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the F!BLL THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
them:"’” parents will have th®ir childreh
Hire mEmerizo the daily Bible selections
ill "it will prove priceless Nerjtage tol
MBepe s in after y®ars,
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acté :
that‘ . RSE OR BLESSs,* 5 WHICH -
piroi o that witholdet! corn, the jeople
m“:-:«.m curse him; bat blessing shill be
Loonithe head of him {hat selleth it
Ces i :
Wh verbs 11:26.
8 Thd Atlanta papers are keeping
trl ;nhout the effort to improve the
wi ::;.t?(m. in Georgia with regard to
e pErmanent highways hecause At
hi Linita ahns many things Atlanta wants
t from :Rh(- general assembly this time,
E miy be well after all. Clashes
S cad factional fighting wonld not help
¥ o (Anso. Better get what we can
Iy Leace. What the assembly gives
: s in, cool «luiihf'r:ni:m. the chances
80; u}ill be much better for the state
o lm'&v. There is that much consola-
LIOR Tt e e
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The_fiowm‘ house of the legislature
bot l;‘ first day yesterday undoing
what g had done the day before. We
ore n(& in the row with the state de
partmebt of agriculture, but the gen
cral flgombly cannot atford to lose
{ime (&ng one thing today and wast
ing tl next undoing that. Befter
Lold l,‘éht the gains.. No session of
tuis l)@y had so devoted its time to
stiict hysinepsas has this one in ve
cent yedvass Tat's “keep plugging on
l‘tz'.liglfii" needs for the good of Geor-
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'l‘lm:«'_u' who have waicieq the fine
peach wrop through the season this
year are now freely predicting that
there ‘}\‘in be twenty thousand care
cf lhig fruit in Georgia next yvear.
That is a tremendous vield and there
is many a slip vet ahead. We Lhope
when we get that number of cars the
worli will be large enough to con
sume them wjithout ‘waste or price
below q(;b‘;:»f production. We have
much tine between now and the sea
son of fltQti to ascertain how far they
can he shipped to market. Georgia
must séek wider marketing fields if
we are to produce more peaches. We
tirmly believe the day is not far dis
tant when peaches out of our or
chards will become a real delicacy the
world around in the food budget o!
peoples of all nations,
e e e
Saw ‘c man down busily engaged
porusing the county fair premium
list the Gther day trying to ascertain
what sliO\\' to make of what he has
on his gfirnL That's the general bus
iness those gathering the crops
row, ‘erybody ought to look over
the pr'k;’mnn list closely and make
up the wlml abeut the exhibit at the
".!! luifi The dates are fixed and
the (»!l'émns‘ arce pulling for a good
fair, ’l‘}gis i the time to put up ;m"l
save the best of the crop so that the
fair nx:fi" become a representative
show, v._é]'}w preminms - are worth
while—#d then it is a real testimoni
al for the farmer to be first in a show
like that Crisp county is going to
put onéq Cordele during the latter
. C2ys ofg October, Get ready for it
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\ FIGURES WORTH KEEPING
Lovelace Eve, editor of the Ameri
cus Times Reccrder, presardeda to
his readers in the editorial page of
Lis paper the other day some figures
that are worth keéping. Every Geor
gian ought to paste thess in his purse
and carry them here he could refe
t¢ them with case, go that when doubt
arises it can he assuaged in a mo
ment. If these figures fail, then he
ought to get up and go somewhere--
just anywhere outside the state,
{ This appeal to Georgians to know
}(il'l)l'gi:l is a knock out. It ie so con
i‘in«ing‘ that there should he no :n","u-‘
:mvm left. It has been printed in‘
many of the Georgia dailies anq ought ‘
to be. We had a hooster tell us the
other day after reading these figures
that his friends wanted the thing in
pamphlet form so that they could use
it as they would use an automatic
pistol when an intruder might be try
ing to rob them of their possessions.
They wanted the gun, amunition and
all, with which to fight when Geor
gia’s good name was being carelessly
handled by the knocker.
We present the information in as
condensed form as possible, o our
readers may have it for their use.
