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PAGE TWO Plasterers Ask Raise In - Wagés To §J2 Per Day - Wy PG ) . CHICAGO, 1: April 9—Pros. 'pecfsfiof“fi”tl'é:’fifi’ in~ Chicago’s the mendous building yrogram are seen in the instance of the plasterers’ union thet journeymen plasterers be i).‘lid $l4 a day with a 5-day week. y‘ present, they are being paid $l2 ? day, which means about 4or 5 ;’nours actval work in a day. The two or three hours plasterers consume ’gach day in changing their clothing garking--and oiling their limousines ' , /o)_fi T ?_g . A , "-'.9;-:5';3... Iy / iys Y - : I . FI Y Rl e — 9 ‘ ‘ rer A *frank Ru o, i i -\/ ; | lS:: _:7;/_-:"—‘ . m' .‘ .\“ iy ; 5' %I r g e e i Sl Al B P sA h ilfi i "“—‘:.//qlf.‘ w_&?{l}” . R ' g =iy G\ (| ALL OTHER [/S el \ 1] TAXES WAGES [/ :J', The Chief Telephone Expense i v ‘-'r” FEY y Is Taxes And Wages \HE wage and tax bill of Tthis company for the year. 1925 amounted to. $12,- 469.603. These two items alone are miore than 70 per cent of the catire cost of producing your service. Since 191 G the tax bill has ncreased 354 per cent and the wage hillhas increased 207 per cent. During the same period the average investment in ser vice has incréased 132 per cént. In Georgia the taxes for 1925 amounted to $622,922, an in crease 0f.274; per-.centusince 1916, while the wage hill for 1925 was $4,246,597. Although taxes form such a “large part of the cost of pro ducing telephone “service, we have no objection 4o paying our just share of tawes. This is L C. G. BECK, Georgia Manager ey ‘ “BELL SYSTEM" ! : SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE A : AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY Q4B One Policy, One System, Universal Service n I(S’/ Ask Y Neighbor Ahout Our New Four Cultivator THE FARTHER YOU GET FROM ONE FARMER WHO OWND ONE THE CTLOSER ¥QU ARE TO ANOTHER., 'ASK PHis MAN NEAR YOU ABOUT THIS CULTIVATOR. ‘BAE WILL TELL YOU WHAT IT IS WORTH TO HIM.. AND HE WILL TELL YOU ALSO THAT NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO TODAY, IT MUST BE DONE FAST—YOU WILI, LQSE MONEY TRYING TO WORK THE OLD WAY. INVEST IN ONE OF THESE CULTIVATORS AND BE ONE OF. THE FWO HUNDRED FARMERS IN THIS SECTION WHO WILL GET RESULTS FROM THEM IN DOLLARS NEXT FALL. Cordele Implement Co. GENERAL FARM EQUIPMENT and making occasional trips-to some “soft-drink parlor” are included as part of the day's work, . Two hundred contractors-and 3, 000 journeymen plasterers are now engaged in the controversy. If the increase of two dallars a day and the SH-day a week demand is granted it will automatically force similar con cessions to other trades and increase the building cost by millions. Con tractors who had taken work under existing scales would find them selves bankrupt as a result. a duty of citizenship which we perform cheerfully. The enormous increase in the wage bill has made it pos sible for telephone workers (0 meet the increased cost of liv ing, such as taxes, food, cloth ing and rent, and has attracted to the telephone industry the high type of skilled people who are rendering, s u ¢-h splendid service throughout this section. While the cost of producing telenhone service has increased, like the cost of all forms of gov ernment, the rates charged our customers for the service have not increased in anything like the same proportion as taxes, wages and other expenses. Such facts, as these are of “interest to telephone users, and indicate the care and economy observed in the business of rén dering telephone service. : Columbia Teacher Sued Divorce On Cruelty Charge NEW YORK, April 9—(#)—A suit for separation, alimony and cdunsel fees has been filed by Mrs. ‘Anna H. Goldenweiser against Alexander /4 Goldenweisdr, scient?st} lecturer and author, it became known today :';hen an order for the scientist’s ar rest was issued to prevent him from leaving the country. He had obtain cd passports for Mexico. Mrs. Gold enweiser charges desertion, cruelty and over friendliness with other THE CORDELE, DISPATCH Southern Power Unit | Buys Perry Plant! PERRY, Ga., April 9—At a meet-’ g, of the city council Monday night,’ a contract was clored with the South’ Georgia Power company a sub sidiary of Stone and Webster Co.' one of the largest pewer companies of the United States, for furnishing power to operate the water and light system of the city. The power company purchased the city’s light | and water system, paying $15,000, for same. The power company willi furnish power to all manufacturing plants in the city. ! women. Mr. Goldenweiser has been as sist professor of anthropology at Ccolumbia University for 16 years. Mrs. Goldenweiser charges that her husband had “frequent love af fairs with other women, to whom he wrote and from whom he received epistles of love.” She named a Miss M. V. Cocper her husband’s former secretary, as one whom he intended to marry if he could obtain a di-- vorce. 