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Entered as second class matter Januar y 8, 1916, at the posu office at Cordele,
Georgia, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CRISP COUNTY.
PREPARE TO FIGHT.
The citizens of the community who
are to decide whetlier Cordele is to
own and operate its own electric light
and power plant are registered and
the books are closed, Those who have
at heart (he affairs of the community
tc «ush an exetent as to want to have o
voice in the acquiring of the electric
light plant will now spend the remain
ing time in laying plans for winning
the issue. Likewise, those opposed
will set stakes to hold the plant fo:
the New York interests that now op
erate it.
It is a comparatively small number
who will decide the issue. Three o 1
four hundred voters are to settle the
matter for a community of eight tc
nine thousand people. We are happy
that the people have been given chance
to decide for themselves. We regret
that there are not more of them reg
jstered,though they may not be witl“
us inour desire to see the city own the
plant. Democratic government i€
working at its best when it safoguurdt"
the way for every free citizen to ex l
press himself as he wishes in public }
watters, It is a fine freedom for the in
dividual. In spite of corruption tha l
is reputed as a common ill in the gov
ernment of American cities, we stil.
love the privilege of doing as W
please about the public affairs thta
concern us.
Our strongest appeal now is to the
voter who wishes his municipal gov
ernment to have control of the electric
light and power plant. The man wh
would see this fine utility come back
to its rightful owners is going to be
stormed with arguments, wire-pulling
and chacinery during the next ten day:
as he has never been peastered before
The corporation that has such a firn
grasp on our electric lighting service
has faced such issues many, many)
times. In fights of this kind, they are
the oldest rats in the barn. The)
have diagnosed many cases just sucl
as they are confronting in Cordele to
day. Other cities have shaken then
off, one by one. Many niore are righ:
now busy releasing themselves. In
the north and east this company would
never have an opportunity to owr
this splendid property. No municipa’
government the size of Cordele or lar
ger permits an electric power utility
to go into the hands of private capital
It is far too profitable as a public
property. J. G. White & Company, the
Southern Utilities Corporation, anc
the Cordele Electric Company are go
ing to put Willie Bivins up to many ¢
sly bit of business before this thing
is over. They are not coming out i
the open, themselves. William is a
local boy about whom the people sa)
good things sometimes and they know
it. This corporation now has through
its local manager the name of every
individual who is registered for this
bond fight. Its chief officers are work
irg down every avenue and up every
lanc. They have already figured care |
fully the actual number of voters whe
must be won in order to retain lheixl
hold. And their order is out. That
number must be had. Willie is going
to give you a very pleasant invitation
to help save their hold on the situa
tion. |
Good criizens, don't you ever permit
vourself to be fooled about this thing
Our lighting plant is worth at least
$lB,OOO a rear in ciear profits to us
and ‘ree street lights and white way
on the present charge for current. Al
bany tells us she built her splendid
anditorium from her electric light and
power earnings on a 7¢ charge for
lights and much less for pewer. Amf
they do not operate on water as it is
asserted by those who runno't explain
the fine showing in any other way.
They run a steam plant jusi as we
would do. We could pay for our plant
out of a rate of 7 cents per killowatt
hour and still have frec street ligm;
and our white way. We could pay for
it at a price such as the private own
ers paid when they took it. Do you
believe they would ever have paid
such a price if they had not thought
it worth what they gave for it? And if
it is worth it to outsiders it is worth
it to us.
Let us vote our issue of bonds and
‘ake the first step that will enable us
o buy from them the entire interest.
Chere is not a business investment in
‘ordele today that is earning more on
‘ts money invested. This corporation
s not willing to tell you what their
arnings are now. They don't wont
sou to know. If you knew the real
ruth about it, nobody would ever
gain have to argue with you about
waking plans for the city to own it. '
No voter need worry about those
vho are to spend the money. The pres
nt mayor and council will have no
aore to do with that than will an out
side individual, save the possible ex
eption that comes out of its being
heir duty to name a commission. If
ou are unwilling te trust them, re
nember that council cannot waste
our bond money,—not a dollar of it.
“our city charter provides for a com
-lission and that commission must not
wve to do with municipal government
n any of its other different phases. If
ou fear the politicians, forget it and
smember that it is not the politician
ho will be in charge of the actual
usiness transactions. You are safe
n that score.
