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Entered as sccond class matter
June 2nd, 1920, at the post cffice at
Cordele, Ga., under Act of March 3rd..
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per and also the local news puhlishvd.]
That debacle in the Chatham eclec
tion—that rank stuffing of the hallot
boxeg with the Australian ballot in
vogue—can easily be run down and
punished in Chatham county if any.
body there is willing to challenge
Stone & Webster's right to do that in
hold defiance of the law and human
decency. People in Crigp have turned
the fight over to Savannah people,
but they will watch results with keen
interest,
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His friends throughout the stlate
will be deeply grieved to learn of the
death of Foy A. Vause, editor of the
Nashville Herald, He underwent an
operation for appendicitis and later
developed peritonitis and death fol
lowed Saturday. He was a man cof
great friendliness and energy. He
conducted a number of successful
newspaper subscription campaigns in
this territory two years égn and won
friends wherever he worked,
HIGHWAY WASTE
Uncle John Shannon over at Com
merce takes Editor Fleetwood of the
Cartersville Tribune News to task for
writing this expression:
“While we are not in the con
fidence of Dr. Hardman, we are
hoping he will look over the field
and choose the best man he can
persuade to accept the chairman
ship of the state highway board,
Milliong have been wasted and
are being wasted under the meth
ods now being followed.”
There is nothing in that so wild
and rank. Uncle John is thinking of
John Holder—we guess that. But if
Uncle John Shannon will get after
John Holder and ask him — merely
ask him—he will get a surprise in
the form of an admission from John
Holder that there ig great waste in
the soft surface upkeep—that is, if
John THolder is still himself, Uncle
John ought to ask how much per
mile the soft surface upkeep in Geor
gia is costing each year. If he gets
the truth about it, he will find that
we have wasted millions on that very
thing.
That doesn't mean that we want to
go out and knock at John Holder.
The truth is there is a great waste
~—a shameful waste—of the highway
funds in the soft surface upkeep. It
is a waste becaunse we can deliver
it back to the counties. The high
way department went out and hunted
this business when it didn't have any
thing else to do. 1t still hag it —
and a world of other things on its
hands that really desctroy our chances
to have paving.
Another thing — while we are on
this subject — if we can ever get
away from politics—clean and well
away—with the state highway depart
ment, that one cent gas tax whick
is distributed to the counties, will be
dropped into the department treasury
and some other sensible things \\il’!
be done that will insure us st'\'(‘l':l!i
hundred miles of paving a year. Let's
not worry—it’s coming.
SEVERAL SPECIAL EDITIONS
The Cordele Dispatch issued on
Tuesday an Industrial Power Edi
tion that was a very creditable
newspaper, It was issued as a
mark of appreciation for the vot.
ers of the state having given
Crisp county the right (o invest
in a big power plant.—Savannah
Press.
There were several special editions
alone about November second— the
day of the election, Dut the special
edition referred to in this paragraph
—if the writer really means our best
effort — wag that which went out
about ten days ahead of the election,
Apparently that is the paper whlch‘
hit Savannah on election day. J
We do not like the effect of that
‘special edition on Savannah, It really
must have multiplied votes — just
made them grow after they got iutol
the ballot box-—grow ‘and grow till
there were about five thousand more
against us than normally should have
been expected in Savanhah, Up this
way people said kindly things about
the special edition, for it carried
strong endorsements of the power de
velopment on Flint river. They made
their endorsements with the cash in
the form of paid advertiging, They
wanted to win.
COURAGE TO SPEAK OUT
The Atlanta Constitution hag chal
lenged and condemned the growing
practice of drinking liguor among col.
lege students with such courage and
pointed vigor that we hasten to say
this pernicious habit deserves the con
demnation of the daily press in plain
language, No institution ought to
have the sympathy or loyal subpm‘l
of good people when it permits young
:m('n to go headlong into debaunchery
with the liquor which ig dispensed in
;chis day.
~ Those of us who have sons to go
iuway to college shudder at the ap
‘pnrem, increase in student drunken
ness. Speaking for at least one fath.
}ur, we would prefer that our hoy work
‘er a slave the remainder of hLis life
i:m ignorant servant of other people
than go to college and come home a
‘unnfirmod drunkard. He would in
‘lhat dwarfed usefulness be worth
more to the world than as a con
}rlrmcd drunkard—with the future of
}n dead beat, cut throat and criminal
staring him and all his kindred in
the face to haunt and worry. Some
parents we know would much prefer
to see their boys return in caskets
ready to be put away in their houases
of clay than to know that they had
acquired the habit of drunkenness
ran"d de.bauchery which is bound to
{follow the modern college youih'’s
foolish, dangerons companionship
with poison liquor.
