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Entered as second class matter Januar y 8, 1916, at the post office at Cordele,
Georgia, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CRISP COUNTY.
“« ENCOURAGING CAPITAL.” }
Encouraging capital to invest in le-l
_gitimate money-earning enterprises of
a community is one thing. KEncourag
ing it to come in and take charge of
the public service interests, to run un
til there is a good fat purse to be (:ar'|
ried away to pay the champaigne bills |
of “high life” is quite another thing.
The electric light and power franchise
in Cordele belongs to the public. That
right is guaranteed. We cannot put
it beyond our control for any numheri
of years, much less for all time. It is |
a public interest, a property right that |
belongs to all the people, and a (-harg(:‘
that is sacred.
It is a public interest that has never
gone begging and never will. The
Cordele Electric Company never came
here to do any act of chairity for the
people. It came here to make money.
In business that aim was proper, but
it came here with its eyes open and
took charge on the very heels of an
election that showed four hundred for
public ownership as against four vot
ers against it. If the Cordele Elec
tric Company came here with “assur
ances” and the encouragement of a
former mayor and council, it aiso came
here knowing that as soon as this
community reached a point where it
was able to own its own plant, that
thing was going to be accomplished.
It came here knowing that the laws
*of Georgia pre’vemed ¢t from laying
hands on that proper'ly right of the
people for any sort of definite period
of time.
It is one thing to let out lighting
and power interests remain in private
hands so that a higher rate can blight
smaller industries and run out capital
to other boints where current is cheap
er. It is another thing—altogether
different thing-—for the city to take
charge and operate at a rate that will
encourage enterprise and new indus
try to)come and invest simply by pro
viding power at a rate commensurate
with charges made in other centers.
Fitzgerald can run away with a new
enterprise seeking a place to operate
cheaply. We are no competitor at all.
All capital has to do is to find these
things out. And don’'t you ever for
get it—capital finds it out. This is
one cf its habits.
It is all a mistake to suppose that
power is rot an item. Dces any one
know how many motors are humming
all the day long in Cordele? And does
any one know how many more would
be humming if the current could be
bought at a price like that afforded
in nearby towns?
Tll(: power bill in the Dispatch plant
is nearly equal to our rentals. Our lin
otype motor is on the lighting current
for which the power company charges
11 cents per killowatt hour. This lit
tle motor hums all day long and some
timgs in the night. The scale pub
lished by the Cordele Electric Com
pany entitles us to a rate of six cents
per killowatt hour. We are being
charged 11 cents because the company
does not choose to put in another me
ter. We have been running three
months under this arrangement and
having to pay the bills all the time
under protest. And the thing that hurts
us is the mournfully sad possibility of
no relief. We belong to that class
termed ‘“corporations.” We are a new
one with competition in the field. We
are not finding ‘“‘encouragement’” just
now from our present sources of pow
er and lighting. Are there others in
our plight?
Bug this little matter is not
our‘gx'udge. We h.u\'«‘ otherwise
found the Electric Company fair and
liberal and public spirited. And Bill
Bivins, Jr., is too nice a youngster to
stir up much ill feeling. He just
won't give us our power meter. May
be, he is not allowed to do it. He has
bosses.
The corporation that owns our elec
fric light and power plant could buy
Cordele, body and soul, even at what
we think we are worth. It is not a
local enterprise. In all fairness un
der God’s sun it is interested in noth
ing here but the dividends on its money
invested. As long as it operates legit
imately it is entitled to a fair divi
dend. But there is nothing else here
of intreest to the stockholders of that
organization. Its treasury is not in
this town. Its payroll,—its real pay
roll,—is in New York.
The Sentinel knows the difference
between this kind of an enterprise and
a local enterprise that might be looking
for “encouragement.” The people‘
know it, here and all around the world.
The Sentinel has been here long
enough to know its insinuations about
‘the water plant are all unfair. ° It
gknuws its editor does not take a bath
‘fl() often as to cause fluctuation in the
ipri(:(: of the month's supply of water.
It certainly must h?ve some little ap
lprcciution of the splendid water pres
isure for fire fighting. It knows the
}pri(:es charged are no greater than
tnose of other communities all around
ius, and it knows, too, that the tax
prayers of the community have return
ed into their treasury each year sev
eral thousand dollars to be devoted
to helping maintain government and
municipal improvement required of us
as a progressive community.
The Sentinel also knows that the
Mayor and Council sometime ago put
on a very large reduction in water
rates which is to be in effect at the
beginning of the coming year. It will
still make big profits. The Sentinel
knows also that the people can have
further reduction when they want it.