Arm with it and shoot—shoot to kil
the knocker at sight. South Georgia
is coming back into her own-has al
ready arrived-—and is now in no mood
to listen at the knocker. This is the
coming section. The man who lays
bands on the lands and digs in, will
be the fortunate fellow of the near
future. There can bhe no safe and
steady prosperity anywhere worth
more than that in this section,
m(:vm'u‘in as a whole—
well, listen to this:
Here's the value of all farm pro
duets in 1900
Georgia ... .._..._5104,304,000
Blopiag - oo oo IRMOROOO
The value of all, farm products
in 1924:
Georgla ... .88063.000:000
HlaMda o oooe a 0 820005000
Individoal deposits in all of (he
banks in the two states in 1924:
Gawgia ... .. ... 8286.228000
Plomidn ..o oo 208916171000
Here we find an enlightening com
parison. The ASSESSID valnation
ol all property in the two states in
1924 was:
Gaorgin .o . 81548385000
Bepnidn oo oo o 4toibheeoo
From the United States Census Bu
reaun for 1922 (latest available info
mation) we find that the estimated
“true value of all property™ was:
Georgia ......-.--..33,896,769,000
lanida- < ... o 2440 4UTOOO
Savings deposits in all of the banks
in the two states in 1924 were:
georgin .oo -.0. 388,482,000
Bloptda oo i . oic . REORNOOO
Lasting wealth, the foundation of
permecpnt prosperity, comes Jom
two principal sources: First, the farm,
and second from manufactured pro
ducts,
The ageregate value of all of the
c¢rops and live stock in the two states
are given at:
Georgln ..caniianna--3368,000,000
WlaMds <oie i ooi o 1061000000
For the value of manutactured pro
duets in the South, the Manufactur
er's Record goes to Census DBureaun
ligures for the year 1923. These fig
ures do not inciude the value of man
utactured products trom establish
ments having an annual production
value of less than $5,000. A compari
son of the two states follows:
Georgin: .0i..ceaa....3604:409.868
PIOMAE 00l i i. 188 SR SB4
Much has been said about the rapid
building of highways in Flovida, but
Q. comparison of the two states, for
approximate highway expenditures in
1924 shows:
RBPOLRIR . .iiniisdai. 212000000
FIOMUR o ooiiiasiina o 18423 00D
In the minds of many, Flovida is
the land where one has money, while
in Georgia all of us are broke, and
yet when we look for the number of
motor vehicles owned in the two
states we find Florida has only about
12,000 more than QGeorgia. The fig.
ures are for 1924:
GIR0IRIN: ioo v iiensnansoarvaioll
FINAR: s inssnssossnnsnssstßlaoB
'r wailvoa mam h'pg tmckpgq w_:a‘
dnd about 2,000 more mileg in Geor
gia than in Florida. The actual fig
ares for 1924 in miles are:
Geprola i s s i g
MoMida . 2.0 oo oo e o 89R4
Let’'s go back to the banks again.
In 1924 the aggregate recources of
all the banks in the two states show
this comparison: ;
Georgia ______.._..._%5458,040,000
lEloMda o 0 w 0 s 348 736000
Florida has had 173 bond issues
or schiools, roads, ete., whereas Geor- w
gia has had only 43 in the same per-‘
iod of time. The total amount of
honds issued by the two states are:
Georgia .o .. Lol 819000000
Blovida: oo ias i 3R 49810
In other words, Florida’s honded in
debtedness is nearly five times as
great as Georgia, and our true valua
tion is more than a billion dollars in
excess of Florida. Our income from
manufactured products is $260,000,000
in excess of herg; from our farms we
receive $280,000,000 more than Flori
da. What a story we have to tell the
world.
A STRIKING EXAMPLE
We have {o face the severe criti
cism of northern and eastern news
rapers about the provincialism of g
“solid south.” We are raked for and
aft for refusal to truckle when some
small calibre leader in the north or
east is cent to take us in. Idle bhoast
ing is charged to us for the bhelief
in our own ability to think and plan
for curselves—hut the south generally
does what it wishes, no matter what
gsooes with the rest of the country—
and there is se'dom a day in an elec
tion at which the ballot hox results
do not express the real wish of the
people.
The crooked, sidhonest north and
cast never knew what it meant to
cast an honest - ballot. New York,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, so far as
the democracy of that section sis con
cerncd, never aimed a ballot in a na
tional contest at anything but local
vatronage. Unless there is a marked
change, the ballot there in the nafion
ol contest will always be traded for
local office. It is the custom-—prom
ises to remain co.
And yet those pr-uplo.-—l}mso very
same rascals—will get down upon the
lowest level on carth iv politics and
carry their hate to the grave of a
great man. The meanest thing that
liis ever heen written about a great
‘\m('ri(':ln in death was poenned by
me of these in the Baltimore Evening
Sun the other day after the death of
‘\\'illi:nn‘J(-uninu‘s Bryan. The author
;ml]wurin;: is Henry L. Mencken—
rote the spelling.
The author of this bhitterness was
among those who fell under the pow
or of the great peace makes in the
“.\’vw York convention when he was
fighting to prevent the enemies of the
Klan frem including a platform ref
erence to that organidtion. His
great appeal, no doubt, defeated the
plan of the eastern democcerats—and
Mr. Bryan invited their anathemas
thus in seckirg to save the platiorm
trom the uwawise effort to inject re
ligions hat.od into the appeal of the
democrats to the country for the fall
vietory. Never after 'that could Mr.
iliry;m claim anything at the hands
of an cactorn democrat-——not even in
death.
