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Entered as seconrd 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.
OUR COUNTRY SCHOOLS.
Crisp county in its farming districts
enjoys great advantages over other
rural sections of Georgia in that its
farmers live on their farms, have good
country nomes and in this way main
tain 2 higher standard of living than
other counties. There is more real
wealth in Crisp county farms than
‘(fiwre is in the farms of Dougherty
or Sumter courties. In these later
pamed counties the farm owners re
side in town and colored tenants are
left to do what they ‘can with the farm.
The difference makes Crisp a far more
desirabla agricultum‘l district for the
'rcasun ti at farming is wade a business
; of Hi;:‘l standard. Gdod results are ob
tained and the wealth of the county
is rapidly increasing.
i On these Crisp county farms are
boys 2nd girls who get their education
in the country schoois. It is their on
ly hope. Wlhen we bouast of the splen
did country schools w 2 have, we re
: ‘vfgul a strong local pride. but it is not
mistake to presume that we have done
our hest for them?
- Untils the chools of Crisp county
are placed under one system that as
‘sures the rural schools the same ad
yantages that the city schools have,
-our country boys and girls are not go
ing to get their just rights in educa
tional training. They deserve the best.
No separate system for them will se
cure it In spite of all our pride, what
we have as an educational system in
the county is antiquated, cumbersome
and cxpensive.
In educational opportunity the city
hoy and g?rl have privileges for super
ior to these of the farm boy and farm
girl. In funds, in lenzth of term, in
equipment, in buildings, in edministra
tion a:nd supervision, in courses of
study, m efliciency of the teaching
force, and in salaries paid, the superi
ority of the city schools is so far above
that of the rural schools as to make
the siiuation sometimes .deplorable.
It has been so desperate in many in
stances the past 25 years, when con
trast2d with the splendid opportunities
of the city school, that 1t is given more
ime ‘han any other reason by fathers
and moiners for moving from the farm
to the ¢ity. An ambitions people will
go wnere education can be had for
their children. Tlere is no sense in
talking of the charms of country life
and the independence and dignity of
produciag from the soil if the school
at command is no more modern than a
wood2u plow. »
Whea all the childien of the coun
ty, ¢ity and country alike, are educated
out of one common fund, and that fund
comes from the county tax raising
gource, where it properly should come,
the day of the country school teacher
and th~ country boy and girl will have
carrfved. From the ranks of the coun
try boys and girls come the best cit
izeps of the land. Let us give them
an evea showing. .
~ GIVE THE BABY A CHANCE.
Bad air, bad milk, over-crewding,
poverty, dirt, ignorance, heat—these
7/ combine m summer to kill the city ba
by. it scems as though the brunt of
the cilies’ sanitary sins were focused
on the baby. The balby didn't ask to
éomo. to live in a hot, dark, air-tight
tenement, to be fed en dirty, half Vsoi]-i
ed miil, to be pestered with flies and
mosquitces. He is not responsible for
any of these conditions and it is his
right that he have fresh air, clean sur
roundings and decent food. The Uni
ted Swaies Public Health service is
sues free of charge to all applicants
a bulletin on “The Summer Care of
Infants.””. It should be in the hands
of every mother.
About one-fourih of the area of the
Thnited States is still covered by for
ests,
g Lo anglgnete
If marriages were nret so easy, di
vorces would cease to become famil
iar. a
HOW OUR BANKS GREW.
Judgment, saiety and conservatism
like that proposed by those who are
trying 0 keep the electric light and
power glant out of the hands of its
!just owners can never do anything for
a coramanity but go on raising taxes
and—increasing the size of the ceme
teries as the years go by. It wasn’s
judgment, safety anl conservatism
that made the Cordele banks able to
show what they have in their recent
statements. We are rather impressed
with tue fact that it was their deter
mination to grow. It was get-up-and
get, sheer work, hard down hustling
for the business that belongs to the
commdaity. There is not half the
harm in operating on a borrowed dol
lar as there is in leiting other cen
ters lone in our town and carry away
our bani deposits, Our banks are
growing because they are making
themseives worthy of the business.
