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Entered as second class matter
June 2nd, 1920, at the post cffice at
Cordele, Ga,, under the Act ol March
&1, 1878.
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LET THE WOMEN WORK.
The editor of the Moultrie Observes
in a kindly discussion of flowers and
pretty lawns in Cordele took occasion
yesterday to refer to woman's work
in a way which appeals. Writing of
western women who work—keep their
lawns and flowers and their house
hold up to the standard, and still look
rosy ang healthful, he urgedq that the
women, in his town do likewise so far
as is necessary to have the pretty
flowers and house fronts in Moultrie.
The person who goes west and sees
the western women about the housc
hold duties will have something mora
than a joke to bring back home, The
southern white woman might well
take lessons from the working wo
men of the west. This is not gaid
to stir up a row. We know there is
such a difference as to cause the
widest surprise and southern white
women would get their pact of it if
they could know how the western
women work,
Jt is not drudgery we are tallkng
about. Yet, candidly we never under
slood who else did the drudgery about
tha western home. The colered coolk
and nurse were ndqt there. Thera
were home laundries and many of the
home convenienceg we seldom have
here in the south, but we got the im
pression that the wcsl.orn woman did
the work.
We wieuld find ourselves ordered
out of town inviting our women to
the drudgery of the home, but we arc
going to risk saylng that there is
nobody to do it in the west but the
white women. We saw th¢em not only
Keeping the flowers and the lawns,
but they were running the homes and
much of the business. They even
operated the elevators and the r(wl
taurants, and the cafeterias, and
made splendid drug clerks and flllm]l
scores of other avocations besides tr)‘-'
ing to be butterfly wives, pretty ste
nographers, coy cashiers, and secre.
tarites, \
In the south our women spend much
time trying to keep the world from
knowing it when they have to work.
In the west, bless you, they are whis
tling and smiling, and c¢arry real,
honest-to-goodness 1o faces nbnutt
with them, If you comment about a'
woman’s duties, you become the hrunt!
of the joke. Woman's work seems Q|
joy-——andg we are not unduly colnrin;:l
the status of the western woman,
The woman who resides in Califor
nia is many, ‘many miles beyond the
reach of a negro servant, Some good
woman's eyve will fall on this asser
tion who cannot understand. We saw
4hem in their working happiness and
left wandering if the negro servant (
after all ,is not the greatest economic
curse ever befalling the people of the
gouth. There is a markeq difference,
Western women work—and they have
their culture and refinement. You'll
have ‘opportunity to measure the
truth ‘o this some day.
Natuie gave the peorlc of Califor
pia the rich red. the deep blue and
the golden vyellow in their flowers.
Their novel beauty as displayed by
the women in the house had its
charm for even the plain southe.men
The house fronts, gardens aml; :
made that paradise—and g2° pa
paradise if there is oncl
THAT LIGHT PLANT.
It is not a political, matter with us
—this municipal liglat plant in Cor
dele. We have seriously begun to
congider the necessity of owning our
]])()wcr plant and we must for the
sake of self preservation keep that
movement going. !
This month we enter the third raise
that has been given here in home
lights—and we do not know when an
other will be asked and granted.
The Georgin Railroad Commission has
not proven the safeguard that wc‘
have a right to suppose belongs to us‘
Ly virtue of ‘the fact that its mem
bers are the representatives of lu\(‘
payers of the gtate. This bnody is in
deed careless of the imtoiests of u!
people in one Georgia community,
We can say that and feel that we
have not misrepresented the case.
The commission holdg that we must
ecarn eight percent net dividends for
the local power plant. We have done
that nobly withont complaint on an
oversized estimate of the v:duauon‘
of the local property, if we must)
stil] do that, why not own it and up-i
ply that net dividend to the school
fund, to the operating government
expenses of the community. Eight
percent net earnings would mean as
much to the little boys and the little
girls of this community in schooling
as it could ever mean anywhere else,
It is not wrong to assume that much.
Anqd again, operating the plant our
selves. we can make a sixteen percent
dividend on the same rate charged
by the present owners. That's spread
ing it, but we can prove the reason
ableness of the claim. We have our
own power units, buildings and labor
paid for in the main. The power
plant at the water station and those
who operate it can man the electric
light machinery at the same time.
We could be running both lights and
water with the same expense that
rung the water plant today--adding
only a small sum. The city is pay
ing the local owners eight percent
on $57,600 for the street lights alone
each year and we have no white way
an few arc lights.
