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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
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June 2nd, 1920, at the post office ..
Cordele, Ga., undexr the Act ol
March Brd, 1879,
Members of The Assoclated Pres:
The Associated Press 18 exculsive
fy entitled to the use for republica
tlom of all news dispatches creditec
%it or not otherwize credited in
this paper and elso the local! news
published herein,
The rains wil put the weevil in
the saddle if the cotton growers fail
to poison at opportune time. There
is greater nced ,f weevil poison to
day than in agny time prior in the
making of the crop. Whatever else
may happen, the poisoning should he
kept up with great zeal and care.
That alone will save the cotton crop.
There are prospeets of a good crop
today. It will be well to pursue
these opportunities by keeping up
battle: against the weevil, It will
mean cotton,
William G. McAdoo is first a red
blooded American and we believe
he will be the kind of democrat that
his friends have a right to expect
him to be. He is going to do all he
can to make it a democratic year
of great victory gver this country.
John W. Ddvis will find a place of
usefulnes. for him when the time
comes—if democracy is victorious,
and if McAdoo does not find em
ployment larger than public office,
One thing fine about the future, he
may have expended a large amount
of money trying to win the nomina
tion, but he has 4 wonderful earning
'capucity and will not suffer. He is
one of the country’s most capable
citizens and despite political fortun
es, the country knows it. That kind
of man will not have many vacations
that are dug to want ,f employment.
Mark the prediction—the adminis
tration will want McAdoo if Davis
wins. He is going to remain a fight
ing democrat, one like the republi
cans will have very good reasons to
fear. And he is a regular leader—
one who got his start in the red hills
of old Georgia. That means he is
in every way a man upon whom the
party can rely in its efforts to win
the country.
WILLIAM J. BRYAN
They derided and eered and hiss
ed and booed while the grand old
man worked for his party ideals in
the New York convention; they still
deride him, make fun of him and
jeer, but William J. Bryan is the
greatest democrat of them all.. That
man has a soul so large that it never
quails at the emboldened corruption
of political leaders who seek to
down him. He never quits.
Recent portraits of him as a pass
ing figure in the democracy of this
nation but illustrates the eagerness
with which eastern journals would
pass him up as a relic. He was ev
crything else but a fossil in the New
York convention. He will be some
thing besides that in the next and
the next—and when they take him
to his grave, they will not have done
with William J. Bryan.
He is a remarkably good man with
his ideals transplanted into the po
litical fields of America. There
they have grown till no noisy eastern
press that hates him ‘because it
wants liquor and he doesn't can
down him. In many close calls he
rosec to great heights in Madison
Square Garden. He is a fighter of
great power and men listen when
he talks. Well they may, for his
scasoned wisdom falls like the ten
der, kindly hand of providence up
on the storm and allays it. He is
a wonderful man—the greatest dem-
acrat in America, and one whose
life will have ils weight in the party
councils of this country long after
they have taken hif oat and laid
him in his house of clay)”
We shall count it a privilege ever
in the future to speak a kindly word
about William J. Bryan. We shall
think of him often in his wonderful
display of christian courage and pa
tience in the New York convention.
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A MAN AND HIS BUSINESS
The naming of Mr. P, F. Fitz
gibbons as president of the local
board of trade in the annual meet
ing this week is a move which will
prove a happy one in every way in
Cordele. This is a business man who
has brought a business to Cordele
which should be appreciated by ev
cry man and concern in the com
munity. He has proven an indus
trious builder and pursues his bus
iness with vigor and \great faith.
That kind never fails to get results.
We have need of. just such busi
ness men in the statepic positions.
If we can have them, it will mean
steady building, steady development.
This is a capable business man, one
who prefers to engage himself pure
ly in businegs. He has had ample
opportunity to understand what a
creditable board of trade man can
mean and when he lays his hand to
it with the assistance of those who
have consented to serve with him,
the community is going to benefit.
The Beechwood Mlls are now pay
ing out in this community thirty
thousand dollars a month. This is
twice as much as was estimated
when the first stroke was made to
erect the mills here. All the time
there is a growth ,f business vol
ume. In a period of ten years, if
this business does not grow beyond
its present volume, it will amount
to a turn over of over three and a
half millions brought in and cxpend
ed locally.