The plant is theirs. The rates are
theirs to fix as they please. They have
the right to say whether there shall
be a profit-sharing rate or a hare cost,
rate. Mind you, they cannot do that
with the electric plant just now.
Maybe, we ought to “encourage’”
outside capital to come in and shoul
der this fine public utility in our water
plant. Of course, it is all wrong to
try to put the power and lighting util
ity on the same profit-sharing basis
for the tax payers. One cannot al
ways tell.
The people of this community are
not looking for an opportunity to “mur
dre” the Cordele Electric Company, or
rather the Southern Utilities Corpor
ation. What they want s an oppor
tunity to apply ‘lhe profits on their
power and lighting utility to maintain
ing civic improvement, enlarging the
usefulness of the public schools, and
lightening the burdens of the new en
lerprises that have to struggle hard
for a footing.
The water and light systems can be
used more effectively for ‘“encourag
ing” new capital than anything else
available. A low rate on power for
manufacturing purposes is a great.
drawing card” Many cities advertise
1 rate of two cents per killowatt hour
'l() attract new enterprises. If we had
our piant, we could do it and then
{ have something more than “hot air” to
‘:\fl’vt’ the homeseeker and the investor.
Let us say it again: Our lots are
cast in the sacred atmosphere of love
I.md loyalty for the advancement of
our community. We would not tear
down and destroy the estate of our
fellow. The citizen who would see
his community bettered, is too big
hearted for that. I.et no one under
estimate the value of the water and
lpn\\nr utilities. We have yet to hear
of the first publicly owned lighting
lv,rl;nx' that does not turn back into the
lpuh\ir funds an earning of conse
| quence. Ours will pay and pay well,
i perated in connection with our wa
; er plant. And as for “murder,” the
l:iam corporation that is operating
the plant here now would not miss us
if we were gone.
Ard if Bill Bivins, Jr., still proved
a right good boy he might go on with
his job. One never can tell
THE.CORDELE DISPATC H, SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1916, e
" 'MAKING THE HOME MARKET.
Home grown wheat is now being
rapidly made into flour and this splen
did product is beginning to make itself
felt as a money saver to the farmer
who planted enough wheat to supply
his and the families of the tenants on
the place. This year it is going fur
ther. It is getting into the market
where a larger public can reach it
and it is now possible for the local
merchants to supply a very large
trade.
The home grown wheat is more
abundant this year than it has ever
been. More farmers have planted and
harvested this crop and still more of
them are becoming interested in rais
ing wheat: This made it possible for
the local merchant and wholesale man
to look for it and lay in such a supply
as will enable him to run his flour or
ders for weeks and months. o
This opportunity of securing flour
from home grown wheat ought to be
seized upon by all the merchants.
There is unquestionably a demand for
it. The people of Cordele alone would
consume more than is grown in Crisp
county if they could get it.
It is away above anything else in
purity and fine bread-making quality.
Merchants of the larger cities sieze
upon it and advertise it as a select
article and the housekeepers show an
eagerness’ for it. This same course
ought to be followed in Cordele. Its
sclling price is largely fixed by that
of the standard flour mills selling in
the local market. The consumer has
opportunity to get it at the usual price
of flour and when that is the case, it
is always a better trade,
Housekeepers who have not tried it
will do well to inquvire of their local
merchants and ascertain if it is pos
sible to get the home made flour. We
have both the home grown wheat and
the local mills that make it. Not a
pound of the flour ought to be allowed
to go away seeking consumption. Tt is
too fine a home product to let go beg
ging. Let us be thoughtful and demand
it of our grocer. The difference in
quality will pay for the trouble.
SOMETHING THE LADIES
MIGHT DO. |
The city of Cordele has a site for
a public playground that is ideal in
nearly every appointment. It is a
| whole city square lying at a point be
vond the district where traffic is con
gested, out of danger for the little
ones, and still not too far out for the
children of the larger residence sec
tion. This site has been given over
long ago to this purpose and is yet‘
undeveloped. If the parents here
knew what real play grounds mean to
the children, not one would be left to
oppose the establishment of at least
one good place of the kind. The com-l
munity is large enough for two, but
certainly can use one to a good pur
pose. Northern Heigh'ts ought to
have a site as well located as is th?l
in the southern portion of the city
and both ought to be equipped at once.
The ladies of Cordele clubs have in
mind the establishment of a club
house on the public square to be used
jointly for their own interests, so it
has been stated, and they have gone
over plans for the improvement they
wish to make. It is their idea to de
velop a beautiful park and maintain it
as a care and a charge on the lady
inewbers of the several clubs. This
is a splendid idea.
