Newspaper Page Text
PAGE FOUR
THE CORDELE DISPAT
S ———— et e S — N —————
lssued Daily Except Saturday
BY THE
Dispatch Publishing Company
106 Seventh Street North
COHAS E. BROWN | Editor
e R nciats
Subscription Price
U ) R S RA R R |
PR Month ........cimoi-avatias- 00
Three Months ........dsiciaodei. 178
D BT s aiivinnses DA
Entered as second class matter Juhe
2nd, 1020, at the post office at Cordele,
Ga., under Act of March 3rd, 1878.
Members Associated Press
The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this pa
per and also the local news published.
e ———————————————
OPEN WIDE THE DRAG NET
? Punishment by heavy fines and
imprisonment was provided in 8
bill designed to prevent cotton
future trading introduced today
by Representatove sSanders, demo
crat, Texas.
.« For the actual transacuiion of
sales his measure stipulated a
fine of from one month to twe
vears' imprisonment. The senders
of mesage relating to sales would
be liable to a $l.OOO to $lO,OOO fine |
or one to two years’ imprisonment,
This Wighly rratifying informatfon
came out ot the news of th.ag;‘day
Monday. We do not know what will
come of the bill, but we hopc it pass
es and then we want to see the Llod
eral courts of the United States open
wide the drag net and grind and
grind and grind without pity—grind
il this cancer eating at the vitals
of southern citizenship be rooted out
to the last trace. o
Outlawed bootleg Iliquor here und
there and there makes men wear
patched breeches, makes widows and
orphans to occupy otherwise « happy
homes, makes funerals and murder
trials—stripes and prison bars. But
bootleg liquor is a piker at the busi
ness as compared with cotton gams
bling. It has robbed millions of their,
living—ot their daily bread. It has
wrecked great business houses, made
suicides of tine ‘tolks who count the
money as trusted ‘empidyees “In~ tHe
banks ot the country, aeéstroyed hap
piness and the creeds of millions
who would otherwise travel an hon
est court in dealing with their fellow
beings. :
We know no more baneful thing
than cotton gambling as it is legal
-Ized and fostered voday by Wall
street in the interest of the gentle
man crook who frequenis the quar
ters ot the cotton exchanges. It is all
the more dangerous iecause it is le
galized. It is the trade of the crooks
and évery person in the wide, wide
country who bites at the bait taey
hold out is swindled. Only those who
are permitted to win in order to bait;
others ever beat that game. J
Watch the gamblers with the ordinary ‘
" cafnival. Now and then you see one
come away with a doll or a blaniet
or a pocket knife or a box of candy.
At wiul an otticer of the law laay
win pecause he is the law in person
and may pinch the gambler and take
his device. All this goes to show not
that the random customer may win,
but that only those win who are pur
posely permitted to win to bait oth
ers. ‘L'his 18 true of the cotton gam-~
bling machine in the cotton exchanges
‘\'he brokeys dre crooks—veritable
gambiers. Mlllons upon millions a&are
fleecd from the hands of innocent
peopie 1n the south euach season
Here 2t hoi . we have w.rned and
warnea aia warned our own citizens.
But suil we hear heavy losses where,
the candle fly has been tco ~'o.e to
the tlame. ‘They will rise and yo b ck{
like drunken fools. Beaten ongce, they
try to recoup—and the end of it is
ruin. There is but one unalterable re- |
sult tor the‘c‘itizen who tries his alert |
business acumen on cotton gambl:ng.
He loses. It makes no difference
whetner co&on goes up or down, the
story is the same. He loses if he med.-
dles with this trap of the Wall street
Crooks. No matter about Wall street—
every mother’s son of those who take|
your money on a cotton gambling deal |
15 & lyjr-tiedged crook without con-|.
"science or seruples. The word honesty |,
O it f iRt et 4of 1
W~ S
sole amm,
1t this writer had all the money
that has been lost in Cordele‘on cots
ton gambling, our Zlortune would ‘be,
secure. We have not the = slightest!
doubt that fortunes have heen
poured into this dead fall out of Cor
dele. We have mnot the | slightest
doubt that more than g score of grod
mens lives in'this little Business com
‘munity have' been wrolly wrecked in
cotton gambling. When—when—will
we learn to let that thing alone?
Good for -the ‘Texas congresman.
May his law be pased and enforced
with such severity as to drive out for
eéver the cotton gambling crooks. What
loses we have suffered from them:!
