The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, May 17, 1916, Wednesday Edition, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text-— PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY BY DISPATCH PUB LISHING COMPAINY. - CHAS. E. BROWN, Editor, - -— J. C. BROWN, City Editor. - Subscription—One year, $2.00; Six months, $1.25; Three months, 75c. Cash - Communications on all topics published when not too long and accompaniea by full hame and address. Not responsible for views expressed by contributors. Entered as second class matter Januar y 8, 1916, at the post office at Cordele, Georgia, under the Act of March 8, 1879. L s OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CRISP COUNTY. PRESS VERSUS LYNCHING. Judge Walter F. George of the Cor dele circuit in his charge to the Crisp county grand jury Monday was rath er severe on the state press for the agitation that has grown out of the icreasing lynchings throughout the state. He is right in his assumption that such agitation does Georgia harm abrpad and especially in the sections of the country where capital is made of it but he forgets that the press is the powerful agency through which the people of the state are ultimately to find a way for curbing this evil. If he honestly at heart is looking for some means of diminishing this crime against the state, he ought to thank heaven that the press is tak ing hold of it with considerable show of spirit. Not one in a hundred of the papers seeing the dangers of the grow ing lynching habit has been disposed to ridicule or misrepresent. On the other hand, most of the papers who have had anything to say at all, are disposed to offer such suggestions as come from an honest study of methods of bettering conditions. Not one com ing under our eye is destructive or inflamatory. The agitation of the past month is the kind that can but elicit the hear tiest commendation from even our bit- terest foes of the north for the whole discussion has amounted approximate ly to one great voice raised against the lynching habit. And when it be comes stylish for the people of such a commonwealth as Georgia to make a bed fellow of Lynch Law, when peo ple weigh so lightly a human life as do those who permit the innocent to be done to death by a mob,—it is time the press raise a protest. The evil has made it necessary for the press to speak out and, yet withal, the public protest is still in a spirit of kindly effort to accomplish good. Judge George asserts that the lynch ing evil is atmospheric. So it is. In the molding of public sentiment there must be some stroke of a titan that will eventually check and wipe out the belief that it is right to take hu man life without the law, else this uncurbed danger will become a part of the nature of a very people. i Almost at the very hour Judgei George was so expressing himself in} his own court, out in Texas a mob raided a court room and seized a ne gro at the moment a jury pronounced him guilty and later burned him in the public square in the presence of thousands of people. Within the last two years mobs in Jones and Worth counties, this state, went out for blood and murdered innocent persons without compunction or conscience. Is it not time the press raise a pro test? Jt is but natural that a superior court judge should resent unfriendly criticism but the superior court judge who really has it in his heart to help save the people of his state from the growing tendency to countenance such lawlessness as finds rooting in the lynching habit, will welcome such an effort as the press of Georgia is making. Is it not time the judges, the press, and the people all, were agreeing among themselves that they will pun ish the next mob that takes human life without the law? If the hoodlums and the ruffians who usually lead the mob knew certain punishment was ahead of them how much further would they go? If the lyncher knew he could not have the sympathy that it takes to perpetuate him ig his act, would he dare risk his chances? wa Let Georgia newspapers, Georgia judges, and the people who love to perpetuate the dignity of the law con tinue their fight till mob rule is no more. Let no judge no matter how strong a hold he has on the constitu ency that gave him his office, enter tain for a moment an idea that such constituency would countenance a lynching. Punishment for the lynch ers is the right medicine. The judge and his constituents, the jurors, com prise the source from whence punish ment should come. When it is start ed with vigor, iynching will be stop ped. Punishment for the lyncher is a most eloquent way of saying that lynching is unlawful and dangerous to human organized society. OUR LITTLE COUNTRY PAPER. William Allen White in Harper’s Weekly Magazine has this to say about the country newspaper: “Our papers, our little country | papers, seem drab and miserably ~ provincial to strangers; yet we ~ who read them read in their lines ~ the sweet, intimate story of life. ‘ And all these touches