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Entered as secord 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.
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN GEORGIA.
Speaking for the Education Commission of the country not long since, Dr.
Prettyman, chaplain of the United States senate, and a member of that com
mission, sald“to a body of educators in Atlanta, interested in the affairs of
Emory University that there will be no restrictions placed upon their re
searches or investigations; that the institution shall stand for the broadest
and best culture, for the discovery of truth in every department of knowledge,
and no member of the faculty shall be restricted. or hindered so far as the uni
versity is congern<d, from the most patient, dilligent and widest research.
Commenting upon this the Wesleyan Christian Advocate says the purpose
is “to have an institution of learning not afraid of the fullest investigation that
real scholarship can make.” It also says the good old Methodist who own
Emory University are to have teachers in this institution who are capable of
orlglnal investigation and wide research. Is Christian education coming to
that in Georgia? What an opportunity for the young men of this section and
what a very great opportunity for the young ministerial student!
If this policy is to become fixed in the minds and hearts of those who will
have in their hands the destinies of Emory University, it will mean oppor
{unity for the young man of the south, the value of which cannot ever be
measured. Be he ministerial student or what mot, he will have within his
grasp the possibility of reaching the heights of learning by the true route. His
days in college and the years to follow will unfold to him the deeper value of
such collegiate advantages in a language that shall ring clearer and sweeter
as he goes on down the years absorbed in an intensified and enlarged power
for doing good.
' Men who have dared to teach the bare truth in a number of southern de
nominational institutions during the past twenty years have paid the price.
Instructors who have for the love of knowledge ventured to lay before the
young men and young women of some of the denominational schools the bald,
uncolored how and why of things have been hurled out of their places as by
the power of the volcano. Some of the institutions have sent away some of
their most brilliant instructors on a simple frivolous disagreement with a
church pastor who wanted to direct the teaching of the class room. One good
instructor failed to prescribe when required to do so by the board of trustees
a sct of rules by which he should be guided in teaching philosophy. This man
knev; so well what he had to do when he was called upon to explain himself
to the board that he succeeded in transcribing to paper a philosophical creed
thajt n}early captured those who came up to the board meeting to behead him.
They had to deliberate all night and the instructor lost his place by one vote.
Dr. Muckentusfi of the medical department at Emory University said at
this late educational meeting in Atlanta that the charge of narrowness often
hurled at the church and the religious institutions of learning was not so
much due to the church as to the lack of money with which to do the broader
work of education. This speaker may be honest, but he has yet to learn just
fihit usually happens when an instructor crosses the danger line in one of the
‘;eligious edncationafinstmfis of Georgia. We hope he wins if he ever has
to fight a “razor backed” trustee who takes it upon himself to safeguard the
good old religion from the dangers of the new learning.
' The college instructor who is capable of original investigation and wider
research is usually a christian and a better one for the things he knows. The
road to knowledge is strewn with guide-posts of christianity. At college, how
ever, the young man finds that there are other bibles than his own and other
far away religions by whose creed the races of men live and die. These other
b'ookg‘-ot holy writ of other races of men are there for him to see and examine
that he may know them for himself. While he toils away he sees in the works
6t the great me nwho have done the thinking of the ages that there runs the
rich coloring—broken here and there, it is true, and battered often to a lowly
pline——bt an Infinite Purpose that finds its truest revelation in Christianity.
* ‘! When Emory sets the pace, others will have to come to it. The denomi
national schools of Georgia are marked for a greater usefulness as surely as
fhe sun shines. And it is not going to mean an era of skepticism,—far from
it. "It is going to give ‘the churches pastors of broader intellect, and pastors
of broader intellect will be better prepared to cope with skepticism and the
thousand other ills of poor, old weakened humanity. It is going to give Geor
gia thousands of young men outside the ministry who have this same broad
ened culture. It is going to make it possible for us to break down the old
yvalls and get in speaking distance of our religious educational institutions so
that it will become poggible for those who do the work there to hear our call
for broader minded men. They will give us back young men better prepared
to do our preaching and teaching and thinking.
. Take our higher education out of the hands of the incapable “razor back.”
It ougl}t'to have bgen done a hundred years ago. Emory University has prom
ised something to Georgia. May the men who guide its future destiny never
forget that promise. : , i
‘i:},’ THE CHURCH AND BUSINESS.
