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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. ;
JSING “OUR BOYS” FIRST.
If it were to become necessary to
fight Mexico and conduct real warfare
there for any length c¢f time, the pres
ent national military system would re
quire that the national guard enter
the conflict in the forefront. This is
seemingly an unnatural and unusual
procedurc. It may be that the new
arrangement is all for the best, but
this country has not proceded hereto
fore in this manner.
In the Spanish-Amecrican war the
first thing was a call for volunteers.
The answer to that call was an ample
army with which to accomplish every
military need. Thos2 who went to
war were the adventurers, those who
for the most part had no regular em
ployment and these were the very
men the country could best afford to
send to war. The army was made up
of men the business world did not
miss. The ranks were almost entirely
made up of men who did not even
leave families behind uncared for.
With the national guard in the fore
front, there are many heads of fami
lies gone from the home, and no one
is left to provide there. The states
are losing their own real protection in
time of need at home und the business
world is giving up to the army its best
employees. Those of the national
guard who go to service in Mexico are
going under a seven-year enlistment
in the army of the United States in
the face of all this sacrifice in their
business, and are to get fifteen dollars
per month.
Calling the national guard into the
service of the United States is sone
thing new. If there Is ever a need of
rapid mobilization and quick prepara
tion for severe conflict, the call to the
national guard might be most effective.
but our trouble with Mexico dces not
yet seem to require such an important
move.
There has been an undercurrent of
digsatisfaction all over the country on
account of the calling out of the na
tional guard to do service against Mex
ico. Towns, cities and communities
in numbers of instances have had com
plaints to make and groups here and
there of the national guard have re
fused to take the required oath. One
town gave notice to a cavalry officer
that he could not come back to the
community because he took away “our
boys” to join in the Mexican conflict.
It is more than likely that the gov
ernment has already met with more
difficulty than had been contemplated
would arise in using the national
guard, and it is yet an uncertain mat
ter as to how soon the national guard
can be thrown on the front along the
Mexican border. Possibly no time
could be saved.
A call for volunteers issued at the
same time orders were given to the
national guard to get ready, the coun
try has every good reason to believe,
would have netted an additional force
fully as large as the national guard, if
not as well prepared to do the service
which will be required. The outcrop
ping o.f dissatisfaction would have
been far less and those who would
have enlisted would have been the
very men the country could most eas
ily have sent to the war.
The war department is certainly not
going to be as well pleased with hav
ing ihe national guard at its quick dis
posal as those who fathered the plan
may lope for. In the Mexican muddle
a volunteer army couid have been se
cured with a great deal less friction
at home. The adventurer is the man
for this duty. He leaves no place be
hind unfilled for he does noto rdinarily
come from the ranks of the employed.
His vecord as a soldier is not bad and
the country has a sufficient number
of this kind to take c_argmolAxwx
ican trouble.
A FIGHT WORTH WHILE
Some of these days Cordele is going
to outgrow the citizen who is “agin”
everything he has not daddied. There
are only a very few of them left now.
They are not strang-rs, however, in
any community. Old, old human na
ture has things that way to an extent
in all communities, but the sooner a
town can have all its citizens join in
a move for the common good the soon
er it will be able to make telling
strides of progress.
Sometimes the old “dads” are the
wiser ones when it comes to careful
business advancement and sometimes
everybody has to ask the advise of the
older heads. That's a'i well and good
when a community can have all the
elder ones and everybody else balk
of a progressive move so heartily that
it is easy to accomplish things.
But an older citizen, just because
he is one, and just hecause he has
in time had to do with the good that
has been accomplished in the years
that are gone, rears on his hind legs
at any progressive idea and fights it
hard and fervently every time he re
membhers he is not its “Daddy,” puts
himself in the way and does himself
and his community great harm.
\ It matters not now very much who
did and who did not 2elp Mayor Jones
and the present members of council
get into the offices they now occupy.
They have asked tlie people of the
community to issue honds enough to
put the, electric lights and power
planis into the hands of the people
aird have it operated in connection
with the water system. The longer
they work the more business-like and
feasible they make the proposition
seem to the ordinary citizen.
In the mass meeting Thursday night
at the court house Mayor Jones cer
tainly must have opened the eyes of
the iax payers when he read the let
ter of mayor of Jacksonville regard
ing the municipally cwned light and
power plant. He gave Cordele citizens
the information that Jacksonville bus
iness men do not pay a dollar in T
cense and occupation taxes, because
of the fact that there is a suflicient
revenue from the light plant to defray
every public erpense with the help of
the real estate taxes.
