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Entered as second clags matter
sune 2nd, 1920, at the post bffice at
Cordele, Ga., under the Act ol March
R, 1878,
Members of The Associated Press.
Thoe Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise gcredited in this pu.
per and also the local news published
hereln,
Harding is planning industrial re
search all over the wcorld, 'This is
possibly with a viaw of enlarging
trade relations. We are sure that the
new administration should do sgome
thing. The republicans in the past
two years have destroyed every ves
tige of friendiy relations with other
people the world over. We haven’t a
friend left. 2 \
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DIPPING VAT USES.
Maybe the dipping vat could
be put to good use at Ellis Island.
—Savannah Morning News,
We are not through with it in Geor
gla unti! we get some of the men who
fight cattle dipping so furiously— vnnd'
their political advisers who are m.i
sponsible for the difficultips we arc
meeting in some sections of Georgia
in ridding the state of the tick. Hon
estly, a year in the dipping vat would |
help some of the leaders cf thig duy‘
and hour. |
WHY IS THIS?
We got a communication from the
Georgin Railway and Power Compa
ny cut of the mailg this morning on
which we had to help pay the post
age—and the communication was 2a
defense of the power company against
Hearst's Atlanta newspaper. We
‘hope we are not classed wity that pa
per in attacking Georgia enterprise
and capital invested in this state.
The power company defense centered
around the claim that foreign capital
when it is brought in must be permit
-lod a fair earning. Well, we are wil
ling for foreign capital to have al
fair earning, but we don't want to!
surrender all rights to determine what .
i& a fadr carning to these who hrin.;i
in the foreign capital, :
And, besides, so far as the fight ;”,,!
plies to the city of Atlanta, it iy mmul
of our figat, This conmmumity has 1\;
power enterprise and the people of|
iCordwele have a right to own it. 'l‘uf
save themselves from extortion ;mzli
iongmvruhlu inventiong of sham uml:
Afalsg report on these earnings, they|
‘st operaty their own plant. \\’ll(\s:l
right is it to say the Cordele Nun(‘;
is worth $lOB,OOO, and that we shall';
pay lighting rates which will net lhs':
‘('i"wners eight percent on this \':llll'\-:g
tion? E
'~ Cordele can duplicate local plant,
line for line, pole for pole, boiler, fur
nace and dynamo alike, for less !h;m‘
. {ifty thousand dollars and can oper
ate the plant for half the amcunt of
money which the present owners claim
it costs. This is not an idle boast.
It is the truth. Why do we have to
pay, sixteen cents per kilowatt hour
fc-r fighting when we have no free
;”flléhts. and out of our public treasury
‘we give the present owners $4.500 a
year for street lighting?
Thomasville in light service and
cash turned into the public treasury
Irdfii their plant last year showed
$BB.OOO ahead. We do nct know their
yate, but it isn’t higher than Cordele—
lb(? sure of that. ( .rtown charged
eight cents—just half what Cordels
pays—ana at the end of the year gave
U({l‘egr community twelve thousand dol
lers worth cf street and white lights
and in addition turned $8,500 in cash
" into {he treasury to help run the gov
seroment. That showing can be dupli
catad in Cordele, \ / 4
‘We have no assux'nmee‘ that within
the next thirty days after ow'r election
for bonds is defeated our ‘rates will
not be raiged, We can assure our
people of one thing: 1f the local
cwnery ask fcr g higher rate, the
Georgia Railroad Commission will
give it to them before th 2y can get
back home from Atlanta. Cordele
city government spent considerable
money last year trying to keep out
of the unreasonably high ‘prices—and
our attorneys were made to feel like
thay were trying to steal something
when they went before fhe commis
sion representing our own interests.
We do not want to face these unfair
conditions any longer—a:ad as for us,
nohody n'eeq expect us to without a
row. Every day since inflancy we have
been able to make a noise, and thanks
to physical condition, our noise maker
is still running.