We are not wise if we fail in this
move, Electric power is the commo
dity of the industrial future. To
Jmaintain municipal activity ‘lnt all
in industries we must have the elec
tric current, and we must be in posi
tion to control an inexhaustible sup
ply at a reasonable rate, This is
what gur community wants and needs.
This is not an idle fancy. It is a
business move which must be taken.
Today is the day. The longer we
wait, the more will we have to spend
to get what we need. Back up your
mayor and city council,
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land. We saw western women tend
ing them and we love to credit them
with having made beautiful Califor
nia, though the men had to provide
the irrigation first,
PLAIN MR. DAWES.
Plain Mr, Dawes (he says he
doosn’t belong to the army now) pre
sented himself before a congressional
committee yesterday in the national
capital in a language which ong may
easily credit to a stout-htcarted sin
ner, but his was the testimony in al!
the many, many partisan efforts to
find scandal that caps them well—
gracefully, honestly, fittingly! l
General Dawes had charge of a stu}‘
ply cepartment in France. He has
been caught in one of the many in
vestigations and has been required to
go to Washington to tell scmething.
He is fillling the opportunity with
somo opinions that ave worth
repeating, and the press of the coun
try is repeating them. Ilo;\d;nl)le'."
We should say so! |
We admire the spirit that domi
nates that man. The replies he gave
to those seeking partisan capital from
him reveals a just man in a stern
jlfmmo-—-:l sinner—but a real man!
iTh(‘ purning wordg that fell from his
lips ought to come under the eye of
!owr.\' red-blooded bey in America.
!Thcy ought not to escape the eye of
%any man who believes in fair play—
i in honesty and manly consideration of
| the good name of another. e said
:muvh in few words. It rings yet—
ill keep ringing in the ears of a
weary public till the republican inves
gations in Washington will be turned
aore on themselves than any other
‘person or thing in the world, ~
: This man came very near making
‘the investigation of tho army pur
chases in ¥rance as it is being con
ducted by partisan scandal hunters
in Washington look like a scandal it
self of huge proportions, One or two
more like Dawes will stop these in
vestigations, Thig i 3 very nearly the
last one, Wg do not know whether
he is a republican or a democrat, but
‘whatever he is, he is a good one. The
whole nation coulq shake his hand
this morning for his frank talk to the
invostigating members of congress.
He has disclosed something for
which congress may not be lookingz
—especially the republicans who want
to get even for having been cn the
cutside when the war came—but he
gets wide approval, 'We can read
that” between the lineg as they came
to use over the wires,
FOR YOUR SCRAP BOOK.
“Considering everything, the recora
cf accomplishment of the War De
partment in getting ready for war
was a greater accomplishment than
that of France or Great Britain in the
same period of time., I don’t believe
you can pick [lawg there and I am
not speaking as a demcerat. Long a:-
ver this committee js dead and gone
tie achievements of the American,
arrcy will gtand as an cverleustlng3
n'aza of glory,” - ‘
Put these words down as coming
from General Dawes as a witness be
fore a house investigating committee
in Washington into the army expen
ditures for supplies in France. This
paragraph will stanq at the head of
them as a tribute by a man who did
not care for personal interests. He
was acting as one still loyal to the
army—the men who diq the fighting
in France, 7
FLOWERS IN CORDELE,
From Moultrie Observer,
More flowers and pretty lawns aro
advocated by the Cordele Dispateh,
Trat paper is teeming with sugges
tions and cxhortatioas io the towns
peopie to set out shrubs, plant down
grass, sow beds of flowers and make
the homes and the ecity beautiful.
The Observer is not always in accord
with the Dispatch in politics, but it
wishes to add an amen! to its advice
about homes ang cities attractive.
The Obsarver is not opposed to wo
men having a good time. Not oppos
ed to their attending missionary soci
eties, club meetings, card parties,
matinecs, picture shows, ete., but it
has special admiration for the old
time woman who works in the yard
with the flowers and the grass. She
makes her horme and grounds things
of beauty, a bright and attractive
spot on her street, and adds to the
city’s reputation and popularity.
it is pretty lawns, shrubs and flow
vrs arranged with good taste, vines
and beds of flowers, that makes the
most attractive homes, It is not
large houses or large trees. There is
a look of refinement about tile mod
est little bungalow with grass in front
shrubs and flowers on the side and
evergreen vines running on the gar
age. Such homes have a refining in
fluence. They win the expressions
of admiration from visitors, and they
are ever attractive to the home folks
Mark the woman who lives in that
bungalow, She is a woman of good
taste: she is a woman of industry;
you can bet she is a good wife and
a good mother., She loves home and
family, and she has an appreciation
of the beautiful. Bhe is a decorator
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Epvi't repairs made on any
Em:nlw of battery. Test-
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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
—an artist.
