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‘ @pt»exfidfias second class matter January 8, 1916, at the post office at Cordele,
Georgia, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE CITY OF CORDELE AND CRISP COUNTY.
SEeme R BRI e ee O
ABOUT THAT COTTON CROP.
Commissioner J. I. Price of the state department of agriculture is irying
to impress upon the farmers again that they should go very, very slow witl
the cotton crop. He says that it the Kuropean war continues there isn't mucl.
of a chance for advance in price, and if it ends, we will have about as trying
a period as we did at the beginning of the war.
That does not fit well as first class reasoning. It must seem to the farm
er as if he will be damned if the war goes on and the same if it stops. The
truth is, the world is learning how to go ahead—matters not what Europe has
for herself in the future. It looks now like it is going to drift into a fine-spun
lolls drawn out ending, but the world has done without until there is already ¢
'lécramblé for manufactured goodg. Commissioner Price evidently has over
)fi!&‘)k?d _l:l’gofi[a(:t, that there are few big consuming centers that have done more
than use the smallest amount of material possible to get along.
- © "Any one who will spend a short time finding out, will today learn tha!
-:@gre is hardly a big plant, cotton mills not excepted, in thig country that is
gfii’i‘tfthree to five months behind with orders. There has been a rush of bus
Min&q's gince Jonuary 1 in this country, thr&hlil(e of which will not again be seei
in years. But this rush is only the beginning. The coming twelve months
will not catch us up. e LA R
We practically quit buginess two yecars ago—sat down and waited for the
Eufoptan war to work us out a new basis for business operation. Many gi
gahfl(! eoncerns stopped their output completely, for they could not ngure &
future selling price for their manufactured goods. Now they wake up sud
: denly and find their same trade scrambling for goods that are not even made
~up. The European war did not stop world consumption of the goods whick
tllm factories stopped making,—and here we are months behind and thousands
of big mills working night and day. There is a mill in this community tha‘
has been working night and day for a longer period of time than ever before
in its history. It is still behind with orders.
Go to it, industrious farmer. Make every pound of cotton you can. The
world is needing it, sure as you live. When you g 6 to market it, be carefu!
‘that somne snipe buyer doesn’'t swindle you out of it. Try to be so situated a:
not to have to sell it to the first man who wants to buy it from you. Work tc
make ends meet in a way that will enable you to hold to it for a week o 1
month after you have made it. Try not to owe it all before you have made it
The man who has not tried it this way, has no idea how much difference it
will make in his income,
~ Now about diversification: No man should forget that his “live at home’
Mp(')li(ty is of vast importance. Without that the big cottdn crop can mean
nothing, for if all the supplies for himself, his labor and his stock are to buy
from the jump, cotton will not repay the cash outlay. The secret of it all is
in the making of the cotton on the “live at home” schedule. That will mean
cash money at the end of the year.
Those who “lived at home” in 1915, found out how good it was to be “pre
pared,” and they must understand the danger of departing from that principle
this year. Those who saw their neighbors prosper by it, should take hiced and
gét busy with diversification, even though they may do no more than make
their own living at home.
.. Georgia made more food and feedstuffs in 1915 than ever before in her his
tory. She ought to break the record again this year. It is the only sure road
to agricultural independence. Make all your family eats; make everything
your stock eats, and if {here is a surplus, turn it into beef. When it is fat you
will find a ready market for it at a good price.
MULES AND FERTILIZERS.
" Phere is a certain kind of farmer who imagines he cannot make a croi
without a sleck mule and a house full of commercial fertilizer—*“store bought.”
How many times this has cost him his independence! If he goes on a thou
sand years, he will never find a way other than to owe it all at the end of the
season.