We quote further from the Aganta
Constitution:
“The drinking problem iz today the
most serious and the most menacing
one confronting America’s education
al institutions, It is not confined to
the male institutions, nor even to the
Tboys and girls of the coeducational
‘institutlons. It is a i\mblem in many
of the exclusive female schools. It
is a problem even in the junior col
leges, and in the city high schools
—as little as we may think that is
true. u
~ “The problem of whiskey drinking
i*:m(l especially the drinking of the
H)OiSOll that is now masqueraded un
der that name—among college boys
and girls, and among young peonle
generally, is entirely too serious to
be temporized with. It touches too
;(loep at the civilization of tomorrow,
at the sanctity of the home, at the
hearthstones of young couples who
become mismated under influence of
inebriacy, to admit of light treatment,
or of the slightest indifference. It
must be met, and it must be solved.
The only course open now is one
of drastic action on the part of school
administrations combined with the co
operation of the sober clement in
student bodies that want to acquire
education and build character under
conducive environs. Every school in
America should make expulsion, with
out recourse, the penalty of drinking.
The sources of student supply should
be dealt with more than usual pen
alty, for not only does the bootlea
ger who sells to a minor violate the
prohibition statutes, but he violates
another and a more serious statute
in promoting that which leads to
character destruction and to human
dereliction,
“There can be no middie ground
in this problem. It must be met and
it can be if iron hands guide every
school in America with a fixed and
immovable will to meet it.”
{ ABOUT AN ENGINEER
Mr, A, C, Atking iy responsible for
this impresgive story having reached
thege columns, It is the story of an
engineer — one who stayed at his
throttle for 27 years--pulled a lim
ited train loaded with passengers all
this time and never hurt a human
being,
: But let the general manager of a
big Nashville flour mill tell it a:
,he did in a letter to Mr, Atkins, IHere
it is:
“My friend, Larry Akers, told me
thig story. It was at a meeting of
}lhe City Club in Memphis, when sev.
eral new members were being intro
duced. To one of them the chal
man referred ag a man, who in i
daily work, literally held in Lis hond
the lives of thousands—an cnginecr
pulling a passenger train, Tic lat
ter's response was a simple state
ment, made in all modesgy: ‘Yes, l‘
have pulled the Panama Limited for
27 years, covering a distance of ap-i
proximately 2 million miles; aml,j
thanks be to God, 1 have never hurt
a human being. i
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“[ think there is a whole worl(fl
of meaning and inspiration in that
hrief statement. What a fine thingi
it would be if any one of us were!
able to say that, in the conduct of?
our business, in the routine of the
day’s work and play, we had never
hurt a fellow-being, had never wound
ed a friend, had never given just
cause for enmity, had never taken
any advantage of another, had been
fair and clean and upright.
“In the staccato whirl of the world’s
hustle and bustle, there may bhe quali
ties thdt will be more profitable in
a money way, but there is no quali
ty that will bring to us the high
sense of well-doing quite so gracious.-
ly as an Understanding Heart, that
sees through the veil into the inner
motive—that is just, yet merciful.
“So then, you are the engineer of
your destiny. Your hand is at the
throttle, the safety lever in easy
reach, The capacity and will to
serve are the fuel to supply the mo
tive power. Intelligence and integ
rity are the rails ”If}t mark out the
journey—your pm‘posé. the headlight
to enable ymtltn avoid danger over
curves and. past crossings. It is for
vou to deliver, safe and sound at its
destination, your vital cargo of hu
man responsibilitics and obligations,
without hurt or suffering to the least
of them. :
“It was Robert I. Lee who said
that the greatest satisfaction comes
from the ‘consciousness of duty well
performed.’”
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FIND OUT THE TRUTH
Savannah Morning News:
It seems to the Morning News that
the Civitan Club yesterday took ex
actly the right position in the mat-
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“ter of the Chatham county vote on
the Crisp county amendment, Some
rather grave charges have been in
formally brought against Chatham
county, and it is right and just that
the people of the connty should know
just what they are and if they are
true, then che county slhiould rebuke
by publicity the men to blame, and
should certainly (e on its guard
against any fviure repetition of the
practices complained of.
That al Ithis is important to the
county and city should be clear to
cveryhody, Savannah and the coun
ty want favorable publicity., They
surely do not wanf the sort they
are getting now, They do not want
to create any feeling of antagonism
toward the people here because a
few persons may have acted un
fairly in an election, There are
times when Savannah goes before
the state and fights for something
which it thinks is for the general
good and it surely would not like
to have any resentment to face be
cause of unfair tactics on the part
of a few professional politicians
here. It will be well indeed if the
committee which the Civitan Club;
has asked to make an investigation‘
and report, accepts the task offered
it 2nd gives the truth to the public.
Chatham county should never be
afraid of the truth. It should never
be afraid to tell the truth itself;
it should be the quickest to tell the
truth about what occurred last Tues
day. :
Sir Thomas Lipton, noted British
yachtsman and sportsman, once was
the driver of a man-drawn street
car on a suburban line in New Or
leans. 1
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