Attorney O. T. Gower, another speak
er at l‘he'nwetiug, hit the key note
when he pointed out that the commun
‘ily is already commiited to the ques
tion of municipal ownership and has
now all the overhead expense in the
iwalcr plant that will be required in
operating both the water and power
| plaats. Simply put, the two plants
can be run at what the city is already
paying to operate the water plant and
the people can have the profits from
the clectric plant to help defray mu
nicipal expenses.
‘r The thing is so plainly a business
iproposition. such a good business op
portunity for the community, that no
%citizeu ought to hang behind and throw
‘obstacles in the way because he isn't
the “Daddy” of the thing. There is
enough to be gained for the loyal citi
zen (o forget personal aggrandizement
and fight to secure the light and pow
er plant. Every tax payer can afford
to forget selfishness :n this direction
and fight for the community to own its
light and power plant in order that
the profits may be devoted to running
the city government and its schools.
It is worth the fight.
' THAT HANDLE FACTORY.
When you get a bill for your lights
for the month of June you will
find enclosed therewith an extract
from the newspaper opposition to the
bond issue for the eiectric light and
power plant in Cordele. This is a doc
wment which tries to cheapen a form
er announcement through these col
lums that Albany took a handle factory
rav from us early this vear. The op
%K Tad erent BT ane
the factory, although it is a mther'
creditable institution. Their real ef
fort was to make people believe what
we said about it was not true.
This misstatement claims that Al
bany operates its power plant by wa
ter. That isn’t so. It has a dam ‘
which helps only a small portion of
the time, but that dam does not im-?
pound water and steam plant is nec-?
essary, just like we have in Cordele.i
That handle factory makes enough
fuel to operate by steam, but electric}
power is necessary in that plant and?
electric power is used where steam can ‘
not be used. ;
Now, we are not so very sure tha.t;
the difference in the rate on electric
current decided the issue as betweel?
Cordele and Albany, with the handle
factory operators but éomething did
decide the matter and—Albany got the
plant. We are sure of another thing:
The operators are now in Cordele ter
ritory making arrangements to freight
timber from here into Albany to be
used in that same handle factory. Let
those who stand in the way of Cordele
enterprise and progress look about just
a little and ascertain if this not true.
Let them explain also how it is that
Albany can take their plant away from
us and send them back here along
Flint river to take our timber down
there and work it up into a finished
product. And while they are explain
ing, let them also give us a fair ex
planation of why Cordele is not )'ét
a fairly good manufacturing point. Let
them explain why our raw material
from our farms and our timbered lands
have to be freighted out to othe}‘
points and made up into manufactured
goods and then freighted back to us
and sold at a price which will make all
this sort of traffic profitable to. them
and other towns.
Cordele is naturally one of the best
distributing points in Georgia. This
is due to the fact thar it has the rail
roads and the rich surrounding terri
tory. A wonderful volume of business
is being done througl here by outsid
ers. Instead of terming these outsid
ers as “strangers’” as has been done
in the case of those who came to inves
tigate the lllan{ile factory, we ought to
be opening up negotiations with them
and trying in a business way to make
them see the advantages of coming
here to work cut their commercial des
tinies. $
When we came back here after fif
teen years of absence learning how to
can a newspaper, our Imission and
greatest ambition was to operate a
creditas 16 newspaper wiose greatest
usefulness might be the development
of the (:om;nercial interests of Cordele.
As soon as our mission became known,
we were told by those whose loyalty
to the community should have been the
greatest, that such an effort would
mean business suicide One man said:
“Boy, you are headed for destruction.”
The longest day we live, wherever we
go, no matter if our future takes us
to the iartherest ends of the earth,
no matter if we live » thousand years,
we will remember thaot expression.
We wonder if that kind of advice is
given other people who come here to
invest. That reception we got has
been ringing in our ears day and
night. Such a reception rings in the
ears of new investors. 1t does more.
It drives them away. And is this the
true explanation of why Cordele is
not a larger industrial center? Let our
friends who oppose the bond issue for
the electric light plant answer. {
ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
The measure which provides that
the superior courts of the. state han
dle all local legislation ' has aready
been introduced and recommended for
passage by the lower house. - This is a
step in the direction of biennial ses
sions of the legislaturz and one of the
most sensible bills to getv ix;to the mill
at the start. It sheud be passed. Geor
gia neve;‘ neéded anything worse than
a change of the law so as to allow lo
cal legislation to be handled directly
in the .community where such proposed
local changes are originated.