Cordele is a pretty little city al
ready. Editor Brown is cffering a
suggestion by which her beauty can
be augmented greatly. There is room
for some city the size of Cordele or
Moultrie to win a lot of advertising
and praise by becoming thc most
‘beautiful city in the south.
Editor Brown was in California last
summer. This wag an opportunity to
sec what a little fixing up about the
home will contribute in community at
tractiveness. [Like any Georgian who
loves his state he would like to se2
some things done here that they are
doing out in California. There i 3
nothing that gives individuality and
an atmosphere of gsuperiority to Cali
fornia like the flowers, the pretty
park places, the well kept vacant lots
the beautiful lawns, shrub. etc.
There is something behind the beauw
ty of California, It is hter noble wo:
men, Some may have become preju
diced against the western women who
vote and serve on juries and hold
public meetings and take an interest
in state and national affairs. Some
have thought that such activities oa
the part of women would cause them
to neglect the homes, the children,
the gardens and the lawns. The op
posite is true. It is in the state where
the women have been accustomed to
voting and participating in polities
that we find the finest homemakers
and house keepers in the west. And
the women are not masculine. They
are not lacking in refinement. They
are not lacking in beauty, or weil
developed bodies or bright and cul
tured minds.
There is nothing degrading to wo-l
men in taking an interest and active‘
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part in public affairs, There is noth
ing about working on the lawn and in
the garden that will injure the health
take the bloom from the cheeks and
shrivel up the soul. We would like
to see a great revivai of interest in
community development and home de
velopment among the gplendid women
of Moultrie. We believe that they
might spare time from other activ
ties to carry on a home-beautiful cam
! paign without making any serious
| sacrifice.
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| DEPENDABLE FARMS,
From Atlanta Consttitution.
In speaking of results from the work
which has been done on *“the depend
able farms” of that section, The Cor
dele (Ga.) Dispatch says that farm
plans carry “plenty of food for-the
farm, and some to sell.”
And the best of it is that Crisp
county hasg “many farmers who have
such farming schedules every year,
and in hard seasons they make better
crops than lcther farmers because
they are there at their posts of duty‘
turning every thing for its worth.”
It is pointed out that the farmers}
of that county “stand together” in
this matter of farming “to live at
hieme”—working as one, not only for
their own goed, but “for the good of
those who depend on the farms all
around them,”
That is what helps most on ths
road to a general prosperity; and the
Jive-at-home schedule keeps the corn
crib and the smoke house at home. 1
The United States produces more
copper than all of the other nations
combined and more iron than any
other nation in the world.
Here is Our Promise
SR EER T S TR ee e e
/ If you will work hard, save and start a bank
account here, we will do all we can to help you
learn the meaning of sensible saving. We will give
lots of time trying to please you with a good bank- v
ing service. ! '
If you will bring your business account over ;
here and let this bank go with you through the i
business year, we will make it our business to see ]
that your relations with your bank are pleasant,
We study this all the time,
CORDELE, GA.
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VALENTINES! VALENTINES!
Yes, Overby has a nice line of pretty Valentines to suit
all the kiddies and grown u ps, too. Also a pretty as
sorttment of Birthday Cards, Score Cards, Party Invita
tions, Birth Announcements, Greetings and Congratula
tions. Handsome line of F ramed Pictures. Moulding
to suit any picture you wan t {ramed.
E. R. OVERBY
Picture Framing and Art Store BV e
: No. 103 Suw ance Block .
CORDELE, GEORGIA. & D ke
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my optical equipment for .my refract
ing room I have not been able to render
any service in this line. Now that my
equipment has been installed, to geth
er with the experience that I have had
in the practice of Optometry I am now
in position to serve you in a satisfact
tory manner. L
Glasses preseribed and fitted. ‘
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JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST ay T
CORDELE, GA.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1921,