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MANY PEACH BLOSSOMS.
The Albany Herald takes con
giderable space to record the ‘
fact that peach blossoms were ‘
found in that city on January 26, f
Peach trees have been in full
bloom here for some time —Tif
ton Gazette.
We have no disposition to make
the Albany writer feel uncomfortable,
but they are in bloom up this way—
have been for some few days. Saw
a peach blossom picture yesterday no
artist in all the world could repro
duce, no camera man, not even a
movie man, could ever start anything
in the smallest likeliness of its beau
ty, An early spring is bending south
ward with a budding warmth for all
vegetation .
7 THE DAILY PAPERS.
The daily papers inform an
anxious public that the well
. . known and justly famed presi
dent clect played a couple of
rounds of golf. And yet they
poke fun at locals in country
newspapers,—Sparks Eagle,
You see, they have high salaried
men following the president-elect
seeking information on cabinet ap
pointments, peace treaty information,
and other larger news, but it just
will not break, and, of course these
newspaper men have to keep time at
something. Telling that Harding
played golf means that's all that Hard
ing did—that the public could know.
| IT IS NOT THE TRUTH.
We feel like the daily press is
working over time on the opti
mism propaganda, ‘The papers
insist that its all a mistake about
any hard times—that people have
plenty of money-—that they just
~imagine they haven’'t any. Our
creditors will help u sfind ours.
—Madisonian,
' It is fine to hold an optimistic
spirit as long as you can, but there
are few who will believe one is hon
est when he persists in saying there
~ are no hard times—no depression,
There is depression, but none of it
will ever prove the kind that ought
to make a man quit and lay down all
his efforts to pull through,
We should come down to the truth
and try to get what consolation we
can out of the fact that liquidation
will mean this country and all its
. business interests are coming off
their joy ride. We are being required
to liquidate—pay up and start even
That makes the depression we speak
of,
There is some real promise in the
business that will follow. This per
jod had to come. All people should
have known it is a necessity in read
justments. Our safety depends on
the spirit in which we meet it and
pull over. Millions of people are
cutting expenses and living on their
earnings and that brings many mil
lions to harder living, This will work
itself gradually into safer business
and then we will hbe mauy times bet:
ter situated,
We are not specially welcoming
such times, but when they are over,
we may be sure the course following
g‘qm.jbq the kind which the average,
person can pursue in Tlety and pro-
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SAFETY OF MOTHERHOOD.
Motherhood is safer in seventeen
fereign countries than in the United
States, and babies in ten other coun
tries have a better change of living
through their first year, ac
cording to the house committee on
the Sheppard-Towner bill which pro
vides that the government shall spend
approximately a million and a half
for the safeguarding of the health of
mothers and babies in this country,
The claim is made that childbirth
causes more instead of fewer deaths
as we advance in other life-saving
methods,
We do not know where this commit
tee gets the statistics it uses, These
may be truthful. We hope mother
hood and babies in their first year get
more attention in other countries
than they do in that area which comes
under the eye of the average Geor
gian,
~ Have you ever stopped in a rurai
cemetery—one in which the little
graves literally pin-checked the whole
ground? Infants are buried there
who never reached the age of a year,
Were you ever impressed that these
little lives might have been saved had
those in wnose charge they came in
to the world been educated in the
least as to how to feed them and care
for them in their first year?
And who knows the meaning of
motherhood? Most of the mothers of
this lang would tell you they know,
but who can answer for the thous:
ands who go every year victims of a"
lack of proper knowledge of the vitali
‘health conditions of motherhood? Are
you quite sure that the mothers are
not entitled to more of that lmowl-}
edge which would save them? |
This house legislative committes
fighting for funds for that purpose
said the number of women who lost
their lives at child birth increased
fifteen percent last year in this coun
try, We conclude that there are
many, many things to draw from us
in tax money and we despair of ever
getting along because of the annual
increase in burdens—but we still
keep going and most of us are able
to provide fairly good living for our
selves and those dependent upon us,
In our minds there has not been a
more humane movement in congress
of the United States than that aimed
at bettering conditions for mothers
and babies. The country is full of
those who know too litty of health
conditions before and after child
birth. And when we come to think
of the fact that knowledge in this
case is life itself, we want them to
have it,
This country will not lose anything
%in spending something to reach the
H)oorly informed mothers and those
who are responsible for the infants.
