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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
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You could have no complaint ahout
the January weather up to the »nres
ent time,
They have ordered the dough boys
out of Germany down to eight thous
and. The standing army there here
tofore has been fifteen thousand.
This is a good time to buy if you
need something—and if you have the
money with which to pay. You cor
drive a good bargain if you will lcok
for it.
)
We have been hearing that the far
mer was ruined ever since we could
remember—and he is still farming.
Those who know the meaning of
work and more work do not like the
inginwation that they are ruined be
cause it isn’t true,
Home owners in Cordelg ought to
be making large preparation for pret
ty lawns and flower gardens now
We love trees, but there arve too few
people who regard the home flower
garden as a means of beautifying the
place,
The Crisp county citizen who La
nerve enough to say thig is the tim?
for starting something in paving,
should let go. We believe this yeur
whl bring us larger opportunitieg to
locate our material and buy a!
greatly reduced prices.
We need more peach orchards and
a larger interest in pecans in Crisp
county. The trees require care but
that is well paid for in the crops.
Leét's have more peaches., They are
worth their way in every direction.
This country will make them—fine
ones, . A g’; %M
Somebody suggests that the large
nations ought to be paying their debts
ln'siead of building larger fighting ma
c Hines. That is just right. What do
you think of a man who owes all the
debts possible and then keeps on
miking more debts? The principle
fs the same.
Do you keep up with the Commu
nity Service in Cordele? Mighty
fine things are under way—all of
them for the good of the people
here. Lots of folks are noting that
fact that larger numberg of poeple
appreciate the fact that they live in
Cordele.
We have the belief that the United
States government is withdrawing
from future meetings of the premiers
of European nations because of tho
averse attitude of the new adminis
tration which is soon to take hold of
affairs. President Wilson is the kind
of man who rather than appropriat?
distinction to himself at the secrifice
of national relations would withdraw
and abide the time when the incom
ing administration will have full re
sponsibility and be permitted to di
rect future deliberations in the light
of the relations which must exist for
at least four vears. The importance
of friendly relations with the other
larger powers is not being lightly
regarded by the Wilson administra
tion, nor can it be said of the demo
cratg that they were careless of this.
CRISP WAS WRONG. ‘
Representative Crisp has the
approval of the people of this dis
trict in his vote to check the fall- 1
ing prices of farm productg that |
come in competition with them, |
It is a business and not a par
tisan question, and Mr. Crisp is
statesman enough to recognize it
and vote in the interest of his
constituents.—Dawson News.
We would not appreciate Charles
R. Crisp or any other man in public
office who played for votes and for
got principle. This is a day whenj
the man in office coddles and sweet"
ens the time of the wool hat hoy
and the hill billie the man who was
opposed to war and the slacker, his
son and hig friend, and the whols
family of them., He is specially ea
ger to do them a favor—and doesn’s
know how every time.
Crisp was wrong in his tariff vote
—wrong from the very foundation
principle of all trade interests. This
is a large country and by main force
may do most of the things it wishe:;',
but it cannot prevail with such a pro
gram because such a program is not
right, Crisp voted for a measure that
assumes thig country is not willing
to go out in the open on an equai
footing with other nations and trade
That's why all tariff is wrong—any
kind of tariff. We need none of it
50 long as we can keep other nations
from adopting it—and 4t ought to be
against all forms of international law
to set up a tariff wulll against any
people anywhere,
l The American banker for some
time has had his own tariff wall up
in the shape of imparities of th:)
American dollar with the dollar of
other nations, You may go to Bra
zil with a dollar and buy two dollars’
worth of Brazilian leather or rubber
or frozen beef or mutton and try to
get back to the United States with
}it and the American bhanker, stand
ing at the trade gate way to Brazil
l will get that extra dollar’s value out
. of you in exchange before you get
; back. He is operating a money tar
! iff in foreign trade that has already
iruined American trade outside our
cown boundaries
% The ratio of difference in value is
| not so large as represented here, bu:
!nthis serves to illustrate what is ac-
Itually going on among American
, bankers why are playing millions in
to their own coffers on a superim
’ posed difference in money values—=2
trick of their own. Brazil never en
tered the war actively. Her govern
ment financial conditions are any
day as good as those in the United
iStuto,s. There is no reason highe"‘
{tlmu a robbing banker’s reason wh.\’]
' the American dollar is worth a cent
more than the Brazilian dollar in
trade anywhere—here or in Brazil.
Brazil has firmly resolved to stop
trading in the United States because
lol’ this banker’s tariff wall, It has
already been the destruction of great
volumes of business in this countrv
and it will work gtill greater harm.
The bankers are not coming off till
itho government makes them do it
{ and the government is afraid of them
"l‘ho federal reserve system has bro
ken their hog snouts in home busi-
Im-ss and they are turning them on
| foreign business. l
But back to Crisp and the turm'.}
He may vote for tariffs till he isj
black in the face and until hig farm
wg constituency goes to work and
leaves off this Russian habit of ex
pecting relief from the government
they will get no relief. ‘Thelr bet
terment rests in their ow,a working
program at home—their own methods
of marketing their crops, their own
ciiposition to grow their own s
Ihtes on theiv cwn lands, ‘Those who
clapped loudest when Crisp voted for
the sugar tit tarift from the republi
cans slung out to them ag a bait, in
our minds were the men who provide
less of their needs on the farm, who
work less for what they use—and pay
for less of it. The kind who will be
lieve Crisp’y vote for the republican
tariff was wise are still expecting
government relief,
Santa Claus is a million times more
real than government relief for our
farmers. That's the way we feel
about it.