- This very expression will help burn
j.hv hea:t out of its author as long as
o tives, His mind, falling upon it
wonty vears from now, il he lives,
¢ill east grave stones at him, pull
lown the side of the mountain upon
1m and scek to cover up his mean-
Ness.
Here is a striking example of what
an castern mewspaper writer thinks
of a national figure in death—a very
positive example of what can come
through a large eastern newspaper
when somebody secks to use it for
low-vaulted political purpose-—when
the victim, in the light of his own
conscience, held :m(l' advocated a
wroad view of brotherly interest and
representative party activity for all
(he people.
Here is what Mencken said of M.
Biyan after death:
“Bryan was a vulgar and common
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
man, a cad unliluted. He was ignor
ant, bigoted, se]f-seeking,_blatgnt and
dishonest. His career ;;'mxéht him
'imo contact with the first men of his
time; he preferred the company of
rustic ignoramuses. It was harq to
Lelieve, watching him at Dayton, thai
he had traveled, that he had been a
high officer of state. He seemed on
"ly a poor clod like those around him,
deluded by a childish theology, full
of an almost pathological hatred of
all learning, all human dignity,; all
beauty, all fine and noble things. He
was a peasant come -home to lhu‘
dung-pile. Imagine a gentlemen, an:l"
you have ‘imagined everything that
he was not.” 4
GOD IS IN IT ALL
l We want it understood that we
| have no patience with the Darrow
type of evolutionist. If we under
stand this advocate, he would build
a universe that stands on man’s own
reason for existence. Whoever builds
that type of house, erects it -on the
lsand. Time will bring on storms that
lwill wreck his structure.
‘We do not know when it began,
’nor when it will end, but a Great First
| Cause is is responsible for the divine
crder of this physical universe in
which man is the only type of intel
‘lectual being who can begin to under
'stand.
With our physical hold on the world
10l matter men are drawn—were creat
’cd so—into a spirit of faith through
v/hich all nature, evolution included,
points to Divine Creation. The fact
:thul men look upon the appalling or
idor of things in the material uni
‘verse and draw such conclusions—
'lmve to do it——is something to con
sider.
; We believe that God is in it and
“)(-him] it all, but that is a matter of
[t’:.ith. We would not fix an imagin
ary point somewhere in the universe
{rom which He is directing things,
for He is infinite and therefore be
yvond the reach of finite mind. But
(od has all of it in Ilig hand.
GEORGIA SHOWS ITS SENSE
New Yark Times:
Mr. Bryaun hardly can have spoken
for so much of the South in his an
tagonism to evolution as he and oth
ers have supposed. That is indicated
by the fact that the lower hruse of
the Georgia legislature, on Wednes.
day, def:ated after little and very
mild discussion a hill intended to dd
exactly what the much-discussed
Tennessee law has (ll)r{e~—lllnke it il
legal, that is, to teach in auny state
aided school anything as to the ori
gin of map Wwhich is inooxfinulihle
with th: first chapter of Genesis,
literally interyreted.
And yet Georgia, cxcept in a few
of its largest towns, is a typically
southern state, and the majority of
its inhabitants prebably view the
Bible exactly as do those of Ten
nessee,
The explamation »f the different
action on ap anti-evolution bill must
he in thp lessons which the Dayton
trial has taught in the south as well
as ¢lsewhere. One of them is that
even in Tennessee the bitterly {a
natical Fundamentalistss are far-less
numerous than the politicians of the
state had sapp~sed, and that most
of the p-orle there can listen with
interest and auite caimly to exposi
tions of evolutionary doetrines and
can treat the oxpositors‘ of those
doctrines with patience and it well
may have occurred to the Georgia
Yegislators that there was more to
lose than to gain by putting "m the
statue hook a law they knew to be
ridiculous. They did not care, merely
for the sak: of making themselves
solid with what they suspected to be
an uninfluential minority, t» arouse
the laughter of the world or to invite
the charge of astonishing ignorance,
That is what the legislators and gov
ernor of Tennesseee did f~r their
state, through what they now must
see was a mistaken notion as to the |
popular demand. 1
More than 1,000,000 barrels of
flour are bought from this country’s
mills by C“t».?& dfa!efs gaeh fl:{f.
t A MANLY MAN
iThomasville Times-Enterprise: :
The editor of a small m-rtgaged
weekly newspayear in a small Orezon
town, was slain. He is now régard@j‘
as a martyr. :
The town was disrupted from' top
to bottom over civic conditions that
existed. The editor took a position
for clean governm:nt and clean
!mq’rals and did his best in his modest
way to support the movement that
!wavs cleaning up the town. He suc:
‘ceeded but the price he paid was
‘dtuth. : .
