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- Entered as second class mauerl
June 2nd, 1920, at the post office at
Cordele, Ga., under Act of March 3rd.,
1878.
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per and also the local news published.
“Crisp county farmers are coming
out this season with more than four
teen thousand bales of cotton to their
credit. We do tot know how well
this was marketed but we may as
sume that ten thousand bales brought
fifteen and the remainder ten cents
a pound. Most of it was sold _.as
rapidly as it came from the ginneries,
l\lany. a rusty obligation wag paid in
t}ils little farming county, but there
e obligations vet to meet. :
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AFF T R E
Sumter county has promise of
thirty thousand bales af. cotton this
year. It is one of the big cotton
coqqties. Colquit is behind its last
y'aflr;s pace this time-—one of the rare
progressive counties which did not go
its whole souj and body in cotton thig
year. It has a packing plant which
has given the hog raising farmers a
good price for their products this
year—and we have a guess that some
of the former Colquitt cotton raisers
are” botter off for having raised and
sqj_g’hogs instead,
The Cordele Kiwanis club was ac
% last year ahd yeat heromf‘"'ofj
) q&fthq": !u&xe?a, bf..“gil'isp (:otihty
out of millions in cotton money for
trv\xng ‘to get ‘more ‘hogs, chickens and
gbb’d“ milk’ cows distributed over the
farms around Cordele. There was
mean, bold, open criticism. The Ki
wanis club was seeking sane ’ta!“ming.i
It wasn't seeking to do the:framer’s
thinking—nor hiéfig’yqyk. + But it qut-‘
ed to save patched breeches and hard.
times. This year that criticism ahout
the 'millions that were lost in cot
ton will have to be shifted to otheri
shoulders. The Kiwanis cilub didn't
preach cotton this year——and yet we!
have heard it whispered around that
theré: have been other very heavyl
losses in cotton on the farms of our
. friends. We want our buddies whol
chewed the ears of the Kiwanis club
“off to come up now and feed. This
(48 their year to take the blme and
bear it like men. |
11 T9AT WA, comThAg
The Constitution finds ingonsis
tency in the a't'lit’ux@’iof‘ the man
wlio opposes Al fith * becatise
he%s a Catholic and<wgt. | The fed- -
e‘l:al constitution is just as strong
in*favor of religfow fij(’s‘%om ad;
it ‘is for prohibl otg‘ \‘}n‘:n xt"
shown Smith cami wih ‘we are for
< him. We're tired of following for
lorn hopes.—The Madisonian.
We believe that AL Smith is the
only democrat in the party who
can be elected. Any other nomi
nition means following a forlorn
fibpe. as the Madisonian says.—
Greensboro Herald-Journal,
“Well, sir, this is the craziest ex
pression we have seen in a Georgia
anspaper in a couple a-hundred
yeéars. We believe that Al Smith, of
all democratic hopes in the party.
S{Uhe most forlorn. Something has
gtf.ne wrong over in Madison—over in
Greensboro. Is it all that near Christ
mas?. ‘
“Al is wet. Al is the Clan ne Gael
mdégute There you are. And the
eastern wop and ward-heeler is all
that travels in the ranks of the dem
vepdcy. | Self-respecting people in the
east whisper it to southern friends
who come up that a person with any
self respect @annot afford to be a
democrat. They say it much like
they believe it. We believe they are
hotést. ‘We know we do not want
to trave; with the political company
that worships Al Smith., .
Mi’et ‘we are pretty well satis
wfied thatethis eastern wop and ward
theeler has a good leader in Al Smith.
ill. is a matter for the voters up there
when it comes to choosing a govern
lnr in New York. If they want Al
Smith, that’s their business.-
{ But as to a .democratic standard
lbearer for the whole nation, that’s
another question. That includes us
lmand it includes more territory than
heeled friends in New York can possi
bly cover. :
We quote from the Americus Timeg
Recorder:
“As most people know, Governor
Al Smith of New York, is a Catholic.
As most people know, also, he is a
wet. And he does not dodge issues.
