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The people of this county will bel
under many obligations to former
City Manager C. D, Terrell, now (-Ity'
manager at Brunswick for the fine
work he is doing in the coastal coun
ties for the Crisp county amendment,
The voters here should remember
the vita] statistics amendment in the
election tomorrow and cast a ballot
for .it. This state needs just the
mn provided for in that amend
ment, L T
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“:Vote for all of the amendments,”’
Wisely admonishes the Atlanta Con-l
stitufion in its editorial 'pages today.i
That specifically included the Crisp
county amendment. But all of them
are worthy of support, The general|
assembly passed every one of these
measures by a two-thirds vote ot
both house and senate béfore they
came to us for approval. We can af
ford to take them as they come and
endorse them,
All of the people here will be grate
ful to Gradus T. Christian, now one
of the owners and editors of the El.
berton Star, for his forcefv) stand for
the Crisp county power amendment
to the state constitution, He knows
the cost of power and lights in this
community and is now enjoying a
service and such rates as to make
it possible for his peoplé in Elberton
to take on an electric range service,
Mr. Christian formerly held an in
terest in the Cordele Dispatch and'
knows how to make the telling com
parisons.
Nobody ever saw the people of this
community more united on anything
than on the power development out
on Flint river, Open deception is be
ing used out over the state by the
power company serving this commu.
nity to defeat it. They are present
ing hundreds of thousands of dodgers
again today in the larger cities of
Georgia in which they present Mr.
John 8. Pate as chairman of the
board of county commissioners of
Crisp and ag chairman of the citizens
of Crisp county in an appeal to the
voters of Georgia to defeat the
‘ameéndment. Thus by false represen
ta&ions and fraud they are seeking
fo,deteat a thing which the people
here desite and hope to have. We
wonder if the power company ever
expect to do business here again in
peaceful, satisfactory manner?
THAT SACRED SEVEN PERCENT
The minds of the voters are al
ready made up as to what they m‘e‘
going to do with the Crisp county |
power development, but there will be
other times when the attorneys for
the power company will be seeking
to fool them about their own best
interests when they start out for
something they need-—must have to
make better conditions for them.
selves,
That sacred seven percent limit on
ceredit which is now in the constitu
tion of the state of Georgia was put
there by men. It isn't divine, It
isn't perfect. And the men who put
that restriction in our constitution,
while they did it to save themselves
and their state from the negro spend
thrifts who in the hands of the car.
pet baggers directly after the war,
wasted the credit of the state, they
planned as wisely as they could see
to plan and then made provision——
in that same sacred constitution—for
any amendments that migbt be found
necessary.
We do not think they intended that
constitution to remain immutable
through the uges, If they had, they
would not have provided that amend
ments from time to time he made,
That sacred constitution, under pro
vision of the farmers, can be amend.
ed. The people of Crsip county are
asking for an amendment—-one that
will be constitutional when the peo
ple ratify it. It will be part of the
constitution despite the power attorn.
eys, That is constitutional procedure
~-ig not an innovation, does not con
fiscate the property of any one—will
not in future,
Fulton county ig asking a similar
privilege for its schools, Chatham
this time is asking for a ' similar
amendment to be permitted to pave
the highway to 'l'ybet‘:. Valdosta and
Lowndes county are asking that they
‘may build Woodrow Wilson college,
There are others still. If ourg is an
innovation—something entirely new-—
are not these we have just mention
ed? Now, the question is, why are
not the powe; company attorneys who
work here for Stone & Webster just‘
ag busy trying to save these other
counties from themselves? Why do
they shout innovation — confiscation
J—‘g\umnution——about the Crisp countyl
amendment and leave al] these oth
ers alone? Every other single amend
ment asked is for some public im
provement wmcb directly is not a
revenue carfier. On- the other hand .
the Crisp power development is bothl
a revenue, earner and a huilder indi
rectly for all the public—farm and
all. It delivers into our hands a
tremendous advantage in power sun.
ply and cost of it, That used by us
as a pulling power will be hound to
build for us and give what we al
ready have greater earning power.