There lies a vita] element of human
betterment, The pall of ignorance
that hangs lowering over our rural
communities is something unbe
lievable in its application to mother
hood and to the care of the infants.
The cemetery bears out this state
‘ment,
The federal government has many
millions to serve, It has grea' cause
to espouse and defend, but none of
them are more directly contributors
to the conservation of the physical
man hood of the nation than this ef
fort to reach the mothers and the in
fants with a saving knowledge of
themselves,
FOR BETTER SPELLING,
The ancient art of spelling is
to receivg more attention from
now on in the University of llli
nois. No student will be
given a degree who cannot pass
the spelling test. This points to
activity along a line needing at
tention everywhere,
Out of 450 students who took
a spelling test at the university
the other day, 150 failed to make
an average of 90 per cent The
list comprised words in common
use but often misspelled, Among
them were: Irresistible, mis
spelled by 120 out of 150; exhila
rate, misspelled by 111; villian,
by 87; dining room, by 67-. em
barrass, by 54, and rheumatism,
..by 80.
The outlook would not be so dark
it the above words were the ouly
ones spelled incorrectly every
day. But business men every
where can testify that simple
words of one sillable are tortured
out of their shape in their offices
continually, by people who are
supposed to have at least the
“equivalent of an eighth-grade
education,” and who have topped
off with a commerecial course es
peclally designed to fit them for
office work, Modern personal
correspondence betrays a like
weakness.
If the institutions whose busi
ness it ig to train the youth of to
day are bheginning to take steps
to correct this evil, all may yet
be well. Otherwise correct spell
ing will soon be numbered with
the lost arts. But the reforma
tion should not be left for college
days, A good many people never
‘get to coll‘eg-‘. Spelling needs
more attention away back in the
graded school.—Pensacola News,
In all classes and grades from the
start spelling should be one oi the
prime elements of the cnild’s educa
tion, Good spelling has to be beat
en into the system. It grows on a
boy or girl only when constantly of:
fered.
Manhood and woman hcod bring us
to a time when our minds are 1638
pliable, less impressionable, too diifi
cult to be whipped into line. Youth
ful days are the days for good spell
ing. The boys and the girls should
have it offered between all meals, in
many forms, large and smal! Joses,
till they have absorbed correct spell
ing,
In the schools, the grammar and
the high schools, spelling should be
impressed by dint of hard effort. It
should be made attractive as possi
ble, because it has little charm at its
best—but spelling should never be
rut aside for anything. We say that
because there is no educatior possi
ble or practical to the person who
cannot spell, The meaning of words
zannot he reached by the person who
‘cannot spell—and the most ordinary
use of words is badly handicapped
fcr any person who does no! kn.w
how to spell.
Our schools should require good
spelling in all the grades so thul
when the boys and girls enter col
lege or go out to fill places in the
business world they can continue in
other avenues where there will he no
time for the study of spelling.
LINK LOOMS GREATER,
Henry Link is Recorder of
Deeds for D. C. if he wants it,
he says, and he can also have a
few other little things including
the patvronage of the state of
Georgia. Link ig going to con
trol it from Washington—Thom
asville Times-Enterprise,
The negro Johnson may control re
publican patronage in Georgia, The
white voters of this state cannot keep
the republicans from elevating this
“crap-shooting burr head” but they
can leave off the white republicau
party that is so much desired in Geor
gia so long as party patronage in
this state is so prostrated by the lead
ers of the national republican party.
Georgia white people are as respect
able as the white of Illinois and Penn- |
sylvania or Ohio—and much more so
as long as they know how to run po
litical affairs with white leadership
and direction. |
Georgia has a pretty mess of it in ‘
this comely slick coon as a represen
tative, What Georgia white man will |
ever go to Washington to ask a favor
of the republicans—should any Geor
gian do it?