In the province of Ontario, C'anada
s a corporation appointed by the gov
rnment to develop, generate and dis
ribute electric energy at cost to the
‘arious municipalities throughout the
rovince. During the year 1915 this
yublic-owned corporation furnished
lectric current to 99 municipalities.
ts service reduced the average cost
v two-thirds and the municipalities
njoying the publicly operated plants
re paying one-third the amount they
aid before this utility was placed in
he hands of the state. You can cut
our costs in half with your own op
ration,—and you can cut off that five
housand dollars you are taxing your
elves now to pay the Cordele Elec
ric company for your street lights.
nd you can have one-hundred arc
ghts and a white way to take the
lace of y"n' 24 arc lights and no
vhite way.
All the safe argument is in favor
£ owning your light plant now. If
‘ou delay, it will be all the harder to
wcecomplish this task at a future time.
‘he longer a private corporation re
aains in charge of a public utility,
he stronger is the grasp. This is no
ime to delay. Let us perform this
luty. We owe it to ourselves. It
vill help us run the city government
ind the schools. It will provide more
noney for public improvements, for
he profits that are going out of Cor
lele on our lights and power might
‘asily be made to help pay public bur
lens.
AN UNFAIR TAXATION.
The state of Georgia owes it to high
'r education within her borders to re
nove the taxes from college endow
ments. The state through its law mak
ng body spends considerable money
‘or the common schools,—much more
han the average state, but it turns
iround and knocks out much of this
'redit for itself by taking it back in
raxes from the institutions of higher
earing. Few people other than those
n charge of Wesleyan, Mercer, Kmory,
Agnes Scott, and the other schools,
with their little endewments, know
what an impediment this tax is to the
»ducation which they represent in
Georgia.
The framers of our constitution cer
ainly must not have known that in fu
ture years it would take millions of
lollars in endowments to run the lar
zer educational institutions. They cer
tainly must not have had in mind to
rax an endowment fund where every
dollar of income available goes to in
crease the possibilities of poor boys
girls to get their college training.
~ And now a set of lawmakers who
cannot run the affairs of the state
without the revenue obtained from tax
ing the college endowments ought at
least not to take to themselves any
of he credit which belongs to the re
sourceful. The poor boys and girls
of Georgia are paying for the careers
of the “good spenders”, in the Georgia
legislature. Strict business, a stop
page of the leaks, and a care of the
tax funds would soon eliminate every
necessity, if there is such now, for
taxing college endowment.
But aside from the business manage
ment of the state funds in the leg
islature, no matter, good or bad, it is
one of the most serious mistakes to tax
a college endowment fund. It does
not take reasoning to make the aver
1g person see this. Gorgia and Flori
da are the only two states in the Un
ion which do this now. It is a shame!
Let the legislature give the people of
Georgia a chance to remove this pro
vision from the state constitution and
see how quickly they will be about the
task, Campaigning is not necessary.
It is already the will of the whole
people.
GIVE US MORE LIKE THIS.
Aside from the social and fun-mak
ing features of the various events of
the Log Rolling and the widespread
noteriety that came to Cordele as a
consequence through the immense
crowds which the events drew here
ind the most hospitable and success
ful manner in which Cordele cared for
the comforts and pleasures of the vis
itors, no occasion of years has so en
livened commercial activity of a mer
cantile nature as did the Log Rolling.
No occasion has ever attracted more
visitors to the city at any one time.
The hotels took care of all they
could accommodate, the restaurants
could not have done more business if
heir lives had depended on it, nor
could the drug stores have sold more
cigars, cream and Grinks if they had
had a hundred clerks behind every
fount and show case. The groceryman
likewise profited in greatly increased
sales and the cash business done
should have been appreciated. The
business of the dry goods merchants
was increased twofold and more, and
there were practically no enterprises
of a mercantile nature that were no
benefited by the Log Rolling. The bus
‘ness community needs more attrac
tions like this one. There could never
be a dull season with this kind of bus
iness.
The Georgia senate is not treating
the people of the state fairly when
it turns down the bill for biennial ses
sions of the legislature. It yet may
pass this measure and it ought to be
done.
\
Mr. and Mrs. Everybody from Every
where were guests of the people of
Cordele at the W. O. W. Log Rolling
Thursday and Friday.
Congressmen Crisp and Thomas G.
Hudson are said to be practicing up
for a “jint 'spute” at Bowens Mill next
Friday. There will be a barbecue.
Atlanta sang out last week through
its correspondents for the up state and
down state papers that the state cap
ital removal proposition was a dead
issue. Sraightway the fun began when
the capital removal issue was sent to
the lower house on a recommendation
ifrom the committee having it in
charge. There will be some more fun
if they ever let it slip through to the
people.
Bother with that state road! It ought
to be sold and the money put to good
ouse while going is good. The L. &N.
is trying to get along without it now.
If they devise a way, the state road
will be worth less than half its pres
ent value. We do not tax the state’s
road now, nor will we let anybody else
build another as a parallel line. We
arc missing the taxes on two. That’s
something.
