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Entered as second class matter Januar y 8, 1916, at the post oflice at Cordele,
i Georgia, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
i OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CRIiSP COUNTY. ;
HERE 1S A GOOD ONE.
The diseussion of the biennial ses
siong of ffi(% legislature lias gone the
rounds infthe state press until some
one has siggfasle(l that local measures
be left t()_".‘lthe courts and the county
bhoards of§commissioners. The neces
sity of anjannual session of the Geor
gia legislature is said to depend more
on a way‘:w get rid of city charter
amemlmefits, creating and abolishing
city courts and passing hundreds of
other lm'ii measures, than on any oth
er thing. ,:H a way of getting out from
these hundreds of . local measures
could be found, it is suggested that
there wotld not be any pressing need
of a sesfion of the legislature more
than once cvery two years.
Governor Harris is listed as among
those who favor putting these local
measures in the hands of the courts
and county commissioners. Itis point
ed out that it would not only relieve
the sfate of prolonged sessions of the
I(*gisla_l\lro,;l)ut it would make it pos
sible i?,or each community to secure
such I.Q'g':_tl_l(‘gisluti()n as might be need
ed wi‘(-.:}')pul having to go to the legis
lature. -
Eveéry town and county has its new
measures and its changes of present
laws. . Big delegations for and against
local measures head for Atlanta at each
session of the legislature and there in
fest the state law making body with
squabble and wrangle that takes
time—valuable time. TUnder present
regime it cannot be helped. This is
the only way of doing things.
The plan of making the court and
the county commissioners at home
take care of local legislation is not a
bad ®me=—or at least if there is a bad
side, | it is not easily apparent. This
change would save the state a vasl
amount of time in the legislature, and
timegthere n?émis money.
The biennial session of the legisla
ture 'is the thing for us. It would
be p:bssil)le if the community were
made to take care of its own local leg:
islat{on. And the local comnnmit,\"
wouli] in most cases be glad of thc
opportunity to take care of its own
('han:ges. Georgia is one among the
few iefl to the annual session of thc
legislature. The people wounld wel |
come“ the change and the state wouh?i
be Itelpéd financially. It is a goo¢ i
propbsition and one the politician neec
not fear to handle. |
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LETTING OPPORTUNITY SLIP.
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During the present year investor:
caulé to Cordele with a view of erect
ing h handle plant,—a large factory
Thef said they were attracted to this
poin{ on account of the splendid dis
}ribujting advantages which we seemed
10 hzivg. A thorough investigation was
made—and the handle plant went
Albany. A new industry has been ad
ded to that vif,\’ which it is now re
pormfl.‘;l}vj,ll‘;‘mé;m a monthly payrol!
rea('lfiflg Phto the thousands. The fac
tory is almost completed and is there
to speak for itself. There are individ
ual eleotric motors on every machine
in the plant and the power is secured
at less than half what it would have
cost 1 Cordele.
Here is a chapter in our industria!
development which ought to mean
something. Not one in ten of the bus
iness men of Cordele ever knew how
we let this enterprise slip. They dc
not even yet know that the investors
wanted to come here, but they did try
and their visit was noted in the news
columns of The Dispatch at the samce
time-it as announced that a mnew
bakery was coming. ‘
The success of Fayetteville, N. C..
witlr"'municipal ownership of its elec
tric light and power plant, the profits
on which plant have already been
given to the public through these col
umns, is nothing short of marvelous in
an industrial way. There are seven
cotton mills in Fayetteville and it is
claimed that every one of them, with
out exception, came as a result of in
ducement which Fayectteville offered
in power.
If it were known that Cordele could
ase its electric power utility to such
an advantage, and the city, by some
turn of good fortune, did happen to get
hold of this greatest of its public util
ities, there is not a piece of
property in the business cen
ter that could be bought for
twice its present value. Half a dozen
such enterprises as we let slip in the
hum’ll(-, foctory would inake this an in
dugtrial center that would open the
eyes of the business community. And
the cotton factories and handle facto
ries and other factories are going up
in the other communities while we try
to satisfy ourselves with an agitation
tor the enlargement—of our cemetery.
Good citizens, let’s take over our
electric lighting and power interests,
combine them with our water plant
and operate them both with a com;
mission of business men. We can then
furnish our own water and lights for
the community at a lower cost, save
the cost of the street and white. way
lights and the public water supply to
the tax payers, and at the same time
offer the investor an inducement in
water and power that will bring him
to us. You do that for us and we
newspaper men can then go to the out
side world with something far more
attractive in our columns than a move
ment to enlarge our cemeteries. Give
us this big irducement—the bhiggest
one that is now in your power to give
—and we will tell them about it. And
he advertising your city will get will
10t cost you a penny.
WHO WILL ANSWER?