Investigation might reveal that
while they are at this good work they
could easily devote certain portions
of the around to the plots where the
paraphernalia for the amusement of
the children might be placed. At a
small cost equipment could be had
that would atford the youngsters long
hours of wholesome amusement and
abundance of out-door exercises that
would keep red blood coursing through
| their little bodies.
f The ladies of these clubs can always
!bo depended upon in matters of this
| kind and here is their opportunity for
great good. It is a work that will af
ford satisfaction and pleasure in the
3(10i11g. No time should be lost.
i The city of Macon has several play |
\gmlmds for the children that are well
‘vquipped and conducted with great
isatisl‘action. The lady club members
;here could well afford to visit them
{and note the good things that could
ihe had at a comparatively small cost.
| Most of the playground recreation in
‘Macon is elevating and instructive to
ithe child. The bare, bald, lifeless
gquare which Cordele has near the
Primitive Baptist church could be
made to speak volumes in the shaping
of the "ittle lives for the future. The
little street tramps would not have
to be urged to spend their hours at
this place. They would be there.. The
play ground is worth while to them
and to every family.
AEEENd G S '
Sl el OSR
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' Reflected Observations |
‘e S e
} By MAX E. LAND.
i From present indications it seems
ithat Justice Hughes is in the lead for
‘the Republican nomination. Surface
iappearances or newspaper. reports of,
‘the growing popularity of Roosevelt
‘would indicate the contrary, but the
leaders of that convention are behind
‘Hughes and every man who has ob
served conventions can appreciate the
force of the machinery of a conven
tion. The seeming advantage of Roos
‘evelt is intensified by the fact that he
is a candidate and has his forces ac
tively at work. It may be that the
convention will dead-lock between
‘Hughes and Roosevelt and the nomi
nation go to Fairbanks or Burton, but
‘this is not likely. Indications point
‘to the early nomination of Hughes
or Roosevelt, and that is will be a
most harmonious gathering. The Re
publicans can see and feel the effects
of division, as it cost them the presi
dency the last time, and they will
largely be in a get-together spirit this
time.
¥ ok R Kk X
President Wilson made a Wwise
peace speech some days ago when hei
stated in substance that the neutrals
and the balance of the world would
insist on peace terms which would be
tair and ‘hohorable to all the warring
nations and would be compatible to
all, and that none should be dismem
bered or crushed. The German press
seized upon this, and it caught the ear
of the German people. They com
menced to prise Wilson and there
were rumors of peace, peace envoys
and peace commissioners. It began to
look as though an armistice might be
reached in a short time. The presi
dent had indeed baked a nice cake
with rich icing and beautiful trim
ming, but in his next speech before
the Peace Society, he certainly put a
spider in the cake when he referred
to Germany as becoming a republic.
The Kaiser is in command of his army
and navy and no doubt he will keep
them in the field until the last trench
ig taken rather than place his crown
and the succession of his sons in the
hands of peace cofi;fmissioners who
talk like this. This kind of talk was
premature at least; besides it is none
of our business what kind of govern
ment the Germans want or have. If
they want crowns, it is their own af
fair. Our leaders should work to
stop the fight and when this is ac
complished each nation can settle its
own affaix:s obout its'r own government.
In view of this second statement
coming from such a high authority,
there will doubtless be a general draw
‘ng back on peace, while the useless
war continues to rage with new fury.
Tl:at second speech was unfortunate.
*% % %
! The Cordele speech of Mr. Bryan
wos of course good, and was full of
good philosophy and homely advice,
Lut those who expected to hear a great
orator, who would furnish eloquence,
wit, humor and pathos were woefully
disappointed. He produced little or
no enthusiasm or applause and it is
conservative to say that almost any
public speaker could have read ‘“The
Royal Path of Life” for a few days
and_made as good or better speech.
Any preacher in South Georgia out of a
thousand could have preached a better
sermon. It was Bryan, however, thrice
the nominee of the Democratic party
for Presidency and this fact makes
his every utterance, however common
place, appear great. Newspaper ad
vertising is his chief stock in trade to
greatness. :
Back in 1896 our people of the South
along with others, especially of the
E\Vest. were clamoring for expansion
of currency, just as we are doing to
‘day, and as we did in the horrible
days of 1914, and some of our leaders
hit upon the plan of free coinage cg
‘silver. The gold-bugs of New York
and the millionaires of elsewhere all
wanted their millions in money to dou
ble just as they do today and the fight
came on before the Chicago conven
tion between the masses, or those
wanting cheaper currency on the one
side, and the classes, or those want
ing high money and high interest on
the other side.
