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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CRISP COUNTY.
WHAT THE BAPTISTS NEED.
1t is not the Southern Baptist Theo
logieal Seminary that needs a univer
sity, but the young man, the student
who is looking for a broader intellect
nal training. It is not a Baptist Uni
versity that the Baptisis need. There
can be no such thing. There might be
some Baptist school on the order of
that the good Baptists of the state
have seen fit to call Mercer Univer
sity, but that is all. The word “Bap
tist” is a restriction, a limitation, none
the less honored or sacred for its be
ing ‘so, but attached to any educational
institution in its primary meaning, it
makes such institution denomination
al. Then it is not a university.
The Christian Index, the organ of
the Baptists of Georgia, is evidently
watching the Methodists in their work
for Emory University. It suggests the
establishment of a Southern Baptist
University in connection with the
seminary in Louisville. The Metho
dist are not promising Georgia and
the south a denominational school in
Emory university. They are said to
be working for a real university where
educational research and investiga-:
tion will be unhampered. They are
trying to rise above the “razor backed”
trustee-ridden educational institution
where one’s reilgious belief must be‘
first tested out. : l
The seminary doesn’t need any Bap
tist University. It could not have it
if the buildings were there and the
money all ready in the treastry with
which to run a hundred years. Semi
naries do got run universities on the
side. Universities, the large and most
useful ones, have courses in theology
where the seminary training is cared
for.. Young men do not go to the sem
inaries looking for university train
ing, nor should they be forced to g 0
there without it.* The northern uni
vé}'éities are educating our southern
mén now for the reason that there is
no éreat southern university, no well
e(f!‘ilpped southern institution. It is to
be regretted, but it is also true that
most of the better trained ministers
of the south get their traning in the
north.
The Index suggests that the teach
ers in our Baptist schools and colleges
should get their training in a Baptist
university and its great complaint is
that we get no trained Baptist teach
ers for the Baptist schools. Where
would the university instructors get
their training if the whole thing must
bé strictly Baptist?
“1f the Baptists of Georgia—we are
sneaking of those we know—ever rise
to anything great in intellectual train.
ing, they must put aside all this. De
nominational jealousies in education
are spelling disaster at every jump for
Georgia Baptists. Don't forget that.
We are too much Baptists this and
Baptists that and too little of the real
desire for broader, better education.
We think. just now of .poor Mercer.
‘What a chance the Baptists have had
jn this school! And what an oppor
tunity is slipping ! llf all the denom
inational jealousies that have bound
it and Thounded its otherwise
steady growth could have been de
sroyed in embryo, the Index could
have written a gloriously different
chapter.
We do need Bapist suoport of a real
university. We have not the smallest
bit of it in Mercer. We do not need
Baptist trained for Baptist everything.
First thing the Index and all of us
know, there will be no Baptist to an
swer roll call. We need a broader ed
ucational outlook, then the great uni
versity to give us back young men cap
able ot doing our thinking and preach
ing. The whole rank and file of Bap
tists have now a general complaint
against too much Baptist and too lit
tle real training for our boys and
girls. Let us be done with. It is in
juring our cause.
Cordele’s Mayor did not put many
words into it, but the tigers knew.
CRISP MUST HAVE FAIR.
If the county commissioners seri
ously impress the community with the
importance of the county fair for Crisp
at the mass meeting which is to be
held in ¢he superior court room next
Monday morning at eleven o’clock,
this body of men will have done them-
selves credit. It is not enough that
they make an early start. It is im
perative that the work begin now and
continue with great ardor, for there is
no time to be lost. It takes time to
prepare for a creditable fair and that
is the only kind Cordele and Crisp
county will want.
1t is the duty of every citizen to at
tend this meeting and lend a hand. The
community can hardly afford to de
without the fair. The one good argu
ment lies in the fact that the holding
of the local fair brings out the best
there is in the agricultural community
and put it in display for the home peo
ple. They are able to make compari
sons, one neighbor with another, and
the good in the one is absorbed by the
other in the association.
Again, those who have sufficient in-
Jderest in showing the fitm products
and live stock of the community would
be assured of an opportunity to show
what they have to all the home folks.
