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#*Our Tom is still rearing about
his share of the republican patron
age in Georgia, It is a bit amusing,
but we feel that he is entitled to it.
PIERSISESRIEERIN ¢ NSRS TN
A torrespondent in the Madisonian
suggests that it will be time to plant
cotton again when the water in the
well freezes over. That's deep stuff
-—sensible, though.
.—-—-———-G__..._——
Editor Shytle of the Adel News
had'iad -2 close call from an attack
of pnenmonia. He is steadily im
proving now and newspaper friends
al) over the state are indeed pleased
to know it. He is a good man and
‘doing a wonderful work in his com
mupity and section.
el
We have no fight against our
cotton buyers, but the cotton grow
er heard a mighty good argument for
serving as his own sales agent under
the Sapiro plan as presented this
morning at the court house. Geor
gia is to pledge 200,000 bales by
April Ist. Crisp county growers will
find the cooperative plan a good
one, if they go into it with confi
dence in ther own organization and
retain that confidence. That's what
helped the peach growers. It made
California fruit a wonderful source
of wealth. It made south Georgia
watermelons worth something last
vear. It can serve the cotton grow
ers just as well. We do not know
what is coming of it, but the prin
ciple looks like business.
i
Still we hear big business men say
ing that the high tariff wall will
prevent other natons from coming
here to trade with us—that this
will keep them from paying their
debts to us. If we are to sell our
goods to others, they must be per
mitted to sell theirs to us. Fordney
and his friends are busy driving
away Canada and Cuba, two next
door neighbors that have done im
mense trading with us in the past.
That will finish up the job. We are
on the outside already with Gerrvany
and Russia, Pretty soon soon the rest
of the world will have about as
much respect for this country as
they have for the other two. ’l‘hvn"
is something in that view, sure as
you live, £
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Our Tom ~ is wrong about the
farm mortgages. He said in the
senate the other day that the “tarms
in the south would not sell for
enough to pay them off. We will
admit that we are pretty well saddled
with them, but not yet near like
the west—lowa, for example, These
‘are hard times—so hard that people
see blue smoke in all directions, but
people must remember that farm
lands are not selling for any small
price—not around here. Our Tom
is wrong about the mortgages, We
whope there will be a day of libera
tion—that our farms will pay them
'selves out. They had a mighty good
chance in 1918 and 1919 and
didn’t do it, but this spell has planted
new resolutions that will grow into
,inflependéllt ?rmers some of these
days. Mark txe prediction,
THE COMMISSION FORM
. Many..a citizon-of, Cordelg in Te
cent months huzs come to a serious
study of the commission form of
municipal government. Those who
favor it have suggested that it
might be weil for the city couneil
to give the community an oppor
tunity to pass upon it in a primary
held for the purpese. ]
The commission form is not a cut
and dried plan. Some communities
take it one way, while otherg adopt
it in other varied forms. It is true
that the one principal feature—
that of city managet—runs through
all of them, and on the success of
that feature® alone, those commun
itics, adopting it have been able to
recommend it to other towns and
cities,
Tifton, in a hard year iike 1921,
announced that it had saved eighteen
thousand dollars for the tax payer
in the community. That city has a
very fine showing in every rcspect,'
and people on the outside who have
had opportunity to watch it, have
every reason to believe the people
of Tifton are highly pleased with it.
The Dispatch is inclined to favor
it, But this does not mean that we
would undertake a campaign to oust
anybody now entrusted with hand
ling public affairs. We belicve that
members of the city council and the
city government, with what I,’hchl
have, are doing the best service
they can. We have no word of
criticism to offer, certainly no un
friendly criticism. If we should offer
anything ,it would be aimed to help
those who are trying to do some
thing. |
The man who tries to render
public service runs into enough ad
verge iriticism. Sometimes a good
man tires of it and quits—and the
community loses. The best thing
the individual citizen can do is to
practice stopping the mouth of the
«icker. : i
Cordele has no time to l:and en
couragement to kicking, We have
public grievances. It would be a re
markable community if there wcrei
none. But to lend sympathetic en
couragement and constructive sug‘-‘
gestion is the better way out of it.
