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Fntered 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.
OUR DUTY TOMORROW.
Our duty tomorrow is to our city.
One of our two greatest public service
enterprises is in the hands of private
interests and the profits derived are
converted into diviaends for J. G.
White & Company, = corporation in
the city of New York. The earnings
are handsome. The net profits are of
'N‘ch consequence as would preve i
considerable assistance in helping to
maintain municipal government., With
each year the earnings are growing
until thé ownership of this property
will become a matter of 'greuter vital
importance to those who enjoy pos
session. Private owners will in future
fight the harder te retain their enjoy
ment of these profits.
" Municipalities all ovet the country
have turned to public ownership of
such public service interests ag the
Cordele light and power plant for the
purpose of converting the net profits
into the funds with which government
is maintained, improvements made,
and schools operated. Good husiness
requires it.
The city of Cordele contributes a
very large fund out of its municipal
taxes to maintain its schools, when
they should be provided for out of
the county taxes. This burden will
become larger as the schools become
more expensive. The need of the
profits from the water and light fran
chise to defray public expenses will
become greater as the years go by, and
the street lighting bills will become
larger as long as private interests own
the plant.
The time has come when no loyal
citizen can afford to pass up owner
ship of the light and power plant. The
community needs street lipht improve
ment and city white way, but cannot
have either on account of the burden
of increased costs in taxes. It can
have both these and besides, furnish
the public lights free of cost. It can
have profits on its lighting service that
will help meet the public operating
expenses and relieve the school tax to
\such an extent that this will no lon
gef‘ weigh heavily about the shoulders
of t{he property owner. Our duty now
is t{o our city.
Aflt least the candidates are losing
their regard and high esteem for the
o!’d confederate veteran. Comptroller
General William A. Wright, who has
held his place for forty years, is a vet
eran who lost a leg in the struggle of
the sixties. No office holder in the
state has been so long in the hearts
of the ‘people and yet there is a man
now out after him to take away his
office. Public office belongs to no man
and any citizen qualified has a right
to ask for the old man's place. But
Senator E. P. Dobbs, of Marietta, if
he is seriously expecting to step into
William A. Wright's place at the com
ing primary, has some six or eight mil
lion barrels of disappointment coming
to him on the day after.
A small bit of effort right now would
insure Cordele and Crisp county one
of the livest county fairs and live stock
shows ever started in this neck of the
woods. A live stock show is almost
a necessity on account of the great
importance which is at the ;)1‘05(-\1th
time attaching to stock raising. The
interest and encouragement that could
be given stock raising in Crisp munt_\'%
with such a show in the tall weuld ho‘
much out of the ordinary and timely
in the highest degree. The merchants
of Cordele ought not miss this means
of pulling business. Has anybody
thought about it? Mighty fine season
for such a thing.
Governor Harris has at last freed
Strippling. Now let those who prod
ded him for delaying the action regr
up and berate him for ever doing su&)
a thing as giving the prisoner his freé
dom.
TESTING OUR LOYALTY. :
This is no time for evening up polit
ical scores. The people of Cordele
should haye their electri¢ light plant
and to fight the man you didn’t want to
be mayor or member of council and
to help defeat bonds for the electric
light plant because those now in pow-.
er are not your polilicayl bed fellows,
is to do your city an irreparable in
jury. The issue is of such tremen
dous consequence as to demand that
we forget all else and fight for pub
}li(:'()wmershlp of the light plant. It
iis a moment which if lost will become
L:x community misfortune. Defeat for
;bonds in tomprrow’s eleltion will make
‘it doubly hard for you to win on this
!issue when ypu try it under a mayor
and board of aldermen of your choos
‘ing. Don’t siiy you do not believe
your town should own its light plant.
Be fair with yourself. Go in with de
termined purpose, but with a royal
iuood feeling for your fellow and re
speet for his opinion about the thing']
no matter what he may think.
And don’t charge up your sometimes
rough experience¢ with the water de
partment to the pfforis. to get the elec
tric light plant Im its rightful owners.
You get the largest dollar's wor'th of
water on the Ame®can continent and
besides have at least such a strict ac
counting of the afairs of the system
as every year returns to your public
treasury $7,000 to $B,OOO with which
you help pay public expenses. You
would not have it any other way, But
for this your taxes would bear more
heavily upon you,
Rentember, you would not have this
property in the hands of private own-!
rs. . You would not agree to sell it
now for twice what you paid for it.
Why? |
What you might term a raw deal in
water charges is too small a thing to
make you register yourself agaiust
your owning the light and power plant.
that would. be a colossal mistaze.