"The men who make a success of
their own business are those who can
do most for a trade body whose pur
pose is to build for the community.
Success to Mr. Fitzgibbons and the
trade body.
ABOUT NEWSPAPERS
This newspaper has always been
cot.ducted upon the assumption that
its readers wished it tp stand for
something. It hos #tood for some
ta:ng out of princip'e, not for the
making of money. It stands for
principle today, regardless of profit.
It may not always do that, but up to
this good hour it has a well defined
policy and has defended that.
Now, we come to the point wherce
we have to admit that we sometimes
defend a cause or challenge some
thing in the sincere belief that our
position is right. If we have ever
had a newspaper aim—one over
which we sent up solemn supplica
tion—.t was always that we might
know the right to champion and de
fend that. But we are human. This
is an intensely human world, and so
what we thought was right has not
always proven to be so. Mistakes
creep in upon all humanity. That
is not such a surprise today. We on
ly want to make it clear to our read
ers that as long as the human be
ing performs, somewhere at some
time mistakes will come.
The larger newspapers of this
country today are time servers. If
liquor running New York wants a
riot of newspaper support, it can
have it without let or hindrance.
At a penny apiece they bid for ap
proval so strongly, so vehemently,
that this class emboldened in its
claims upon government, upon pub
lic office and patronage: It can
make a governor announce to the
country that New York will pay no
mind to a federal amendment reg
ulating the traffic.
We fine people ‘who differ—some
still want light wines and beer, some
here want their morning toddy with
out legal restraint. We are not
specially trying to throw their wish
es to the winds. We want to im
press the reader with the license
creeping into the newspaper field.
For a reading patronage the news
paper—we regret to admit that it is
our opinion—will surrender its soul.
The larger the paper, the further
from principle. The greater the dis
tance from principle, the greater the
sucecss of the apparent . M‘W.
success of the paper. be
And this kind of trend is 'l‘."ading’
American journalism—over the prec
ipice. There is no success at the
end of such.a road. Financial g'aln
at the cost of ournalistic, integrity.
is an awful reality in America, We
count it awful because it takes the
populace with it. Such journalistie
ideals—or want of them—in the
long run become the customs, the
thoughts, the standards of the peo
ple who read and absorb.
Every time we go a distance from
home, this swful situation stares us
in the face like a ghost of the night,
Here in Georgia in the Underwood-
McAdoo campaign there was but a
drop in the bucket as compared to
that display by the New York news
papers—absolute and complete aban
donment of principle, of ideal. The
soul of a great publication for a
penny! The principle, the ideal that
the American newspaper should cher
ish, fed to the lions that an already
harddned populace may the more
applaud!
If there is room in the wide, wide
world for a great publication with
heonesty and integrity behind its pur
pose, that place of all placcs seems
to us is New York City!
THEY DiD VOTE
They are attacking Pleas
Stevall and Charlie Brown be
cause they did not happen to
be present to vote in the Klan
plaiform pl,m‘k—-T:ho;masvil-le
Times Enterprise.
Somebody has been crossing the
wires aboul Pleasant Stovalf and
Chatlie Brows. They were there on
every Toll call and they did vote on
the Klan question. Both voted to
keep the fignt out of the party plat
form—and speaking for one, we de
ny we sought to sympathize with
cither of the contend*?nvg‘i fac'ions
that sought to assume control of our
national party convention. Neither
should have had any pant in our
councils. The malority of the plat
form committee So held and report
ed, and we thought they were right.
We vated to sustain that report—
and don’t you ever get the idea that
we sat there alone and without com-,
pany.
The following morning before we
got out of bed a man whose voice
had a welcome, familiar note in it
called our telephone and gave his
name, a stranger to us only that far.
He was a Georgian, a regular fel
low.for he wanted to say he had
heard us register our disapproval
on roll call by radio that night of
the terrible Catholic-Klan fight. He
had a kindly word of encouragement.
we shall never forget him, for it was
a trying occasion.