JUST A LITTLE NERVE.
A Dodge county man who fled
in haste to the bankruptcy courts
for financial rebirth, stopped to
think and decided that he wasn't
s 0 bad off after all, and that he
could work out his problems by
himself. A great many of us are
not in such a bad fix as we think
we are on panicky impulse—~Tif- !
ton Gazette, :
The man with some stamina will
win out every time in # fight to retain
his own self respect and the respect
of his neighbor. If he cares at all,
he will want to pay his debts,
Adversities knock the props from
under good men samptimes. It s
argued that the bankruptcy court is
the right agency for a new start, but
it is not. There is only one way out
—paying out. The better the man in
character, the more nearly is it possi
ble for his debts to be paid. A
little more stick has saved many a
man from this unnatural, dishonora
ble way out of paying his obligations
Creditors who will not wait some
times perform this ceremony upon i
victim when he is unwilling. In that
case it is not his fault. We are talk
ing about the man who wants to pay
his debts. We would offer a word
to the man who knows that is the on
ly honorable way out. A little stick‘
will work wonders,
Presént reverses are no excuse to
throw up one’s hands and surrender.
The outside world seldom knows of
the reverses of a man with real grit
and determination. He comes out by
his own steady plugging and says
nothing about it. But he is a far aif
ferent man from those who fall vic
tims of the bankruptcy court
We hope, if there are tight places.
the man who is pinched will realiz2
that he gets out by plugging and sav
ing. Most of us prefer plugging it
out. Paying out is the best way.
Other adjustments will not settle i
debt. Giving up too quickly is dan
gerous, Those who are in tight
places have only to renew their grip
on real, plain business courage and
fight on, saving and paying. That
sort of pluck turns business the
right way many, many times in the
history of the fear's business,
ONE THING REMEMBER. |
Hon. Thos. E. Watson has an- ‘
nounced in an interview in the |
Atlanta Constitution that one of
his first acts as United States |
senator from Georgia will be to
introduce legislation to make
liberty bonds and other govern- {
ment securities legal tender. As |
a matter of justice government
gecurities should be worth par.
The fact that liberty bonds
bought by the people who came =
to the rescue of the government
in its time of distress are now
worth in the market millions of
dollars less than was paid for
them is little less than a public
gcandal. As a matter of common
honesty and justice this should
not be so~—Dawson News. !
One thing remember: The govern
ment is keeping its agreement witn
the people regarding these bonds.
It is paying every dollar of interest
on them as it comes due and paym;:l
what it agreed to pay. It will go fu:‘~l
ther than this. (At the day they fall
due it will put up gold coin to redeein ‘
them as it agreed to do when we:
bought them. Wg helieve that willl
be done whether democrats or l(’i
publicans run the government. '
But it would be dangerous to m:lke\
chewing gum coupons legal tender!
and add soap wrappers and soda wa- |
ter checkg till there would be so’
much to every man, woman and]
child that money would be wm-thi
nothing. i
Liberty Dbonds deserve the l)estl
consideration on the one score: ’l‘he_\"
represent the sacrifices and the loy
alty of many millions of people who
gave their means to the support of
the Stars and Stripes, the flag of
their country, in the greatest war anl
the greatest victory this country ;md(
the world have every known. l
The National Sheep and {Wool Buf‘
reau of America has announced it‘
will support a plan to bring about al
vear's embargo on the importutiml'
of wool.
THE CURDELD Lriws cam v
LET'S GET IT STRAIGHT,
In New York all the jewelry
stores have armed their clerks
and they have done it in spite
of the laws of the state and city.
The right of self protection
seems to he still a paramount
one. But think of such a state
of things in New York on FKifth
avenue! Those who want to see
the real wild west will have to
go east for lit.—Dawson News.
No, sir! The real wild west ig still
in the west—in the movie studio
around Los Angeles!
One of your talking points for your
home community is the excellency
of the local city school system.
None of them have us beaten. If
vou doubt this, investigate and then
talk it over to your neighbors. When
they believe it, the gpirit of loyalty
to home interests will have grown
in this direction to the full hundred
percent. We have some other gains
we want to make, of course, because
we are not trying to equal other
neighboring communities and stop at
‘that, Our purpose is to have schools
which will meet all the needs of the
children who are in training to be
come the men and women of the fu
ture here, regardless of what other
communities are doing. We want to
be sure, and that's what means great
gain,
GETTING VALUES EQUALIZED.