And please tell us what has the
Georgia Railway and Power Company
to do with our local determination to
operate our ownr light and
power plant? Mailed communi
cations are not all Personal
vigits have been miade here
in the interest of falir play for tfie
outside foreign capital—the UGeorgia
Railway and Power Company, when.
g 0 far as we know, that concern is not
in the mind of any person in Ccrdele.
One thing which pleases all of those
who hope to put the light and power
piant into the hands of the people 13
thz fact that the whwole communiy is
together cn the movement. Unless
these visitors gpread “pisen” and
gpread it very swiltly, they are going
to find themselves facing competition
in Cordele. Then the Georgia Rail
road Commission may take a vacation,
g 0 far as we are concerned.
HOW DO YOW FEEL ABOUT iT?
During the past eight months of
falling prices, wo've been bawled
out, balled up, held up, bull-dozed
blacked-jacked,, walked on, cheat
ed, swindled, squeezed, stuck for,
war fax, per cap tax, starvation
tax, road tax, dog tax, syntag—
our patiemee has Ween taxed—l.ib
erty Bonds, Baby Bonds, Bomds
of Matrimony, Red Cross, Green
('ross, Double Cross; asked to
help the children of France, The
Big Brothers, The Good Fellows,
G A R, D A R, Woman's ‘Ras
lief, Men's Relief and other Re
liefs. Wf"vc worked like (you
know) and been wviorked like
(same as you.) Because we
wouldn’t give what little was left
and go beg, borrow, or steal; :
we've been discussed and cussed,
talked about ang lied about, lied
to, hung up and held up. We've
paid 10% on a 6% rate and sign.
ed receipts for two tons of coal
delvered in a one ton truck—but
—dog gonit; we are glagd of it;
glad we're still in. business; glad
to even be here. If it kosts more
to live now, we've konkluded it's
worth it. Better business looms
ahead and we're just Dbubbling
over with optimism and hoping
it will be contageous.
We have seen this in various forms
for sometime. It was a creation of
the war—must have been. Plenty of
folks feel like the man who made up
thig bit of dry humor,
l We have gareat cause to stay in hig‘.li
spirits becausy so many other people ;
‘grin and endure hardships and pull
{ ahead, sure that there are better
I things coming. The worst man among
us is the fellow who exudes alarm
and panic. He hides his little mon
ey and advises all others to do the!
| same. He rung at the least excuse |
and creates more excitement than ulll
l the others put togother. He is dadd,\'l
’of mcere rumors of business t‘:lilurv.l
| more business changes, more deaths,
‘.'mm'o murders, more earthquakes :md!
!\mrs than all the other members n;!
| the human family. ‘
‘ The real man is the fellow who
gets up and goes again, He is the
'man whe can withstand the hard
|kno.c-k.< without excitement or fear.
I He is the fellow who can know 'n ro;a-!
!son that some of them are cnmingi
!nml is in courage and grit prom'.‘:»i‘!
1:0 meet them., He is the man whosel
iox:lmph\ i gord for the rest of the!
’community. We want this kind z.--'.I
‘man in th: icad instead of the ;).m-{
| icky man, We are going to be kiaock- |
ing along in the future much in :hf:'
same manner 43 we are now. Tiu-rc!
will be bettor times and worse tiues,
What we waat is mere men with
courage ard coufidence, We neall
them on the faring, in the plaz:s oti
husiness—everywliere. We need mure;
men who are wilting to stick to their
dutieg and turn results the right way.
Steady work, level head, and a consis
tent program of buying and using that‘
which will Lelp advance business is'
all we need. Most business men are
already following such a schedule. ‘
But this werd is written to show ’*
as nearly ag possible how ridiculous ¢
is the calamity howler—how worth-1'
lesg and undesirable he is. ‘Undue
husiness excitement® created hy this'
creature causes unnecessary hard
ships in many a business community.
Away with him! :
/7 HOGGISH HOG ISLAND.
