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- THE COEDELE DISPATCH
AND DAILY SENTINEL.
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June 2nd, 1920, at the post office at
(. .dele, Ga.,funder the Act o. March
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Things ;n" getting in a bad way
{ when hold ug men can get among the
gueusts of a Botel and kill two of them
- and then make their escape. Such 4
thing occurréd in Jacksonville.
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Q@risp (-ounly has two farmers who
are going toymake good on crops of
“’ alfalfa thig l}'v:n'. They deserve to
. find profit ij the crop because they
| are seeking sbmething besides cotton,
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‘;' John D. is lul(ling gasoline for four
times its vabue. In the past six
months his pales enterprises hava
missed the gdle of many million gal
lons due to t!m high price,
Down in Thopasville the Times-En
terprise is making a fuss over a five
pound turnip. Receptly the editor of'
the Dispatch enjoyed a meal from a
gseven pound turnip raised in the back
vard garden of a Cordele banker.
= Speaking of turnips.
Freight rates must ba readjusted be
fore this country is going to do mucn
with its own business. The potato
growing sections, the melon growing
sections, the lemon and grape sec
tions, the fruit sections, all have to
pay higher Ireights than Kurope has
to pay for the three thousand mile
trip to our shores.
We will not get thanked for urg
ing the cut in cotton acreage for this
year, but we must :x'gnin remind those
of our farmers who read the Dispatch
that there will be ten million bales of
the old crop abead on August Ist if
consumption continues as it has aver
aged during the past six months.
There is a senate investigation prom
ised, but all indications puintAtn a
finding which will only substantiate
the claim that there is a surplus of
ten million bales stacked up to be
carried over,
This will be the last call for flowers ‘
and pretty lawns in Cordele, 'l‘ho‘
past weeks have witnessed marked
activities in bßeautifying and the old
town is going to look fine when spring
warms up. We have a wonderful gain
from the campaign started early in the
month. Many homes have pretty
fronts that would not have been pos
sible. Every interested person ap
preciates the manner in which the
community has responded to the call,
The Dispatch hopes it ig but the begin
ning of a really beautiful residence
section.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
The Albany Herald and the Mblll
trie Observer think that the c()illlt)’
which elects county commissioners
with ideas twenty years behind the
time is indeed unfortunate. Weo
think so, too., most omphut{ogllly.
No man who rung behind the ivlmoe
has a right to expect his fellow citi-|
zens 1o retain him in any capavitf‘
as a leader. 4
This is one of the costliest evils |
in South Georgia. We have the rich-i
est section this state afford. We;
have many advantages, but we u\s«f
have some handicaps. To their uw!lj
detriment the people will savrificel
‘business, sane, safe and pmgrussive:
leadership, to politicg and permit men;
far out of line with the demands o{.'
the times, to hold their places of
leadership at a fearful cost.
Some South Georgia counties in the
revolt of last year named county com
missioners who would more properly
beleng to the night riders and moon
shin'® operators than to the really
progressive, substantial leaders.
tle dipping and county agents and this
These have risen in arms against cat
| section of Georgia is to suffer from it
—pay a terrible price,
- The county commissioners ought to
be a pregressive citizen, He sught to
be alive to all real public interests.
He cannot render a service with ideas
half a century old. He is needed in 2
thousand ways. When he steps into
the lead and doeg substantial build
ing, plans county progress through
system and good business, rdsponds
where a public service may bhe ren
dered, he is the kind that soon will
ecnable his county to say it is fully
alive and advancing.
We have many a county in South
Gieorgia that would come from the
shadows quickly if the voterg shoul
choose better county commissioners,
Much depends on it. No one thing
means o much in progress. DPolitics
in some of these counties is so deplor
ably unbearable that citizens worthy
of the office will not ask for it. That
explains why we have so few good
commissioners. This section is suf
fering from these evils and will not
recover till there is sentiment which
will cvercome the habit of spoiling
the office in cheap politics, 1
TOO LATE TO SHY AT ’EM.
Woman suffrage is here and it
grieves us not. The women who
take their pens in hand to blast
at everything that it can need ex
pect immunity rom self respencting
pecple. They give no quarter and
should ~ask for none, mushy
mouthled asses who think only as
Tom Watson thinks to the con
trary as a matter of course. Tom
is sc chivalrous and considerate
of the gentler sex, that his echoes
round over the state are easily
shocked where political discus
sions involve some of the self--
annointed angd self-appointed wo
men traducers of all‘ things tha*
- have made this country great.
The good women of Buford can
give first hand information as to
Tom's chivalry and chaste lan
guage in their presence.—Dalton
('itizen.
