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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
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?PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY BY DISPATCH PUB
LISHING COMPAINY.
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. CHAS. E. BROWN, Editor. —_— —_ J. C. BROWN, City Editor.
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Communications on all topics published when not too long and accompanied
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_Entered as 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 CRISP COUNTY.
: ANNOUNCEMENT.
‘Beginning with May the Dispatch
will appear on Wednesdays and Sun
days for an indefinite time. This is
sue is the first for Sunday. The man
‘agement has hardly had the time to
amake such improvements in the plant
a 8 will yet be necessary, but it is now
'Bdnsidered possible to get the addi
tional paper and at the same time give
the community one more issue which
jn time will be made as nearly repre
bentative of what is needed in a news
l;;.per as it is possible to offer under
the circumstances.
The making of a good newspaper is
fiot a task that can be accomplished
over night. White paper that cost one
find nine-tenth cents per pound last
‘December now costs us three and one
half cents per pound. This thing alone
“can spell disaster to an infant newspa
per enterprise.
‘- We can never evince disloyalty, to
our own and so far as the Dispatch
is concerned, it has nothing too good
for the people of Cordele and Crisp
“counity, but the safe business admin
istration of its affairs requires a cau
‘tious procedure. The dollar invested
in our plant must remain worth a dol-
Jar and more. This same plant must
‘he used for the daily.
“We ‘believe the time is not far dis
tlant when in our natural growth we
will'be able to make of the Dispatch
all the community will want. Let our
friends be patient till our working
gnowledge of both business communi
-9' and our new plant will justify im
trovement.
i We have added to our lists already
hundreds of subscribers who are worth
irhlle, and we are just in the begin
fiing of a camp‘atxn' which will make
the circulatfon what it should be. We
want our advertisers to use our space
because it is worth to them the price
they have to pay. We would much
rather see whem ledrn to ¥et results
from judicious xldvertising that allow
them to remain at the old habit of giv
ing us a little business just to help us
along. Let them leain to expect some
thing from their paid space in our pa
fier. If we do not “deliver the goods”
it will be time to quit.
. For the present, the Dispatch will
g 0 to the city delivered by carriers,
I;wth the Wednesday and the Sunday
issues, for five cents per week. On the
mail the paper will be $2.00 per year.
Those who have accounts on the week
ly up to the present time, will be giv
en advantage of the dollar rate to May
Ist.
When we advance again, it will be
tao the daily edition. All our business
plans on the semi-weekly will be in
augurated with a view of going over
to the daily at the next step.
4 MORE ABOUT PEANUTS.
In the past few years the peanut,
‘palitable and nutritrious, has been com
ing steadily into its own as a food
j'cwp and product of commercial im
‘portance. Ten years ago the peanut
jroduction—-moslly in Virginia, Geor
‘gia and the Carolinas—totaled about
112,000,000 bushels, valued at $7,300,000.
In 1915 the peanut crop amounted in
‘round numbers of 20,000,000 bushels,
and the value was about $19,000,000.
.+ The peanut sandwich, which has re
cently become a recognized commodi
ty of trade, is yet in its infancy. Its
‘popularity is growing rapidly, and the
sandwich output will soon reach high
_:'flgures. But the largest use to which
-the peanut is put as an economic fac
.tor is in the form of oil. Peanut oil
.is esteemed at once for its culinary
‘value, its hog fattening value and its
iflluminating value, and peanut oil
mills are being established and prom
ise to become almost as common in
‘the south as cotton seed oil mills.
¢ The state democrats have retained
the county unit rule. There was a
weak effort to throw it away again,
but the older, wiser heads held the
power,
COBB'S HERO TO THE FRONT.
Of all youngsters capable of grand
stand play at the right time, Herbert
Clay, of Marietta, right now heads
the list. Cobb county in late years
has seldom had a bit of excitement
that was not capped by this youngster
in an act or utterance that hit the
bull's eye.
We remember Herbert as a loud
noise in all the big Hoke steam roller
conventions of the past few years. But
he never got quite as far on a previous
occasion as he did in Macon .last week
when the state democrats were in con
vention.