WELCOME, SANTA CLAUS
As Tnese lines are written, the weath
er 1s palmy and clear and no Decem-~
per setting could be more ideal for the
coming of Santa Claus. It is but fit
ung that such a seting should be pro
vided tor no such day light visit of
Santa Claus has ever been made in
this community before. It is a history
making offcaston, ‘for Santa ' Claus
comes out of the far frozen north
wina 1| reindeer ena skimo com
panions to greet the ‘people on W&
fricndly mission. ' 3 *
''nrongs of people like this nevdpi
nonored Cordeie with a visit ' before
s tume. 1t 18 not shooting wild to
say ten thousand people will see and
greet Santa Claus today. They appear~
ea 1o be here—all the entire business
secuion of Cordele could hold—from
the early hours of the morning. Here
arver a circus will be a common thing.
This so eclipses anything for sight
seeing thousands that the biggest cir
cus 1n the world could never equal
1.
| ®anta Claus is our guest today
|through tne courtesy of the Atlamal
Journal. Santa comes to be our guest
to see and greet the children becauyl
|he- has that spare time before the
“ iong, long ride around the world on
| Yhristmas Eve.
| The event of today is a success ot
| the energy -of ~the local’ ®egion Post
ana those who helped them prepare
for it. What happiness Santa Claus
nas prought with him! We saw it in
the little taces that greeted us in that
waiting throng where the beautfiul
sunugnt or a clear and Crisp Decem
ber day seemed to pledge that it
should be.
A WUORD TO THE SURGEON
GENERAL
The surgeon general of‘the Unlted
States has treated us o a fine disser
tation on the general health condi
tions throughout the world in a paper
which has just arrived in the mails.
That's industrious and progressive, we
suppcse, but we rise 1o ask the gen
tleman whether he knows that south
Georgia is besmirched in his maps &s
Mmalarial and uninhamtable—whether
he knows that we are starting out in
the good year of 1928 to ask him to‘
take ‘that black eye off the health
map ot (Georgia. 2 )
Wwe want him to spend some time
here at home with us—time enough
to learn that this 1s at least a com
munity and section healthful enough
not to deserve such “health scan
dal” in the the intormation which our
governmont gives out to the world—
espe¢cially tliose who come south to lo
cabe industries.
‘We want the surgeon general to
help us do the very things i will take
t 6 acquaint the world with”the really
’l‘lme healtl: conditions under the prog
‘ram now being inaugurated. Here at
,home‘lt is a matter of dollars ana
cents with the citizen, but out in the
wide, wide world where our good
name is at stake, it 1s our reputation
‘about which’ we are concerned.
‘l'ne surgeon general might help us
py coming down and making a sur
vey with our own health officer and
then mgpking recommendations as to
what is best for us to do to make the
right public health showing. That
matger is on all our minds. It is goimg
to remain there till we are in the
- R
~ MORE ABOUT LYING SIGN 'y
BOARDS
In yesterday’s Dispatch we sought to
.58y a word to the youth who is seek
fnx a short cut to a successful futare
=& luture without an education. To
Us an education means college and
umversity training. 1t means that
because the world is boiling over with
‘the keenst competition in all lines
And’ in the more protitable lines the,
call tor real men is answered by ‘he
umversity trained. Against this ‘hovde |
ot the trained v'the um:ainéd is‘ bound
to lose. No amount of rhetoric can
convince us that the untrained youth
can win In competition with the
highly skilled through higher educa
ron. 1t Isn't possible—never will be.
we do not ridicule the unlearred.
Some men we face today had no
chance 1o become educated—but the
uneducated who ridicules the man
who Knows only reveals the narrow
nouse in which he lives. The unedu
;cawd man who preaches to the youth
that an educauon;la not necessary, is
not competent to @iter testimony. He
terms himself a success when he has
no power to define success, He as-
S that! be has reached the limit
w‘;gs his fe}spect&ve is owed by
overadngiig | sieeps . K VEWIDERS
which m%er scaled to th‘?,h.e l;tf
ol knowleigd. On, boy, listert #6 To:
%zi’* We of ease! Go—fflw
c% of ye wrained and egtiipped.;
ay is ithg tmel ~ g |
Let us o‘x&q'x this great book fo;'u?;ou
—and read’ chapter six if you ever -,getf
the book, “Your Biggest Job, School of
Business,” ilt' can be had from D. =p
pleton & Company. Now come withl
us back to Dr. Van Dyke’s findings
about educated men. It was too long
to offer all at one time yesterday. 1l
conuinues:
“Dr., Van Dyke's story of the Har
vara records covered thirteen succesé}
sive senior . clases, numbering 2229
men, o whom only 5 won the very
haghest scnélarship honors. Of these
75, 59 were living in 1911, and 27 of
them were listed in Who's Who of
that year, about 1 in 2.