He has stated in a loud and reson
ant voice that the is no friend of pro-i
hibition, and when he attended the;
Eucharistic congress in Chicago he‘
chose this occasion to proclaim loud-‘
ly and publicly his Catholicism. 1
“Al Smith, hefore he went to (,‘hi-‘
cago, knew that the photographers
would be present wherever he was.
He was photographed with some of
the highest dignataries of the church,
and his pictures broadcast over the
'lan-d.
“By taking the prominment part in
the eucharistic congress that he did,
?1 ,\'Sn‘ligl,\.\}qok a momentous, {step.
.’ipfih@f’afiq_j’bas ;e';agéd“;’himself Bs a
possible democratic presidentip;ican
didate in 1928 or he has entrenched,
himself in a ‘stronger-than-ewe?rr ::posi-»
tion. t
«ff it is impossible for a Catholic
to become president of the United
States, Al Smith means to find it
out. If it ig impossible to elect a
wet to the presidency he means to
find that out also. If it is impossible
to elect a man who is both wet and
Catholic, you will have to go a long
way before finding a man who works
so hard at both convictions.”
~ And we think this is true. Al
Smith is now . seeking to find out
fwhethei‘ a wet can be nominated as
‘a leader of a great nationaj party.
We think he knows one cannot be
?elected. And then we think he is
seeking also to test out Catholic
strength in. national politics. We
think Catholicism in REurope == im
Rome—is using Al Smith as a test.f
The real purpose is to determine
where future political pressure should
be brought to bear to control Ameri
can politics. We know (‘.aflmlicism——§
political Catholicism-—has designs in|
America. We know that the demo
cratic party has been the chosen ve
hicle of Catholic political activity.
Understand, our idea is that no
church should meddle with the poli
tical affairs of any state or nation.
We have all good reasons to assume,
as we have already, that intolemnt‘
political Catholicism has sought con
trol of the democratic party in Amer~l
ica—is still seeking it. Anq Al Smith
doesn't seek to hide the purpose. It
is plain We need not. dispute among
ourselves longer as to what are .ihisi
‘aims and the aims of those fj)ush'ltnF\
Thim forward. é, ‘
Fhe irepiblicans are looking on fimfl
laughing—and just emerging from the
zf&”‘est orgy of public (lisllonést)' andJ
(Eogrfii)ti(»ll that party ever offered lho':
American public in the form of puh-j
lic service. For years now we have‘
not seen a clear day-—not one da,v[
that has not brought us some investi
gation or court trial into the giganticl
fraud and dishonesty of somebody in!
public office. The Doheny, Sinclalr.i
anq Fall disposals of Elk Hills aud~l
Tea Pot Dome naval oil reserves wil'.'i‘
go down in the history of this coun-.
try as the peak of all public dishon
esty. That was republican— but it,
could go on under our very noses
while we wrestled within our 0\\'11!
ranks over control of our national
democratic party machinery. “And it
could go on because we were en
grossed in a fight with the hordes
of Catholics who had set this as the
hour for politicay control of America.
~ Well, Al Smith will not be nominat
ed. The democratic party will not do
jawny with the two-thirds rule in the
convention because it will be deter
{miued to use every precaution against
lllis nomination. The more you hear
of Al Smith, the less will you hear
iot the abolishing of the convention
Itwo-thirds rule. But the democratic
party is going on the rocks and if
anything comes out of the Catholic
effort to control its machinery, it
will e brought out of the wrecks by
'the Catholics. In the future it will
be a Catholic political party and be
known as such in all its future activ.
ities.
In the meantime, the south and the
west will belong to some other weak
politica] organization, but a clean,
worthy organization which it will
take years to rebuild to where it can
play any part at all in the political
laftair’s of the nation. The west
doesn’t love anything democratic —
’not much, It lives the creed of the
democratic party, but hates the name.
i'l‘he south isn’t going to change. It
isn’t going Catholic — even though
Jim Williams and Bacon over at
Greenshoro and Madison think thaf
it should.