Out in Connecticut is a Methodist circuit rider who has the idea that the
church ought to be a sort of community center and he has brought the church
into everything that pertains to the lives of the people,—physical, intellectual,
social and spiritual. Jumping from Bible classes to cooperative societies for
buying grain and selling apples and organizing farm institutes, he has enjoyed
a marvelous success. He has even swapped the old, goody-goody Sunday
school library for a community library of over a lhousand volumes and the
reader; are now drawn from every class. More than fifty leading Jewish fam
ilies ore among the patrons. i
. Whoever enters his little church reads its ideal: e
* To make our church the best church of its size in the best com
' 4 murity of its size in Connecticut. Why not?
5 “.’ To make our church a place where the real spirit of brother
@ hood prevails, and to spread that spirit in the community.
To make our church furnish a wholesome, happy social center
. for our community.
To promote in every possible way the spirit of business cooper
ation and mutual helpfulness among farmers.
To encourage in every possible way, and especially by example,
energetic, up-to-date, know-your-business farming.
To make our community a community where people read good
things and think high thoughts, and where as fine a type of Amer
ican citizen is produced as in any place on earth. |
To make our church a place where anyone in any sort of need can |
. find the Heavenly Friend. |
" All the things that have to be done in a business community may not be-}
fong to the category of religion, but in this Connecticut community a great
amount of it is' being made religious. And why not? And look at the com
munity interest. The energy of this man must be great, and he is evidently
emphasizing the big things on which all good people agree instead of the little
things on which so many creeds differ.
Our communities are hungry for the kind of religion that forces the church
to realize that its duty is not to its members alone, but to the whole communi
ty. The good pastor and good church worker are under obligation to every
body within their reach. And it is a serious error for one pastor to imagine
that the other is his competitor. All the pastors, all members of Christian or
ganizations, ought to be interested in making the community a suitable so
cial center, in awakening interest in clean sports and recreation, in helping
the young folks to the best in literature and I}xusic.
In the real, live community there are many, many duties to perform. The
average preacher ought first to realize that, in this day of colleges that are
free and oben to all, it is possible to have in the pulpit a man of less general
intelligence than that of many in the pews. But nobody outworks our Con
necticut Methodist circuit rider.
The fundamentals of Christianity have not changed in the least. We have
a better grip on them, however, than did our forefathers. And, mark ymi, our
ideals are higher,—much higher. The church of today is more and more not
inclined to be satisfiled with make-shift and hollow form.
Much of the:lack of interest prevailing throughout the community is to
be laid at the door of the person we call the practical business man of today.
But this man in turn charges that in the church service there is little of real
entertainment and thinks of all the works of religion as a thing for the women
and children alone, whereas, real music, real social entertainment, live, whole
souled Christian fellowship, coupled with the pastor’s interest, like that of the
Connecticut circuit rider, might easily make him decide that religion is, after
all, one of the really big things of life.
TRY RICE CULTURE.
One of the little things that could
possibly be made a big one in the mat
ter of farming profits is rice culture.
It is not Tikely that a wide acreage
could be secured in any other way
than by experiment, but the farmer
should not lost his opportunity to get
the best there is on all his land. Rice
will spring out of the lands that will
not yield so profitably in other crops.
Those who are interested in what
‘can be gotten from rice growing
should take this matter up with J.
R. Kelley of the Farmer’s Exchange
of this city. He is making a study of
rice culture in such a way as to be
able to give some reliable information.
He has even gone so far as to ascer
tain whether it will be easy to have
the rice cleaned and now has assur
ance from local flour mill operators
that the rice cleaning machinery will
be put in to accommodate those who
will have crops to clean. There is
little left to do but to take turns at
it and check against the results.
A TASTE OF BETTER THINGS.
An agent of the Moultrie Packing
Company came into Crisp county last
week and demonstrated withml‘lt the
wand of any wizard that hog raising
is a big thing. He did nothing but
offer 61-2 cents per pound for pork
ers on foot, but the local farmer found
out that he is only 18 cents per hun
dred._pounds away from a packing en
terprise that can swallow up three
times as many fat porkers as the peo
ple of Crisp county can raise. The
price he paid—the price he is still'pay
ing here for the hogs is a good one.
In the first shipment of the follow
ing Farmers had hogs: W. B. Mat
thews, J. R. Felder, J. T. Hollins
worth, E. R. Morris, W. I. McKinney,
P. B. Gleaton, L. C. Averette, J. F.
Cannon, F. H. Bland, George Young.
‘H. C. Wheeler, C. B. Whatley. Among
these men the Moultrie establishmen!
will distribute more than $l,OOO before
Hhe shipments are complete.