Then itbwould be possible for these
who avant changes in their municipal
chax"ters and other local affairs to get
such changes in their home superior
courts. 1t would no Jonger be neces
sary to send large delegations t 0 At
lanta to advocate or oppose lhe§:e lo
cal measures and take up the ti ie of
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1916.
Reflected Observations
By MAX E. LAND. g
Mexico is a disease and has been
from the time when the memory of
the historian runneth not to the con
trary.
It has been a virolent disease with
acute symptoms since Texas gained
her independence and was subsequent
ly admitied to the union. This dis
ease does not originate, however, from
the question of a loss of territory. or
from any other cause involving prin
ciples as much as it does from a self
generating, perpetual motion, revolu
tionary blood and bone, which is the
result ot a mongrel race. They are
mercurial, treacherous, dissatisfied,
unthinking, nagging race, with no high
ideals. About the only time they ev
er had peace was during the reign
of old Diaz, who ruled them with a
rod of iron, and had every one shot
who sliowed signs of the proverbial
revolutionary hydraphoma. He never
let his disease get the start, but main
tained an aleri quarantine and always
stamped it out in its incipiency. Those
3people are not capable of self gov
ernment because they are a nation of
vipers. There is cnly one remedy for
their diseasc—absolute extermination,
lock, stock and barrel. The only per
manent remedy is to make a clean
sweep and start a new generation of
people. It would de no good toc cou
quer them, for as soon as the back of
the conquerer was turned the rattle
snake would commence to hiss and
strike. Absoclute extermination is the
only remedy for the disease. They
have no claim to live as a nation. They
were greasers then and they are greas
ers vet. Look.at old Carranza for
instance: allows his bands of out
laws to ride Mexico red-handed, killing
his own people and wantonly destroy
ing property and life, and when the
United Siates is siruck we conciude
to help him- siraighten things out, be
hold him and his gang turning upon
us. Treachery has a new name in Mex
ico, and they are fcols enough to think
they can whip 11'}_g"{"11i1ed States.
It is the duty of our.country to make
a coraplete blockade ¢f Mexico and
then put the civilization to them with
cannon balls. It is the only remedy
for.their otherwise incurable disease.
Prepareduness is”a4‘powerful and far
reaching word. * 1646 4 dead word come
to life. It is great to he prepared on
all things in life. The Bible teaches
the lesson and all moral philosophy
has set this idea in the foreground of
all endeavor. There is much primi
tive strength in the world and much
of the first law of nature. Self pres
ervation appeals strengly to every-liv
ing thing, and applfed to modern war
fare is where the word takes on new
life and new meaning.
1 Theory is often a poor teacher and
it requires a praclticai demonstration
‘to carry conviction. Modern warfare
is doing more to vitalize and establish
the true meaning of preparedness than
all the other agencies or teachings the
world has ever known.
It used to be argued, by thoughtful
people too, that the United States
could whip any foreign nation on earth
with sticks and rocks—that we were
entirely safe from any kind of foreign
invasion. Modern warfare, however,
has changed all this, and when an ene
my (however small) comes through
the air, on the water and under the
water and with powerful guns which
ican hatter down our strongest rorti
fications and buildings, it puts a pow
erful nation, though unprepared, at the
mercy of a small force.
The United States is a rich coun
try, and there is no geod reason why
it should not. be up to date in mili
tary preparedness. We should be for
tified and be the equal! of any nation
'on earth, upon the seas, upon the land
‘nnd in the air.
[ Some on may say, Oh, the United
{Smtes might become a military na
‘tlon. The tcruperment of the Ameri
can people does mnot runp in that di
rection—never has, and by their fruit
‘ye' shall know them. B#t suppose we
'do become a military nation, would it
not be better than' Chima? Weak
‘hearts would beget anothex China, but
the spirit of Washington, Lee, Lincoln,
Andrew Jarkson and Stonewall Jack
son is still shaping the destinies of
+his country. Tlrere is pno room for
'mr_\‘ism in the onward progress of
Jie most peaceful, the most just and
the hravest peeple on this earth. His
' spirit shonld net be diminished by any
false idea of sofiness and geutleness'l
and jelly-fishism. WWeak hearts would
never have known Bunker Hill nor!
Valley Forge; they would never have
carried the gospel in th wilderness, nor
the flag of the Alamo or Chapultepec.
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| This countiry should be prepared fori
modern warfare and then we will know |
that we are to have what every rightf
thinl:ing man wants—peace. i
The picture, “Battle Cry of Peace.” re
cenily presented at the Palace Thea- |
tre is the strongest pteture ever pre-.
sented here. It xas. a great lecture |
upon this important subjeci. . Mr. Cain |
deserves the gratitude of the commun
ity :'og:a"S'Wfigaqp&‘j”an;mstrucm@
and entertaining picture. .
