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Entered as second class matter
June 2nd, 1920, at the post office at
Ccrdele, Ga.,, under the Act o. March
Kl, 1878,
Members of The Assoclated Press.
The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this ps
per and also the local news published
hereln,
Harding wants to reward all of
those who helped elect him with a
cabinet position. The thing isn’t pcs
sible,
‘A friend writes: “I know you do
not often have bills return'ad to you on
account of the fact that you have not
chargel en )up,vh, but this is what I am
doipg to you.” This is a letter direc
‘\’jd tg the Dispatch voluntarily and
ithout our knowledge of the fact
that is was being done. Please clip
this and put it in your business scrap
book, soo that you may refer to it
when you get a bill from the home
paper,
W oWe set out to poke fun at that Tif.
ton invention which is said to provide
*;jol": an electric current from streams
without a dam. It isn’t a joke with
the men who know what it is. They
have applications for charter already
going in the Tifton Gazette and this
doesn't read like anybody is trying
to be funny. Honestly, though,
could one help thinking about the
tjsice” that folks get on Geo‘;l.t
streams, both with and without
'"dfims?r It is a kind of current for
H(}angn" factories and shocks accom
+panied by tang and tango. The Tif
ton men seem tp be making no secre:
..ot their enterprise Lecause it is dif
“Yerent,
! KEEP YOUR COUNTY AGENT
* Thig is a time of all times to
! keep the county agent on the job,
Counties blossed with a good ‘
! agent should keep him at any cost l
. —and cooperate with him and get ‘
all the benefit possible from his
service. Counties considering the I
~ dropping of this agent—should
~ pause and think hard before doing
that, Counties whichp have no
| demonstration agent should
arouse interest and act at once to
obtain the services of a competent
; agont. This year a live county
' agent will be worth thousands up
on thousands of dollars to any
farming county.—Savannah Morn
ing News,
' The real progress in farming in
many a county is going to suffer at |
the hands of the moonshiner ang the '
bull dog pistol hero. It is his du)’.l
The county agent is worth nothing |
to such a man, We have some ur}
these newly powerful heroes ang |
statesmen going up to Atlanta this“
summer. They already have a Ku
Klux organization whereby they ox~‘
pect to retain their hold on power, |
i Now the county agent is an enemy |
to all this—has to be. He cannot fos
ter the enlightenment on the farm
and good citizenship and bear a pro
per relationship tp this kind of ele
l'nen!. Every agent that has gone
thug far in Georgia has become a sac
fifice to this new pcwer in polities,
fi’e dofy anybody to show us a differ
Q:n(‘e-—Old Lady Felton included.
‘Tom Watson embraced that old
goul last May on the rostrum of an
old time Atlanta theatre and while the
t‘wo ware playing star rcies, he called
her the mother of Georgia democracy.
From that day we put her down as the
mother of a good bit of hell raisin’ in
Georgia, We haven't changed our
minde at all,
A side issue with these hell raisers
iis to put out the county demonstration
agent because hig salary is paid out
of the taxes, either locally or some
where up the line. This element does
not believe in taxation to strengthen
civilization and enlightenment—it is
against their way of looking at thingg
God unfortunately (if he had anything
to do with shaping them at all) gave
them a low brow and a narrow vis
jon, a tight skin and no thought at all
for advancement and enlightenment.
Whenever this state kicks out the
county agent, its agricultural inter
iesm will suffer—and suffer badly. We
hope the citizens left in every com
munity who still have a pride in ad
‘vancement cf farming will stand by
the farm agent and retain him. There
are days when the man who would
glorify crime is going back to where
he Lelongs. Then those counties
which have lost their agents will have
to start over and come forward. No
need to lose the pace. Keep the agent
now while he ig already on the job.
HERE'S A WARNING.
“We admit that our purpose is
to maintain the wages established
by this board, and it should not
be influenced by the financial
condition of the road, nor by let
ters «f testimony as to condi
tions along the road.”
These are the words of E. P. Cur
tis, representing the railway brother
hoods in general and the employecz:
of the A, B. & A. railrcad in particu
lar in his argument before the rail
road labor hoard in Chicago Tuesday
in opposition to the proposed reduc
tion in wages on the A. B, & A.