We know—the people know—why
the power company attorneys are so
busy after the Crisp county power
development, They have ug under
their heel and rob-us daily in high
prices for current-—make a great deal
of money out of us—and use much
of it in hiring such lawyers as they
can cut loose from their loyalty to
the community in which they live—
use them in holding us out of the
things We may develop for ourselves,
The greedy lack of principle in thn‘
thing is that this same crowd ul~;
ready have all they can carry on
their Albany dam. They are uh‘omlyi
augmenting with steam plants. They
are getting all they can do at terribly‘
high rates—and yet—and vet— the_\"
are willing to.spend thousands upon
thousands of dollars in an effort to
keep us from dgveloping the power
we need in Crisp county. Talk about
innovation—talk about confiscation!
We want to talk some about the
rights of a people to develop and en
joy their own God-given blessings.
We want to develop our water power
and make it serve to turn the wheels
of industry for us and mankind,
And then that majority rule seems
to hurt the power attorneys a great
deal. This government was founded
on majority rule. It is still running
on majority rule. The power com.
pany attorneys always seek to keep
a people’ from developing their own
resources. They want to remain in
control. They have held this commu
nity in check for longer than twenty
vears, Cordele has suffered from it
every day they have distributed pow
er here at a price industries cannot
pay and compete with others. The
disadvantage has hurt us so long and
so often that the majority of us in'e
now determined to have relief, The
majority of the people here in Crisp
county are going to say it with their
ballots tomorrow—that they want to
develop their water power and use it
‘ils a public asset—for the good of all
‘because_ they are using the credit of
all to produce that asset.
We have studied it long and late—
should this county drag and lag and
never grow — never find a way to
make its farm lands and its business
houses and industries earn more be
cause there are some few want to be
contrary? Few people in this county
honestly believe any other thing than
:that this power development is a
great and a wise stride forward, Left
lhigh and dry—clean and clear of the
‘money which the power company dis
;l‘.'ihmes to them—the power attorneys
;horc would admit the wisdom of it.
They are paid to think differently—
and they ave paid for their services
'iu tiying to keep uu,trom developing
our own water power because we are
worth a great deal to the power com.
pany at the present high rates charg
ed for lighting and power here—far
higher than charged anywhere north
of Macon, Augusta and Columbus in
the state of Georgia,
Then agaln-—on this Innovation -
this confiscation—this damnation -—
which the power attorneys say awaits
Crisp county folks if we get that
power dam-——suppose—suppose for a
moment—that the framers of that sa
cred seven percent limit on public
credit in our constitution had boen
asked to pass upon a propozal to pave
’a public highway here in Crisp cous.
‘ty—just suppose for a moment! " he;
}would have called the proponent of
any such foolish measure a maniac
and would have urged that he be
gsent to the asylum. And yet, and
‘yet—such thing is part of the organic
law of the state. Suppose these
same wise men had been asked to
approve a vital statistics amendment
[to the constitution of the state of
| Georgia—does anybody suppose they
would have understood?
Progress has made all that neces
gary. ' Progress ig leading us into a
future of great development, Why
should we lag and drag and fossilize.
‘That sacred seven perqent is not, so
far as we have beén able to learn,
Ypart.ot any other state constitution
in this union. There is no such lim.
itation in Florida—and the last ac
count we had of that state the tax
payers had eighteen million dollars
surplus in cash in the state treasury.
Nobody has bankrupted Florida so
far as we know. In North Carolina
there is no more need of a state tax
—and that state has none—positively
none. Last year the profits on busi
ness in North Carolina were so great
that a hundred and ninety-six million
dollars in taxes went into the treas
ury of the United States. There was}
no state tax—is none today—will be}
none in the future. That state has
thirty-three hundred miles of paved!
highways and is still going, It is nowi
fifth state in the union in industries |
—not by heresay; but-by actual stand
ing in business volume. That state'
has abundant water power developed
and that is at the foundation of alll
North Carolina prosperity. It will be |
the beginning of ours if we will only!
let it. |
Tax burdens are all falsehoods of'
the power people. That's as real as‘
they will ever be. What a shame—
what a shame—that such lnterlopers‘
who are already bleeding us white |
gliould come in and misrepresent, aml'l
plunder and carry off the booty of
!lheir meanness in such manner.
} Today—today —as we write this
there are circulars paid for by Stone '
’und Webster—their power attorne.\'s!