As long as this is the case no one need
worry anout their growing. And with
them the busfhess community must
grow. They have nearly doubléed the
amount of cash in their vaults that
they liud a year ago. Indeed one of
them has more than twice the amount
it hal twelve months ago. Judgment,
safety and conservatism could never
explain that. By working for it, our
banks may do as we!l another year.
The heauty about it is the fact that
they kanow this. ‘
There are several enterprises in
Cordele that have existed for twenty
yvears on judgment, safety and conser
vatism. Commercially they are not
worth one dollar more than they were
a score of years ago. The atmosphere
is the same; the coloring on the walls
is just as it was; the buildings are
just as they were—have the same num
ber of entrances and exits; the same
number of bricks are there; it is the
same distance across the street; the
same inen go and come; they have
the same ideas about things; and they
still think new enterprises are danger
ous things, only good to go ‘“busted”
in time to beat the true and tried out
of a foew more dimes. -
Oh, goeod citizen, these are not the
kind that will ever help bring the com
munity into its own. Theirs is a mis
taken “ovalty and is good cnly to be
used in fighting and blocking pro
gress. They are to be pitied for they
do not kiow this and will not believe
it if vou tell them. Try them on any
public improvement and you will find;
them “opposed.” God gave the other;
people in this wonderfully blessed lit
tle ci'y a fine task when he set it as.
a duty for them to take it as they have%
found ir, together with the safe, con
servative ones, and go on building for
hetter ihings. No, the task is not a
hopeless one. There must always bo‘
obstacies to surmount and the more of
them we meet, the greater will be the
glory wien we have overcome them.
Wt must win all our citizens to-an ap-}
preciavion of growth and progress. And
these two words are to spell the his#
tory of (‘ordele. The town is destin
ed to build itself a bigger and better
usefuluess. Where our banks set the
pace tuday, tomorrow other business
will hbecome stronger.
Rats every year desiroy about 5 per
cent. of the growing sugar cane in
Jamacia.
Eafe eet
Think before you sveak and you
will zive the other fellow a chance to
spread himself.
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Instruments invented by a German
{o register the electricity produced by
the heart and its Qistribution enable
physicians to diagnose diseases of that
organ more accurately.
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Take care of the small things on
e farm and the larger ones will take
1(‘:n'o 5 themseves. vet nothing that
'is proluced go to waste if it is possi
ble to use it at all. Be fair with the
lfnrm and conserve its natural resour
lonsz and the crops it produces. This
| will b~ necessary for those who are to
| occuny Ihe farm after xou.
GAS PLANT NEXT.
Another new enterprise proposed by
those who are opposed! And this
time a real municipal enterprise, a
public sgervice propesition—a gas
plant! Now, this is excellent, but we
are ~ngaged in settling the question
as-to whether we are 1o have a muni
cipal light and power plant. Would it
be impoliie for us to suggest that? The
city of Cordele has wo much at stake
in this public service property that no
time should be lost in anything but
serious siudy of ths question as to
whether we cannot turn the profits in
to the public treasury.
We arc not so vitally interested in
the ma.ter of having bonds. It is the
electric light and power plant we need,
becans2 tinere is a handsome profit ac
cruing irom its operation. This util
ity beiongs to the public and the profits
should be made to help run the munici
pal government and the schools,
Since it is ours, we are more enti
tled to the profits to be had from oper
ating in here than are the share hold
ers of the J.G.White company in New
York. 7This New York corporation is
drawing nearly five thousand dollars
a year {irom the tax payers for street
lights alone in Cordele. And with all
that w 2 have but a poor man’s street
lightinz. We are entitled to a white
way and three or four times as many
arc lizhts in our strzets as we now
have. We don’t get them because we
cannot afford to tax ourselves to pay
for them., Our town now has less than
half the street lights that other cities
our. 3ize have.