5 | - For Your GROCERIES Where quality and service is assured. WILSON MERC. CO. Phone 124 10th St. & 17th Ave. All' Wool Tailored 3-piece Suit $25.00 French Dry Cleaning Steam Pressing Shoe Shining Shoe Repairing Hot or Cold Shower Bath FORD “‘U DRIVE IT SERVICE’ Closed Car, warm and comfort able—Balloon Tires Call 154 “Ask Your Neighbor” | . 4 T - “ - \' 4 v % KT A A Tak =! P W JRCAE'S STERN CLOTHES LAST WINTER'S HOSIERY—OFF TO THE DARNING BAG - rgEZaEss: —SPRING PRESENTS TO YOUR TWO ANKLES A BRAND - * ':MORE o NEW BAG OF TRICKS IN HOSIERY THAT WILL WARM I:STYLE g THE COCKLES OF YOUR HEART. SOME—THE HEIGHT -5 for B ‘ OF DIGNITY FOR HIGH SHOES—AND CONSERVATIVE 3 OMORE | MEN. OTHERS—HILARIOUS SPLASHINGS OF COLOR 0 lEY"™ FOR CORDELE'S CHARLESTONITES. “e ' TO . 35¢°51.25 — W. H. WESTBROOK : CORDELE, GEORGIA DRESS UP. YOU LL MAKE MORE MONEY THE DAY YOU START WEARING OUR BETTER CLOTHES Mellon Is Busy Denying " Rumors Upon Return NEW YORK, April 9—(P)—Sec retary of the Treasury Andrew W.‘ Mellon returned today on the liner Fort St. George from a two weeks’ vacation in Bermuda; denied a group of rumors, some of which he said were ‘“getting shepworn” and ex pressed the orinion hat prohibition enforcement is making “fair prog-- ress.” - As to modification of the prohi bition laws he ccnsidered that “a matter of opinion and time will tell.” “You cannot enforce the laws against burglars and murderers com pletely,” he said, “and it is a ques tion of the degree to which you can enforce the prohibition law. En forcement has been much improved with the reorganization of the de--i partment and with all the work that| has been done. I think we are mak ing fNr progress.”’ e As to the rumors, one forecast hic resignation and this he classed as shopworn saying he had never in tended to resign. - Another had it that he had re ceived a cable frgqm Washington re questing his immediate return. Waycross Permiis Totai 93 So Far This Year WAYCROSS, Ga., April 9—Per mits for the ereection of six new homes in Waycross were issued to-- day, bringing the year’s total to 93 This total represents 29 more building permits than were ‘issued during the entiree’ear 1925. !REUEL E. HAMILTON—Dentist ( With Dr. D. J. Williams. offices over |J. A. Lasheter & Co., phone 10, resi :dence phone 456. ' PRACTICAL NURSING—Exper- ; ience inside and outside hospital. “ Mrs. Ada Fountain. Phone 480. i 'DR. M. LOUISE TlPTON—Osteopath fc Physician. American Bank & Trust Co. Bldg., Cordele, Ga. Phones: Office 495, Res}dence §9-J. . | HARRIS & BALLENGER—lnsurance .~ and Surety bonds, Cordele, Ga. j —————————————————————————————————————————————— - . ! S M. DEKLE—Optometrist, testlng! eyes for glasses, a specialty. Pate ! Building, Cordele, Ga. 1 ¢ fice Phone 74. Res. Phone 204-W. | THOS. J. WARTHUR, M. D.—Speclal i attention to surgery and gynecol : ogy, Cordele, Ga. , and Surgery. Office American Bank & Trust Co. Bldg sure knows how to ' lot ¥ you want to see what areal " e VR N, honest-to-goodness feed can do % Y, for a flock of baby chicks, just give = oS ‘ ) us a ring and say “I want Purina b B&3‘e R 8\ Chick Startena and Purina Poultry Riz g% f# Chows for my chicks.,” Purina AGD> | & Chows have the stuff in ’em, and , P\ o~ ol we just want you to feed Purina : > "‘“' .y forafew weeks and then compare o 4 \ Your chicks with any flock in ) this part of the country! . " ," \.\\\\ : ¢ N \Q\;{ . \\\ N 2 \‘Q\ '\\,\3\.\} “o N }\\"i'x{, ¢ L\_ ; Start them right '}\\", - T 4 from the very begin- . b % g ning —and sce what \ T even the first three \f\\\. Fron : weeks will do. \,\ "1 ‘ R ".l‘x\ v“,’ “ o 7 PURINETD ¢« 8 . \(PURINA By Bagy. M 4 ') ’gf’ Wocticre PRI CHONS = 0 SRR 71 SR P / Sl — A W. C. REYNOLDS | PHONE 100 CORDELE, GA. “Feet--uring” The New Mode in ‘Spring Hosiery WATER COOLERS Ice Cream Freezers Ice Tea Glasses * f?f %1 s BN o e el I Blackmon Hdw. Co. PHONE 532 CHURCHWELL BUILDING Bth BT. FRIDAY, APRIL 9,.1926