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Entered as secornd class matter January 8, 1916, at the post office at Cordele,
Georgia, under the Act of March §, 1879.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CRISP COUNTY.
IPEANUT INDUSTRY WIDENS. l
Anda still they talk about peanuts,
Growing and harvesting peanuts is
sure to become one of the iurln.\'trivs}
of this and adjoining states the very‘
moment the {armers learn that they
(-,:l_h make soniething by raising muli
selling them. The business of fimlimz{
ol is going on, too, in such a way n:s]
m“x'vw-;z! that the farmers are imnr-i
(zsiml. |
Growing peanuts in successful mun-’
Lek—n such a way as to get a profit
t'r&m ii,—o’lu;:ht not to he a (!i!li(-ulti
pr_bmz::s here in Georgia. It is not so
vohuin that we know how to get the
lmf:t rvsults,“l)ut the peanut crop used
to;look vnsy'. We have seen the time
w];en as a boy we used to steal them
}m"oro time. On our boyhood 'pogsum
hunts digging peanuts by moonshine
w:is the easiest thing connected with
lh’é night rambles. What pockets full
m’gplump, fat, green peanuts we have
catried through the woods to appeasol
(mk hunger after the miles of walking! |
;f we have the record right in nur}
mimd, the birds. coons, squirrels,—all
the wald _'vm'min and what hogs we
]m’fl (%fl)!fin?wl ——never ate them all be
fore time to prepare the land for are
other crop. Millions of \’()lllfl[(.‘('l‘!\“
would come up in the next ("rn]) from |
the peanuts left in the ground. \\'9l
sai it dgain: Peanut growing in thcsw‘
days looked easy. |
Now this has become a valuable
food product for both man and beast.
It is considered, for its oil, one of the
Ilneét products of the soil,—it is even
heing measured as & competitor with
()liyé oil, a far better one than the
('quvlt’(.m oils. And the meal ig going in
m,f\.'j)'eanul butter for man and i~nfi)
coarser meals for animal food. And
for all this, the commercial world is
but-just now realizing what a value
thé peanut has. Recall the history of
thecotton seed,—its start and its pres
ent value.
,fidtlon mill operators know some
thj{.«g of it. They are putting in the
machinery for crushing the oil from
thé-"peauvuts and at the same time are
])l{fl;‘ing‘ themselves getting the farm
(-r_iiltere'ste(l in growing more peanuts.
A ;?p((}rsl)lxrg, Virginia paper is quot
ing now on farmers’ stock Spanish
peé_'fiuts,~!hv kind we grow around us,
—§l.lo per bushel.
{\igthods of gathering should be
waféhed closely, for it is this that is
to,\bgz learned among farmers who have
net been accustomed to grow for the
mgtrke(. There are machines for
pic)_iing and winnowing that will solve
this'pra)blcm easily.
I peanut growing is as easy now
as it used to scem to the boy on the
pogsum hunt, and the market remains,
even as it stands today, those vast
areés that are promised idleness and
a rest when the weevil comes along to
destroy cotten, might yet be worth
sofething to their owners. The farm
eriwho is looking into the peanut grow
ing busihess is not putting his time
to.a bad thing at all.
LOCAL CREDIT.
The Crisp county citizen evidently
lmé: Jearned that his good name de
]xefi}ls upon the manner in which he
imep"s up with his accounts. There
are on all sides unquestioned traces
of a developieg tendeney to have rigid
care for the creditor and to keep him
assired, if there must be a delay. that
obligations are going to be met.
Plenty of loose business wiil be done
always. l‘redii at random will be ex
tended by the inexperienced business
man and this will continue to disturb
regulated and systematized credit
which means most to a business com
munity.
One day the business world is go
ing to demand cash as it goes. 1t is
coming nearer and nearer (o this
thing and the tighter the ropes are
drawn, the more steadily will the cash
system grow. Everybody ought to
hwelcome it, for ail business suffers
from promiscuous credit and the habit
grows once it is started.