Atlanta is ordering eight times
as much liquor as Savannah. But
what did Atlanta do for liquor be
fore May 1? Surely not all these
thirsty Atlantans who are ordering
intoxicants now acquired thirsts
since the new prohibition laws
went into effect. And if the thirsts
are of long standing who sold
these Atlantans whisky under the
old laws?’—Savannah Morning
News,
Isn’s that a timely question? Savan
lah has as much right to ask.it NnOwW
18 any city in Georgia. You cannot
seat that plain old city for frank, oper
wd above board sailing. When Savan
Iwah had her drink nobody there cared
wvho knew it. When it was:decided
hat the time for a clean up h;i‘(l come
he start was made tn good fiii\h and
he thing is being done in hon(;‘s."t form.
The question raises the presl_\'mlp_tinn
hat Atlanta has not been halt’so fair
vith herself. The people of Savannah
ve venture to say, will nmif{:tain a
yrohibition schedule far nmr(-:.\vorth,\'
f a large city. ';
S T SRR R R
If Cordele had a few monuments in
he public square to the *“dead ones”
md some more ground in Patter'’s
field to lay away their remains
sternal, peaceful rest—but what's the
Ise? We never can have all these
zood things at one time.
Electric power is going to turn the
vheels of commerce more and more as
nvention places it within the reach
f the great industries. It is today:
i agency of useifulness a hundred
old greater than it was twenty years
0. Every decade—almost every
vear-—adds new uses in the commer
‘ial world. Ten years hence the cit
zens of today will marvel at the de
velopment of electric power, as he
stands amazed at present over the ad
vancement that has been mada in the
yast decade. Are we doing our ful
iuty to ourselves and our future city
0 pass out oppertunity and let this
yublic utility go on in private hands®
The longer it remains in possession of
sthers, the harder will it be to re
claim it when we wake up to the ad
vantages of using it ourselves<for the
o 3 lip
zood of the public. . b
l Reflected Observations El
By MAX E. LAND. l
All the candidates who have an
nounced for governor nave amwunced'
against the sale of the state railroad.
I cannot keep out of my mind thel
idea that this is done because the can-|
didate thinks this is the popular side
of the question. It may be the popu
iar side, but is it the right side—the
business side? This is the main ques
tion.
The state railroad should certainly
be treated as a busiiess question and
not as a political question. The deep
‘e:' it gets into politics the harder it
it to put back on a bhusiness bhasis. The
sale may not at this time be the mere
iy popular side, but it is the right side
and the people will in time learn the
lLrut!l. The facts and figures and sim
ple justice and fairness to the people
of this state demanas the sale.? The
great and primary point in the case,
which might be termed the gist of the
guestion, is not on the line as to how
much the state can make out of the
ir(.u(l (I wish this were true) but the
' burning question is how much the
! state is doomed to lose unless they sell
Lat this crisis in its history. No ques
lliun involving money saved to the
lt;tut,v. hias ever been as important, still
no one at all to champion the rigit
side, simply because surface opinion
has made the non-sale appear popular.
The facts in favor of an early sale can
not he controverted or disputed and
they said solid, convincing and indis
viitable.
It is not so much the case of need
ing a Moses on this question, as it
is the need of a man every inch a man,
who would show the people the right
side and bhefore it is too late save to
the state practically the price of the
road.
kK ok ok ok
if.a hundred people in Cordele were
waiting at the depot to board the
‘rain for Macon and the engineer ad
vised that he only wanted to be called
sngineer and draw the pay, but that
the crowd would have to run the en
zme to Macon, do ycu suppose any
progress would be made. Not much
if anybody had to run the engine at
once. This style of running things
\ wwever, might well be called the dem
yeratic way—a real simon pure de
mocracy in full working order. Well,
| t's just about such a condtion of af
‘airs today both in the state and in
he nation, and the more [ see of this
dea of democracy the more I am con
sinced that Alexander Hamilton had
he correct idea of government, and
Jefferson the wrong one—all we Jef
‘ersonian Democrats to the contrary
aotwitstanding. Yes, Hamilton was
sight, and with so many new and co'f
lex questions arising continuously
he more [ am convinced of the fact.{
A strong centralizing government is‘
‘he only real government and the only;
sne which will give satisfaction to|
he people. Many great questions are‘
wising which tax to the limit 0111"
;reatest minds to know just the right‘
vay to deal, and when these questions
ire not correctly handled, and are
wandled trom a political, givé-me-the
ilice or selfish view, complications
wmnd dissatisfaction will follow. The
«publican party in actual .practice
las always stood for more centrali
ration on government in the hands
f men who will run the engine and
his is the identical reason why this
»arty is able to inspire more confi
lence in the business world.
Three out of five of the business men
sven of the south have more confi
lence in the republican party manage
ment of the government than they have
n the democratic. That suggestion
vhout the engineer is the main cause.
00, and besides the people of this
section are going to stand for more
srosperity in future and less politics.
President Taft appointed Justic La
nar of Georgia on the Supreme court
bench of the United States, and he al
-50 appeinted Justice Burton of the
itate of Tennessee to the same high
yosition. 1 judge that Mr. Taft was
10t playing politics when he did this.
belause these men were southern dem
yerats and Mr. Taft ran the risk of
losing a state in his run for the pres
‘dency by doing this, but he was big
nough to do right regardless of poli
tics. On the contrary, president Wil
son appointed a Boston lawyer on the
supreme bench, and he also appointed
1 negro on the Municipal court in
Washington City. Do you suppose it
was done to make him stronger for
he i»residcnc_v in the doubtful states?