If such argument as that is is allowed
to gain its hold on the minds of the
Amdgican p’u'bllc. the inevitable is
coming for railroad labor, It will
create a furor of prejudice. All rail
road officials have to do now is to
publish the payrolls showing the
‘amcunts drawn by employees. That's
argument no labor leader can down.
Rail wages wure high at the peak of
high prices. What will they look like
at low tide?
But we had hoped labor would nev
er have to take a low wage again.
American unskilled labor; especially,
is always held below a just ang fair
scale. Labor always suffers at the
hands of some leader whose 12ason is
lost in his drunkenness on power.
This case must be like all others.
Rail labor is going to lose its hold,
not so much because the public ig too
ready to listen at the money interests
holding control of the railroads, but
because labor is too prone to travel
without reason,
Measure thig statement of Curtis
and then compare it with results if
he had chosen to present a modified
view of conditions, saying that labor
should be and is w'lling to accept its
normal and just cut in wages because l
of the remarkable industrial reaction.
Here is the warning of a public
which will visit justice on those who
deserve a tumble from such arrogant
and unfair attitude toward the enter
prises which provide employment and
income for so many, If the people
of this country get the impression
that thig is the real attitude of labor
towards are railroads for which thay
work, it will not be long before they
will be drawing less pay, and it will
be a smaller wage than reason and
moderation might have drawn had
reason and moderation been permit
ted t» prevail when the di erences
were being settled.
THEY WILL STOP YOU.
The attention of our tax payers is
called to the fact that without a dis
senting voice the mayor and council
iol’ Cordele last night called for a bond
| ivsue for a power plant to be operated
}m connection with thte water plant in
l('\‘!'(l«‘ll‘. The people of Cordele hava
on a former occasion had opporiunity
to ocwn and operate their own
light and power plant, but a
very powerful influance was
brought to bear on some
chiase of the city plant several years
ago. That same influenca will be
brought to bear again, These men
will be asked to fight the fight of the
present owners,
We may look for it. There will be
opposition. The present owners are
making handsome profits out of the
pecple of Cordele and Georgia has a
a railroad commission which hag rul
ed that we must make this plant earn
them eight percent net profit. If we
must make it earn eight percent on an
‘inflateq value then our only defense
is to own and operated it ourselves.
There ig very little opposition to
the plan to put up a light and power
plant in the water station and run it
in conjunction with th's water plant.
There would be none if all our tax
payers could know how it would cut
the cost of power and lights and
still leave a handsome fund to help
run the government,
In this connection we refer our
readers to a report on the Cedartown
plant for last year, the best that it
has even done. Cedartown paid $B.-
500 in cash into the city treasury in
'3t earnings and rendered the city
$12,000 “worth of free service in
lights and power. We have already
shown what Themasville has done
with the two plants operated together
We can do as well and there is no
justice to our taxpayers in sitting
down and assuming a rate double that
other towns have to pay. The Cedar
town plant charged eight cents per
killiwatt hour, while here now the
charge is sixteen cents.
It is our own fault if we remain
asleep. This ig our opportunity to
give our town a commercial advan
tage. It is an opportunity to life a
tax burden. It will mean an advan
tage which we cannot well afford to
pass,
Every voter should become inter
ested and spend at least some of his
time in getting a fair and just ‘esti
mate of the ‘worth of a municipal
plant. Let us own our electric light
and power plant as soon as possible.
FOLLOW THE OLDER ONES.
. The only original Ku Kluxer in 1
the country that we know dcasn’t
seem to be quite enthusiastic on ‘
the new body that has the same
name.—Thomasville Times-Enter
prist.
The older gnes know. If you were ‘
to get the trutp from one of them, it
wouid be that there is no call for such
an organization and the ‘effort to use
the name for any modern secret or
der is but to cheapen our devotion for
our fathers. The Ku Klux is a tradi
tion, a sacred tradition, of the days
when Anglo-Saxon supremacy in the
south wag challenged. We hold sa
cred the memories of southern heroes
who upheld our rights. We think too
much of an agency which they 'amploy |
ed tg, commercialize it today. Let is
remain where they put it when it hai
served its purpose.
A 1 you an American citizen? That “
citizenship implieg that you believe ‘
in white supremacy, no matter wheth- |
er you are white or black. It implies
that you beliave in the separation of
church and state. If you are an
American citizen, ycu should know‘
that the federal and all the state con: l
stitutions provide for the separation
of church and state. If you are an
American citizen, 'voulr ldefbnse of
womanhood is implied no matter
what your color or race. !