Outside the community people are
learning to appreciate Cordele and
Crisp county as a paying set of bus
iness men and citizens. IFavorable
comment often comes back from a dis
tance about local appreciation of an
obligation or business agreement. In
the years past when cotton buyers
took the farmer's crop in at a price
too low in the spring, it is credited to
the gzood name of thi.f; community that
those who made such bad trades stuck
to them while in other commun’ties
the buyers had to sue and watch de
fendants take bankruptcy or other
ways of escaping. Our local good
name is worth something to us. It
ought to become a matter of pride in
every business house of the communi
ty. v
A HISTORY OF CRISP. |
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The history of Crisp county comni
prised in the handsomely bound vol
ume just from the press and now in
the hands of Fort Early chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion, is a literary treasure that will
be prized highly in the home of every
citizen who has a pride in his com
munity.
It is a history that for its accuracy,
authenticity and literary style, will
be retained in libraries all over the
state and especially in the home libra
ries of families whose life interests
are tied to the soil of this section.
This book is a credit to the ladies
who are members of Fort Early chap
ter. They took assignments and near
ly every member had to do with the
preparation =of “the” c#ftior® [oreits
completehess and its abundance of
information, the people of this com
munity have to thank these women,
for this historic collection of infor
mation is not only worthy a place in
any library, but it is a book which
in the years to come is certain to be
consulted by the historian.
The work is dedicated to Mrs. Ger
trude Taylor Land, Mrs. Max E. Land,
of this city, who was the first regent
of Fort Rarly chapter, D. A, R.
through whose efforts the chapter was
organized and through whose long la
bor the historic collection was put in
to book form. It is understood the
ladics are selling the book for the
small sum of fifty cents per copy. It
is not likely that they will find it dif
ficult to sell what they have printed
in their first edition, for the book
should go into every home. DMrs. E.
M. Espy is now regent of the local
chapter.
WE CRY FOR BLOOD.
In an appeal for a new trial for a
negro under sentence of death in Bibb
superior court, John R. Cooper, crim
inal lawyer of note, and a speaker of
ten capable of exaggeration under
heat of debate, said in Macon the
other day that Georgia is the blood
iest state in the union,—that we cry
for blood.
He has little right to bring such an
indictment against the state and never
in this special case. That very utter
ance will not stop till it reaches Bos
ton and every way station between
Macon and that Yankee city. But it
was made for that purpose. It brings
its author certain notoriety he could
not get in a less intense and a more
representative statement.
The truth in that special case would
not have carried the rampant lawyer's
utterance beyvond the walls of the
court room, for it happens that he
was defending one of the worst ne
gro murderers in the history of the
county. The jury that required Coop
er's negro ciient’'s life at the hands
of the law knew first that the negro
murdered his wife in cold blood. Coop
er knew it when he roared forth the
following:
‘Georgia is the bloodiest state in
the Union. Her citizenry cry for
blood. No man can get a fair trial
when feeling is at its height. I take
no stock in the Law and Order
league mass meetings. It is the
function of the court and the ju
ries, and not that oragnization's
to fulfill the law.”
Publicity sometimes helps the good
lawyer but notoriety of this kind does
not help the state. This lawyer knows
full well beforehand, too, what such
a statement will mean to the good
name of Georgia. He ought to be too
proud of his own staie and every oth
er man ought to be too proud of it to
hesmirch it with such n'lisrepresenta
‘ions. Watch the yellow journals of
the north and east fasten upon this
utterance.
FIGHTER VS. FARMER.
Senator Bill Tom Hardwick got
cusged for his effort the other day to
lreep the proposed government nitrate
plant from being allowed also to make
up the nitrates useful in the manutac
ture of fertilizer.
Senator Hardwick is quoted as say
ing:
“While I am quite willing to concede
that it is a legitimate governmental
function to provide the gunpowder
v.niich is necessary for the use of our
army and navy in time of war, just as
we provide armor plate factories for
the ships of our navy—l am not wor
r'ed about that—l do not think, how
ever, it is legitimate governmental
function to engage in the manufacture
of fertilizer and the sale of it to the
farmers, no matter how much we love
titem and no matter how often we pro
test that we do.”