As to the mule, why not use the last year's sun-burned, true and tried }
well seasoned stock. The look isn't just as trim and plump, but that kind ol ‘
mule will wake up in the morning and go to the field as early as your plow
inan and stay with him as late as he wishes. We know there is a difference
and so does the farmer when he has to haul his crop into the mule dealer's
p]iu'e of business in the fall to pay the cash charged as between mules in the
trade the farmery made just to have a sleck mule to start the crop. If he
had retained oOld Beck of the last season, sun-burned, but faithful type, there
could have been written at least one of the chapters of a new independence
in his farming career.
In Jamuary and February 1914, the state sold inspection tags for 627,036
‘tongfit)'i' commercial fertilizers and 39906 tons of cotton seed meal.
: luA the same two months of 1915, it sold tags for 164,990 tons of fertilizer
and 43,460 tons of meal.
In January and February of this year, 1916, we have sold tags for 320,110
tons of fertilizers and 31,266 tons of meal.
Thus, while consumption is apparently doubled over 1915, it is still only
one-half of that of 1914, and it contains comparatively little potash and some
_ times none. We made cotton before we ever had potash, and some of us had
;)’"?dp without fertilizer last season—that is, the “gtore bought” kind. The
thing worked so well that the buying is rather light this season. Watch the
results. We farmers have a mighty fine chance for getting our hands on a
f’,l'ntle spare change at the end of this year. Let's work hard, save and be able
to pay as we go next year.
PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL.
There is to much margin between
practical and theoretical things in this
ago of activity and restlessness.
Browning, the deepest poetical thinker
said: “The reach should exceed the
grash,” we can never believe that he
had in mind that the strain should
break the reach. Still this very thing
has reached startling proportions and
is causing many wWrecks in this day of
rapid transit and quick selfishness.
There should be proper limitations in
all things. The strain for many things
— often the impractical and impossi-
Lle is today causing much discourage
ment and dissatisfaction.
Those who hunmt the hardest ard
strain the most for a little promineace
arc paving the price of suffe JNg.
Those on the mad chase for dollars
cannot be happy. The strain is caus
ing financial wrecks. Tt is, after all,
{he commonplace, ordinary affairs of
the day which constitute life and give
the greatest happiness. There are s 0
many who get out of patiencs with
small practical, things and are dis
satisfied with the wonderful and in
teresting duties for the unattainable.
The scramble for saf glory, riches.
fame and promip-ace is only a phan
{om chase. Tr: poorest and most ob
tsvurn can be happy and carry a head
among tiv stars if the heart be right.
A pror.r consideration of the rights
of c.hers, a clean conscience, good
| poalth, conduct and principles justi
?{_v‘mg self respect are the essentials
|of perfect life. Almost everything else
s tawdry—vanity and vexation of
[spirit. :
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1916.
A town that’s worth living in is
worth working for.
The odor of fresh earth fills the
country side.
Not a single complaint to register,
Mr. Weather Man.
It’s usually the fellow with plenty
of push who desires a pull.
And many a college owes its fame
to its football team.
What has become of the old-fash
joned woman who could darn socks?
Muzzles are extensively worn by
dogs belonging to the best families.
“A howling success’” may be a slang
phrase, and again it may be a baby
show.
The Mexican affair hag had the ef
‘ect of hurrying up the preparednes:
Jorogram in congress.
Dawson got a municipal primary ou:
»f her system yesterday, and the
‘own’s next mayor will be J. D. Wea
ver.
Thirty-cent gasoline would do won
ders for the revival of walking a:
a 1 popular exercise.
Another thing that is needed is the
’musi(:al education of the squeaking
’swivel chair.