The east with Al Smith as leader
will either fail to control the party—
we think they will fail in that— or
they will control a soinething that in
the end will drift away and leave B
only the Catholic wet east to run‘
what it is running now—A] Smith tor{
president of the world! ‘
GOOD FOR THESE LADIES
The eivie club in Cordele if going
to observe arbor day—-ggiug t? plant
dog wood arig magndlia‘f and' holly
and crepe .myrt;le a;rid’ (‘)'l;t‘a:r;‘lnd:br and
roses galore! What a delightfu] piece
!0! news. We are going to ha;ve big
‘palm trees on the court house \square
and all these beautiful trees through
out the residential portion of the com
munity.
We are going to dare—to venture
this assertion. That's the good of a
civic club. It always is out seeking
to do something good in the communi
ty. This celebration of arbor . day
promises more in the direct public
duty of Dbeautifying this already
pretty town than anything that has
been done since—how long?
Let the dog wood come first with
a lavish sprinkling al) over this com
munity. It will bloom the very first
days of next spring and keep on
blooming. Then let the crepe myrtle
come. This is a more difficult, but
1:‘1 most beautiful plant for decorating
the premises — and it comes when
nFarly” all thié other™Dloghing frees
and flowers have ceased to give un
their beauty for the summer. We
want oune thousand of each of these
trees put out on this arhor day—not
l;ess than that. The ladieg are gping
to get :bi:gi\;esults. What a fine move
they are making.
And later in the fall or early spring
we can come again with the rose
gardens and the flowers to join the
trees we have put out in the observ
ance of arbor day. Every lover of
beautiful trees and flowers ought to
get into the celebration of arbor day
and help make it mean what it must
mean in all the coming falls—more
pretty trees and flowers—and a town
whese inspiring beauty will be the
talk of all who comes here to abide.
LET'S QUIT THE “EASY WAY”
Clarence Poe in Progressive Farmer:
Why do our farmers g‘r’bw o’ much
cotton ;_lan l‘)uy !:01:?s in%dd x;leat f}'gr;l
mowelt) ) 113 R
Because it is the easy thing.
In face of the fact that' prac
tically all other classes are organ
ized, why does the farmer go on act
ing in an individua! capacity?
Because it is the easy thing.
As a small boy. I remember stand
ing at the old church-gate one Sun
day morning and hearing a neighbor
farmer say to my father: “I don’t
mind working as hard as anybody
with my muscle, but I am just nat
urally lazy-minded. I hate to buckle
down and work thir\lgs out mentally.”
» There are too many of us who are
““lazy-minded.” We want to do the
easy thing. And in the long run
doing the easy thing brings penalty
and punishment.
Cotton is sure enough easy to
grow, It will stand more rough treat
'ment than other crops. It will keep
on blooming and growing uncom
‘plainin'gly and’ undiscouraged on
shamefully poor land where corn and
other crops would quit in despair and
~disgust. It is an easy crop to grow—
!—except when boll weevils interef
ere, and they have been asleep on the
;job this season.
Intelligent Southern farmers have
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'got to quit trying to farm the easy
| way and begin farming the right
way.
: The easy way is to pay no atten
| tion to building up soil-fertility but
. Just buy it each spring in fertilizer
| sacks.
l The easy way is to take no time to
stdy about feed, food, and fertility
| crops—the different varieties; the
| methods of sowing, inoculation, cui
| ture harvest, etc.,, but just buy
these things with cotton money
! (when there is any)
' The easy way is not to deny our
'selves and our families in spring
| and summer, but just say, “Charge
|it,”” to some supply merchant and
fsut our eyes to the fact that pay
‘day is always just around the cor
ner,
~ The easy way is to join no farmers
‘ organization; just say, “I wish farm
rers would organize like other folks,
'but they won’t” and do nothing our
selves to organize cur own neighbor
| A oods.
l " The easy way is to dump the bulk
'of the cotton crop on the markes
;‘as fast as it is picked without joining
any cooperative marketing associa--
tion or helping witk any plan for or-
L‘derly,;’,graduql« selling and. financing.
.1 Such is the broad and main-travel
}g,d way that leads to destruction. It
is the easy. way. But if we are to
~make cotton pay in the South, we
must quit the casy. way. brg
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