[ Goodbye Hog Island. Hcg she
was born and hog she returns to
her native jungle. We were stung
to the extent of $450,000,000, but
who mindg a trifle like that?—
| Valdost Times. '
i Just what are we tc understand by
that? Wei'e we stung? Dees this
writer know how many ships we got
from Hog Island, and does he under
stand that Hog Island was meant to
meet the onslaught of a submarine
warfare that would last no one knew
how long? Imagine a condition that
might have prmitted the war to drag
on through another year, even, or, per
haps two years. Would Hog Islani
have been worth something? It was
cur ship factory intended to meet the
‘subnmx'inx: evil. Before is was closed
it came very near revealing that it
was just the thing the government
}smlghlv—-a ship factory. 4
We ghall never undertake to say
Mog Island represented anything in
loconomic construction like all govern
-ment enterprises should be built—in
peace time. In war it ig different—
far differ'ent. The tax payer who gets
rnuffed nup at sowmething which cost
high war prices n war times forgets
[l) at time was thy thing—time meant
!uu in the conflic: with Germany.
The German war lord stoed astride
the Old World and called us to wit
ness the destruction of the forces of
our allies at the very moment we were.
driving, driving steel rivets all thruj
the dweaq hours of the night—angd Sun
day—to defeat him—to get men to
Europe where we could challenge his‘
fiercest onslaught. Time was the
thing, not the cost. We won a victo-'i
ry at arms that cutshone anything
mankind has ever accomplished. i
We umrge vou, wherever yvou are, if
you are an American citizen and owe
allegiance to the Stars and Strips,
not to think on this greatest of all
ship building enterprises as a thing?
«f graft and robbery, but rather tol
cherish the cnergies of the men who 1
loved their country well enough to%
stand by their work here and build
and build to defeat Germany., Money, 1
great piles of it, could never measurc |
against tho liveg we saved in the years
of war we cut off when America be
came fired with the spirit that built!
Hog Island. There can never in :ill.l
history be a greater monument to the
loyalty of a people than this. ’
DIVORCIES IN TOWN AND OUT OF
TOWN
Avgusta Chrounicle:
The Cordele Dispateh has whut the
favannah Press regards, a very read
able editorial in which it proposes to
show that there are more people divore
ed in the cities than in the country.
“Of course there are,” comments the
Press, “‘because there are morve peo
ple married in the cities than in the
country.” The preachers marry more
people in the eities and this gives di
vorce juries more to do.'’
The Dispatch sayvs, in discussing the
great number of divorces in Richmond,
Chatham and Fulton counties:
Why is it that people in the less
populous communities live morce
nearly in ideal marital happiness?
So far as the divorce goes, one
would seldom ever be able to find
a break in the even temper of
this community. We enjoy many
of the comforts and pleasures of
the larger ecities. It is true that
we live in a contentment that is
more possible outside the larger
THE CORDELFE DISPATCH '
- centers?
In the larger communities poople
are thrown more often in contact,
There the adventurer, the adven
turess, freer expression in the ply
ing of a trade. The breaking
down of conventionalities gets
its start where this type of men
~and women live, The women who
+ normally would know no other than
the single standard of living, gets
her first lesson where the doctrineg
of liberalism has its strongest
rooting, That is the city of thous
ands of people.
The Press doubts it if the eity pecple
are any more worldly or wicked than
those in the smaller communities.
“There are in proportion to the popu
lation as many of these ‘double stand
ard’ folks as we have in Savannah or
in Augusta or Atlanta. Divorees dre
more readily obtained in the larger cit
"ws because of the frequent terms of
courte. If the busincss of the courts in
the larger centers should continue to
grow until there should be more fro
quent terms than we have ot present,
we might get the divoree-granting busi
ness down to such a fine point that the
‘minimum time for securing one would
lb(' two months instead of seven, Edi
tor Brown thinks we shonld 21l give
more attention to home-making and
not so mueh to home breaking.”’
| There is another angle to ail this.
Probably if the Cordsle Dispateh lived
in a berder city—in a city close to 2
state in whieh divorces are unheard of
Jander the law—that paper would un-
L Jerstand more about the large number
’of divorees it would have to tell of in
its columns, provided that it prints
l news of divorees—whieh, by the way,
some newspapers decline to print, It
’is quite sure that there are eases in
F Richmond superior court, some in Chat
ham superior court, and a few in the
Cother city superior comrts whieh are
‘handled in this state because thers
are no divorce laws in South Carolina
IT'S NOT YOUR TOWN, IT'S YOU.