From. Daily Tifton Gazette:
Taxpayers in ninety-six Georgia
counties returned their property last
year at an estimated average of 33
per cent. of actual value, and showed
an averaged increase of 27 per cent.
over 1919, according to the state
ment of Tax Commissioner Henry
J. Fullbright. Taking 35 percent. of
the real value of property as a basis
of equalization, it was found that
ninety six counties fell below this
standard. It was these that were re
quested to bring their returns up to
the general average. The net gain
in values in Georgia last year was
$198,110,994, giving a percentage in
crease of 63 percent, for the six years
the tax equalization law has been in
operation. It is estimated that the
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W llldl‘d:
Batteries
E;.\t a lower price level. i
E'l'lw same \VILLARD:
Equulity backed by thoi
Willard Service., |
E All makes of l)zlttm'ios?
recharged and ,I,'(~l)ai|'ods
CORDELE BATTERY €O.
P K |
FiCeS :
‘Slipknot Half Rubber
BdBIR s Ao
Slipknot Whole Rubber
FlealN o s 000
Cats Paw Half Rubber
Heslß = s Yo
Cats Paw Whole Rubber
Reals s 108
I. T. S. Half Rubber Heels 50c
¥. R. C. Half Rubber Heels 50¢
Goodyear Half Rubber
F6BlB s 600
Goodyear Whole Rubber
Feblai b oai 780
Half Soles, L. & M.
Teathars i, $l.BO
Half Soles Korry Krome
T.oathera: ... ...s.oi. 3108
Half Soles Neolia .............$1.50
N o reduction on
turned solesor wood
en heels.
Cordele Leather Co.
R. L. PERSALL, Mgr.
109 Wall Street.
increase in dollars into the state
increase in last yvear will bring addi
tional $1,000,000 into the state
centage of values in the counties in
this immediate section is given as
follows: Ben Hill, from 31 to 38;
Colquitt, from 30 to 36; Crisp, from
24 to 34; Dooly, from 31 to 33;
Dougherty, from 31 to 37; Irwin,
31 to 36; Tift, from 26 to 36; Turner,
from 26 to 33; Worth, from 25 to 32.
WILL ECONOMISTS PLEASE FIG
URE IT OUT.
From Baltimore American.
Lincoln, Dec. 27.—Seventy per
cent of Nebraska's wheat crop of
60,000,000 bushels is still held on
the farms almost entirely be
cause of the low prices, In 42
counties of the state farmers
have organized and pledged
themselves to hold their wheat
until the” price reaches $3.00 a
bushel.—News Dispatch,
Virtually the same thing is repor
ted from the other big wheat-produc
ing states. In North Dakota 80 per
cent. of the 1920 crop is still in the
farmer’s hands. In Kansas, 50,000,-
000 bushels are held back, and mil
lions of bushels have gone unharves
ted. The farmer must be protected,
the banks must carry his loans until
he can get $3 a bushel or, if not the
banks, the government,
The farmer, while hanging on to
_MARE
YOUR NEIGHBOR
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progressive people in its territory. They take it and do us the
kindness to say sometimes that they cannot get along without it.
We want it to be an even better paper and then— :
We want everybody to subscribe because we want all our
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and keep up with what is going on in the world. The Dispatch
tries to present news of substantial progress wherever we find it
—we do not present the dark side of life of the women vampires
who steal cach other’s husbands, who live in divoree scandal and
sex problems. To us that is not legitimate news. You may,
have a different view. ' { Y 4 R&
We want the Dispateh to deliver a wholesome story of
what the world has done during the day. We want you to take
and read it to be able to measure your problems by what others
have done and are doing—we want you to read. .
Do your neighbor a real service by making him subseribe
for his home daily. The money is the best spent money he will
enjoy spending during the whole year. If you cannot make it
any other way, ride out seven dollars less in gas in your automo
bile—save that many miles in joy riding and apply it to improv
ing your noodle for handling your problems. = N
Don’t argue with us about the price. We pay $7.50 per
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with which we can convinee you that thi jis the truth if you care
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You are a subscriber, Make your neighbor one and let’s
have every citizen of Crisp county reading the home daily before
the end of 1921. Your neighbor will be a better neighbor. He
will want to help you put over some community needs before he
has gone very far. It’s the truth. Take him on now and let us
be sending him a paper. . s em KVB
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
this vear’s crop, has put into winter
wheat, according to the department
of agriculture, fully 97 percent, of the
acreage he sowed last year. This
is the paradox in the gituation. Sup
pose he holds his 1920 crop until his
1921 crop comes in and redoubles the
supply. Can the government avoil
providing his credit for him? And,
if not, where will be the economic end
of such a process?
Late reports from the Southern
Hemisphere forecast favorable pros:
pects foy crops of 1920-1921,
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ALL DRUGGISTS SELL’'IT
- (‘o-operative marketing. O WOpL
througl the county agent gaye V
ers of Williamson county, Texas, 60
cents a pound at a time when leeal
buyers were offering but 36 cénts; ,
Twelve thousand and -thil‘jj tons
of coal were digcharged frol the
collier Ulysses at the Cristobid Caal
ing Plant of the Panama Caual’in
15 hours and 26 minutes. = ...
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Califernia farmers have taken over
aa new two-million dol!ul‘.tfl'fl(p&l
elevator at Oakland. ... .. .. o o