It is well enough to take what they
have to the state fair, but many of the
homefolks never get that far away. -
The plans are laid for a business
meting Monday that will give us a
county fair. This is a matter that
will require every man's presence.
There is now no great obstacle in the
way and the meeting ought to be an
enthusiastic one. It ought to mean a
fair next fall. It will mean a fair and
a most creditable one. /
DORSEY IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT.
As a candidate for Governor of Geor
gia Hugh Dorsey has in less than a
week’s time changed from the hero
of the hour in the Leo Frank prosecu
tion to the legal representative of a
giant railroad corporation which is
trying to overthrow the act of the Geor
gia legislature prohibiting the con
struction of a railroad parallel to the
Western & Atlantic. If Hugh Dorsey
is elected Governor of Georgia he will
in such election become a member of
the commission created by the legisla
ture to re-Jease the Western & Atlan
tic Railroad.
If this new aspirant wants to be
come Governor of Georgia, he should
be quick in disposing of all this stir
created by his connection with the L.‘
& N. Railroad. If he passed this thing
lightly, the people will forget him‘l
quickly as the hero of the Frank case
and then his only claim will rest upon
his connection with the L. & N. Rail-|
road. 1
The average candidate starting out
with such a handicap should consider
the task a huge one. Many people will
admire the manner in which Dorsey
conducted the prosecution in the Frank
case, but thinking people are not go
ing to consider the Frank case suffi
cient to provide a candidate with a
platform for governor. The thought
of it revives the unsavory reputation
attaching to Georgia in the disposal
of its prisoner.
Political writers around the state
believe that Dorsey will have the sup
port of Tom Watson and that the two
will make all possible capital out {e
Dorsey’s management of the prosecu
tion of Frank. 'The liquor traffic can
spell nothing with Dorsey. He could
not afford to be a:nytlling other than
anti-liquor and the Frank plank is
Dorsey’s lone excuse.
But Hugh Dorsey has a right to run
for governor. Let us not grudgingly
accord him that right which is safe
guarding him because of the fact that
he is a Georgian. How he is going to
get away with his campaign, how he
iis going to win the votes of the peo
iple of his state and how he is ever
coming to the office of chief executive
tim the Frank plank, is a matter that
will be watched with bated interest.
HONORS FOR THE LADIES.
If we have the correct information
the ladies of Cordele are far ahead of
those of other communities in the
matter of show of public spirit nad
love of civic pride. The work they
have done during the past three or
four years in Cordele reflects credit of
the extraordinary kind. Few Georgia
communities make the showing that
’ the good women of Cordele have made.
~ Their love of their city, their com
‘munity and the civic progress they
have accomplished has brought them
far ahead of the men, the rank and
file, of the business comunity. All
the local clubs reveal a group of live,
public spirited ladies who are strong
ly interested in their home town, their
community and the affairs of the coun
ty. )
An occasion of more than ordinary
interest is the donation to the city
schools on Friday evening of a piano
that cost the Symphony club members
no little effort. The dollars and cents
represented in the gift are but incon
siderate in comparison with the love
of advancement revealed in the club
members. The gift is for a purpose.
The work of the club is telling. |
And it is not this club alone that
is doing the community the great good.‘
All the women’s clubs seem astirred
with public ardor. It is a thing that
cannot be too highly prized. This is
a spirit that is only revealed in the
livest, most progressive communities,
the world over. It is a spirit that
helps much to secure the advance
ment which is credited to the progres
sive community.
Flattery is a cheap article. It is not
flattery these club members are look
ing for. Their motives are for the
highest good and their efforts are but
the making of an advancement that
would be woefully missing if these la
dies were not up and doing. Here is
no room for flattery. It should be the
strongest word of commendation. It
should be a reminder, if we could but
make it so, to these club members that
they are building for the future citi
zens and the future home of the com
munity. Whatever we may have been
in the past, let us feel assured that
our women are doing their part and
more for a better community and the
better citizen to be. :
The Laurens Citizen is out with a
Laurens County Development Edition.
The efiort is creditable. It is a larger,
better paper than ordinarily comes
from a print shop outside the larger
cities.
Some of the papers of the state
claim that Dorsey and Pottle are be
ing 'shavéd* into“the' governor's prima
ry to beat Hardman. Not that, not
just that. If anything in that line, it
is a thrust at the old veteran now hold
ing the office.