Any citizen can be proud of that
kind of course, even should it neéi
poor results. :
We want Cordele to have an op
portunity to try out the commission
form of government. And we would
like to see the initiative -movei
made by the mayor and city coun
cil. We believe there are gains of
a substantial character to be made.
But when The Dispaich goes this
far with it, we have done all we
can, If it is a form of government
the community wants and needs, it
ought ngt to be difficult to get it.
We can only discuss it here,
The Dispatch is saying all this be
cause we know that members of
‘council are now seriously consider
ing the plan. It will not be amiss
to talk frankly with members of
council about this thing. Let them
know what you think.
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IS ARMENIA WORTH WHILL?
There is many a Ge g .« boy hack
in his home now tha: would he
sleeping under a woodan cross in
France but for the heroizm of the
300,000 Armenian treops who gave
up their lives in defens: of the vast
Baku oil fields, Congressman Wil
liam D. Upshaw of Georgia, the
“Billy Sunday of Conugross” stated
in a Near East address the other
day.
“Experts agree that Germany's
'fuilurv to capture this huge eil
field shortened the war by many
months,” Mr. Upshaw declaved.
“Who knows how many f s boys
would 'have been left had that vas®
macelstorm of killing continued c¢ven
a day longer when 10,000 mea were
giving up their lives every twenty
four hours. ¢
“It is the children of these heroes
'who made it possible for your bLuys
to return to you that the Near
East Relief is asking the crurls
from your table—just enough food
to take away the stinging pains of
hunger. Are we going to let themw
starve? We would not be trae
Americans if we did. FEOTALR i
A‘Hardly ag, JArge as Georgia,
Armenia sent into the warAOO,GOQ‘
troops and most of them never came
back. Their women and children were
feft—at least such women as the
Turks did not outrage and butcher.”
Congressman Upshaw moved many
of his hearers to tears at this huge
mass meeting,
et (et simts
WHY NOT OUR CITY?
Macon has been designated
" “The Rose City of the South,”
by a magazine devoted to rose
culture. Macon had on a cam
paign there to get the people to
plant roses and other flowers.
The campaign seems to have
borne fruit. In this land and
‘climate we can all have flowers
and shrubs the year round, and
we hope that this town will ‘take
to the idea. It is easy to have a
pretty town and only requires
very little time and expense. |
Let’s make'this a “City Beau- |
tiful.””—Nashville Herald.
The man with the rose cuttings
and plants to sell hasn’t said a word
to us about it, but we want to ask
why our town cannot be known as
a city of roses, too?
We are not fussy about it, but
Cordele has a long line of improve
men ahead in this direction that
would help. The front of every
home ought to be a rose garden—
and there [are only a few pretty
places. The. family in the rented
home owes it to the town to beautify
as much as it can be done 4n every
place. |
This ought to be a lovely city of
roses. The woeful lack of pretty
roses gardens is everywhere appa
rent. We have no excuse but
thoughtlessness. The climate and the
soil conditions—and thg space are
all here. We need more roses, a
great deal more roses. It is not too
late to have them. Who will plant
one or two or three, just to say he
has added something to beautify
the place? That’s every individual's
opportunity— and it is a gracious
one. Plant a rose and watch it bud
into something like nature’s great-‘
est beauty.
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DOGGONE—DAD GUM!
Charlie Brown thinks that |
the political joke of the' season
would be the race Herbert Clay ‘
would make against Tom Hard- 1
wick and Cholly isn’t any politi
cul neophyte.—Thomasville
Times Enterprise.
Here comes a friend who has been
studying Greek to say a word about
us—just us, Hevaert Clay and
‘tho governorship. He used a big
word—a sure enough big one. Dog
| gone—Dad gum!
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"YOU CAN GROW COTTON DESPITE
BOLL WEEVIL.
These Rules Have Won for Others
And Will Win for You,
1. Grow one-thirg to one half less
acreage per plow. .
2, BSelect big, open, fields—away
from woods.,
3. Choose warm, well drained,
quick making land.