"WIHY WE LAUGH.
Quitman Advertiser:
“All the world likes to laugh. That
is a truism which admits of no con
tradietion. If you ever meet a man
who is an exception to the general
rule who never cracks a smile or
bursts out in a hearty laugh at a
good joke, even if it may be upon
himself, fight a little shy of him. He
ig not a safe man to tie to. There is
something lacking in his mental make
up. There is an old proverb which
says ‘‘laugh and grow fat’! Be. it
true or not, evervone mnust have
noticed that fat men, and women
too are usually jolly, good natured
and prone to laugh heartily on slight
provoeation, It may be the cause
or it may be the effect of their su
THE CORDELFE DISPATCH '
perabundance of flesh, bhut whether it
be one or ‘tother it i an ace
knowledged faet,
Shakespeare acknowledged the fact
long years ago when he put into the
mouth of Ceaser these words: ¢‘Let
me have men about me that are fat”’
and said of the lean and hungry look
ing Cassius, ‘‘Scldom he smiles, and
smiles in such a sorty, as if he mocked
himeelf,” What it is that produces
that pgeuliar relaxation of the facial
museles, followed often by a boister
ous explosion from the depths of
the lungs, we are not psychologists
enough to determine, ortunately we
do not have to. Ellis Parker Butler,
who lhas been an acknowledged au
thority on humor since he inade the
nation laugh with his absurd sketeh
entitled ““Pigs is pigs,’ has dome it
for us, He classifies humor into ten
¢lifferent kinds and says one can get
just as big a laugh by poking the
haby in the ribs as he can composing
the finest line in the world. Says he:
The first method of humor is a
breezy exageration, the Mark Twain
style, which predominates with the
Yankees. £AE
The sceond is founded on a per
son’s real or feigned ignorance. Al
most all child humor is founded up
on the child’s ignorance of something
we fully understand. |
““Third, there is naive mode which
Barrie so generously employs in his
Scoteh stories. |
“lourth, there is the ridiculous
calling Girect attention to somethingl
we consides impossible with ourselves
the fat man in a silk hat on & slip-‘
pery pavement, for instance. |
¢Pifth, the repetition of something
' more or less expected, like ‘Pigs is‘
pigs.’ {
© ¢¢Qixth, the sudden let down from
the extremely serious to the extreme
ly frivilous.
¢‘Seventh, the wuse of extreme
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analogy, mostly used by cartoonist.
““Bighth, the more or less disguised
practical joke practiced prineipally
in stage ecomedies, such as the custard
pie in the face.
““Ninth, the gradual expansion of
anything that has ridiculous possi
bilities,
“And lastly, untimeliness, some
thing that has no particular humor
in itself, happening at an opportune
time. TFor example, things happening
at a funeral, wedding or any serious
gathering.”’
Which kind makes you laugh?”
THE NATIONAL GUARDS |
MINSTREL ON FEB. 13
Preparations for the big minstrel
performance to be given here on the
night of Feb. 18th by the National
Guard are progressing and the show
promises to be the biggest thing ever
attempted by local talent. New songs
new dances-and new ideas will be in
order, and, unlike most affairs of this
kind, the performance will be in a
big.tent, theatre with a seating cap
acity of over fifteen hundred. A
big advance campaign will be put on
in the advance sale of tickets also a
big advance advertising campaign
throughout the county in regular cir
cus style.
The Home Town Minstrel Compa
ny has been engaged to supply the
equipment, the costumes and regalia
as ‘well as supply the direction and
their long experience in this line of
work means success.
The (National Guard of Cordele
will spare no expense or pains to
give us a regular minstrel worth
usic ias bpecome
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An Increasingly Important Factor
in every phase of our daily lives. It was in
tended for every man, woman and child.
Music is fundamental—one of the great
sources of health, strength and happiness.
—LUTHER BURBANK
Has music been accorded its proper importance in
your home? Is it bringing its happiness to you and
yours?