Those who conduct the Log Rolling
occasions for the W. O. W. sooner or
later must abandon the barbecue fea
ture if the crowds are to go on in
creasing as they have for the past five
vears. If all the people who came to
Cordele Wednesday had made an ef
fort to get at the barbecue, it would
have taken two days properly to serve
the meal. It is impossible to take care
of so many people at one time, no mat
ter how much provision is made.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, SUNDAY, JULY 23, 1916.
Atlanta has invited her richest citi
zen, Asa Candler, to be mayor in or
der to revive the Atlanta spirit that
‘used to win. Atlanta needs that spirit
again in the capial removal campaign.
Sister City Macon is busy.
[ The Russian hordes continue to pour
out of the north upon Austrian terri
tory. Millions of Russian soldiers are
again on the Carpathian mountains
ready to break into the plains below.
The German invasion last fall but
made it easier for Russia to enlist
full man power as a fighting machine.
is now becoming the terror of Europe.
Serving a barbecue to a crowd like
that here Wednesday in the rain is a
task not much to be desired. There
were fully ten thousand people who
would have been looking for dinner
at the spread if it had been a fair day.
That fourteen million bale estimate
of the department of agriculture is
likely to make that division of Uncle
Sam’s at Washington labor look inef
ficient. It has rained every day since
that estimate came our and has storm
ed all over the cotton belt besides.
Things will have to change rapidly
with the cotton farmer in the direction
of more cotton if we get even as good
a crop as we had last year.
’Reflecled Observations '
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By MAX E. LAND.
We hear a good deal of talk about
democratic prosperity, but it is like
the bag of gold at the end of the rain
bow—it is all a delusion and a dream.
Let any man start out to collect mon
ey and he will soon become convinced
that the prosperity talk is a fake, and
that it is nearly as bad as 1914, or
during the Cleveland administration,
when it looked as though people would
starve in a land of plenty, all because
the purchase price, currency, was lack
ing. I am glad to see real prosperity
from any quarter, sut I cannot. get
away from the belief that it will not
start again in this country until there
is a change in the national administra
tion.
The Atlanta Journal stated editorial
ly in its issue of July 20, depreciating
the capitol removal :ssue, as follows:
“Georgia cannot grow and prosper with
envy and strife.” I would like to ask
how it has managed to get along for
the past ten years? I thas been pro
lific of more strife, contention, discord
and hate than any place unless it be
Mexico, and some of the peace loving
newspapers are the parents of most of
it, with mean, unfair and unpatriotic
politics as the lead horses.
The present governorship race is
largely the same old factional fight of
the past ten years? It has. been pro
as the only relief. Everybody knows
that Governor Harris and Dorsey be
long to the Joe Brown-Atlanta Consti
tution wing of the party, and that Joe
Pottle and Dr. Hardman belong to the
Atlanta Journal-Hoke Smith wing of
the party. Which faction will win out
in the main queston? This is the main
reason too, why there is so little life
in the race.
The reconstruction period in Geor
gia was a health tonic in comparison
to the evil set in motion by Little Joe
Brown and Big Hoke Smith, and the
people of Georgia would have been bet
etr off it they had never known either
of them. They succeeded in arousing
so much prejudice, passion and intol
erance that it is well nigh impossible
to hear the voice of justice, or the
economic voice of business and con
struction and orderly statesman in
the administration of the affairs of
state, and indivdual confidence has
been greatly damaged. From the po
litcal maelstrom of uncertainty, con
flict, don't care and don’'t know, inter
mixed with the personal ambitions of
many, little good can come to the peo
ple. The seed were planted by the
issue of the little Joe and Big Hoke,
and the people must gather the crop
‘as the years roll by.
The state senate is to be congratu
lated for passing the biennial sessionsl
bill by such a nice_:g}in}‘ty. I fear the
bill will fail in the hi’ws!. however, be
cause there are too many on that side
who like to visit Atlanta every Sum
mer. Besides if they were not there
once a year at least they might not
be able to defend the Wlson adminis
tratior against charges of taking the
equipment from Augusta, which should
have gone to the Georgia soldiers, and
sending it to less democratic states.
By the way, Cordele has several
yvoung men who heard the call of their
colors and are now in the camps. There
is Branch Fleming, who is first ser
geant of his company, and Allie Shipp,
who is sergeant-major and they are
both in direct line to become lieuten
ants. :
The general assembly should get
busy and pass the proper good roads
legislation, so that our state will be
allowed its prorata part of the Federal
money appropriated for good roads.
This is the best thing Georgia has had
a chance at in some time.
DR. B. DANIEL
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