Your citizenship also implies thjt
vou w!ll lencer an honest and ur
ringht accoua.ing of yourself in couir.
{rials where oriminals are handlxd
for their crimeg against our women
and our institutions. You do not have
to call into being an invisible organ
ization for night riding—not in this
day of peace. Your courts deserve to 1
be upheld and respected and used to
punish the criminal. Civilized man-l
kind can maintain order and perptu
ate our institutions only in that high
regard.
Whoever tells you that the people
of Georgia have found the Ku Klux
lis nwcessary, does not tell you the
the truth. There are still men with
you who rode in the days of the re
construction. You might get itheir
advice. We wlli be willing to trust
it to them. 3
Camp Greene cantonement site
| will be transformed into a community
STORAGE = BATTERY
*QOcate Less per Month of Serviee”
HARTSHORN MOTOR WORKS
THE CORDELE. DISTATCH
KEEP IT MCVING.
The movement to abolish the
Georgia Railroad Commission is
gaining momentum. It should be
abclished or reorganized. As con
stituted at present, it is worse
than no board at all—Valdosta
Times,
Ordinarily we would condemn any
movement that had as an object the
tearing down of something without of
faring something better, but in the
case of the Georgia Railroad Commis
sicn we would s';hut our eyes and tura
our backs without hope of ever get
ting anything in its place and urge its
eternal destruction. We want noth
ing—nothing like it—in its place. If
Georgia cannot get along without this
governmental crnament, we must say
Georgia is in a bad way.
This body has nct made a move in
the past twelve months hot directly
detrimental to the interests of the
people. It is hold and open in its
granting of every application for rate
increases and deliberately refuses to
hear the side of the public. We want
no more cf such a state organization
and we hope the people will rise up
indignantly to repudiate and disband
such a body. o
'HAND BADLY INJURED
| , FROM FLYING TIMBER
i U, T Perry. an employee of the
Cordele Sash, Door & Lumbey com
pany was painfully injured this morn
ing when a flying timber from a lath
machine struck him on the right
hand, lacerating the flesh and in
juring the thumb. No bones were
Lroken. Mr. Perry, while not serious
ly hurt, will be incapacitated for
work for some days. :
The number of ex-service men
who have taken advantage of the
benefits offered jby the Federal Board
for Vocational Education during the
last fiscal year has increased from
3,606 to more than 46,000.
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l 'l‘he average meat consumption of
the world is 39 pounds a head. The
American and the Australian eat
about 180 pounds a head and the
Englishman about 120 pounds.
d Fresh
. Meats
B aAaD
GROCERIES
88 EVERYTHING
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& Good
TO
S Carr Grocery
8 and Market
; PHONE 541
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NEW
Tenderloin Steak per ib 25¢
Nitloin Steak, per 1b ....26%
Round Steak, per 1b ........25¢
Pork Chops, per 1b ..........25¢
Bork Ham, . per 1b ... 280
Burk Roast, per 1b ....... 286
Roast Beef per 1b ...20¢c & 25¢
Mtew Beef per 1b ... 186
Let us have your next order,
we will appreciate it and do
our best to send choice cuts
and full value.
PHONE 316
R. C, BOULWARE, Manager
The Mayor and City Council will
have hefore its next regular meecting
an ordinance providing for the ap
pointment of a purchasing agent to
represent the city in the purchase of
supplies for the different department.
Members of council have made a
thorough investigation and ascertain
ed that a purchasing agent can be ap
pointed without any additional ex
pense to the city and that hundreds
cf dollars annually can be saved tc
the city by adopting this plan of
buying the needed article for the city
Havana is farther west than Cleve: |
land and Nome, Alaska, is farther‘
west than Hawaii. ‘|
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. BYRON DANlEL—Stomach, In
ternal Medicine, Radiology, Office
Harman Building, ‘
DR. A. J. WHELCHEL—Gynecology.
Office: American Bank and
Trust Co., Building.
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DR. M. R. SMlTH—lnternal Medicine
and Surgery.
Office: American Bank and
Trust Co., Building. |
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THOS. J. McARTHUR, M. D.-Special
Attention to Surgery and Gyneco
logy. Cordele, Ga.
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DR, W. A. DOWNS—Veterinarian.