Our investigation of the matter has
already revealed that other cities own
ing their electric plants not only fur
nish their street lights and white ‘way
free, but they turn into their city
‘reasuries anywhere from $6,000 to
521,000 annually in profits, most of
them on lower rates tl:an are charged
in Cordele. Albany tells us that she
has just tinished one of the most mod
ern eaad up-to-date city auditoriums.
in Georgia and that cily is paying for
it with around $20,000 a year profits
from the electric lighting and power
plant. Albany can have such munici
pal imorovement because Albany has
something with which to pay for them.
Cordele need not burden her tax
payers with heavier rates. That could
not be done under the law. The sure
and vlausible way is to make the light
nlant pay for itself out of the profits.
We are not too poor [or it. We have
a bonding margin of $lOO,OOO, and but
for a charter restriction to $50,000 at
a time, we could issue more than
enough to pay for our lighting plant.
I'he bondsg are nct the question.
~ Cordeie can pay for its own electric
light and power plant at a rate of
seven cents per killowatt hour and give
the stree lights and white way free.
Now we pay eleven cents and tax our
propriy owners for our small street
lights and have no white way.
This paper is not trying to “line up”
with any faction or political following
in Cordele. Tt is not getting paid for
its efforts to show the plain facts to
the people at interest. It has nothing
at heart but to better the conditions
for the citizens. If it could see anoth
er course a better one, it would not
hesitate to follow that course. The in
terests of Cordele are its interests, for,
as the community grows it must be
come stronger.
With an issue of $50,00 in bonds
Cordele can own and operate its own
electric light and power plant and
that plant can be operated in connec
tion with the water system at a tre
mendnus saving to the tax payer. The
citizen will make a great mistake for
himself and his community if he de-
lays the opportunity. To permit the
privawe corporation to retain its hold
on th's public utility will only serve
to strenzthen that grasp and a later ef
fort to take it over will be a more dif
ficult undertaking.
Let us save the gas ylant for a time‘
when weo are still surer of its value as
a public service interest. It, too,
should be saved to the people and nev
er be permitted to slip into the hands
of a prirate corporation. Publicly own
ed gas plans are also profitable.
Among the 56 signers of the Declar
ation of Independence was one cler
gyvman--John Witherspoon, of New
Jersey. \
e i A
i Atlanta has discovered a man who
ikilled cne thousand persons durjng
his meteoric career. The next stepiin
! the ~ustomary and logical quqc:‘ce
‘wil be to show that 967 of the victifus
| were \tlantians.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1916
Reflected - Observations
By MAX E. LAND.
There is every reason why - the
Fourth of July should be observed in
this zountry, provided we care any
thing about the people who lived bhe
fore us and who have handed down
to us the best country on the face of
the earth.
If we are to appreciate the noble
deeds, iie suffering, the heroism, the
patriotism and acts cof valor, which
are represented by our glorious flag
and we should forever faver celebrat
ing the Fourth so that succeeding gen
eratij>as will honor and reverence
those who have made their inheritance
possible. If the Tory blood had pre
vailed in those days we would still
doubtless be a colony of England or
some other foreign power, but thanks
to thos> heroic ancestors who had
the fortitude to put down the Tory
ism and the enemy abroad.
Georgia did not furnish as many of
these celebrated patriots as Virginia
and the Carolinas, but what true Geor
gian or American does not love to re
call such Georgians as George Walton,
Lyman Hall and Button Quinnett, the
signers of the declaration of independ
ence. Of Colonel John Mclntosh, who
at the battle of Fort Morris was com
manded to surrender the Fort, but re
plying he said, “Come and take it.”
The legislature of the state presented
him a sword with those memorable
words ecungraved upon it. Of Noble
Wimbecly Jones, called the morning
star of Liberty. Of Joseph Habersham
who afterwards became Post Master
General ir the cabinet of George Wash
ington. .Of Lincoln Mclntosh, whom
Washingion loved to praise. Of Ar
chibald Bulloch and of Gov. James
Jacksoa who burned the records of
the yazoo fraud with fire from the
heavens. Of Elijah Clark and John
Dooly, heroes of Kettle Creek, and of
Nancy Hart, who conquered the six
Tories, and who is the only woman
for whom a Georgia county was nam
ed?