Mr. Bryan had prepared a beau
tiful speech in favor of the masses and
the opportunity came for him to de
liver it. That convention was hungry
and thirsty for the words Mr. Bryan
had prepared, and that speech placed
Lhim in tlie spot-ligiiz, which he has
managed to hold ever since. If that
speech had been made on the si(fe of
the gold-bugs, it is doubtful if Mr.
Bryan would ever have been known
outside his own county.
In the North and Northwest, as &
rule, the strongest men are in the
the strongest are in the democratic
‘republican party, while in the South
party, but none.of them are-available
(on account of section) ‘as ' presiden
tial candidates; so ike democratic par
ty is forced to pick its nominees from
the strongest men of the weakest sec
tion and this is the main reason why
Mr. Bryan reached fame, and is the
reason why there are tens of thous
ands in the®South who are superior
to. Mr. Bryan, on their merits, in all
things which constitute greatness.
* % k * ok
The Georgia campaign is going to
be quiet, and the people arg not go
ing to take any deep interest in the
results, as compared with. the cam
paigns of the past ten years. The
office of Governor is largely ornamen
tal, and the people-have well learned
that he cuts & small figure in the mak
ing or destruction of a state. He is
entirely too much of a figure head
and should be given more authority.
Pottle will doubtless give the situ
ation more life and interest than any
of the other candidates. His opening
speech at Warrenton was clear and
to the point, and was a Vvote-getter.
His stand for education, good roads,
prohibition and law enforcement to
all alike will prove popular and state
ments that he will take sides on any
issue that may arise shows that he
‘has backbone. This will produce en
‘thusiasm in his behalf.
Dr. Hardman is a gocod campaigner
and his race has been well under way
for some weeks, and since the papers
are not keeping up very closely with
him, it may be that there will be some
surprise in store when the votes are
polled. The candidates of the news
papers, however, generally get up the
largest following. ;
Candidate Pottle in his Warrenton
address said he would prefer death
to selling the state road were he gov
ernor. He certainly must not be
looking for death to overtake him
soon. He’ll come to a.day of reck
oning on that big one, though.
Sl e e e R
It requires one ton of musk rose
petals to distill one pound of pure
attar of roses.
iTR ARG RRE S e R
SPECIAL! Arrow Collars, stiff and Soft, Four for 23c
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Men’s Shirts Caps
Dress. and. Work Shirts’ Bankrupt 50c and 91.00 values, Bankrupt Sale
sale price 5 price
29c 29c
Silk Ties Suspenders
25¢ and 50c values, Bankrupt Sale 50c and $l.OO, Bankrupt Sale price
price 29c
226 Men’s Under
e e e EE e naerwear
Men’S- Flne Shll‘ts $l.OO and $1.50 values, Bankrupt
Standard makes, French and plain Sale price
cuffs, $l.OO and $1.50 values 59c
69¢ e e
e e Men’s Hose
Straw HatS' 25¢ values, Bankrupt Sale price ‘
pUae i L 3
- 99 c Fine Hats
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Raln coats Bankrupt Sale price
$7.00, $B.OO and $lO.OO Coats, Bank- 99C ;
" $4.95 Wit b
Men’s Garters Fine Shoes
. Paris, Bos-ton and Brighton, Bank- ; :Z-gg :/I::::: Ez:s
Sagf S4ic e $4:50 values ;;ag
13c $5.00 values i . $3.27
Silk Ties Fine Belts
50c and $l.OO values, Bankrupt Sale 50c and $l.OO value, Bankrupt Sale
price Price : !
29c¢ 33c
Palm Beach and Cool Cloth Suits and everything for
men’s wear at Bankrupt Prices.
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: We are now prepared to negétiateiloans on improved city real es
{ate on the monthly repayment plan at six per ‘cent interest. Let us
siiow you.
CORDELE, GEORGIA.
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SIX PER CENT. MONEY TO LEND
On city real estate; monthly repayment plan, at six per cent. &
Five year loans on improved farm lands at six per cent. ‘
! LOANS ARRANGED PROMPTLY ‘ f
B.S. & J. V. DUNLAP, CORDELE, GA.
THAT’S NOT THE QUESTION
(5 Do ) TRI G W e s i RS IS SRR S e e
Does saving money require effort
and self denial? That’s not the ques
tion.
The real question ié—do you real
ize the valuable education in financial
affairs that a Saving Account makes
: available? s
1t teaches thrift, it teachés how
to equalize income and expense, it
teaches how to know the true wo_rth
of money in all affairs of life, and’
opens up numerous avenues of oppor
tunity not possible without such
knowledge. .
. You can begin to broaden your
knowledge of financial matters at once
by starting a Saving Account here.
CORDELE, GEORGIA