—and their agents—being broadcast‘
all over Georgia in which John 8.
Pate's name is being used against}
his will and without his consent in
which he is presented as chairman
of the board of county commissioners‘
in Crisp and head of a citizens com
mittee which is asking the people of
Georgia to defeat the Crisp power de
velopment, The man who put that
thing down in print knew he was
misrepresenting the people of Crisp
county. He thought it would take
that to defeat us. He knew the pow
er people had lost in Crisp—that the
voters here would support it, He
knew he had to deceive others to
| keep them from voting for it.
Talk about confiscation—talk about
majority rule— think a moment of
rank dishonesty employed by the
power company to defeat the will of
the people of Crisp county in their
own affairs! The power company
cannot win. That never will win. It
may rise for the moment and seem
to hold forth conqueror—but that sort
of policy will fail. It always has,
Time will never efface that in the
ethics of mankind. Dishonesty de
gerves to lose—it must in this case.
Crisp county is going to win its
right to go ahead and develop its
power from its rich natural source
here and use it for the good of all
mankind.
BT SR R 1
THE OPPOSITION TO CRISP
COUNTY’'S BOND ISSUE
Klberton Star: ;
1f reports coming direct from Crisp
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
county are true, the big. power com
panics are bent on defeating the
proposed Constitutional amendment
which would give Crisp county the
right to build and operate a power
plant on Flint river. There is one
thing certain-—somebody is paying for
.conslderuble newspaper and circular
advertising in opposition to the pro
ject, and we are familiar enough with
conditicns in Crigp and adjoining
counties, to make us believe that this
opposition was not initiatéd by local
citizens, nor is the c:ipum;e being
horne hy them,
| Whether it is best for Crisp céun
|:fy to build and operate its own elec.
ELI"C light and power plant, is a ques
v'ion that we are willing for them to
"lecide for themselves. They only ask
fot the rest of the state the right to
'spend their own money on this pro
‘Ject. It will cost no one outside of
‘Crisp county, now or at any time
‘ln the fature, one penny. It is pure
'ly a local undertaking, more for the
!purpose of obtaining a power raie
’that is fair to the home people and
tone that will attract industries, than
'for the purpose of making a great
amount of money, There is no doubt
but that the present power scale in
Cordele is seriously retarding - that
splendid town’s growth. Bfforts for
many years past to secure a more
}advantageous; rate, one in line with
’_rg'b}'thre#"st gporgié towns and cities,
have been!'tl,tile.; They are now seek
ing relief by other means, and it ap
pears that outside power interests are
geriously concerned about the out
} come,
Let's give Crisp county the right
to produce its cwn power if it wish
es, It is their bhusiness and their’s
alone. Outside power interests are
not concerned about these people just
to “save them from themselves.”
THE CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS TO BE VOTED
UPON NOVEMBER 2ND
The Millen News: T
There are quite a number of con
stitutional amendments to be voted
on in the pending election. The
average Georgiar; will know little or
nothing of the merits or demerits of
these amendments. Most of them in
volve the question of increasing the
bonded indebtedness of a number of
counties—{or sundry purposes. Our
position is—is that such counties
should know what they need, and if
they wish to increase their bonded
indebtedness they should have the
privilege of doing so. In other words
be belteve in the prineiple of local
self government, an({_ the passage of
these amendments provide for this
very principle, hence we shall sup
¢ort them,
Should Jenkins county decide that
it is necessary to increase her bond
ed indebtedness, and would indicate
this by a direct vote of her citizens,
we believe that it would be exceed
ingly presumptuous for the rest of
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fere and deny her such right. As an
illustration. we are advised that 95
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million and a quarter in order to
make available a water power of that
county for hydro-electric water pow
ers of the state in order that they
may furnish this power, If this be
true, a vote FOR ratification ol this
amendment would simply be a vote
AGAINST attempted moncpoly on
the part of the consolidated power
companies of the state and the other
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RNTTk Nt o ey
counties of the state should come to
the rescue of Crisp county by vote
ing FOR the amgndument,
Out of a millfon educated men in
Americd, 5768 are distinguished: out
of a million witimut edeation; G are
distingughed, Well?
As the number of autos increases
the number of bachelors decreases.