What makes a people great? It is
the ~haracter of its men and women,
and everything which inspires a lofty
patrioi’sm should be encouraged and
kept alive and handed on to other gen
erations.
Of course the legislature had to
come forward with some kind of an
ignoramus law about pistols. The ses
sion would not have heen complete if
this bill had not appeared in a freak
form. Mszybe it will start a style, how
ever, of every man carrying a pistol
four fcet long. This kind of legisla
tion is brought about because there
are sorie isolated cases of criminals
who misuse the pistol. These same
freaks and criminals would get a butch
er kniie, shop axe, pocket billy, or
throw caustic as the women in Atlan
ta did not long since. The pistol re
form->r generally has a rather narraw
perceptive and only yooks at the evil
produced by the pistol, without taking
into @oncideration the evil that they
likewise hold in check, or the good
they accomplish. There is no telling
how many lives and how many homes
have peen protected and shielded from
harm and danger by the existence of
the pistol. There is no stimating the
amount of visciousness and evil the
pistol has held in abeyance.
It is just as essential for law abiding
individuals to be protected against the
lawless as it is for the nation to
preach the doctrine of preparedness.
There aie too many criminals run
ning loose yet for e law abiding
people, who want arms for protection
alone, to think of abolishing the pis
tol. 1f tne law is passed it would be
like {he most of the laws—kept by the!
law-abiding people and violated by lhe}
law breaking class, placing the law-‘
abiding more in jeopardy and at the
‘whim of the law-breakers. Nature has}
not created all men equal in physical
‘stren;:rh. and some one has very wise
ly said that the pistol puts all men
equal on the question of combat, and
since it iooks as though combats will
continue both as to nations and in
dividuals as long as mankind wears
the flagh, it would seem that the pistol
is a vory good thing to neutralize the
differ>nce between the weak and tlw=
strong, and it often holds in check
those wiro would over-run the weak
by force. The same argument about
a nation being prepared for war ap
plies to the individual. Of course I
have no use for the man who contin
ually gces around with a pistol in his
pocket, but there will be some abuses
of every right as long as time lasts,
and there is no use to destroy a good
because there are some abuses, and
there is no use “to destroy the barn
in order 1o get rid of the rats.” A bet
ter law would be to require the indi
vidual to give a bond, providing for
legal eonduct, and then allow him to
carry a pistol concealed.
1 believe that every girl or woman
should be taught to handle and shoot
a pistol, and be permitted to carry it
concealed whenever she wishes. There
is no reason why they should quail or
feint in the presence of danger, and
if they were taught to have nerve and
grit :1 next generation would be about
iwen{y-five per cent. better-off in ev
ery wav.
There is also that new primary elec
tion law, which should be defeated and
forgottan. This propos2d law provides
that candidates for office, unless they‘
have a majority of all votes, out of a
herdal race, shall run a second pri
mary. We have entirely too many
electious now for the good of the coun
try, anil the-people are generally tired
of elections, politics and agitators, but
this infernal law would debar a poor
man from ever running for an ofice, as
few can stand the expense of one elec
tion, an‘ two would knock them out of
the boxes and put the offices in the
hands of the rich. If there is going to
be any changes at all it would be a
great deal better to abolish the pres
ent primary law let the general elec
tion settle the whole thing, making
every tub stand on its own bottom.
—*Will you marry me, my pretty
maid?”
“How many cylinders has your
automobile, sir?” she said.—Louis
ville Courier-Journal
Don’t be Faint
Hearted
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wherever he goes, that he has n_6t
misread the attitude of the American
people toward a Mexican war. Noth
ing more quickly stirs his audiences to
enthusiasm than the enunciation of
his henevolent Mexican policy,: As he
said at Detroit, the suspicions of the
Mexican people are not wholly unwar
ranted; and he is resclved to. show
them that American agitators have
not been speaking for him or the na
tion. \
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