This same young man was always on
hand, and if you will believe us, he
can make a noise. There is not a man
in Georgia who can better fill the Ma
con auditorium with convention up
roar. And he always had a fussy
crowd with ‘him. That crowd repre
sents Cobb county at all political con
ventions. When Hoke spoke, the echo
always came back with Herbert Clay
and Old Cobb’s bunch in the van of
a glorious shout and hullabaloo. Her
bert and his friends, it seemed to us,
formed a part of the steam roller, that
put Hoke's wishes right into the
throats of all the people whether
Hoke'’s wishes suit or not.
Now listen at Herbert if you will,—
he found quite a different crowd in
Macon this time and it must not have
taken long for him to get on to the
way things were going:
“I don’t think there is a man in
Georgia who will question my de
mocracy or my loyalty to the dom
ocratic party; that stands for its
elf. Butlam too much of a demo
crat to submit to any two men
coming down here—or any three
or four men, for that matter—and
going into a room-and making out
a list to be handed to us to vote
for because they say so; [ am too
much of a democrat to submit to
any two or three men getting into
a room and compiling a set of re
strictions and handing them out to
us for adoption, under which the
white people of this state shall be
permitted to vote, whether they
be democrats or republicans, or
what not. 1 resent it, Mr. Chair
man, and for that reason I want to
be recorded as voting against it.”
To one who is used to seeing Her
bert Clay and his Cobb county friends
with their shoulders to the wheels of
the steam roller, this is a thing almost
unbelievable. This is evidence of the
work of a powerful influence some
where. There can never be a steam
roller in Georgia political convention
without Herbert Clay and the Cobb
delegation at the wheel. Is this meth
od of doing things politically dead?
What a hopeful sign This utter
ance of Clay at our recent democrat-
ic convention, if it is representative,
is one of the most fitting funerals a
great political regime ever had. Tom
Hardwick and Hoke Smith are not
used to the ways of a convention like
that in Macon last week.
1f we have the right information, it
was & convention over which steam
roller methods could not have pre
vailed. The representative methods
employed, the evenness of procedue
and the real sober minded democracy
that filled the convention, was noth
ing short of marvelous. It was a con
vention whose every act came nea’
pleasing all Georgia democracy. It
is now ten years since Georgia had
such a convention and the state has
cause to be proud of the good beha
vior of its politicians.
A GRAVE SITUATION
Today one year ago Germany's
greatest crime against the neutral na
tions of the world was committed. The
Lusitania was sent to the bottom with
hundreds of Americans, some of them
among the first citizens of the United
States. In the course of events today
has brought this country around al
most, if not positively, to the break
ing of relations with the German peo
ple.
The answer to President Wilson's
demand that submarine hostilities
against unarmed merchant ships cease
is hardly more than could be expected,
but it is an answer that this govern
ment is not to countenance. Our na
tional honor will require more than
a severance of relations. To preserve
national self respect the United States
must resort to something more effec-
tive than note writing,
Cooler heads can well understand the
course at Washington, for it has been
one of patience greater than history
Lhas ever before manifested in the re
lations of two great world powers. It
has been an effort to ward off a war
fare which seems to be drawing all na
tions into a demoniac maelstrom that
is swallowing millions of the flower
of world manhood. ]
In Washington, in New York, in all
the great centers of the country it ap
pears today as if Germany has no re
spect for the honor of the American
nation, nor for the lives of the cit
izens of the United States. The Ger
man note is unsatisfactory. It is a dis
appointment to those who had hoped
to get an understanding and an agree
ment that would preserve peace and
at the same time preserve to Ameri
ca the freedom of the seas.
W are yet to have a reckoning with
Germany and that nation is going to
pay dearly for her folly. We are to
play a part in the great tragedy of na
tions. Regardless of the outcome, mil
lions of American citizens are ready
for the fray and willing to fight for
their rights. Our break with Germany
is not far away.
THE COUNTRY CHURCH.
The Albany Herald says:
“A live church in a country com
munity is a power for good. It
stands as a sentinel of law and or
der, and its appeal for righteous
living cannot be ignored. It makes
the neighborhood in which it is
located a better neighborhood than
it would otherwise be.
“The nation would be more for
tunate if the number of country
churches were rapidly increasing.