of nature | make us wondrous kind. It is ~ the country newspaper, bringing together daily and threads of the ~ towns’s life, weaving them into ! something rich and strange, and setting the pattern as it weaves, directing the loom, and giving the cloth its color by mixing the lives of all the people in its color pot—it is this country newspaper that reveals us to ourselves, that keeps our country faith strong. “When the girl at the glove counter marries the boy in the wholesale store the news of their wedding is good for a forty-line wedding notice and the forty lines in the country paper give them self-respect. When in due course we know that their baby is a 12- pounder, named Grover or Theo dore or Woodrow, we have that neighborly feeling that breeds real real democracy. When we read of death in that home we can mourn with them that mourn. When we see them moving up ward in the world, “into a - firm" - and out toward tue country club’ neighborhood, we rejoice with them that rejoice. Therefore, men and breathren, when you are riding through the vale of tears upon the California Limited, and by chance pick up the little coun try newspaper with its meager tel egraph service of 3,000 or 4,000 words or, at best 15,000 or 20,000; when you see its array of country side items; its iterminable local stories; its tiresome editorials on the waterworks, the schools, the street railroad, the crops, and the city printing, don’t throw down the contemptible little rag with the verdict that there is nothing in it. But know this, and know it well; if you could take the clay from your eyes and read the lit | tle paper as it is written you then ~ would find all of God’s beautiful - sorrowing, struggling aspiring worid in it, and what you saw would make you touch the little pa per with reverent hands.” All of the country papers do not deserve to have such things said of them, and yet what a perspective! The country editor who doesn’t try, when he reads this, ought to be warm ed up to his opportunity. There is not a more powerful local force than the country newspaper. The good ones are the absolute law. They are the exponents of all the standards in the communities where they circulate and industrially and for the most part intellectually, the community is much the same as its newspaper. In hundreds of the best country communities in Georgia the editors of the little papers are sleeping past their opportunities. How many ol them f{ail to stand for something or try to set stakes all the time for something just a little better. Where there is a country paper with the soul of a man throbbmng in it, his heart beats are for the warming of other hearts. The power for good is there, and time cannot change it. The Parent-Teachers’' Assoctaiion of Brunswick will give its active sup port to the movement for compulsory education laws in Georgia. When the parents and teachers decide that a thing is desirable, it is hard to see how a politician can muster the temerity to suggest that it is not essential.— Savannah Morning News. BIENNIAL SESSION—WHEN? ‘ Georgia is one of the only six states left now holding annual sessions ot‘ its legislature., The others have gone} to the biennial sessions and it is a thing of more than ordinary note that‘ they are satisfied with what they have. An annual session—an extra session now and then thrown in—is a thing that may well be considered as an expense which could be easily re moved. ‘ There is no new argument in thel assumption that Georgia needs its funds for its schools, for the exploi tation of better methods in agricul ture and a thousand other things—and it needs less for its legislative ses sions. If we can afford to relieve our counties of the biennial setto and make it every four years instead, we can well afford to cut the sessions of the legislature down and save the expense. Members of the legislature who have the good of the state at heart ought to begin to look.well to this thing. Besides the saving in expense, the state would be relieved of the de liberations of these sessions that of ten are now no more than a simple farce and the members themselves might turn to real business. Much of the lost time in the annual session is due to the fact that there is so little to do of real merit. Hun dreds of new measures are introduced at every session these days, but very few of them ever get to the statute books. The biennial session would tend to safeguard against these in numerable freak measures. The biennial session has come to be necessary. Our state needs the change. Our law makers will some day in the not far distant future see the need of this change and give it to the people of Georgia. It should be done without further delay. WHY ENGLAND ESCAPES. Occasional notes passing between the government of the United States and Great Britain reveal that the fire flies ocasionally when the affairs of the two countries get mixed with the European conflict. Of late ‘Great Brittain is said to have romped heav ily upon