The Southern farmer's fertilizer hill
i something like $10,000,000 a year
but that does not make it necessary
fer the government to go into the bus
iness of making fertilizer for him. The
Lord knows, the farmer gets skinned
alive often enough in the fertilizer in
vostments he makes and in the poor
ly judged uses of them, but the govern
rment cannot help that any more than
to try to teach him correct uses.
It is not a question as to whether
it is right to help the fighter and leave
out the farmer. Fighting is the gov
e:nment’s business wlhen there is any
tc do. Farming is altogether another
matter.
A Georgia weekly carried a long ar
ticle last week entitled, “From Dram
(Glass (o Hell.” All that and summer
time, too, after May 1.
They jump on Dick Russell if he re
signs and they jump on him if he stays
in office. Poor Dick, we never saw a
good word in the papers yet about him.
And still he manages to get about and
support a large family.
Now they are accusing Macon of
cleaning out all beer and liquor in or
der to be ready for the state conven
tion. Nothing to that argument, Ma
con just naturally likes to be a clean
town-—after May 1.
Late information is to the effect that
Siatesboro is going right ahead with
the packing plant project. That indus
tricus city is to get the plant and that
at no long time off. There is little
doubt that the country around will
make splendid use of it.
Go it, Iloke! You still have enough
loval supporters on the press of the
state to make the people believe you
had noiiving to do with that California
nomination for president. A That was
one instance of where Wilson was not
in the running.
The North Georgia Citizens is as good
a weekly newspaper as Georgia will
ever need. Pity all the others are not
that good. What a different atmos
phere might be made to surround Geor
gia industrial and educational inter
ests. 1
Holy Smcke! Somebody ' has set
Marion Jackson on Doc Hradman. And
the said Jackson charges that Dr.
Hardman is being made the tool of the
liquor business. Gently now. Doc
Hardman is a better man than that. He
is just campaigning arcund so as tc
keep in trim for the real race next
time.
Congressman Parks comes out with
the statement that he has an inven
tion for his syrup producing constitu
ents which will enable them to put up
their output so it will neither crystal
ize nor ferment. This he has secured
through the department of agriculture,
and the method is pronounced prac
tical. It will mean much for syrup pro
ducing Georgia.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1916.
Now they want to abolish the state
court of appeals. And this is an insti
tution without which the state cannot
get along. That's just a bunch mad
with Dick Russell for resigning. It
will all blow over when Bob Hodges
gets up there and begins to look pret
1Y
From R. F. Duckworth the press got
a hot one last week dealing with T. E.
W. Now if- T. E. W. decides to give
back a hot one things will begin to
liven up. Duckworth wants somebody
to shove him into the race for govern
or. Let him ceme on in. He is not
qualified to pull hair with Watson un
til he hecomes a candidate.
The Los Angeles Times furnishes a
splendid edition covering the develop
ment of the Imperial Valley, the Cali
fornia country where cotton is being
grown. This edition points out a soil
which grows in many instances one
and one-haif bales to the acre. The
value of the present year’s crop, this
paper claims, will be more than $3,-
000,000. Wonder if the boll weevil has
found this out.
The Honorable William J. Harris
mailed us a copy just today of an ad
dress which he delivered April 6th at
Athens before the Athens Chamber of
Commerce and the studeuts of the Uni
versity of Georgia. It was marked
‘confidential.’” Wonder if anyone knows
what he said. We are not allowed to
tell.
The Atlanta Chamber of Comierce
is urging a state highway commission.
Wonder how long such a commission
could keep one portion of the state
from jealousy as to work in another
portion. Right now we are wondering
whether the Atlanta Chamber doesn’t
want this commission in order to fix
up things so all roads will iead to At
lanta.
We want them to sell the state road,
pay un our public debt, including the
school teachers who are always kept
waiting and upt the remaining millions
where the interest will still be com
ing in. And we want the people to
‘have the say so abcut that unspent
‘.pum‘on.. llf -the-legislature must .de
cide what to do with the rest of it
please let us still keep the state road.
Frank Mangum, formerly editorial
writer on the Macon News, is now edi
tor and publisher of the Swainsboro
Forest Blade. There's going to be one
more good weekly in the Georgia field.