4. Apply more fertilizer at planting
time. .-'l‘-hen 75 to 100 pounds of
Nitrate of Soda Just before squareg
show.)
5. Use pure breq seed of best early
fruiting varieties, ’
6, Plant early :
7. Plant more seed to absolutely
insure gcod stand,
8. Practice close spacing—a hoe
width apart—2 to 4 stalks per hill,
(Farmers report this increases yield
25 to 100 per cent.)
9. Give fast, shallow cultivation—
keep cotton free from weeds,
10. Pick cotton as fast as it opens,
11. Protect all bales from the weath
er.
12. Do not depend on cotton alone
for cash. (Plant reasonable of pea
nuts, potatoes and tobacco,)
18. Milk cows and seel cream—
raise poultry and hogs for market.
14, Grow all feedq and forage for
‘Jive stock on the farm,
.15, Raise all kinds of food for the
family.
Direct Methods Against Weevil
Itself,
. 1. Hand pick and desrtoy early wee
vil, then infested fallen squares,
2, Dust the cotton with Caleintm
Arsenate, when practicable, using
special machinery.
3. Plow under the stalks, weeds
ang grasg in and acound tke field im-
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
“nediately afler cotfon’is picked,
Get your county agent, the agricul
‘tufal college or'the development agént
cf the séabfidbd'h‘t Line Railway to
give you special information on these
important problems,
General Developing Departiment
: Seaboarq Air Line Railway.
HERE I 8 A GOOD ONE
From Tifton. Gazette: Mr, Spencer
contributes thig one to the smiles of
the day: *‘Noting that a school for
burglars exists in San Franeisco Edi.
tor Herring, of The Tifton Gazettc,
tells his readers they should stick
up for' their rights and insist upon
being ‘burgled by graduates or not at
all. ‘Hencoeforth, says he, ‘no sélf
respecting man will permit an ama.
teur scab or half_baked burglar to
operate-on his premises.” And that’s
fair enough, too. We’d much rather
give our trade to a. journeyman
burglar than have to bother with a
two_thirder, but the plan of the latc
Newt Seale at one time General Su
perintendent of the Mobile and Ohio
.ailroad, had its merits too. One
night he was awakened by a masked
intruder aud opened his eyes to gaze.
into a revolver which he said had an
opening in it about the size of thcf
Grand Canyon., ‘Where’s your
money?’’ demanded the burglar. ‘ln!
my pants over there on that chair’
wag the reply. ‘Which pocket is ii
in?” ‘Aw dammit,” said Br. Scale
‘take pants and all. You make me
nervoys.’ »
KIWANI® SERVICE
We pass cach other as days go by, ‘
But seldom have time to heed—
We who ave filled with our own con-l
tent
How much our brother may need.
Why can’t we give just a Kkindly
smile
Or a tender word or so, <
Yea .cven a glance of sympathy |
Whith would, to some sad heart go '
‘Andkindle therein a glow of trust, |
And dry the falling tears, |
And help sweet faith to revive :lgainl
In. the place of grief and fears. |
It costs so little I wonder why |
We give it so little thought. ‘
A smile—kind, words—A glance "‘ai
" toueh! |
Wonderful magic with these is
wrought
—ANONYMOUS l
BT i e e |
How Much Do You Know? ‘
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As much as your Boss knows? |
Y as your Neighbor knows? |
as You would like to know?
, There are books of general
and specific information for you in
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Ching’s foreign trade has increased
500 perd cent in the past 30 years.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Gon AR e
DR, J. W. MANN—Veterinarian. Of
fice phone 74. Res. phone 304.
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DR. A. J. WHELCHEL—Gy::ecalogy.
Office: American Bank and
Trust Co,, Building.
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DR. M. R, SMlTH—lnternal Medi-‘
cine and Surgery. ?
Office: American Bank and |
Trust Co., Building. 1
THOS. J. McARTHUR, M. D.—
Special Attention to Surgery and
Gynecology. Cordele, Ga.
V. E. EDWARDS, Physician and
Surgeon, American Bank & Trust
Building.