the business of the United States, opened her ma.ils_ and played the duce in general. But all this is a matter of little con cern here in this country compared with the almost universal desire to see England and the entente powers bottle up Germany. The commerce of the United States has suffered at the hands of England lately and rights have been invaded, but we may rest assured less of it would have ‘been done had not Englishmen known before hand that they were dealing with well wishers and their friends. England has always explained diffi cult situations as best she could and the invariable answer that such and such a course has been necessary in order to reach Germany. Playing the part of neutrals at Washington when such answers come in is all farce, but who knows better than official Wash ington that this country is eager to see the entente conquer and squelch the German. Americans are usually on the side of fair play. They want the under dog to have his day when they do find time to vary the fair play policy, but here is a change about. All the world is on the Teuton’s back—making lit tle off him, it is true—but millions of true Americans know that German militarism must be destroyed. It will be a day of republican independence in Eurobe that will never be forgot ten when the present German rule is wiped out. None of the attacking en-. emies of Germany are willing to per-i mit it to remain and if the truth werej known, America would hail the de struction with satisfaction. Commissioner of Agriculture J. D.i Price sent out information this week to the effect that the boll weevil is due in the southern portion of the state this month. Fitzgerald accord ingly, is first out with the announce- ment that the real weevil has made his appearance. Now, let our own farmers be good and remain steady. It will be many a day yet before the famous pest gets away with the cot ton crops of Crisp. But at any rate, this will be a good time to again re mind ourselves that peanuts are climbing in value. THE CORDELE DISPATCH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1916. The Mayor of Cordele has joined the great majority of judges in Georgia and promises hereafter to send viola tors of the prohibition laws to jail without fines.—Savannah Press. R e T e R '_________________ By C. L. Carden. l On account of the singing at Double Run Sunday our Sunday school and preaching ‘was poorly attended. A goodly number from this community attended and reported a good time. Rev. McMichael filled his regular appointment at this place Saturday night and Sunday. Several people from Mt. Carmel at tended Sunday services here Sunday night. Mr. W. N. Hollinsworth, of this com munity, attended conference at Per ry last week as a delegate from the Methodist church. The Hatley base ball team played their second game Saturday with Bay Springs, which was very close. They played eleven innings and the score was five and five. So they didn’t get beat at last. ’ Mr. Cecil Williams and family of Cordele, spent the day with relatives, T. S. Roberts and family, Sunday. Mr. Evans and family from Cover dale spent the day with M. F. Carden Sunday. : The farmers of this community are very busy reaping grain this week. Tump Hunt. Mrs. J. B. Walters. Mrs. P. H. Willis. Mrs. R. C. Harris. EXPLOSION OF POWDER PLANT KILLS EIGHT Gibstown, N. J., May 15.—Eight men are reported killed and a dozen hurt in an explosion at the Repauno plant ofth e Dupont Powder company. Among the dead are believed to be the superintendent and his assistant. The death rate of persons under 45 is decreasing;. of those over 45 it is increasing. Mrs. U. V. Whipple. “Chinc” Pounds. “Dot” Orcutt. Jake Sheppard. WHEN HOT AND THIRSTY VISIT - Williams Drug Co. Cool. and ‘refreshing drinks served to suit your taste. Our Specialties Walnut and Pineapple Sundaes 10c ‘Pure Fruit” Orangeade Sc l"““"é"""ﬁl.l‘ulmﬁI(I:"IIWIi'll"l"i‘{a“;-lll:"""""".l""""“Iu.l“I"“""“"""I" Mrs. Joe Espy, Jr. .. Mrs. I. G. Ingram. Mrs. Cecil Williams. Mrs. R. E. Harris. Mrs. P. S. Little. v is the place to get -~ G, ’% your money's 4 L worth. Youi pay /AN e e ‘,", f vour money and o take the goods. We VLol et Y 7 }% have always sold LEH == our plumbing and . s 775 electrical supplies ‘lv » yi-f‘—“g 4 trictl I :\.,_‘ "r?;% on a strictly cash @,' 47 basis and in that ( A - \b\&\ v ‘)/-: :\- way have been . _,\,;‘. gy~ able to give good ?;;wg service for a small / 4 G S A ‘%\ / outlay. Our mnew - \}’:;_," stock of electric P\ N ¢ :‘: fans is a most com o 8\ ; plete one and now V' is the time to buy Q D if you want a good U' ,) fan. Honest work {L,\/”“ and honest prices. A. E. GRANT Plumbing and Electrical Work. e o oo G B CSRCES J. R. Kelley. Mrs. Tom Hill E. L. Kiker. A. E. Grant. Mrs. W. P. Fleming. Miss Mary McArthur. M. M. Eakes. C. B. Wilkes. S GRS S T e e DR. B. DANIEL X-RAY Electro-Therapeutics and Internal Medicine American National Bank Bldg. s Sand s AT g es T THOS. J. McARTHUR, M. D. Special Attention to Surgery and