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Entered as second class matter‘
June 2nd, 1920, at the post office at
Cordele, Ga., under Act of March 3rd,
1879.
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herein. {
The state port bill was lost in the |
last moments in the lower house of
the legislature last night. Issues of
this kind that have their approval
or rejection at the ‘hands of the peo
ple in the final count ought not to bc
turned down by the legislative body.
At their best the members of the
general assembly might have sent the
state port bill to the people for their
approval or objection. 1f it were ours
to pass upon, we would always send
such an issue to the people, It s
thiers, not ours to decide. We regret
that such action was not taken, But
it is only a matter of time. This is
sue will be sent to the people.
" THIS 1S GOCD NEWS .
That Cordele has a crippled mem
ber of the banking family back on
all four feet with its doors open and
transacting business today is good
vews, and we rise early lo say 80
because we believe it. This is a
happy diversion—being able to an
nounce normal again for a local bank.
Encovraging news accompanying the
annuncement was the statement
frem the special examiner to the
effect that the affairs of this bank
were in safe enough status that its
doors should never have heen closed.
Wo do not believe any farming
community in this state suffered
more last year than did this section.
But men who,were hardest hit did
not throw up their hands and quit.
And we count it heroic for a man
who owes more money than at the
time ver seems possible to pay, to
time ever seems possible to pay to
keep plugging—doing all he can to
¥eep heads up. That’s the finest
show on earth to watch a man put
forth all his energies—and make
progress under such a lnad..'
The Citizens Bank is able today
to face its old friends, its old time
ccsiomers, its critics, and those who
love a panicky piece of news—and
smile. Today a bank failure that was
counted a bank failure is everything
else but that. It is a going business.
institution with the approval and
endorsement of the state banking de
partment. That wipes out every
trace of the news that the gossips
could carry under cover and today
another banking corner is up and
about—left the hospital and traveling
without a crutch!
Here is a hand-shake, a hearty one
for those who have stood by the Cit
izens! We wish them that great
medsure of success which coumgui
and good faith will always merit. |
FREAK LEGISLATORS
Georgia has suffered and is
suffering, as no other state in
this union, from legislative freak
ishness.—Atlanta Constitution.
The truth of this claim has been
everywhere apparent in Georgia for
years. The cheapest peanut politician
in the remotest rural community
in this state can get into the legis
lature and there show *‘‘his rearing.”
The state suffers. That might be ex
pected—can only be the outcome of
such public indifference as to rep
resentation in the law-making body
of the state. ]
The newsrapers of Georgia ought
.peak beldly about it, as this one
; spoken, and the fight ought to be
Kept up until the peole realize that
tke legislature is of their making—
if it is a group of low-vaulted, lead
headed cheap politicians, instead of
upstanding representativemen who
dc fairly represent the progressive,
censible interests of the state, it is
because the people at the baliot box
make it so.
We have more reason than ever
te see that worth while men are
chosen to represent the people of
the state in the general asgembly. The
body is to meet only once every two
years and in ghe -sessions business
must be j{transacted, Wind-Jamming
little-minded politicians must he
curbed and kept home. And the
few who do get through tbe fence—
oves it and under it—must he so few
that they cannot disturh serious
business programs in the assembly,
The state of Georgia is a great
commonwealth, Its public interests
cannot be well enough taken care of
by men who go at it in the spirit
that would guide in a pastime poker
game, We have not the slighest fear
that anybody will poke fun at s
for appealing in this manner that a
more serious view of representation
of the people in the general assem-
Lly may be taken. The day of cheap
political fireworks in the legislative
body in Georgin is gone, It will cost
gomething in the futvre to fritter
away a’ session of the general agsem
bly. We need real men in these of
fices. If he will not ask for the
place, then the wise thing every
where is for these who care to get
in behind the good man and assure
him trat he must go as a drafted
rep csentative, That's the way to
eliminate the cheap fellow. That type
nust be kept out.
| WORLD FAMOUS JERSEY
Soprhie 19th of Hood ¥arm, one
of the most outstanding dairy cows
that the worid has ever known, con
tinues even after her death to con
tribute to the good of this world.
Sophie was recently donated by Mrs.
C. I. Hood to the new Bureau of
Dairying to enable this Department
to make a scientific study to deter
mine, if possible the reasns for her
great productive and reproductive
powers,
On June 19th she was chloroform
ed and prepared for study and ex
perts at the Government Experiment
Station near Washington have since
been engaged in making a most care
rl’ul examination of every organ of
her anatomy in an effort to ascer
tain the secrets of this cow’s great
powers.