Many a citizen of the Unitec
States who went to Europe to fighi
will now be sorry he didn't stay a
‘home. 3
The bullets with which Villa am.f
nas gang murdered Americans at Cc
lumbus, New Mexico, are said to have
heen American made. |
' The telephone is now just fort
years old. It has been in genera
use only about thirty years. Yet i
has moved things up at least a hun
dred years. ‘
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Villa’s finish is merely a matter o |
time. He may elude his pursuers fo |
1 season, but in the end they will rui
2im down and have the reckonin;
‘hat is inevitable. |
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| S b Sledey |
| Editor Volney Williams, of the Way |
cross Journal-Herald, won out as on¢
f Ware county’s representatives i 1
the legislature in Wednesday's pri j
mary. He will be a good one. |
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Admiral Alfred von Tripitz, Germait |
minister of the navy, has retired, ac
sording to a Copenhagen dispatch
The news is of peculiar interest i 1
England, where the Kaiser and Coun
Zeppelin are the only Germans Imore
cordially hated than von Tripitz.
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The friends of Hon. Joe Hall ar
seading of his accident with great re
gret and many of them have beer
wishing that the old man was back i 1
Atlanta with his eye on the state treas
ary. He did good service in that capac
ity and also killed more fool bills thai
any man ever serving there.
ARI S Sy
A North Dakota woman applied a
‘the naval recruiting office in Minne
apolis yesterday, and insisted that she
he given opportunity to fight for he:
country: If the woman has a hus
pand back in Dakota, we dare say he
Las learned with profound regret tha!
the recruiting officer did not enrol’
ner.
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We are in receipt, upon our ex
change table of the Cordele Dispatel.
in a new dress and plenty of trim
ming. Mr. C. K. Brown has taken the
place of Mr. Max K. Land as editor
New management, new press and Lin
otype composition make a desired im
provement on that popular weekly—
ihumpkin Independent.
‘ Gl T
Frank Mangum, for a number o
| vears director of the editorial work o 1
‘ the Macon News, has bought the
l\\'uynoshom Forest-Blade and has
gone into the business for himself. W«
nave done years of hard work pulline
alongside of this faithful young lnorse
and know him to be a giod one
Waynesboro gets a hustler in him. We
wish him mighty well
Would it vout be interesting now tc
hear the fonorable Hoke with a few
of hic old reels on port rates? The
p-esent application of the new freigh:
.aw, as interpreted by the interstate
commerce commission ought to warm
him up a great deal more than all tha
pro-German stuff he is pulling arounc
the state through his own press agen
Cy.
The Post-Searchlight of Bainbridge
let go with a big edition last week anc
took two bhig full column head line:
to call his town and Decatur count}
God's country. And he knew full wel
all the time that this is God’s country
tOO. The edition was splendid and ¢
credit to Editor Grifiin. The pape:
itself would lead one to believe it's ¢
mighty good thing to be a citizen o:
Bainbridge and Decatur county.
A shooting affray took place at{
Peace school house in Laurens coun
ty a few days ago. Nothing in a name
on that occasion.—Eastman Times-
Journal. -
As a rule you will find that the man
who protests the loudest that “pro
hibition doesn’t prohibit” is himself
not doing anything to make it prohibit.
—Albany Herald.
Bryan in Washington is like Watson
in Georgia. Congress seems to be as
scared of Bryan as the powers that
je in Georgia are of Watson.—Lyons
Progress.
Lowndes county has a set of lakes
that disappear and reappear very mys
' eriously. We might doubt this, but
we see a Baptist preacher vouches
‘or the story and Baptist preachers are
wthority on deep waters.—Savannah
Press.
~ We note that in one of the South
ast Georgia counties the citizens will
soon vote to decide as to whcl,l\lor
mnale cows shall be allowed to run at
.arge there. They should by all means
see to it that no female bull is permit
»d to roam the woods.—Cuthbert Lead
ar.
It is freely admitted by many that
t begins to look like the inevitable
las happened; that conditions have
‘orced this country into Mexico; that
the United States, once in that land,
will never get out. It is predicted
hat in time the flag of the United
Jtates will float over every mile of
cerritory between the Rio Grande and
Panama.—Athens Banner.
The Laurens Citizen favors a law to
prohibit the sale of pistol cartridges.