Gynaecology. Cordele - - - Georgia. o e s e S W DR. J. C. PATTEN DENTIST McArthur’'s Old Stand Over Williams Drug Co. Cordele - - - Georgia. eie eel e S MAX. E. LAND ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office Over oOld Postoffice Prompt Attention Given To All o Business PN i S R N T 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. s R S e U e HUGH LASSETER Attorney-At-Law Farm Loans 6 per cent Exchange Bank Bldg. Cordele, Ga. eole et e B DRS. McKENZIE & WILLIAMS Dr. J. S. McKenzie -.Dr. P. L. Williams Physicians & Surgeons Office over Williams Drug Store Phone 468, Cordele, Ga. eRs L e DR. W. E. EDWARDS Physician and Surgeon Office over Williams Drug Store Cordele - - Georgia. - e wm #m Merchants Can Buy Goods at Prices T r—— VVe wish to impress it on the mind of every man, woman and child in Crisp county who needs substantial merchandise in Shoes, Clothing, Hats, Dress Goods, ladies’ ready-to-wear, and, in fact, al most everything carried in an up to date mercantile store, that it is practicing economy to patronize our stupenduous Removal Sale, which is well under way. This sale has already af forded many bargains for hundreds who have visited our store within the past week or ten days, but there are thousands upon thousands of bargains just as attractive as these still left to the buy * ing public. Our best argument is quality and price. We have always carried goods of quality. Now the fact that we are preparing to to leave Cordele to engage in another line of business at Waynesboro, and the short time in which we have to wind up our business affairs here, makes it necessary that we throw the entire stock on the market and sell every article at and below cost. It is your oppor tunity! Follow your best judgment and come to this sale! Ask your neighbors and friends about it Everything in this stock must be swept before the broom of low prices. We are closing out— quitting business to stay quit in Cordele. M—_———————“— _— ° ° ° There is no need to quote prices. Let it suf e e fice that we are selling out at and below cost. If : , ° ° we can’t get our price, we will take yours. EIGHTH STREET - CORDELE, GA. 1,500,000 CITIZEN SOLDIERS NEEDED Fort Oglethorpe Ga. May 16.—Gen Leonard Wood told business " and professional men in the Southern mil-‘ jtary training lamp here tonight that they should “help puild up a senti ment for national service” Which would not only mean bearing arms, but other emergency requisites from “manufacture of munitions down to service on the line as a surgeon.” A large delegation of Chattanooga men and women were on the review grounds when the citizen soldiery passed before Gen. Wood, and heard him speak to the training camp men later. «We are going to continue this training camp work just as long as att>ndance justifies,” the general was heard to say. “We expect you men to be missionaries after you leave. This country needs an army of more than 200,000 and a first-class navy. We want a good National Guard, not a state éuard but a national guard. He said the volunteer army plan had been made worse than worthless by modern conditions “in which war comes like an avalanche! To be ready for war with a first-class power 1,500,000 citizen soldiers “must be trained in times of peace” he said “We should preach military obliga tion. With suffrage goes obligation for service, and with equal opportun ity equity of responsibility.” Gen. Wood said that the nation’s main reliance for peace and integrity must be on a citzen soldiery trained in arms. o 8 e e e e | J. J. Williams. A million persons assembled in a crowd, with due-allowance of three square feet to a person, would cover an area of about 70 acres. W Frank E. Williams keeps horses and mules for trade or sale all the time. " 49-tf e e e WANTED—To bhuy good second hand refrigerator cheap. Aley at once to W. H. Higgins, Americus, Ga. 6-2 t S A N e e If you are looking for something and can’t find it, ask Frank E. Wil liams. ; 49-tf R e G e FOR RENT—S-room house known as E. M. Gunn residence on Northern Heights. Apply to Dr. W. W. McCol lum. 52-tf M e S FOR SALE—Cow Peas, cheap; Syrup, ~ Molasses, Coffee and Rice. Write for prices. W. H. Davis, Box 714, Au gusta, Ga. 6-24 t e ——— R e Frank E. Williams will trade for anything. 49-tf ST AT ee B e WANTED TO RENT—Ten to fifteen acres of land, at once. Hurry, care Dispatch. 7-1 t SECOND HAND FURNITURE—Tay lor, The Trader, buys and sells sec ond hand furniture and refrigerators. Reworks house and office furniture, of all kinds, and makes it look as good as new. 37t e REWARD—For return of solitaire diamond ring—plain gentleman’s. Lost within the last thirty days in LCordeIe——DISPATCH OFFICE. 92t e WANTED—Two unfurnished rooms. Address T, care Dispatch, City 9-1 t L S e e e i ‘ Mrs. Leo Marshall : : . D. M. Clarke. Mrs. Clyde Wilsoy. . Ll e eTI oy LOST—Small ladies’ mesh bag, con taining $1.50 in silver and other con tents. Lost at union depot. Return to J. P. Culler or this office and re ceive reward.