~ He was a modest citizen, thought
ful as many country editors uars,
honest in all of his efforts and kindiy
and gener'mus to everybody. Yet when
the great crisis in his caresr came he
stood to his guns as a manly man
will do and he was shot down by a
cowardly assailant,
The people regarded him asi 2
martyr. Perhaps his death will
awaken in them the ijdeals for which
he spent his lifeblood, Perhaps it|
may even lead them intr paths they
have not knowp for right and homw}
in community life as in private af
fajrs. The editor dead cannot sl.'eak,l
but his words in life have becn givenl‘
added courage and inspiration. |
OBJECTION RAISED |
Albany Herald: ‘
Ordinarily, the owner of a lot of
land on which thrce is gecod water
for bajtizing is perfectly willing for
church folks to use it for t(hat pur
pose. But the Jackson (Miss) Daijly
News ¢lips from the advertising coi
umns of a North Mississippi paper
in the following illustratiza of a
citizen'’s state of mind following t]wl
abuse of a privilege: ‘Positively no
more bhaptizing will be permitted in
my pasturc. Twice in the last two
months my gate has bheen left open
by Christian peoyple, and T can't
waste time chasing cattle all over
the country just to save a few sin
ners.’ In other words, as the Juek-i
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You Have An Interest
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In This Big Task
@HE telephone organization
M Gebreld B pen
forming a big task in which
the public has more than a cas
ual interest. This is to be a year
of construction and expansion
to care for the present demand
for service and provide for the
needs of the immediate future.
During the five-year period,
including 1925, our plans re-,
quirean expenditure of
$12,900, 000 in Georgia. :
Practically all of this is new
money, which must be securad
from investors.
There is no difference in in
terest between the telephone
subscriber and the telephone
stockholder. If we serve the
owners of the property wisely
and efficiently, we shall render
the largest benefit to the
public.
G. C. BECK, Georgia Manager
“BELL SYSTEM” | | l’w‘.\
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE A o
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY \&
One Policy, One System, Universal Service e
son paper states the case, “the gate
is no longer ajar. Saved sinners will
have to be soaked elsewhere,”’
: FATE OF THE DREAMER
" Sylvania Telephone: The man who
invented the first airplane, A. M. Her
ring, a former Georgian, is said to be
living in poverty in New York, while
others who have profiteq by his idea
have grown rich. If it is any satis
faction to know it, Mr. Herring’is in
‘company with a host of illustrious
spirits in the past, indeed, very few
of these great conceptions seem to
have ever benefited those in whose
brains they were born. The dreamer,
with the heaven-caught spark in his
soul, gives the world his splendid
thought, then some other practical
Vulcan forges it into use. Ie seems
ee e e ee e e et .e e . A 3 0 LTBST, s. vt
The New Crop of Turnip Seeds Is Now In
and Should Be Put in the Ground
Real Soon.
We‘huvo a complete line of all the popular varieties. We
handle none other than D. Landreth’s Seeds. These are
the oldest in the business and their seed succeed. We al
so carry onion sets for fall planting,
We are going to give away five dollars on December 24th
to ¢he person who buys turnip seeds from us and will bring
in some time bhefore that date, the three heaviest turnips,
any kind, other than rutabagas. Come in at once and get
the seed. Be on time.
Don’t forget that we also have your
! . Drug Needs
COME ACROSS .. PHONES 8 AND 92
} CORDELE, GA. ..
We must give the best and
broadest service possible. We
must provide a service which
will not only keep pace with
the growth of the State, but
also with the constantly in
creasing use of the telephone.
We must have rates low
enough to enable every person
who ought to have a telephone
to have one, but sufficient to
. bay the cost of producing the
service and earn enough to at
-tract capital {o take care of this
growth.
This is what vour telephone
organization is trying to do.
But our success depends
upon the measure of the good
will of the community we can
get and hold.
A visit te the central office
will*enable you to see and to
better understand what we are
doing to serve you.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1925
{hard that others should reap tHe re
-1 ward of a thought that brings light
i‘and blessing to the world, and vet
!we dare say that neither Galileo, nor
’Newton nor Coperson, nor Steph:i{g
l-son, nor Fulton, nor Edison would
{ have exchanged for the sake of _moi:,gy
galone the ereat dreams that illumined
their souls and that they sent out for
;the emancipation and uplifting of man
]kind. )
Y S e Eo
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In Japan we would learn what the
Jayancse idea of cleanliness is. In
this quaint country ~f beautiful sun
sets and colorful costumes people
bathe twice daily. And there is no
question that many of them have
I'no convenient hathrooms as we do.