Those who want to question us
will find our votes recorded on this
issue and they arve today port of the
records of the New York convenition.
They are still our convictions.
AN EXAMPLE OF PROGRESS
Fort Pierce, Florida is not quite
as large as Cordele, but the current
issue of the Fort Pierce News-Tri
bune carries the following item on
a recent bond issue for municipal
improvement:
“By a vote that averaged more
than two and a half to one, quali
fied voters of Fort Pierce om Tues
day authorized a half million dollar
bond issue for municipal improve
ments that include: Million gallon
water filtration plant and pumping
station near conjunction of Five and
Ten Mile Creeks, extension of san
itary sewerage system, storm SCwers,
streets and viaducts over or under
railroad tracks, concrete bridges
over canal, pavement of street in
terscections in prope:ty owner pro
jects, public parks, seawall, fire sta
tion and jail. city hall, incinerator
and wharves.
The provision of these improve
ments will, it is confidently expect
ed, put Force Pierce in the fore
front of the progressive cities of
Florida and innaugurate a new era
in the growth, development and pros
perity of the city. :
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
SAYS TUNCLE SAM: ‘“PLL HBLP
. YOU GET AN ARGICULTURA
e TEACHER .. &
"THe Progtessive Farmer R
iln 1917 (longress passed the so-called
Smith-Hughes Act mukix:g liberal ap
\pmprintions to encourage the teaching
Y,o”f agriculture and home cconomics ix
lthr- high sehools of America. Succee
ding sessions of Congress have contin
\no,d or’inrrv:wm! these appropriations,
and “indiyidual states wave olso made
fiberal supphementany apprepriations,
Consnquently it seems safe to say to
any Progressive Farmer reader:—- |
If you have a school near you, _von‘
ean get a teacher of agriculture : or_l
liome economics and the goverment
will pay onc-half or more of the ex
penses for you.
This is an offer- which everypre
gresgive rural community in tire South
should certainly delight to accept. We
sy this not only heeause of +what the
smith-Hughes agricultural hlgh sehool
do for farm boys and girls, but because
of the service they render every class
)ot persons in g farm neighborhood.
Dress Goods
A pretty line of new
Dress Goods just ar
rived. You can get
the mat prices that
will surprise you. Al
so a full line of Gro
cories and Patent
Medicines at Special
Bargain Prices. Get
your now.
WILSON MERCANTILE CO.
COR, 17 AVE. AND 10 ST.
PHONE '24—CORDELE, GA.,
Anniversary,
Wedding and
Graduation
Gifts
We have in each line some
thing New and desirable
for every customer. The
price is moderate. Let us
show you.
Eye glass gpervice and
Jewelry repairing.
S.M. DEKLE
JEWELER & OPTOMETRIST
Pate Building Cordele. Ga.
TRE BEAUTY OF HOLLYHOCES
—Me Progressive Farmer—
. Hafe vou noticed the biomming
holly s recently—brilliant ' ang
showy Weusses of flowers, pink, red
cfimaon, searlet, ecream color, anq
many other :liades We pever see
them ta tQie scason without wishing
that everyWSouthern family would
plant a few Ivhioek seed nov caiy in
the regnlar filver garden Imt 21w ..
'badkyah'd ago Mat fbgnlot amd in
other places wßgge jimson, burdoek
rightehlade, Jamb® . qquarter, and ciher
unsightly weeds arg, so often seen.
If we reaily pref@e hollyhocks to
weeds, why not plagt'a few holly
hoekK geed) this sumn hei ? |
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Clury, brush jand rub work stock
until they are dry, when ti;('y'»eot home
cat night covered with sweat and Adust
This keeps the animals comfartable
perserves their health and sfir%th
is humane, an kamdeetaoi shiudy® tei
in humane, and makes the animaile mdrq‘
vialuble Working 2mimales eiminate;
as much body waste though their skin
in hot weather as they do through their
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gkin beeome sick and are not capa‘hp‘
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We urge you to figure with us on heavy machinery,
casting and boiler repairs, pulleys, belting, pipe fittings
*and all work in our line. Call us and save ti:? and ex~
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CORDELEB, GEORGIA
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