Office Phone 74 Res., Phone 109
W. E. EDWARDS, Physician and
Surgeon. American Bank & Trust
.~ Building.
DR. 8. F. WILLIAMS—SpaciaI Atten
tion given to Diseases of Women
and Children. Watt-Holmes Bldg.
Phone 177, Cordele, Ga.
A. S. BUSSEY, Attorney-at-Law—
State and Federal Practice. Office
over Exchange Bank, Cordele, Ga.
S e e B
DR. T. E. BRADLEY,—Eye, Ear,
Nose, Throat and Fitting of Glasses
Office Williamg Bldge,
DR. A. H. KENDALL, Dentist—Spe
cial attention to Gum Disease and
the correction of crooked tecth,
Phone 40, Holmes Buildirg.
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CRUM & JONES, Lawyers,—Practice
in all courts, State and Federal.
Cordele, Ga.
CHINA STUDIO OPEN—Miss Marie
Diffee announces the opening of ner
China Studio. Lessons given in Chi
na painting. Orders taken for hand
painted China, White and Gold din
ner sets a speciay. Phone 350.
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Batteries
iAt reduced prices. Ex-
Epért repairs made on anyi
Emake of battery. Test«i
Eing and water free. i
CORDELE BATTERY (0.
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For Strictly High
°
Class Groceries
And Green Meats Phone 302
Our choice cuts of beef and
pork now 25¢ per pound.
Other cuts at proportionate low
prices. Our Groceries are un
excelled in quality, yet lowest
in price. We offer the convinc
ing proof,
Blue M and Sweet Rose
Self Rising Flour ...... $1.60
Blue M Plgin Flour ....... $1.60
White House and Morning
Joy Coffee, per Ib ..........45¢
Arbuckles and Rino
Coffae; perlb ....ii..... 806
Green Coffee, per 1b ........17Y5¢
Compound Lard, lb ......... 15¢
Sugar, 9 Ibs for ... $l.OO
Full Head Rice, 12 Ibs ...$l.OO
Tomatoes, per can .......... 10¢
All Guaranteed Quality Goods.
West End Market
and Grocery.
R. A. QULLINGTON
Corner 10th St. and 12th Ave
PHONE 302.
When in Need of Fire Insurance
1 SEE J. A. WILSON AT '~ " "
i' CRISP HARDWARE CO.
The Exchange is Willing
We want everybody to know that the banking service we
can render is yours. We try to be cheerful and without stint
in this service and we are all the time doing what we can to
make our bank meet the banking needs of a growing business
community. :
I If you will do business with us during 1921, we will:do
all we can to make the year mean advancement for you and
your business. Every banking service we can render is;at your
call. Please do not hesitate to ‘discuss business with us.
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The Exchange Bank
_ CORDELE, GA. o
A SAR AR ANARAANA
SPECIAL PRICE 60c EACH
oil Heaters in Various Sizes—Best Prices. ‘
Chattanooga, Oliver and Lynchburg Plow Points.
E. P. Van Devender, Hardware
GREER BLOCK EIGHTH: STREET
H. F. CORBETI
PLUMBING 5
And Everything in the Plumbing Line
124 Ninth Avenue Opposite Lilght Plant
Phone 375
CORDELE, GA.
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DIXIE AD SIGN COMPANY
STILL PAINTING |
114 WALL ST. W., CORDELE, GA.
T S P R e e R T
P Iptions
m;
When you are sick you want and
need the best drugs; you want your
prescriptions compounded and filled
carvefully and you want prompt
service.
Our drugs are always first quality
and fresh, and in care and promptness
in filling preseriptions we always bear
your interests in mind. Get your phy
sician to phone or send your preserip
tions to
Jones-Pate Drug Co.
Phones 2 and 283
G. L. DEKLE & BROTHER
UNDERTAKERS EMBALMERS.
RESIDENCE PHONES 513 & 515—OFFICE PHONE 277+
CORDELE, GEORGIA
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WILLIAM H. THORNTON
TRANSFER AND STORAGE ;
CONTRACTOR'S WORK A SPECIALTY bian
ALL KINDS OF MOVING DRA YAGE AND HEAVY HAULING
ON SHO RT NOTICE
OFRIOE PRONE. . .......... 0.0, 6 il S
RESIDENCE PHONE .....-............. 482
SLADE & McCGARITY STABLES
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18,':1921.7