From the Atlanta Journal:
Every town in Georgia is cursed
by the presence of the man described
in the following paragraph taken from
the Cordele Dispatch. TUsually the
fellow has never been worth a penny
to the commanity and he is always a
menace to pregress and prosperity.
Do you recocgnize him?
“Your town isn't so bad as you ai'e
painting it. Stop it. There is better
business here than you can find else
where, Try it and see. You must
stop assuming that hard’' times have
hit hardest in your hom@e town. You
must stop trying to bury the little
money you have ‘ahead: There will
be more. Pay your debts and go on
working. We will be at the end of
the world' when we cannhot swap cur
goods for others that we need—and
the end of the world is not here yet.
The meanest, most dangerous blunder
you can make is to squeeze the little
cash you have because you think it
ig all there is in the world. Cut that
habit. 1t makes more hard times
> 9
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Batteries
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PHONE 183
than anything else. If you really know
how many people had their money
withdrawn from the banks and hid
den away, ycu would be astounded
beyond measure.”
There ig moré money in the United
States today than there has been at
any other time in the history of the
nation, yet it seems to have been with
drawn from circulation. If given a
chance money will talk; choke it and
it can't even whisper, ;
THE BRIDGE'S PULLING POWER
Suvannal Morning News: The
erection of every good hridge gives
tremendous permanent stimulus to
the making and maintaining of guod‘
roads in the section which the bridge
gerves, Some counties have found‘
that, despairing in the task cf ohtain
ing co-operation cf adjacent or ne::r-i
by counties in the linking up of road“
systems on a permanently good basis
in any other way they can force in
terest and co-operation with 2 fine
new bridge at a stragetic point. With
a bridge that is ahead of the general
run of the roads of a section there is
the constant wearing reminder of
the need for the roads to he brought
up to the standard of the bridge.
Not only is it the universal rule
that the highways immediately #p
proaching the good hridge are’ put in
to and kept in good shape, but feed
ing roads that come into this bridge
cressing highway graduaily, steadily
inevitably are improved and kept up
in hetter condition for the . travel
that is attracted through them to
the main highway that has good, safe
reliable, always dependable bridges
over the streams, The influence is
felt ,eventually—and not far after
ward in point of time—in more re
mote' regions. Tourist travel begins
to take to the road that connects
with the road that feeds the high
way that crosses the good bridge.
Local travelers takes that route.
The travelers insist on the making
cf the rcadway good ard then insist
upon the maintenance at a fair
grade of excellence.
The operation is certain, if some
times apparently slow: The good
bridge means that the roads will be
made later.
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use Kotalko. If it doesn’t do all you
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Show your friends this advertisement. :
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For Strictly High
.
Class Groceries
And Green Meats Phone 302
Our choice cuts o©f 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 convine
ing proof,
Blue M and Sweet Rose
Self Rising Flour ... $1.60
Blue M Plain Flour ...... $1.60
White House and Morning
Joy Coffee, per 1b ..........45¢
Arbuckles and Rino
i Coftep, per b .. ....... 3¢
Green Coffee, per Ib .........17V5¢c
Compound Lard, 1b ... 15¢c
Sugan,; 9 Ibs for .. ... 8100
FFull Head Rice, 12 Ibs ...$l.OO
Tomatoes, per can .............. 10¢
All Guaranteed Quality Goods.
West End Market
and Grocery.
R. A. BULLINGTON
Corner 10th St. and 12th Ave
PHONE 302.