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A. S. BUSSEY, Attorney-at-law—
State and Federal Practice. Office
over Exchange Bank, Cordele Ga.
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‘DR. T. E. BRADLEY,—Eye, Ear,
Nose, Throat and Fitting of Glasses
Office . Williams Bldg,
DR. A. H. KENDALL, Dentist—Spe
cial attention to Gum Disea.e and
' the correction of crooked teeth.
Phone 40, Holmes Building.
CRUM & JONES. Law ~~rs,—Practice
in all courts, Staic and Federal.
~ Cordele, Ga.
Goods Electric
“Backcd by Service”
Batteries Prest-0-Lite
“Not the Best Bui
None Better.”
BIVINS ELECTRIC
COMPANY
PRESBYTERIANS LOOKING
~ FOR REPORTS ON EVCRY
“* MEMBER CAMPAGIN WEEK
Local Presbyterians are awaiting
with much interest the reports to le
furnished shortly on the resuits of the
every member canvass held through
out the Southern church on March 12,
the date fixed by the general assembly
at its last meeting. Through special
editions of the church papers, the use
of laymen and other means of public
ity, this plan of financing the 3,400
Southern Presbyterian churches has;
been widely advertised and it is ex
pected that a very large percentage of ‘
the churches will-adopt it thig year.
The church year wil close March 31
and the canvass is for the coming year
the general assembly having fixed the |
goal at $4,500,000. Of this amoxnt $2,- ‘
700,000 goes to the assembly’s benevo-
Jent cauges and the remainder is for
the causeg in each synod and preshy- |
tery, It is planned to have each
church make its report to the presby- \
terial manager on March 27 and these
figuures will in turn be reported to the
synodical manager Who will wire in'
the figurues for the synod not later
than April 4th to the stewardship com
mittee in Chattanooga., The amounts
will then be available for report to the
general assembly at its meeting in
Charleston, West Virginia, in May.
Preshyterians-here therefore will be
advised of the total figurues through
the press at an early date.
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STAR DRY CLEANING CO.
L. L. BULLINGTON, Mgr.
123_129 Thirteenth Ave, West
Thone 18 Cordele, Ga.
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We offer the fol
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WELLS HDW. CO.
126-128 Wall Street,
Near Union Depot
Fertilize Your Pecan Tr
The Proper Fertilizer Put Around Your
. Pecan Trees in Early Spring
Will inerease the growth of your trees, and wonderfully inereass
the yield and quality of your nuts. There will always he a good
demand and a good priev for good quality nuts. The proper fer
tilizer will insure the best quality. -
It has been demonstrated time and again that the pecan
properly fertlized for three years will unquestionably gain three
in growth and yield over the tree not fertilized, :
We have a specially prepared fertilizer for pecan develop
ment, both for the young and the bearing trees. We will he glad
to talk to you about it and have your order, ;
This is Not an Experiment But a Sensible
Investment--Now is the Time |
S. BUNDRICK, Mgr. New Williams Bldg. Cordele, Ga.
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“How much meney did .you
spend last year for clething, luxu
ries and household expens2s?’’
“Oh, I dun 9¢; bew mueh did
rou?’’ replied My, Negligent, .
“For clothing, $lO9 25; luxaries,
. $7575; and for houseiicld expenses
$428.50." ) b 4
“Well, but how do you know?”’
asks Mr. Negligent. Ob, that’s
easy. I simply get it from my can
celed checks. You see I pay all
my bills by checks drawn on my
bank.” :
CITIZENS BANK
CORDELE, GA.
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G. W. WILBANKS -
Corner Sixth St, and Eighth Avenue, Phone 278
Before planting - your - 1922 crop is to
thoroughly pulverize your land and tha best
known tool to do this with is a B.%and G.
- Drag Harrow, they will break the crust,
pulverize all the clods and mix all humus
with the soil. Lo
We have them in 50 and 60 tooth and the
price is'as cheap as ever known.
WATT & HOLMES HARDWARE COO.
THE HOUSE OF QUALITY AND SERVICE
PHONE No. 9 : CORDELE, GA.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1922,