[ believe ninety-nine out of a hundred
will believe it was the second term
zerm which caused such a thing, but
consider the two kinds of appoint
nents, and make your selection, using
he biblical standard of *by their fruits
ve shall know them.” 'Who appears
o be the best man in this just com
‘arison of their works?
No southern man should care a rap
about the democrats losing out, for
national democracy means nothing
now to the south, except financial
suffering. The south was on a star
vation basis when Cleveland was pres
ident, and at that time paid dearly
for the bare name of democracy, and
it is nearly as bad under Wilson, and
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1916.
would be if it were not for the 5;_(_:39)"
this country is making out of the war.
The manufacturers and speculators |
are growing rich and while the fea.et]
is on a tew crums will-fall among com
mon people, but this is not prosperity.
No it is not the kind of prosperity the
south will get when we are able to for-\
get the phantoms of old and stand for
independence which will mean per
manent prosperity. 'We must forget‘
names and live in the present, and}
vote for men and igsues. This is the
}only direct road to the satisfaction
and prosperity we are jusly entitled
‘to, and which we would surely reach
U)y taking the right road.
i The Unadilla Reporter is going after
that new county. Lon Burton covers
his front page this week with a head
line that would have set a large city on
fire with the craze ror an ‘“extra.”
That's the right way. Push and pub
licity of the right kind wiil bring the
good results.
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| Governor Harris has the best of the
lweek’s run in ‘the weekly pregs this
time. Many papers have indicated in
lrecent issues that Harris has with
stood _all the excitement created by
the new candidates in splendid ‘man
ner and is still apparently stronger
than the next best. His strength will
increase as the new wears off the
others. 3
That’s some “lite” the nortlx‘(.‘eorg,izx
newspapers are having with one of
their judges. This judge has a reputa
tion of putting them in jail when they
fail to do things to his liking. Shope
of the Citizen, talks back at him like
2 brave man.
Dorsey now has the full backing of
the crowd that gave the Frank case
such wunsavory notoriety. This can
!zlidale may have other friends also who
[MI! vote for him, but Watson's fol-
Lwipg have the word now and the
call to the clansman is clear and dis
tinct. Georgians should not forget
that Dorsey has more to his credit
than the Frank case. He is of coun
sel for the “Ellen N.” ‘
Cordele does not need a 'bon(l issue
vyilh which to preserve to its future
development its electricic lighting and;
vower “interests which must betohie
}more valuabie as the years go by halt‘i
30 much as it needs a larger cemetery
(o bury its “dead ones.” ! l
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~ Among the many urgent needs of
the business community is a very large
bemctery—a greatly enlarged one—
one in which it will have ample room
to bury its “deadones.”
Cordele can far better afford to pass
up all good opportunities to bring in
new enterprises than it can sleep past
the time for increasing its cemetery
arears. Some day it will need room
to bury its ‘“dead ones.” l
WILL BUILD 25,000
MILES OF RAILROAD
New York, June 7.—The Russian
cabinet has decided to prepare for
the construction of 25,000 miles of
railread in Russia within five years,
iccording to information to the Amer-]
ican-Russian Chamber of Commerce. !
The value of the annual orchard'
yroducts of the United States reached;
1 total of $140,000,000. ‘
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E. P. McBURNEY, Vice-President J. V. DUNLAP, Cashier
CAPITAL $lOO,OOO---SURPLUS AND FROFITS $38,000
DEPOSITS JUNE 9th, 1916 $232,293.95
Service and Safety The Banking Demand of The Hour
.. . Whether you, are a buginess man, day laborer or house
keeper, we want you to know that a full realization of the bank
ing needs of the community is the one thing that has led us to
our established policy of good banking service. Service is the
““‘somathing more”’ that makes this institution the highly re
garded financial’ home of its depositors. :
‘Business f:conditions are steadily iihprofiing. The advanff:e
is marked, too, by conservative, consistent preparation that is
more substantial than this country has ever known. Our sec
tion, our state and our county are heading into the great in
crease in volume of business with an unshaken policy of ‘‘safety
first’’ that is going to count in the footing up of the net gain.
No banking housa has givea more care and study to safeguard-.
ing the interests of its customers than has this institution. We
know what safety means. You get the benefit.
Your Account Will be Appreciated and Receive Our Best Aftention
The Responsibilities of Our Directors Exceeds
Two Million Dollars
SOLDIERS FOR NIGHKT
POLICEMEN AT GIRARD
..Columkus, June §—The City Coun
2il of Girard hag suspended two of the
members ol the local police force when
it was unanimously decided that dur
ing ‘the time the town is under mar
tial law it is not necessary to keep
night patrolmen on duty.
Denver domestics demand $l2 a
week. ; }
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Manhattan and Bates Street Shirts,
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.o 182 Eleventh Avenue
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