, “At Yale, twenty senior classes numne
‘erea 2,132, with 102 first honor men,
%: “wnom ' ife 80 living in 1911 fur
msned 31.t0 the Who's. Who list.
“princeton’s Seniors for 20 Yyears,
numpering 1,687, furnished 100 honor
men. O these 76 were living in 1911
witn 20 m who's ‘Who.
“Amherst ‘College in 17 years fur=-
nisned 1,153 Seniors and 106 honor
meén. Ot the 80 living in 1911, 25 had
reached distinction.
“Brown ZTniversity in 15 years had
"8 Sentors, of whom 60 won first
nonor 1n scholarship. Of these there
were 55 nsmg in 1911, and 19 were
nsted mn wno's who.
“17us among 7,979 men, having all
the advantage of modern college
Uraining, repesenting- tive- institutions
and eighty-tive graduating classes, 348
(4 percent were | difterentiated from
the rest solely by their very high
grades. wWhile this group were Skill*be
low middle age, and 7{% ttxn tab
youpe to nave had a fait” chance to
Wwinidistinction, 131 (1 in every 2 2-3)
hah'“an'eady won a place in the Who's
Who iist ot distinguisned men which
contaimns only 1-55 of 1 percent of the
total population. Omitung the 79, mme
halt of the remainder were already on
thew Who's Who list in 1911,
“lo sum it up from another point
ot view: The man who graduates thh}
nigh scnolastic honors, mstead of be
ing unfitted for success by his extra
'pook learning’ is about seven times as
lkeiy to become a distinguished man
as the ‘all-round men’ who received
diplomas with him. As compared with
the average college student his
chances are 20 to 1; compared with
the high school student 200 to 1; and
compared with those having only &
common school education 5,000 to 1. In
tnis Age oI Mind, as never before
xnowledge 1§ power, and the man who
".'mows s the man who leads. '
“prne nexy ume, theretore, the silly
falsehood that star students generally
fail in business threatens to become
}epmemlc on your campus, kindly in
:ocumw the “easy marks” with the.
above facts and arrest the spread of
S MNRRR g A d N
-—.__— g 3 lEi:fi—F AN DK !‘lii
LA TIR TR Vg o 0 AN
BOOK NOTES
BY MRS. C. E. BROWN
R R ———
. The Houghton-Mifflin Co, 2 Park
Street, Boston, Mass, announces a
new. discovery in the brilliant niae
teen year old author, Doris Peel, who
has written the charming bcok,
“Children of the Wind.” The publish
ers pointl with pride to the fact that
her first. novel is neither smart tior
sophisticated, =, , . 4 Lo
‘Another book fresh from the Hought
on-Mifflin press is “Contlict” by Olive
'Higgins Prouty, author-of “Stella Dal
las.” This is a story of the confict
‘between consciende and desire and is
Aull of tense emotions, living charac
‘ters, swift and varied action which
‘makes a novel even finer than “Stel
1a Dallas,” Price $2.50 - -
!
The Piper also announces for the
Houghton-Mifflin Company the tol
lowing recent publications: “Fighting
Bl00a” DY Vonat. Hamuton Haiaes
which is an absorbing story for read
ers of every age who enjoy a swiftly
told tale of mystery and adventure.
Illustrated, 12 mo. $2.00 “John Holmes
at Annapolis” by Vincent H. Godfrey,
Lt. Com, U. 8. N. This is a fascinat
ing story for boys and is a true pic
ture of life at Annapolis as told by
'officers who spent four years there.
Tlusthated; 12 o ‘5%.75. ‘%&g Nk
Thejr Stories” Eueen ang. Ritida
Powers. In th ‘the joulig read
eris given st o‘“fihe _grélt cities
of Efirope, whith §all Be of fjore in
terest than fiction which will be bene
ficial as 'well “EWry4” child® should be
delighted fi&%fiwzgmm which will
'also Aid’ in his study ‘of history and
geography. Tllustrated’ 12 to. $1.75.
"\ 'LIKE TO PAINT
"/ "FIXUP THE HOME FOR
. CHRISTMAS ™
| OUR LINE OF WATERSPAR
LAQUER IS COMPLETE.
A QUICK DRYING PAINT,
-~ BASILY APPLIED AND SUIT
ABLE FOR PAINTING BEDS,
- DRESSER§, CHAIRS OR OFf-y &,
COVERS WELL AND LASTS
LONG. N | %.