1t has been a custom to put new
propositions on paper only for the pur
pose of making them look good. Here
is one that has a ‘“worth while” moral
in it. Nobody had time to beautify ar
guments on hog raising before the
buyer was here with the money,—anc
paid a good price. And this new in
dustry has absolutely no limit. Georgia
never had a greater blessing than has
come in the shape of a local packing
house. The fact that it is in Moul
trie does not hurt us—if for the pres
ent we are to overlook the fact that it
is not a Cordele enterprise. It is close
enough for hog raising to be carried
on with great profit. The same is
true with reference to cattle raising
for beef products.
What has occurred in the past week
has stirred great interest. Many in
dustrious business men have had per
tinent things to say about the new pos
sibilities. Among them is Ed Stal
lings, who asks pointed questions anc
%makes timely suggestions as follows:
“Do you think that there is as much
co-operation between Cordele and its
‘farmers as there should be? You wil'
note that I say ‘Farmers.” The plan
ters, a great many of whom live ir
Cordele do not need any special help
but would no doubt join heartily iv
any plan for the betterment of ou:
farmers and an increase in their in
come, and my plan does not contem
plate charity, because 1 do not believe
there is a farmer in the county wil
ling to accept charity, though the ma
jority of them would do doubt gladly
accept ideas and suggestions that
would increase their incomes.
“Let us also reorganize our Chambe:
of Commerce and call it the Cordel¢
and Crisp county Chamber of Com
merce, and get every white farmer ir
the county ‘to join (making the due:
low enough for all.) After getting re
organize let us go in for more and bet
ter hogs, more and better chickens ane ‘
eggs, more and better farm product:
of every kind that will make every
month in the year a cash producing
season for our agricultural classes.”
* THE CORDELE DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1916.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Ty Cobb has gone West. One Geor
gia peach that knew when to dodge a
late cold snap.—Savannah Press.
Capt. Hans Tauscher, a German, has
been arrested for invading’ .Canada.
This is one instance of Hans across
the sea Canada doesn’'t like—Savan
nah Press.
It is said Vill’s band has been cut to
pieces. If that will keep it from play
ing in vaudeville after the surrender
we cannot say we are sorry.—Savan
nah Press.
We see it is proposed to cross the
Atlantic in an airship in thirty hours.
And the man who attempts it will
probably go on a much longer journey.
—Savannah Press.
. We see a nor th Georgia wife has
knocked her husband’s head with a
stick of wood and cured his insanity.
We have seen a wod pile make a man
pretty mad in the past.—Savannah
Press.
The Central Dixie Highway, it is
said, will be made the best in the state.
This we learn through the Waycross
papers. Our recollection is that two
weeks ago the same inforamants de
clared it was already the best in the
state.—Savannah Press.
If anyone should take a fool notion
that he wanted to enjoin the sun from
shining or Roosévelt from talkink or
discovering new bearded birds, all he
would have to do would be to present
the papers to our old friend Judge Fite.
He’ll enjoin anything, any time, any
where.—North Georgia Citizen.
If British artillerists and airmen can
manage to bring down one Zeppelin
for every British ship sunk by a Ger
man submarine, the Germans’ air
raids will speedily end.—Albany Her
ald.
Well, the good roads enthusiasts
tore their shirts clean off their backs
to show the Dixie Highway Commis
sioners a good time, and they in turn
declared both routes to be the official
ones, so how much better off are any
of them? They had the good roads to
start with, and that is all the good any
town or county along the route will
get out of it.—Rochelle New Era.
Editor C. E. Brown has made a very
noticable improvement in the Cordele
Dispatch since he assumed manage
ment of the paper. It has been in
creased to more than twice its former
size, is full of attractive advertising
and live reading matter. It is a credit
to the thriving little city of Cordele.
—Byromville Herald.
If Villa doesn’'t get to cover in short
order and behave himself, has it oc
curred to him that Col. House may
drop in some evening for a heart-to
heart talk? Villa may outrun Per
shing, but he would never outwalk
House.—Albany Herald.
Remember, this is clean up and
paint up week. The inspector has his
eye on you if you keep an untidy
place. He is a good natured, fat easy
going kind of officer, but that is no
sign. Better see that the work of
cleaning up is well done. If he doesn’t
make the case against you, somebody
will make a case against him. He
knows. Are you putting your prem
ises in order this week?
Editor William T. Anderson of the
Macon Telegraph, one of the Dixie
“Nighway” commissioners, charmed
the citizens of Ocilla with an address
last week. The entire business town
closed up shop and went out, a whole
lot mqre of them than would have
zone if they had been under the speli
of a great religious revival. Judging
by what the papers had to say about
‘he address, he can do better than an
ordinary candidate for governor. They
say he talked about political economy
ind things like that. Mighty hifalu
rin.
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