Pistol owners would do no harm with
such weapons if they could not buy
cartridges argues The Citizen, which
avery one will admit is true. Abol
sh the pistol-toter along with the li
juor traffic. These are twin-evils,
ind are responsible for more crimes
han all other agencies combined.—
Jawkinsville Dispatch and News. *
An Illinois undertaker has put fire
»xtinguishers on his hearse. We hope
here is not in his preparedness pro
rram a suggestion as to where the de
eased who ride in it are going.—Dal
ton Citizen.
An insurance expert says men who
»at heavily are “bad risks.” There is
lothing like being a country editor. It
is very easy to make an insurance
yolicy take the place of a square meal.
Our old friend, “Give 'Em Hell”
Jutchins has been woke up. Nothing
‘he president or congress has done
suits him. Country made a miserable
nistake when it failed to call Rufe to
manage it..
Thank You.
The Cordele newspapers have been
.onsolidated, the Dispatch taking over
he Tribune. Mr. Charles E. Brown
will be editor, the Hon. Max K. Land
etiring. Mr. Land was a fearless, out
spoken editor. We wish his succes
sor well.—Dalton Citizen. ;
Nevertheless, an advocate of unpre
varedness always feels better when
his life insurance is paid up.
| WE PROMISE.
The merging of the Cordele Dispatch
with the Tribune outfit of that city
“as resulted in one good paper for Cor
lele. The issue of last week was a
rood one, and we expect the 11(\\»’{
management of the Dispateh to cive
this fine town and section a good news
paper.—Montgomery Monitor. }
Scientists have not yet advanced the
‘heory that when nature designed
nan’s head she placed his ears in
heir present position so that they
might be handy for the anchoring of
ipectacle bows.
No that we are anxious for “Teddy”
{0 get in the limelight again, but we
do believe that he is needed in Mexi-
Cco.
TIN CANS, AWAY WITH THEM!
Who would have thought that the
in can is a menace to the public
health? The expert malaria inves
tigators of the U. S. Public Health
Jervice have found however that dis
‘arded tin cans containing rain water
are breeding places for the mosquito
which is the sole agent in spreading
malaria. A hole in the bhottom of the
empty can might have resulted in the
saving of a human life. Certainly it
would have assisted in preventing a
Jeliberating illness. Empty tin cans
qave no business about the premises
anyway, but if we must so decorate our
vards, let's see to it thatthecanhasa
10le in the bottom. Bunch them and let
he scavenger cart get them. Tie
hem to the tails of the good dogs and
cats. Get them away!
A short time ago we installed a re
markable machine in our accounting
Department—a machine which adds
and subtracts, tells the date, keeps
our books and gets out monthly state
ments. It does all this work much
faster than any bookkeeper could,
and has never bheen known to make a
mistake.
The installation cf this Borroughs
Bookkeeping Machine means that
our accounts will be handled just as
rapidly and accurately as those of
the largest and most up-to-date banks
in the country.
Insures Accuracy.
The fact that our figure work 1s
done on a Burroughs is a guarantce
to our customers of absolute aceura
¢y in the handling of their accounts
The machine method of ledger post
ing makes it impossible for a mistake
to get past unnoticed. This aceuracy
insurance alone is important enough
to you and to us to justify the use of
the machine method, but there arve
many other advantages.
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ure work in about half the time form
erly nceded. This gives -us. more
time for other things—time to im
prove the service in every depart
ment of the bank.
Come in and see our machine book
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machine makes entries in our books,
how it automatically adds in one col
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and how it makes mistakes impossi
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We don’t want you to think of this
pank just as a place to deposit your
money, although of course we are
glad to have you keep as large a bal
ance with us as possible. It is our de
sire to render our patrons every ser
viee and aceommodation that can be
reasonably expected from us.
Talk over your business problems
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tions, and it may be that we can sug
oest some ideas that you may find
worth while. Please feel free to con
sult us at any time.
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