Somt women defender of Old Sister
I'elton aimed pher gun at us the other
day because we do not approve of
Ler trash barrel jazz about Tom Wat
son and the other heroes of the Ku
Klux, the moonshine still and the
bull dog pistol. It hasn't changed
anybody hereabouts, so far as we can
tell,
We should say the women of Bu
{ rd have cause to question Tom Wat
son's decency, whatever else he may
be. No woman with a particle of
womanly modesty left in her will
continue Watson's praises, having
' knowledge of what he did to a help
loss woman in Buford. Old Sister
;.‘\-lmn still tries to make us believe
l Watscn and his kind hold the keys
! to heaven. ‘She isn’'t any better than
i\\';nsun and the gang that drinks
;1111\1()1' anq plays poker to raise the
" atandard of statesmansiip in Georgia
| Let her keep on shooting. She
l nay as well depend on getting the
[ return fire. She's gray and aged, but
; we takee it that this onglq to arm her
with Dbetter judgment. S.im-(- it does
not, we do not intend to shy at her.
It is too late now. Women are al-|
ready in politics, but they are much
the same in refinement and culture,
in modesty and womanly conduct.
Old Lady Felton is missing it when
she assumes that she can drag them
all along with Watson's night riders
moonshine makers, draft dodgers,
slacKers-and hell raisers.
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OWN THE LIGHT PLANT.
We have no adverse criticism to
offer for two members of the railroad
commission of Georgia, Messrs. Boi
feuillet and Candler, but the other
three ought to be “fired” cutright. W
! beliove. however, they have saved the
people of Cordele their light and pow
er plant, for out of their own self
' srotection they are going to vote the
bonds with which-they are to own it
But these three railroad commission
ers have gpent their time making ex
cuses for raises in power and light
- costs,
Hel's we have a report showing that
the City of Cedartown runs itg own
plant at a cost of eight cents per
kilowat hour to its customers and
gsaves eight thousand dollarg for its
treasury and furnishes hesides twelve
thousand dollarg worth of free current ‘
to the city for street and white way(
lighting. Little Cedartown sav"es its{
tax payers $20,000 in cash at eight
cents per kilowat hour and Cordele
has to pay gixteen cents and still the
nlant is (to hear its owners talk)
barely heads up. ‘There isn’t any
truth in it.
The Georgia railroad -oramission
kuew all the time what the other
plants were doing. It ig pure cussed
ness to allow the owners to imnos‘e]
« double rate here. The only way
out of it is to own and operate thel
plant ourselves. We hope we have|
ne citizens who will stand bazl bc~§
cause he didn’t start the racket (cr‘
the bond issue. We want the support |
of every citizen because it is a suv-i
ing for every citizen. |
THE CEDARTOWN PLANT.
To The People of Cordele:
T am glad to present herewith fig
ures taken from the leport made by
the Water and Light Commission of
the City of Cedartown, under date of
January 13, 1921. The report shows
that the earnings of the ‘electric plant
cwned by the City of Cedartown
amounts to $32,865.20. These figures
are taken from the ledger. The rate
charged for electric current in the
City of Cedartown is lower than it
is in any other city in this state.
Some of the towns in this section of
Georgia pay from ten tc twelve cents
per K. W. hour, and in others the rate
is even higher. Cordele in parti(:ularl
is paying at thle rate of gixteen cents
per K. W. hour, while Cedartown, op-{
erating its own municipal plant, is
able to operate same profitably on :ll
rate of eight cents per KW hour, and
thig rate is subject to the following
discounts:
On bills from $5.00 to $lO.OO, ten
per gent. ‘
On bills from $lO.OO to $20.00, fif
teen per cent. |
On bills from $20.00 to $30.00, twen
ty percent. ! :
On bills from $30.00 to $40.00 twen
ty-five percent. |
and o on in the same proportion until
the rate of discount reaches forty
percent. |
(Cedartown has on its hooks 740.cus
tomters using electricity, and during
the year 1920 there was paid into the
ctiy’s treasury the sum of $8,500.00
from the profits of the plant, and in
addition to this profit the City furnish
ed to the people $12,171.64 elactrical
energy operating current for 141 se
ries incandescent street lights and
curtant for 150 White Way lights, in
addition to furnishing lights for the
City Hall and City Barn.
The report of the Commission states
Pure, Rnch Blood “will Keep §
Your Body Vigorous and Healthyf%
When impurities creep into your|
blood the first symptoms are usu
ally a loss of appetite, followed by
a gradual lessening of energy, the
system becomes weaker day by
day, until you feel yourself on the
verge of a breakdown.
Nearly everybody needs a few
bottles of S. S. S., the great vege
table blood remedy, to cleanse out
all impurities about twice a year.
It is an excellent idea to take this
WITHOUT GOOD SEED
The finest vegetables grown in this
locality are grown from the sced we
sell. Ask the man who planted a tur
nip pateh this past fall.
Our supply of sced for spring plant
ing is complete.