That they are actually becoming
fewer is to be deplored.”
The day is not far hence when the
country church will have its live pas
tor as does the church in the city and
town. As the country becomes more
developed, more people will be there
to make the charge of the country pas
tor larger. These people will want a
pastor well equipped for his work, for
the country people are becoming more
educated, are becoming wealthier and
wili in future years, be better pre
pared to pay the salary of a good pas
tor.
The country church wields an in
fluence too great to ever imagine the
rural community can get along with
out it. The live pastor will be the sav
ing force and the great religious de
nominations are awakening to this
need. Educated ministers with real re
ligion in their hearts are the need of
the country communities. Our larger
denominations owe it to their coun
try churches to look well to this thing.
HARDMAN AND THE LIQUORITES
Marion Jackson declares again that
Hardman cannot become governor of
Georgia without the support of the
liquor interests. He believes appar
ently that the liquor interests, if there
are such interests now left in Georgia,
are going straight to the task of pun
ishing Governor Harris for ending the
liquor traffic.
And passing over the ground again
he has this to say:
“When under the leadership of
Hooper Alexander, the prohibition
ists of Georgia had the near-beer
evil on the run in 1909, Dr. Hard
man, at the crucial point, turned
up missing. When in 1915 the
liquorites were laughing in their
sleeves thinking that they had
again fastened the near-beer and
locker-club hypocrisies on Georgia,
Governor Harris took the step
which enabled the prohibitionists
of the state to put an end forever
to both of those evils.”
Hardman is not a liquor interests
man. The last bit of that is rot, pure
and simple. Those who would sell li
quor in Georgia, it is true, may be an
gered at what Governor Harris accom
plished when he included the prohi
bition measure in the call for the spe
cial session of the legislature last fall.
That may be hitting for revenge, but
they may be assured Hardman is not
going to offer them quarter if he wins.
But if Jackson is a friend of Gov
ernor Harris he ought to be reminding
the prohibitionists that they owe the
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1916.
governor their support for what he has
already done for them. That would ke
the logical way of getting at the thing
Jackson is trying to do. It will never
win a friend for Governor Harris to
charge Hardman with marshalling the
liquor forces to himself in the race. It
is poor business to be about weaken
ing Governor Harris in this manner.
Reports from Macon during the state
convention are to the effect that con
vention delegates failed to have their
orders for ‘“Tanlac” filled. It was
a wonderfully sober crowd and Macon
did it all with a big-hearted hospitali
ty that forgot to include the nusual
heavy drinking.
Editor C. C. Brantley, of the Valdos
ta Times, Hon. J. V. Copeland, also of
Valdosta, and a party of several prom
inent citizens of that city stopped for
a short stay in Cordele Wednesday
evening. They were dn their way from
Macon c¢envention and were happy
over the fine work done at this session.
Georgia is expressing through her
weeklies a fairly unanimous desire to
have the new prohibition laws en
forced. In our exchanges we get the
larger number of them, and not one
yet has failed to show a plain wish
that the spfrit of the law be upheld.
This is a day of new and enlarged
business enterprises. From all cor
ners of Georgia come reports of im
provements, building, and new enter
prises. In cities, town and country,
business is reaching out again, and
with a vigor that has never before
been manifested. .
Senator Hoke Smith was not at the
Macon convention to “boss” delibera
tions along with Hardwick and Wil
liam J. Harris. Harris got in a word
or so, but Tommie was backed off the
boards. The convention would not
hear Hardwick when it was proposed
that he speak.
Editor C. B. Allen and Business Man
ager Thad Adams of the Moultrie Ob
server, were in Cordele Tuesday after
noon and made the Dispatch a visit.
Both look like good business men.
Their paper usually looks like them.
One is a man of finer appearance than
the other and these two seem.to be.the
kind that it takes to make a good
town.
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PICTURE.
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Sereen Doors $1.50 to $3.00
Adjustable Screens 60c and 75¢
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Offices second floor American
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
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Dr. J. S. McKenzie -.Dr. P. L. Williams
“. " Physicians & Surgeons
Office over Williams Drug Store
Phone 468, Cordele, Ga.
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Physician and Surgeon
Office over Williams Drug Store
Cordele - - Georgia.
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