It will be interesting to know how
‘the various organs in Sophie’s anat
i«:my compared with those of the ordi
rary scrub cow. No strtling discov
eries are anticipated, but it is very
jrobable that some facts will be un
covered that will throw light on the
mysteries f milk secretion, or help
to explain the relation between con
formation of dairy cattle and their
rroducing ability.
Sophie 19th of Hood Farm is
World's Champion For Life-Time
Production, All Breeds. She has elev
en Register of Merit records in
which she produced a total of 7545
pounds of butter-fat. In addition to
this she held the World’s Chamuion
ship For Butter-fat Prodvetion, in
the Jersey breed, from January 1914
to November 1918 with a record of
999 pounds of butter-fat and 17,557
pounds of milk in 365 days.
GRAND ARMY MEANNESS
It was a mean act for the Gr:\nd.
Army of the Roi)ublic- to enter a pro
test against the minting of a fifty
cent piece commemorating Stone
Mountain, a memorial to Qonfede
vyate heroes. It was a meaner act
to protest against the giving of a
fund to the completion of the memo
rial out of the federal treasury. -
It was unfortunate because it was
the manifestation of hostility at a
day when the civil strife is over and
forgotten. It was unfortunate be
cause it was a display of meanness
at Yan hour when it will bring no re
svlts, not even for the petitioners
and those in the rprotest—save a
challenge from the wearers of the
gray who ffaced the morthern sok
diers in the trenches in the sixties.
This war is over. It was American
against American. Now America can
afford to aid American in commemo
rating the deeds of bravery and cour-
age on hoth sides, The hero of the
south, though rebel then, is an Amer
fican citizen now, He is a tax payer
and contributes through the federal
gvernment to the pensgion list of
the northen soldier. There is none
from the same source for the south
ern hero who was in that war, If
the angry G. A, R. leader will get
into the cooler some morning and
redvce the temperature to normal,
he will doubtless he able to see with
other Americans that heroic acts of
southern men in war are the part
of all this country to honor today
because it is a united country which
never fails the hovr and the oppor
tunity to honor its heroes,
That was good news today which
came from Washington to the effect
that the G. A. R. protest would be dis
regarded.
«--- THAT’S DEVOLUTION
Teaching ecvolution iin Ceorgia
schools is to Le mads a crime.
But there is®no statute against
locking to the teacher for inspira
tion.—Bill B'{fen in Savannah Press.
And to be plain, that’s devolution.
And so long as the courageous teacher
understands that the youth looks to
him for inspiration, he will go on
teaching evolution—for nothing Is
without evolution—nothing ever will
he much better without evolut on.
There are exceptions to all rules.
The human race is advancing under
the laws of a Lawgiver somewhere
who either permitted it on purpsse or
throuzh a lapse of sleep or forgtful
ness leit the resourceful race of men
to invent a term through which they
might express it-—evolution.
A legislator who would legislate
the right of research out of the reach
of teachers and pupils properly be
jongs to the exceptions. He s a vic
tim of devolution.
LUCKY FELHAM GROWERS
Pelham has shipped a carload
of sweet potatoes, which nultml
the farmers $1.50 a bushed. Thero
should be fairly a reasonable prof
it, in potatoes at this price.—Tiflon
Gazelte.
These Pelham growers would Dbe
lucky if they did that again, for on the
gecond car the markets in the larger
citios would be glutted. Forty-nine
thousand brokers and middle men
would have arrived by that time and
the petatoes would have to stand and
rot. The poor potato buying public
could not pay the price—not for pota
toes that came from as far away as
Georgla.
But then there is something brac
ing in the industry that made a car
of early potatoes possible, we should
bhe ready to admit,
AWAY WITH THE PESSIMIST
If there are any pessimists
left down here in God's coun
try, they are to be found among
the loafers around town and
not among the farmers. Crops
have shown a marked improve
ment in the last two weeks
and there is a new spirit of op
timism on every hand. The
farmers are very busy, with a
dozen things needed to be done
at a time, and there is no time
te be lost in ta'king hard times.
All siens point to south Georgia
coming back into its own this
fall, and ;:I'o‘2\!: will be the re
turn thereof.— Tifton Gazette.
Great excitement usually accom
panies the breaking of bad news in
the small town community—in the
rural neighborhoed. We have never
u.nderstood just why that ought to
be. Likewise have we been unable
to understand just why in the same
community, among the same people,
there is no spcciall mark of rejoic
ine at the breaking of gocd news.
We have a season approaching
whieh promises much. It is the best
out of five. We shouid celebrate al
ready, thcugh the erops are yet un
harvested. We have greoat promise
of returns, no matter what they are
already due for past debts. The
many whe care will be glad they
have an opportunity to reach their
creditors with some ertra cash.
This is the time for a smile and
the manifestation of real hope—we
say it is. i
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS.
