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BIBLE THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
' ESSENTIAL HONESTY-—“Do no
unrighteousness in judgment, in
meteyard, in weight, in measure.
Just balances, just weights, a just
epah, and a just him, shall ye have.”
Lev. 19:35, 36.
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And now the question arises, how
many lives has Beavers of Atlanta po
loe fame? Here he I 8 back again
after two years of oblivion.
President Coolidge is flirting with
that congress which Las pretty well
carried out his wishes in the larger
legislative program. He has vetoed
some minor appointments. He ought
to be careful. He will want something
else before it is all over.
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" 'We ought to be careful about what
we write of that Methodist confer
ence In Memphis, but one cannot help
observing that if the rows in that
general conference were raised in a
Tull-fledged political meeting, some
body would be ready to accuse the
delegates there of keeping company
with the bootleggers.
" 'The old state of Georgia now has
assets of eighteen million dollars and
only owes five millions. It would not
take long to liquidate and have some
cash left. This is a thing of which
we might say good things. We have
no alarming debts due to breath-tak
ing bond issues, but we have mighty
good credit and a growing state which
has the promise of a mighty' light
burdén of taxes on the larger invest
ments seeking to profit by coming
here to locate.
Not only will his friends here and
throughout the county be pleased to
learn that he has been highly honor
ed, but friends throughout the state
will be happy to know that Dr. V. O.
Harvard, of Arabi, has been elected
president of the medical association
of Georgia. He is a most progressive
man, aside from the fact that he is a
physician of outstanding trustworthi
ness, and the assoclation will find it
self moving forward in the hands of
this man at the helm.
The whole community hereabout is
getting into City League baseball. Six
teams have been chosen for another
ten-weeks schedule. That means that
some sixty-odd players will be in the
games, to say nothing of the larger
number getting into the game as
fans. Baseball between closing hours
and dark has proven a fine recrea
tion in Cordele. It is too good to
Jose. This diversion keeps men smil
ing through the whole summer, when
men need to smile.
News reports coming in now indi
cate that the daring pole hunter,
Amundsen, has landeq safely in Alas
ka. That's more worry off our minds.
Some of his friends in Nome were
disposed to say his delay in “parking"”
his airship was due to the fact that
he loved human concern and liked to
fool the world. That's a bit unfair to
him. &e hasn't been focling the world
in his long search for the coldest
spots in the world. He has been en
gaged in a vocation too hazardous for
mere fun.
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: WHAT ABOUT HARDMAN?
Say what you please about the
other candidates—Dr. Hardman is a
man large enough as a business suc
cesg and a progressive Georgian to
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bhe governor, He has grown in a di
rection which would make the clothesl
fit well. He may not be such a
shrewd politician—we think his is
short on trades with the leading poli
ticlans. This may have something to
do with the strength of the man in
the contest for the office, and if he
should go into a convention where
the politicians could trade him out of
his strength, that would be an easy
matter,
But it will be a second primary if
in the first a candidate doesn't re
ceilve a majority of the votes cast,
That will keep it in the hands of the
people. It begins to look as though
gsome five or six men will be in the
race. It is a question yet—a serlous
question—as to which s strongest,
and another serious question as to
choice of the hest man from the lot.
But we remember that there has
been much noise of late about a good
buginess man for the office. Dr. L.
(3. Hardman lis a successful farmer
both in north and south Georgia. He
has two of the largest farms in the
state that show anything like real bus
iness on the acres under his care. In
hoth places every inch of these farms
look like somebody with business fore
sight stays close about and directs.
These are pretty farms. He is a big
business man in other lines. He has
been a real success as a physician in
a wide rural section about his own
home at Commerce.
Are we now going to hear those
who clamor for a business man for
governor say that this man will do?
If not, what kind of business man
will do? Dr. Hardman is a business
man. He 18 not a politician—we
know them when we see them. Is
the fact that he is a business man
and not a politician going to keép
him down? Are we ready to take a
business man as the state’s chief ex
ecutive?
As for us, we do not know who will
eventually get our support, but that
doesn’t matter. We can cast no larg
or ballot than the most insignificant
voter in the state. A governor must
he chosen by the voters of Georgia
and it ought to be done wsolely on
merit, not on political pledges or prom
ises, not on trading in the purquisites
of the office. If that can be followed
in the choice of a governor, we will
be satisfied with any man so chosen.
But speaking of Dr. Hardman, here
is the business man about whom we
have been hearing so much—the bus
iness man of many dependable, up
standing, outstanding, progressive
traits, the business man who has
made a success of every task to which
he has set his hand and still is up
and going, smiling, ropeful, alert, ac
tive and ambitious to serve. We ask‘
the question, do we want to give lhis‘
man the opportunity to serve as gov
ernor? Can he render that service
which the state so needs at this hour?
It will soon be time to ‘make a choice.
The individual voters ought to give
it some thought. The state of Geor
gia will benefit much where the man
who makes the ballot does give his
time to it for an honest decision.
A FARMING TRAGEDY
The one regret of the spring of 1926
we have is that so many farmers in
this section have stripped themselves
of hogs, brooders, pigs and all, be
cause the price has been attractive.