I'his public service interest as a moa
sy maker is worth twice as much a 3
‘he water plant. Once you own it
you'll never agree for it to pass into
wrivate hands again.
We need not take over this fine
yroperty by confiscation. Our vote to
norrow for bonds does not mean that.
\lthough there is not a sufficient
umount of money in the issue of bonds
ve are asking with which to pay the
oarivate owners what they will wam
‘or the plant, there is enough to make
hem hear us when we go to them and
nake them a i'ai\r ofter. There is
mough to make the first payment on
‘t if we get it at a fair price. There
is sufficient money in the issue for us
‘0 build our own plant to be opdrated
n connection with the water plant if
we are not permitto_d to have the pres
mt plant at a reasonable price.
To carry the issue tomorrow will
arove our determination to run our
ywn electric lights and power in such
L way as to turn the future profits in
o our public treasury. J. G. White
‘ompany will know that by our action
we have determined on public owner
ship for this public service interest
and they will know by our act that
they must deal fairly with us in a mat
ter of fixing sale prices of must them
suffer for their folly. |
The present owners are not going to{‘
make any fair offer of disposition un
il they know that is the last thing.
We could have no selling proposition
from them until they have first seen
us vote the bonds with which we in
tend to build for ourselves such a plant
as we want. And all that is perfevtl,\"
:human and natural.
; But with the bond issue at our dis
posal, whether ever a dollar of the
issue is validated or not, we will have
the only persuasive argument to which
the private corporation will ever lis
ten. Let us have the bonds and then
lhu_v the local plant. This is not fine
(?spun theory. It is possible and more
’lhan that. It is the only way to pro
ceed with assurance that we are not
going to be duped in the end. With
our issue of bonds we can build if it
becomes necessary. This will insure
fair play when we have to negotiate
for the present plant.
Here we are again arrived at a test
of our loyalty for our community. We
are the town,—you and I and . our
neighbors. Its commercial destiny is
in our hands. Its business opportuni
ty is what we make it. Our lots are
cast in the sacred atmosphere of love
and loyalty to community advance
ment. As for us, we are committed to
ihe public ownership of the .electric
light plant because we believe it will
mean most for the community. No
»ther motive should dominate.
MONEY FOR THE BRIDGE.
It is not as yet a matter sufficiently
leveloped in the state legislature for
‘he people of Crisp county to know
just how much of the federal fund they
ire going to have at their disposal but
it is almost certain that there will
‘he a handsome amount coming to this
:ounty. Georgia got the largest ap
nortionment of the fund coming to the
southern states and that means that
he people in this county are going to
zet a considerable fund.
The highway commission is not vet
v certainty, but the present session of
he legislature must provide such a
ommission or lose the fund and that
means that the commission will be
‘orthcoming. There will be some
means of preserving to the state this
large federal road fund. It is more
han three million dollars.
Details are to be worked out and
with the fund may ecome provisions
18 to how it shall be spent.' But Crisp
county will get its portion in some way
wind when it does come, it will be such
in amount as will go a long way to
wards supplying what will be needed
to construct a ‘bridge across Flint
River at Huguenin’s Ferry. The fed
sral fund may never become available
for this specific purpose, but when it
hecomes a local fund for our roads,
other portions of Ol'll‘ own money can
be used to construct the bridge and
the county commissioners ought to be
setting their stakes to that end now.
Sumter and Dooly county commis
sioners were busy again Tuesday of
the present week on plans to get a
bridge over Flint river at Murray’s.
Sumter is not going to help us, nor
can the commissioners of that county
be blamed for their efforts to hold for
Americus every dollar of trade aiong
{he Flint river that they can retain.
it will be our ‘business to construct
the bridge at Hugueuin's and the soon
or we do it the sooner will we add
great wealth in Cordele and thereby
make Crisp a far more wealth county.
Americus knows the value of the trade
slong the Flint river. When we begin
a proper appreciation of it, the bridge
wll be forthcoming.
! OUR COUNTY SCHOOLS.
¢hatham county is just now inter
cslé\} in a general movement for the
l)etté\:ment of its rural schools. A new
sistefi\ of providing funds for main
!aining\_ythese schools is to be launched
and the(\vformer lack of interest in the
country schools is warming into a gen
crally strong enthusiasm. It will mean
a country school in every way as well
cared for as the city school and the
country boy and girl will get what is
due them in the way of an education.