Seed Potatoes, Garden Peas, Beets, -
. Lettuee, Rape, Onion Sets, Cabbage
Plants. Now is the time to plant. Sce
us for seed that syeceed.
CITY SEED & DRUG CO.
T. E. JENNINGS and Z. V. HALL, Props.
PHONE 125 ... .... CORDELE, GA.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH ‘!
" that for this service if charged for at
regular rates, and if the ity did not
own its electric light and power
plant and was forced to obtain its
light from a private corporation, these ‘
figures would be increased to a very‘
large amount. At the request of the
(ity of Cedartown at a recent meeting
th= Commission ordered additional
lights installed in the alleys of thel
bhusiness section of the City., The
(Commission requires monthly reports{
from both the Superintendent and
City Clerk giving full information as,'
to the operations of their respective!
offices. In addition to this the City
Clerk takes a trial balance from the |
hooks of the department on the last!
‘lay of each month which is submitted
to the Commission for its inspection.‘,
The report shows that the electric
plant is owned and operated by the
City of Cedartown, it owes no bills
except those for the past month which
will be approved for payment at the
succeeding month’s maeting of the
Commission. The city of Cedartown
has its electric light and power plant
in ccnnection with its water plant,
the same having been constructed and
fully equipped and is operated in con
nection with the City water plant,
and as shown by the above figures
;a8 presented by the report of the City
Commission on lights and water, dem
onstratas the fact that Cordele dan do
cqually as well and thereby place
large sums cof money in the City’s
treasury which will lower the tax rate
of the city and will at the sams time
zive electrical energy to the city in an
amount Mrger than that furnished by
Cedartown.
There is no question that a munici
pally owned electric light plant in con
nection with the City’s water plant by
the City of Cordele will not only give
us a white way system in the busi
ness section cf the City, but will give
us additional street lighting through
out the entire city, and will give to
the consumers of electric curient a
living rate and at the same time the
plant will he a great revenue maker
for the City from the start. |
The City Council has called an elec
tion for honds in the amount of $50,-
000.00 for light and power and $lO,
000.00 for water main ‘extension.
Said election will be held on Wednes
day, April 20, 1921. The registration
books will ‘be ‘open and ‘eygry voter
in thw City of Cordele who has the in
terest of the City at heart should
register and thereby qualify himself
or herself to vote for bonds, that the
Run-down—Blood Impoverished
Richmond, Va—" When I was 8
girl 1 became all run-down, my blood
was impovel
ished and
oy N my complex-‘
‘5& by TEEENG | ion became
0 VIR sallow. I also
__i ,‘ suffered
o /™ fromindiges
i o ) tion and con-
N “./{“@ stipation. I
L o ' N was extreme
\P,‘ - ly nervous
) E'_,’« and”as mis
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one could be when Dr. Pierce’s Gold
en Medical Discovery was recom
mended to me. I took about four bot
tles and some of the ‘Pleasant Pel
lets’ with it. After taking these
medicines I was in better health and
felt better than I had for several
years."—MßS. C. N:. OLIVER, 908
N. 27th St. All druggists sell Medi
cal Discovery, liquid or tablets.
precaution to keep the system ina
vigorous condition so as to more
casily resist disease to which every
one is subject. S. S. S. is without
an equal as a general tonic and sys
‘tem builder. It improves the appe
tite and gives new strength and vi
tality to both old and young.
‘ Full information and valuable lit
erature can be had by writing to
Swift Specific Co., 156 Swift Lab
oratory, Atlanta, Ga.
i}xfiopl’e of the City may own its light
‘and power plants ak it' does the water
plant and have a living scale of
rates fcr the service rendered.
; Respectfully submitted,
' J. GORDON JONES, Mayor.
' A ONCER
Once 12 week he went to church
But only once;
He ate his mreal three time a day
Like any dunce—
He daily to his office went,
And made things buzz;
But he, in doing things for God,
A “ONCER” was.
He made profession of his faith,
Once on a time;
And once he tasted in his soul
The joy divine,
"He has no appetite since then,
Except for sin;
Yet hopes for heaven because he has
A “ONCER” been.
And he mav enter Paradise,
Yet at the gate,
When once he squeeses just inside,
: He'll have to wait;
" The angel there will say to him,
“Just tarry, “ONCER.”
Till place for ycu that's small enough
I've time to hunt, sir.”
Come to the B. Y. P. U. Sunday
night at 7:30 and study what things
vou can do to work out your own sal
vacation go at not to be consider'ed a
“Oncer.”
BALTIMORE DRY DOCK MEN
' Baltimore, Feb. 18.—Wages of three
thousand cf the four thousand employ
ces of the Baltimore Dry Docks and
Ship Building Company were reduc
ed approximately ten percent y@oster
day. :
SPECIAL ATTTENTION—GIiven tc
* cleaning and pressing Ladies and
Gentlemens Clothes.
McCOY STEAM LAUNDRY, Phone
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