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Musie is Ovorwhelming :
All of the following and many others have paid tribute to music: J
Aristotle
Henry Ward Beecher
Robert Browning
Luther Burbank
Robert Burns
Lord Byron
Carlyle
Carnegie
Confucius
James M. Cox
Frank Crane
Disraeli
Thomas A Edison
Charles W. Eliot
Emerson
Euripides
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If it is a Piano you want, we have them in all styles
Priced to suit the times from $l5O to $l,OOO. If' itisa
Brunswick Talking Machine, we have them from $125
to £l,OOO. : i
We are Closing Out Our 60c Sheet
Music Now at 25¢
L. L. HELMS MUSIC CO.
T CORDELE, GEORGIA.
many times the prices of admission.
The cause is worthy and the seating
capacity of the big chautauqua tent
will surely be tested.
THE NATIONALS GUARD
DEATH MRS. SARAH POWERS
AT HER HOME IN WILCOX
Mrs. Sarah J. Powers, wife of R.
J. Powers, of the Pleasant View set
tlement of Wilcox county, died Sun
day afternoon at 5 o’clock at the fam
ily home, following a sudden attack
of paralysis, |
The funeral and burial occurred
this afternoon at the Pleasant Vicw‘
church cemetery. Besides her hus~‘
band, Mrs. Powers is survived by a
large number of relatives in this
immediate section, She was a splen-i
did woman, much beloved by nnme-‘
rous friends, and her death is greatly
deplored. |
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Lily, Ky.—‘l suffered from stomach
and liver trouble. Had ‘gassy’ stomach
and heartburn and s
had headache most A 4 AT
of the time, After M/ ENESIRH
each meal I was N '
sick, could scarcely GEEEES
keepanything onmy i ?
stomach, not even <@y | Ko
water. I didn’t A * ke
think there was @& ) e
medicine made that 8 S
would eure me; butgf, ““x 5
after using Dr. W
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I can eat anything T want and it does
pot hurt me. I will always praise this
medicine,”? == MRS, LIZZIE FRED
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the tq.blets by sending 10 cents to the
Invalids’ Hotel, Buifalo, N. Y.; .45.4
Gladstone
Goethe
Warren G. Harding
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Robert Ingersoll
Prophet Isaiah
Thomas Jefferson
Otto H. Kahn
Keats
Abraham Lincoln
Lloyd George
Longfellow
Martin Luther
Napoleon
General Pershing
Edgar Allen Poe
Theorode Roosevelt
James Whitcomb Riley
Ruskin
Charles M. Schwab
l Shakespeare
Bernard Shaw
Shelley i
Herbert Spencer
Tennyson
Henry Van Dyke
Isaac Walton
George Washington
Walt Whitman
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Gen. Leonard Wood .
Wordsworth
MONDAY, JANUARY 81, 1921,
CALL |3
PERRY CARR %
JIM SKIPPER _
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CHARLIE MIZE .
Residence Store No. 1, |
Phone 359. '
Up-Town Store, No. 2,
Phone 541
We have moved our
Meat Market and Gro
cery from Wall street
to the corner of Sev- ‘
enth street and Ninth '
ave, opposite Stead’s
Drug Store. You will
find that we handle
first class and fresh
groceries, and fresh,
clean meats. We are -
selling at lowest priees.
Look these prices over:
24-1 b Sweet Rose Flour
$1.65
24-1 b Miss Dixie Flour
$1.50 ‘
24-1 b Rising Sun Flour
24-1 b Capitola Flour
$1.50
Bulk Lard Compound
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COFFEE g
Country Club, White
House, Franco-Ameui
can, Maxwell House,
Luzianne
FRESH MEATS
2 cans Tomatoes, Mans
field Chief Brand
-28 C e
Campbell Pork & Beans
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Rib Stew, per pound
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Shoulder Roast, per Ib.
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15¢ 1 20¢ -
Best Steak, per';% @éund
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20c ' 25¢
Pork Chops, fiéi'?lb
e oG V 24 g
Pork Ham, per Ib ¥
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Hamburger, per lb
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