Cordele Sash, Door & Lbr. Co.
Wi i 1 CORDELE, GRORGIA . 7'«
“If It's Building Material We Sell It"
GRATES, GRATE BASKETS, BRICK, LIME, CEMENT.
" PHONE 189" ' Ry,
H. F. CORBETT
PLUMBING :
EVERYTHING IN THE PLUMBING LINE
" Residence Phone 372
Opposite Light Plant Phone 3756 Cordele, Ga.
e e
4 B 8 RPUK | Y ' 13
"OTTRAL RSEu
""i' 9 st }L
WASHINGTON —(AP)— Univer
sities are doing ' little to' increase’
their output of research men, in the
opinion of Prof. Frank C. Whit
more, new chairman of the Division
of Chemistry and Chemical Tech
nology of the National Research
Council, :
“The idea of research,” he says,
“has_been somewhat oversold to the
public in the pgense that ‘there s
not a sufticient “production of real ‘
research men by the universities to’
meet the need fostered in the induf
trlos.cns (Y Y
“The non-chemical ~ public, .it
seems, has been led to concéive
chemistry as really g forms o;tz‘rpgd'}
ern magic, achieving' its magical -
methods,-including -{ 'suitable ‘formu-"
las,” 4s they are called.
“Too often this results in a de
mand on the research men to pro
duce results in a demand on the re
search men to produce results out
of all proportion to the time, effort
and capital invested.” £
IT'S ALL IN FUN |
PARIS —He who expreses surprise
that the; soft-hearted French should
favor the revival ‘of the bull' fight
need Only see 'a réal French bull figtit
to ‘understand ‘the popularity ‘of ihe
sport. ‘rney 4o’ mot kul ‘the bull, mor
let him gore helpless horses. = N
H »R'LL”,\/I;S Aitar ey
G et
D P i¢ -
) C ; $l.OO at Druggists or prepaid, |&(§ |
2 ° MARUPACTURED BY . .
r,} i .mm-tg.hm;;;
PP 100 g
‘TOYS! TOYS!
T U 7 1,/% ,4,7.’,‘ o ”::;
' r‘;”“ WAL\
Wilaws =R Y
..‘,‘ \ . ~‘f{ N ;‘-L\ I %
...’!Yr' iel k‘ /)// ::/ \:\}} 4 4 i“l.r.' \1
W NI Yg TS
’J = o
P x. 7 B
: ‘i\&; o ;\lr:'.- o
GIFTS FOR THEM ALL
~ SEE OUR LINE AND GET OUR -
w.)' " PRICES BEFORE YOU BUY, . ../
GEO. L. RILES
w 2 .. . HARDWARE = -
*PHONE 483 CORDELE, GA,
For Xmas
AN AUTHOPHONIC VICTROLA . .
ke I\WJ R
B ! 6 1 Lo
| wh',‘, ,’l,’?f:’, L U!/IJ - o
e
| fH[ [ | a'l/ .
o ”“”lll'/ W ll!’ Rl
=MI
s ——
T 28 / ——
B A=
8
~ NEW RECORDS RECEIVED WEEKLY', ~
‘Watt & Holmes Hardwfl,i‘iijfico.
121 ITH AVENUE o .\~ CORDELE, GA. |
IlfllflIIIII[lIIIIIImII'II!Iilllll!lll@lflll!llIIlllll]Nlll1I!lllllilililil!l!lll"!l!IilililllmIilil%llIlIt|!lll!|[|§|1|1mlIIIllllmlilIIIIIIIIIIIIIIW@]NMIL A
THE NEW. RADIOLA “17"
2. TRO ;‘/‘
OPERATED DIRECTLY FROM LIGHT SOCKET
NO ELIMINATORS OR BATTERIES
AND IS THE ONLY REAL A. C. SET
ON THE MARKET. , ™. ..
i:o. i i .
- REASONABLYPRICED . ...
| Let Us Makoflfi-‘lliemon*xt}tion.
SN D) ,
THE MUSIC @NWELECTRIC}COMPANY s’
Eleventh Ave. .« s« ot |- Cordéle, Ga,
BROOKS ELECTRIC SHOP b
ELECTRIC WIRING AND REPAIRING. mwo'ufl&u - 1,("
SUPPLIES AND FIXTURES, P o
PHONE 395 107 BTH AVE,, E. CORDELE, QA.
> TERETIL (LR TELLASARTAAYTRASS