The rural school problem is the
greatest problem in American educa
tion. It demandsthe best thought and
cffort of our educators, business and
professional men and one of the great
est things good men can do in Crisp
county is to work out a satisfactory
plan for elevating the country school
to its proper and greater usefulness.
Our purpose ought w 0 be to bring
cqual opportunity for education to ev
cry boy and girl in Crisp county, in
the country as welf as in the town. A
number of the public spirited farmers
of Chatham have oftered for the free
use of the schools a teacher's home
and from five to fifty acres of land as
a demonstration farm: 0 become part
of the property of the school Five or
six of the rural schools are to enjoy
the use of such gifts the coming year.
These have already been pledged, and
the gifts are voluntary.
| Our pride in our rural schools is all
‘good and proper, but a false pride, a
yride that gives the country boy and
fti\e country girl a sort of swindle in
:;the way of real education, will not
'measure up in the sure test for real
imen and women. The training that
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1916. "
makes believe is dangerous. It takes
the boy and girl a long time,—often
far too long,—to find that it isn’t real
education, efficient training.
Here are some of the agencies for
real education for the country boy and
girl that we haven’t to our credit: °
1. A school term of not less than
180 days for each child.
2. A sufficient number of teachers
adequately prepared for their work.
3. Consolidation of rural schools
with an average area of about 12
square miles for each school.
4. Teacher's home and a demonstra
tion farm from five to fifty acres as a
part of the school property. (Chatham
is planning for these.)
5. An all-year session adapted to lo
cal conditions.
6. A country library with branch
libraries at the centers of population,
with the schpols used as distributing
centers.
7. Community organization with the
school as the intellectual, industrial,
educational and social center.
8. A modédrn high-school education
for every boy and girl in the country
as well as in the town.
The czar of the Russians is more
likely to be the man who will change
the map of Europe than will the kais
ér. The Old Prussian, Von Hinden
berg, who drove the Cossack at first
with such fury, is now finding it im
possible to even hold his trenches be
fore the hordes from the far north.
FOR SALE—Cow Peas, cheap; Syrup,
. Molasses, Coffee and Rice. Write
for prices. W. H. Davis, Box 714, Au
gusta, Ga. 6-24 t
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HOUSE FOR RENT—One cottage
with five rooms and bath room. hot
and cold water, electric lights, close
in. $lB per month. Phone 344, Cor
dele, Georgia. 23- ?
FOR SALE—Attractive new imitation
brick veneered bungalow, five rooms,
hall, bath, dressing room and sleeping
porch,—best part of town. Easy
terms. W. C. Hinton. 21-tf
FOR SALE—Ten or twelve fine blood
ed milk cows fresh in milk. Phone
381. C. B. Bowen, Cordele, Ga. 25-8 t
FOR RENT—SB-room bhouse corner
Sixteenth avenue and Fifth street.
Apply C. C. Shipp, Cordele Sash Door
& Lumber Company. 25-tf
Frank E. Williams keeps horses
and mules for trade or sale all the
time. 49-tf
FOR RENT—Six-room house on
Twelfth avenue, next to my resi
ednce, now occupied by J. S. Gordy.
Possession June 15. Apply to Dr. W.
W. McCollum. 10-tf
If you are looking for something
and cgm’t find it, ask Frank E. Wil
liams. 49-tf
WANTED—Three or four unfurnished
rooms. Must be near in. Phone 250
31-2 t.
Frank E. Williams will trade for
anything. . 49-tf
LOST—One bull pup about 2 months
old. White all over, one ear cut. Fin~
der return to S. M. Watson & Co., Cor
dele, Ga., and receive reward. 29-2 t
FOR RENT—I will be away during the
summer months and have a nice
five-room house furnished. Telephone
342, 21-tf
FOR RENT—Several office rooms. Ap
ply at American National Bank 27-tf
LLOST—Cameo pin, surrounded with
lattace work of gold and three pearls
in the business part of town. Will pay
reward to finder. Miss Lillie Thornton.
28-4 t-pd.
F-‘OR RENT—Two residences in good
repair, modern convéniences. Will
rent very reasonable. Apply J. C.
Brown, Dispatch offive. 29-2 t
Wanted—Boarders, privated family.
All conveniences. Phone 527. 18-tf
WANTED—By September Ist, three
roms, furnished or unturnished, for
light housekeeping. J. T. M., 311
Twelfth avenue. 31-tf,
\-\':'.\'TED—One nicely furnished room
for young married couple. Address
P. O. Box 28, Cordele, Ga. 31-It-pd
FOR SALE—Eight h. p. International
Gasoline Engine, built for service.