T. E. W. is advertising for some good
man to run a newspaper in Washing
ton, Ga. The Washington Reporter
is advising that some one on the T.
E. W. order would have little compe
tition.
Now they are putting on a new
drink that takes the place of beer. It
looks all right, all right. Have never
tested it, but what's the use to wor
ry? There’ll be a time.
In all the big cities like Atlanta, Sa
vannah and Fitzgerald the tiger has
been chased hard since May 1. If we
are to judge from the news accounts,
litzgerald caught a big one, for there
was a carload of contraband goods ta
ken in the raids.
The Georgia Tech got away with the
track meet in Athens last week and
left Georgia a far second, and Mercer
with only a long winded runner who
“could leave everybody. Tech was an
easy winner.
The Woodmen are going to make the
July occasion one of the greatest in
Georgia. Few people realize how big
that celebration is going to be. The
city of Cordele will have her best op
portunity.
The Dothan Daily Dispatch is a new
paper reaching us from Dothan, Ala.
Irving B. Hilson is the man ‘at the
helm. This issue is creditable and
manifests a great deal of energy on
the part of the editor and business
manager.
A subscriber writes in and tells us
about an auto owner who sues the
owner of a dog that got in front of
his car and caused it to turn over. Bet
it was a Ford. But there is more to
this. The auto owner got a verdict
that stood against a motion for a new
trial. Well, that is turning things
about.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1916.
On the German situgtion the whele
punch of us is‘in @ very tight 'box.
None of us like those saucy Germans
and the way they reply to our presi
dent’s polite notes is a caution. They
do not even try to be good and all the
time we are not hankering for a fuss
with them.
The Atlanta Constitution had an ed
itorial Sunday arguing much against
the sale of the state road. The chief
point made was that the road should
not be sold because it should not be
sold. The argument might have been
more forceful if the writer had said
the road is not going to be sold be
cause it it'is not going to be sold. The
road ought to be sold, but the people
of Georgia are not just now willing to
trust it to the legislature to dispose of
the money which might come of a fair
priced sale. : :
Now they are saying that Hoke and
Hardwick had it planned to come down
to the Macon convention and ‘“soke”
President Wilson by having ‘t‘he boys”
at home repudiate the nation’s chief
executive,—that they were warned not
to try it, and Hoke was wise enough
to stay away, while Hardwick came
on into the fray only to fall a victim
of resentment, Bad thing to be cir
culating reports like this about big
men.
The extensive plateau of Brizil en
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notice, and he has men employed who have had years of experience
in this business, which has given them the advantage of moving
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Black Wire Screen Cloth 3¢ square foot
Galvanized wire Sereen Cloth 5¢ sq. foot
Scereen Doors $1.50 to $3.00
Adjustable Screens 60c and 75¢
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X-RAY
Electro-Therapeutics and
Internal Medicine
American National Bank Bldg. -
THOS. J. McARTHUR, M. D.
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Cordele - - - Georgia.
DR. A. J. WHELCHEL
Physician and Surgeon.
Offices second floor American
National Bank Building
Cordele - - - Georgia.
DR. J. C. PATTEN
DENTIST
McArthur's old Stand Over ‘
Williams Drug Co.
Cordele - - - Georgia.
MAX. E. LAND
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office Over Old Postoffice
Prompt Attention Given To All
! Business
D. A. R. Crum J. Gordon Jones
CRUM & JONES
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSEL
LORS AT LAW
1-2 3 Raines and Oliver Building
Cordele - - - Georgia.
L. L. DAVIS
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Farm Loans 6 per cent
Quick Service
¢ Cordele - - - Georgia.
| HUGH LASSETER
Attorney-At-Law
Farm Loans 6 per cent
Exchange Bank Bldg. .. . .
Cordele, Ga. |
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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 Ly
Office over Williams Drug Store
Cordele - - Georgia.
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For Palm Beach Suit or Panama Hat Cleaning
call or see R.E. Swilling. His work is guaran
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: '_;u. s ] - ; C. M. McKenzie, manager of the
gfi’;f—f—}‘ ol TR Cordele Land and Insurance Agency,
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same rate of interest on both
large and small accounts in
our Savings Department. -
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