~ Some unkind anti-Hughes gink has
charged that when the republican can
didate was on the supreme bench of
the United States court he made an
effort to secure a new trial for Leo
Frank. That ought to carry Georgia
for the opposition and then some. .
The capital removal proposition is
exciting interest and the Macon fight
is going some. South and central
Georgié. can out-vote north Georgia on
this thing and if the people of Macon
ever succeed in getting the issue be
fore the people, there'll be a hot time
all around in Georgia: Here's hoping
we get a chance to ‘spress” our views.
The city of Macon carried its elec
tion for bonds last week. The money
will be spend in enlarging and improv
ing the eity auditorium and enlarging
and improving the city hospital. There
is now on foot in that city a plan to
make the electric light and gas plants
and the city street railways the prop
erty of the people. The water system
under municipal management has
proven so remunerative that the ef
fort will be made to get plans under
way for owning the oiher public utili
ties.
Legislation providing for a civil ser
vice for the police and fire depart
ments of Cordele is be:ng plaaned and
will be put through at the present
session of the Georgia legislature. It
is the purpose to get a system which
will taken these department out of the
hands of outgoing and incoming coun
cil bodies and thereby abolish the very
poor custom of making changes in the
system so oftenn. The men there ought
to hold their places on efficiency and
good service and not on the spoils of
office system. ,
Georgia cotton growers who fear
they must suffer from the work of the
boil weevil ought to ‘take courage.
There is an Alabama farmer who is
said to be getting fine results with a
new exiermination stunt. He puts
tubs of water covered lightly with ker
osene in all the infested fields and
places lanterns over these ' tubs at
night. The traps catch the little cot
ton pests in great numbers. It is said
to be a more rapid mecans of extermi
nation than has yet been discovered.
A. B. & A. SCHEDULE CHANGES
The A. B. & A. announce changes
in schedule to become effective Sun
day, June 25th, as follows:
Train No. 1 for Atlanta and Birming
ham will leave Cordele at 10:12 A, M,
instead of 12:45 P. M.
Train No. 3 for Atlanta and Birming
ham will leave Cordele at 11:50 P. M.,
instead of 11:55 P. M.
Train No. 4 for the east will leave
Cordele at 4:55 A. M., instead of 4:29
A, M.
We're not Fighting
For anything but
your grocery or
ders. Think of us
when it’s time to re
plenish your order.
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X-RAY
Electro-Therapeutics and
Internal Medicine
American National Bank Bldg.
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THOS. J. McARTHUR, M. D.
Special Attentionto
Surgery and Gynaecology.
Cordele - - - Georgia.
HUGH LASSETER
Attorney-At-Law
Farm Loans 6 per cent
: Exchange Bank Bldg.
Cordele, Ga.
L. L. DAVIS
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Farm Loans 6 per cent
Quick Service
¢ 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.
DRS. McKENZIE & WILLIAMS
Dr. J. S. McKenzie -.Dr. P. L. Williams
Physicians & Surgeons
Office over Williams Drug Store
Phone 468, Cordele, Ga.
DR. J. C. PATTEN
DENTIST
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Williams Drug Co. :
Cordele - - - Georgia.
NOTICE SPECIAL REGISTRATION.
The registration books are now open
for registration of voters in the bond
election to be held August 3rd, 1916
Same will finally close on July 23rd,
1916.‘ : G. S. HARRIS,
9017 """ Clerk and Treasurer.
Fruits and Vegetables
MELONS, CANTALO'UPES, GREEN PEAS, CUCUMBERS, TOMA
TOES, BUTTER BEANS, FULL LINE OF FRESH GROCERIES : :
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tate on the monthly repayment plan at six per cent interest. Let us
siicw you.
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landlord---determine to owe
it certain sums at certain
times and pay them prompt
ly, just as you do the rent.
Treated in this mannera Sav
ings Account soon assumes
large proportions.
This is just the day to start,
and thisis the Bank to use.
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LIGHTNING CAUSES BIG
| FIRE LOSS AT AUSTELL
. Austell,.June 30.—The large barn on
the Jo-! Hunt farm near here ' was
struck by lightning this afternoon. One
ihorse and two mules, as well as the
'barn, together with considerable hay
and corn, were destroyed by the. re
sulting fire. f i
The loss is estimated at $3,000.
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Sanitary. Barber Shop—four :
first-class barbers.‘ Fixtures and
services most up-to-date.
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