Bran new. Would convert into kero
sene engine for good customer, or will
trade for automobile. Genuine bar
gain. Dekle Bros., Cordele, Ga. 31-tf
Every grave at the front is marked
by a simple cross, with name, regiment
and dater of burial records. Accurate
surveys are kept of every burial plot.
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HERGERT H. ATRQUITH
C SORN g, REDMONE
Premier Asquith and John E. Red
mond, the Irish- Nationalist leader,
have almost reached the end of their
understanding which has continued
the Asquith government in power for
many years. The failure of Asquith
to keep his agreement about Home
Rule has angered the Nationalist
leader and his party. They threaten
to break off relations, and it is pos
sible there will be a general election
with the Irish question as the issue.
: DR. B. DANIEL
X-RAY
Electro-Therapeutics and
Internal Medicine
American National Bank Bldg.
THOS. J. McARTHUR, M. D.
Special Attention to
Surgery and Gynaecology.
Cordele '<« - ‘. Georgia.
HUGH LASSETER
Attorney-At-Law
Farm Loans 6 per cent
Exchange Bank Bldg.
Cordele, Ga.
L. L. DAVIS
Farm Loans 6 per cent
Quick Service
% Ccordele - - - 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.
DR. J. C. PATTEN
DENTIST
McArthur’'s Old Stand Over
Williams Drug Co.
Cordele - - - Georgia.
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MONEY TO LEND
I have several thousand dollars for
quick loans on good city property. Al
so money for farm loans.
BLAKE BIVINS, Cordele, Ga.
Office Over Exchange Bank.
Cordele Ci a
ity Hall
a Scene
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Until Dead! Dead!
NEVER GIVES UP
McDonald Roof Paint and cement
hanged every leak'in city hall roof,—
and look how slick the roof is, boys!
McDonald a Mystery. Ile never gives
up until he does all he tells you and
wont misrepresent anything to you.
Let us get on your roofs and stop all
leaks and paint them a save them.
DON'T WAIT. %
McDONAL ROOF PAINT co.
Phone 3-GE Hotel Georgian
MAYOR CALLS ON VOIERS
TO HELP CARRY BOND ISSUE
To the People of Cordele:—You are
to decide by your vote Thursday
whether you are to be the owners of
the electric light plant in connection
with the city water plant. It is up to
the qualified voters, to determine this
important question, either for or
against Cordele. If you vote for bonds,
then you vote for the best interest of
your city, as I see it. If you vote
agains.t bonds, then you vote in favor
of a private corporation of New York
city.
A vote for bonds is a vote for Cor
dele and Cerdele people. A vote
against ‘bonds is a vote against Cor
lele and aginst Cordele people. I am
in favor of the bonds and will cast
my vote for bonds Thursday, for in
doing so I feel that I am serving the
best interest of the city. 3
The issues have been squarely pre
sented and a fair discussion had so
that each voter can see just what it
G. L. DEKLE & BRO.
UNDERTAKERS EMBALMERS
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Insure with us against Burglacy, Fire and Accident
and be safe—we go on your bond.
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Excursion to Atlanta
VIA A. B. & A--AUGUST 10th
Leave Cordele 1012 A. M. and 11.50 P. M.
ROUND TRIP $2.50
. Correspondingly low fares from nearby stations. Return
Limit: August 15th, 1916. Ask A. B. &A. Ticket Agent for
further information.
W. W. CROXTON, G. P. A,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
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How long before this rainy spell
stops, but|we do knowjthat
those old shoeswon’tlast much
longer if this rain keeps on or
not, and we would like to have
the pleasure of fitting you in
a pairof cool, comfortable Slip
pers. - Come to see us.
The Only Shoe Store in Town <
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Subway express s on corner. M. E. BURKE, Mmer
will mean to Cordele to own its light
plant in connection with the water
plant. I realize that if Cordele ever
owns its light plant, that it will have
to win it over the combined opposition
of the private corporation and the
friends that it will be able to muster
{o its call. I understand that the
private owned corporation, will nev
er tamely give up what is the most
valuable utility the people of Cordele
have, the electric light franchise.
Fellow citizens, the responsibillfy is
upon you, will you discharge it, favor
ably to Cordele or will you surrender
it to the New York corporation and
iose the rights which you are justly
entitled to have and exercise. I have
done my duty as I see it and if my
vote saves the day for my city I will
be proud. :
Respectfully submitted,
J. GORDON JONES, Mayor.