Our one-gallus farmeré are still at
that very foolish thing—selling their
arm and barn yards clean of the
stock, so that hog raising this, fall will
he only a myth. If we had our way
about it, we would put these poor
providers back to the business of rais
ing porkers. They would have to do
it or go to the rock pile. If the cot
ton crop i#s so fine this fall that it
will bulge over the fence at every
corner of the county, it cannot bring
in clear and above expenses that
amount of money which will have to
go out for our meat supply through
the winter and spring.
There isn't a trace of good business
in sweeping the farm clean of the
hogs which ought to be held in re
serve and fattened on the food crops
this fall. The price will be good. It
is good now, but the demand will still
be good. The farms cannot thrive
with the hogs all gone, the food crops
sacrificed to a wsenseless all-cotton
program, and the barns and smoke
houses all empty next spring. |
The farmer who will sacrifice his
pigs now is an acknowledged poor
business man--and a pitiful tragedy
in the farming world. He isn't any
thing else. We boast of having made
cotton Jast fall. We did make cot
ton, but this spring—this spring, what
have we in food anqd feed crops? What
will we have next season if this Yltul
ly important part of the farm program
is not carried out? 'What is we dou
‘ble on cotton and lose all the cash
income from the many cars of hogs?
In those seasons when we, dipped low
est in cotton yield, we sent to mar
ket an average of 150 cars of hogs a
year—we did it as half the price they
are bringing now. Somebody better
tell our farmers to take stock of the
Isltuatlon—-we still need the hog crop.
ilt. too, is a cash crop.
l QUAINT VOCATIONS
Of the many strange ways Wwhich
lpeople have found to make a living
in New York City, perhaps the strang
est is that selected by Bill Smith.
Besides being a porter with the Fed
‘[eral Reserve Bank of New York, Bill
‘ls a champion duster, and con[lnesi
’hls activities to gold bullion. 1
The gold stored in the underground
vaults of the bank must be kept just
iws clean as the floors and office furni-|
ture in other parts of the building.
Accordingly it is dusted whenever thol
vaults are opened. This may be ev
ery month, every three months, or
even every six months, depending up
on how fast Uncle Sam spends his
money.
On these occasions it is nothing for
Bill to grasp his trusty duster, step
into the vault, and flick the grey coat
ing from several billion dollars worth
of gleaming gold bars in an hour or<
two. The gold is piled in a manner
to make dusting an intricate job, but
Bill approaches his subject in a mas
terful way. His dexterity frequently‘
amazes the guards who accompany
him into the vault. |
As a runner up for the laurels of
New York’s oddest job holder there
is Walter Baugh, who finds the com
mercial possibilities in fishing tackle
to his liking. Each morning at five
thirty Mr. Baugh m2y be seen march
ing through Battery Park clutching a
burden of fishing tackle and blood
worms. He is tall, has only one eye,
and eeks out a fair existance peddl
ing rods, lines and bait to those fol
lowers of Isaac Walton who set out
via Battery Park.
Fancying neither fishing tackle nor
dusting, there are other individuals
who wrest the necessities of life and
some of the luxuries, from the odds
and ends abandoned by their fellow
men. Some persons salvage waste pa-
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George L. Riles, Hardware
PHONE 483 CORDELE, GA.
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Will be worth $lOO.OO to you just at
this season. It will put pep in your
step and relieve that tired feeling that
we all call Spring Fever, ‘
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‘per from the streets, working fast in
the first flushes of early dawn to beat
the competition offered by the city
Street Cleaning Department. Their
paper salvagings are carefully baled
and sold, while bits of foil are rolled
into balls and bring a higher price.
Oothers make it their business to
stay close to the docks and pounce
upon bits of cargo spilled when ships
are unloading. Fruit and nuts they
seize, broken pleces of cheese, or oc
casionally a bolt of cloth which has
slipped unobserved from some cargo
sling. A leaking case of olive oil al
ways brings to light several men with
sponges and buckets,
Although confining their activities
to the shore, these men have counter-‘
parts aflcat. Those making a living
from the waters do not fish. Seated
in small boats, they drift about the
’harbor salvaging drift wood which is
‘sold along Park avenue. Impregnat
ed ag it is with salt and chemicals
} from the harbor waters, the wood pro
)duces vari-colored lights in the draw
rlng room fireplaces of the wealthy,
A MESSAGE TO THE YOUNG
Here is a lovely message to the
youth of America taken from the
new May copy of “Music and Youth”.
We submit the whole thing to the
young people of Cordele:
“When I think now, at the age of
78 of the day when I walked on the
stage for the first time with my girl
ish heart a-flutter and with the whole
of life before me, I ask myself what
was the secret that has brought me
all the joy of success and has filled
‘my long life with happiness.
“Let me put that secret in the form
of a message to every ambitious boy
"and girl in America.
“While you have your youth and{
health and strength, fill your .llte}
with beautiful things. While your
hearing is good, listen to all the love
ly sounds that are to be heard, the
songs of birds and the sweet music of
the masters. It is 'while you are young 1
that you should grow to love the great
plays with their beauty and move-‘
ment, color and music all blended in ‘
one lovely whole. ‘
“And above all, I would say to all
young people. Be joyful. In the old
days they used to sing ‘Oh, let us be
joyful!’ and joy is the most beautiful
thing of all to look for, and to cherish.
I am happy, happy all the time,
though I am so old. I am not a little
bit afraid to die for I know there are
even more beautiful and more won
derful things to see and hear and
love beyond.”
‘ “These are the significant words of
the famous actress, Ellen Terry.
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