cept® by the wear of time, and the
houses reconstructed .over them. At
mosphere of 1831 to 1837 in so far
s possible is re-embodied. The store
where Lincoln was clerk, the mill on
Sangamon river and all other struc
tures of “New Salem” so rich in
memories of the gredt American have
Hen completely touches. ]
~ HERE FOLKS!
We have some at $8.95 a pair, good
shoes that will save you about $5
on each pair. The sale is for Thurs
day and Friday only. '
No need to say come and get ’em--
but mind you these shoes are Réd
Cross and must be good ones or we
' make them good. z
Where Cordele’s Highes't Grrade Shoes Are Sold.
Eleventh Avenue ; A Next to Louis Miller’s
We have Crystalized Pine Apple, Cherries, Cit
ron, Lemon and Orange Peel, Raisins, Currants,
Dates and Prunes. ’ :
Mrs. King’s Home . made Creole Fruit Cake,
fresh stock, one, two, three, four and five pound
_ sizes—none better. Six varieties of Stone’s
Cakes. ;
We have fruits and nuts of al] kinds, Walnuts,
Brazil nuts, Pecans and Almonds, Cranberries and
Celery. Phone u.s :
Coker Grocery Co.
T ‘ PHONES 249216 ,
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CHO:.CE GREEN MEAIS
HIGH GRADE FANCY AND BULK GROCERIES
N AT UNUSUALLY LOW PRICES.
Choice Cuts Beef Steak, per pound . .-.........30c
Choiee Cuts Beef Roast, per pouud . . . . . .25¢ and 30c
Pork Steak and Chops, per pound .............39C
Phvi Boash Bt 0, el o
A TFew Grocery Prices—not Special Prices, but
Regular Prices.
Bacon Meat, per pound ... ....c.ouvuees =2OO
Compound Lard, per p0und............-......20¢
Sigdr her pownd oo VL ei L e
Green Coffee, per potnd ........=+iipvis.. ATS4C
Bulk Ground Coffee, per pound ............., 25¢
Arbuekles Coffee, per Ib, 35¢, three Ibs for. .. .$l.OO
Whole Head Rice: per pound ...............12%¢
Package iOvits, Bach b2l v a 0 198
Other Groceries, Fruits and Vegetables at Com
. paratively Low Prices. ’
We invite Your Patronage. Try Us.
WEST END MARKET & GROCERY COMPANY
R. A. BULLINGTON . PHONE 302
Tweedie
Boot
Top
Spats
$3.95
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