T
' NEW
Tenderloin Steak per ib 25¢
- Sirloin Steak, per Ilb .....25¢
Round Steak, per Ib ......25¢
psPork- Chops, per 1b ......25¢c
wdlork ‘Ham, per 1b .......25¢
Pork Roast, per 1b ... 25¢
Roast Beef per 1b ...20c & 25¢
Stew Beef per’lb ............. 15¢
L.et us have your next order,
we will appreciate it and do
our best to send choice cuts
vand full value. ’
PHONE 31§
SANITARY MARKET
#R. C, BOULWARE, Manager
COKER’S
In order to make it possible for cash eustomers to
buy at low prices and to induece rmore peopie to buv
oroceries from us, we offer heginning tomorros
(Friday) specials for Friday only. Those who
would pay cash and-save something on these spe=
cials should take advantage. ol
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8 LB. BUCKET COMPOUND LARD -------$1.19
4 LB, BUCKET COMPOUND LARD ... 62c
¢ LB. BUCKET SNOW DRIFT LARD -...--$1.43
BLB BUCKET SNOW DRIFT LARD —-------74c o 4
BULK COMPOUND LARD -------ocoooomeeoo 14c
% LBS. SIMON PURE LARD -----oovooooo-- §1.24
BULK HUDNUT GRITS, LB ------o-------- 3%ac
BEST HEAD RIiCE, LB, 7¢c; 3 LBS. FOR -20 c
WATER GROUND MEAL, PECK ------------36c¢
DRY SALT MEAT, LB. -----------4---------- 18¢
ARMOURS STAR HAMS, LB. --------------- 33c
COUNTRY HAMS —------cm-m=-co-=-mm----- 28c
CAPITOLA PLAIN FLOUR, 24. LBS. —----- $1.48
MISS DIXIE S. R. FLOUR ----en--on------ $1.48
SWEET ROSE S. R. FLOUR ----—----------$1.66
j. LB. MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE ------- 39¢
3 LBS. MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE ------- $1.17
I LB. COUNTRY CLUB COFFEE ---—--—--- 39c ;
1 LB. WHITE HOUSE COFFEE —--------~ 42¢
1 LB. ALLIANCE COFFEE, High Grade ---- 38¢
1 LB, BARRINGTON HALL COFFEE ---... 48¢
BEST GA. CANE SYRUP, GALLON CAN -- $l.OO
12 LBS. IRISH POTATOES --------------—-- 39c
STANDARD CORN, Per can, No. 2 ——eveeo-. 18c
STANDARD E. PEAS, per can, No. 2 —-—----- 18¢
STANDARD LIMA BEANS, per can; No. 2 -~ 18¢
OCTAGON:SOAP, : BAR ~---vo-secoe-bocrooe 86
POST TOASTIES & C. FLAKES, Pkg. ----13 c
SHREDDED WHEAT :-oicoimemeemmamomsados 18¢
STRAWBERRY, RASBERRY, PEACH AND
CHERRY JAMS, PT. JAR----—————____. B2¢
NO. 2 SLICED PINE APPLE ----cc-eeememoo- 38c
NO. 2 GRATED PINE APPLE oo 38c
ROVY BERNN o . guerieenis TR
KEROSENE OIL, GALLON - ccceocceoco2 28¢
Co B, BUTTER -rii ounm anncind o snmieiine dhik G
KINGMAN’S BACON ----.cacencnceaoniace 3Bc
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These cash bargains will be offered for the pres
ent two days each week, Tuesday and Friday.
Prices quoted are to accommodate people who
want to pay cash and save something. You shold
compare prices and let us help you reduce the liv
ing cost. We offer nothiing but the best groce
ries. All stock fresh and select. |
C@ker Grocery CO.
PHONES 249 and 216
P Ipt]
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When you are sick you want and
need the best drugs; you want your
preseriptions compounded and filled
carefully and you want prompt
serviee.
Our drugs ave always first quality
and fresh, and in eare and promptness
in filling preseriptions we always bear
vour interests in mind. | Get your phy
sician to phone or send your preserip
tions to
Jones-Pate Drug Co.
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. Phones 2 _ and 283
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The Exchange is Willir
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TT R AR P T T AT 75 VIR 7R LIR (R T OTR T PTR IR L
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.
If you will do business with us during 1921, we will do
all we can to make the year mean advancement for you and
vour business, ‘Every banking service we can render is at your
call. Please do not hesitate to discuss business with us,
CORDELE, GA,
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1921,
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