We know him. He will be given a
hearty welcome on every hand. We
hope the high cost of material does not
destroy his hope of manipulating the
financial end of the enterprise too
SOOI,
Herring, of the Tifton Gazette, has
a sharp stick after some of the lazy
weekly editors. His remarks are time
ly but somebody’s going to raise a
rough house. It is a fact, though, the
persen who looks at some of the week
lies is beaten out of the time he takes
to find there is nothing in them. The
recal weekly has a higher purpose to
gerve than that. Its editor ought to
be niore than a make-shift and a dead
beat.
Governor }arris, in the aproint
ment of a successor to Judge Dick Rus
se!l on the court of appeals, has had
splendid opportunity to reward home
folks. When he elevated Hodges, it
gave him another chance at another
home man. It would be fine oppor
tunity to even up in other portions of
the state if he could hand them all
around.
f The Darien Gazette is going this
%week into its forty-third year. tI is
a creditable weekly newspaper, made
up of the affairs of its community, not
‘the patent creeds and sayings that
have been going the rounds for a life
time. A little effort makes the chan
ces Tor newsy, crisp and fresh make
up quite different. It tells in the long
run in the paper, too. We would like
to see this one live on another 43
years.
WHOOPING COUGH
One of the most successful prepara
tions in use, for this disease is Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy. S. W. Mec-
Clinton, Blandon Springs, Ala., writes.
“Our baby had whooping cough as
bad as most any baby could have it. I
gave him Chamberiain's Cough Reme
dy and it soon got him well.” Ob
tainable everywhere.
FEAGLE'S NEW MANAGER
GIVEN BUSINESS WELCOME
James B. Taylor, of Greenville, S.
(~ is in Cordele and fs now in charge
of the Feagle Furniture Company as
successor to J. W. Renfroe who has
taken up similar work in Americus.
Mr. Taylor is 2 man thoroughly ac
guainted with the furniture business
and is fully capable of caring for the
needs of the trade in Cordele through
the Feagle Furniture company.
He has already been given a hearty
welcome by the business community.
Mr. Taylor will he considered a valu
able addition to the ranks of the busi
ness men in Cordele.
ZION HILL CITIZEN
REPORTS FINE CROPS
E. Z. Taylor, who lives in the Zion
Hill community, was among the well
&nown farmers in the city Saturday.
He reports that crops throughout the
entire section of the county in which
hie lives are in splendid condition. The
coiton crop he says is far advanced,
while wheat growing has become more
extensive this year than ever before,
and the farmers of his section all have
fine crops. Weather conditions have
been exceptionally favorable (o the
farmers of that section, and while, as
a whole, the oat crop of this year falls
short of the average, the crops of this
kind in the immediate section in which
Mr. Taylor lives are fully as good as
the average.
LEMUEL LANIER CROSSES
BEYOND GREAT DIVIDE
G. L. and R. L. Dekle received a
message Friday announcing the death
of their uncle, Lemuel Lanier, which
occurred at 9 o’clock Kriday morning
at his home at Coilins, Ga. The fun
eral services and burial were held at
(Cellins Saturday afternoon. Mr. La
nier was a brother of the late M. T.
Lanier, of this city.
No. 666 will cure Chills and Fever.
It is the most speedy remedy we know
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WON HEARTS OF CHILDREN
Between four and five hundred lit
tle tots of the city and some of ‘the
older heads realize rather impressive
ly that the s2ason of Easter has been
here. Saturday was a day that held
particular interest for them and John
Cain, Jr., proprietor of the Palace
Theatre, and T. E. Jennings, of the T
B. Ryals Drug Company, provided an
occasion that was a sufficient remind-
In the afternoon all of the children
of the city, or most of them, were en
tertained at a free Easter show at the
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Palace and were happy in the thrills
and delights of “The Child’s Appeal,”
and the comedy cartoon, “Col. Heeza
Liar.” There were two complete
shows. 3
Then the joys ran up to the highest
pitch on free soda water and ice cream
at the Ryals Drug Store, through the
courtesy of Doc Jennings. Every
child received a soda check and the
pleasure that they got out of it can
never he measured,
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not be detected by the Austrians.