There are some attendant improve
ments whiech almost universally go
along with the making of a better
highway through a section, It “is re
marked that in nearly every instance
where a pemanent good road has heen
cstablished the farm houses and par
tieularly the school houses and the
¢hurell huildings have at once heen
improved-—painted and brightened up,
Lawns and yards and groves along the
good roads vespond Lo the improvement
of the highway and are kept in more
attractive condition, Kven the coun
try graveyards receive prompt atten
tion and are kept in betier shape—
when they are alongside the good
road over which many travel, It’s a
matter of individual and community
pride that is perfoetly logienl and na
tural that the appearance ¢f the coun
try side is attended to and given con
stant cave when the good road goes
that way.
PI ANT TREES CN HIGHWAYS.
lorlington News and Press: Riding
over Darlington county now is decided:
ly mere pleasant than ever hefore in
oneé voryl important respeet, at least.
While the erops are two or three weeks
late light now, most probably three
weeks will be more aceurate. While
it is not refreshing io look at the cot
ton fields that formerly brought such
abundant harvest and refleet that these
may be only for the feeding of the
boll weevil now, there are otlier things
to be enjoved. . These are the fine
highways that are heing constructed in
every seetion of the country.
Fvery main roadway has been trans
fornied into a highway of permanent
construetion, to be maintained by the
" 45 won its inereased business on a policy
't has established it in the confidence of
ie dairy farmers of a wide territory. You
will do well to talk to a customer who has
been operating his farm on the twice-a
month eream returns and let him get you
started in the right direetion. There is no
necd of bankruptey aud starvation in any
farm in this sction of wonderful opportun
ity. Let us help you put your farm on a
paying basis.
Cordele Creamery & Cold Storage Co.
CORDELE, GEORGIA
SMILING.
It rains, but don‘t get dis
couraged. IMight, thats 'the
. thing. You will win. We will |
all win,
Your old mule has stuck to
vou. Don’t kill him with .
ereen stuff. We have the
right kind of feed, at the
right price. Take carve of him
yvou will want him again. :
We are here 1o serve you,.
elad to see you. Come again,
EVERYBODY USES
ROBERT E. LEE |
J. H. LAMB COMPANY
PHONKE 224 CORDFELE, GA.
federal government. Old bridges, too
small and very weak, have been re:
‘placed by concrete and other stronger
‘types of bridge work and cars can go
even too fast for 'a roadhog, to the
manner born, While we congratulate
the county directors®upon this excel
lent work, and specifically including
the efficient seeretary for his,share of
this, we, at the risk of the suggestion
again that trees should be planted upon
| every one of these broad highways.
Darlington county is o beautiful
area ,always fair and beautiful to
look wupon, and were these highways
Jined with trees the heauty of the
vista would he greatly enhanced. The
streets of Jerusalem were kept clean
by every one sweeping hefore his own
door, and this plan could be equally
| successful liere. Provided that where
ownership was large, irdividnally, the
obliging board of directors would ren
| der assistance and plant the trees. Let
the trees be planted, and planted just|
8 soon as possihle, “
PENSI!ONS OF $BO YEARLY
PROTESTED BY SOCIALISTS
BERNE, Switzerland, July 10 (AP)
—A pension of $BO a year to all cit
izens of 65 years of age is provided
for by the measure now hefore the
Swisgs parliament. Half of the cost is
to be covered by the state, and to
this end it is proposed to increase
the tax on alecoholic liquors. The other
half of the cost is to be rrovided by
the insured and by those employing
them,
The measuvre is meeting with gen
eral favor, except from the Socialists
who find $BO a year insufficient. They
algo urge that the pension be paid
also to invalids of any age. :
GORKY INCITING PEASANTS
. AGAINST BOLSHEVIK RULE
' MOSCOW, July 8 (AP)—Maxim
Gorky was violently attacked by
Leon Trotzky in a speech beforg the
union of Russian writers. Trotzky de
clared that Gorky, although undoubt--
edly one of the most important meh
'of letters of Russia, does not compre
hend the Russian revolution or its
leaders.
“He is stirring up the Russian pea
gants,” said Trotzky, “and inciting
them to a vevolution against the bol
shevik government. This is an activ
ity that cannot be condemned sever
1y enough,’’
ART GIVES WAY TO CONVIENCE
ROME, July 9 (AP)—The famous
Dogali monument, which for 30 years
Las been the first object of art to
«rect thousands of tourists as they
stepped off the train in Rome—it
ctands just opposite the main rail
way station—is to be removed to an-
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} Thursday night at 8:30. ‘
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We invite all suspended members
to come and join the Home Coming
Can;pai,gn. "
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