The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, September 17, 1916, Sunday Edition, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Textvooe THE 0204 . Cordele Dispatch (Established in 1908) R B TR T Published Every Wednesday and Sun day by Dispatch Publishing Company. CHAS. E. BROWN, - - - - Editor J. C. BROWN - - - - City Editor R Subscription—One year, $2.00; six months, $1.25; three months, 76¢. Sk e e Communications on all topics publish ed when not too long and accompanied by full name and address. Not re sponsible for views of contributors. oAR B Entered as second class matter at the post office at Cordele, Georgia, under the act of March SBth, 1879. Soo ROEe T L O“FFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY. e ——————————— LIGHTING THE FIRES. A local citizen of prominence has a letter out of north Georgia that brought with it the information that Judge George had been (:limixmted; world without end from the race fur‘ the Court of Appeals because he was a Catholic! And so the returns in dicate. Take your map of the state and run down the list. Point out the remote districts and then look where Judge George didn't make a good showing. You may be able to pu! vour finger on them. If you know the hill counties of north Georgis where reside the people who love the term “Hill Billies” you know how tc locate the remote districts. This letter is not a “frame up.” if is authoratative and trustworthy anc it not only advised that Judge George's doom is sealed in that sec tion, but it also advised that the Cor dele citizen who tried to hel Judge George is a ‘“‘marked” man,— buried politically,—friendships termi nated,—the gate off the hinges, the bucket in the well, and Old Tige dead! This grave injustice, this dangerous method of selecting public servants came through an announcement from Hickory Hill that Graham was a Cath olic. When the news was heraldec over the hills and down the valleys in the great excitement the couriers who handed the election edicts from mouth to mouth to be passed on, con fused the name of George with Gra ham. If Judge George, the best mai of them all, is defeated, it will be duc largely to this bungling of the mes sage which bore the orders of the head of the clans. George is not a Catholic. And what's more than all this, there have doubt less been less than a dozen Catholics through all the foot hills of the Blue Ridge since Ferdinand De Soto hunted gold there in the fifteenth ('entur);. The mountain trout plays in the blue waters of north Georgia just as he did the first day nature put him there The great oaks lord it over the hill sides just the same. The mountain eer plies his trade as his forefathers did when the first cabin was shapec on the little clearing and still to this“ good hour no Catholic has gone there to molest civilization! But the clansman’s call went out The fires were lighted. And on ever) hill the signal was sure and unmis takable. George must be defeated! Even the shadow of this native wire grass cracker-jurist, the best of them all, (we say it again), looks thin and gaunt on the map where we have our finger now. If that message to the heads of the clans in middle and south Georgia had been garbled and erroniously translated from the code of Hickor) Hill, results would have been the same. Walter George would not have had one in ten thousand of the votes controlled in the printshop at Thomp son. It is a safe bet that he would have gone back home in ignominious defeat. It is not our concern about what becomes of the Catholic that brings us to this dissertation. Their religi ous entity is a thing apart. It is the strange new yard stick that has been used in measuring the man for pub lic office that is now looming up lar ger and larger. People in this sec tion of the state know Judge George and they know the man who asked hglp for him in north Georgia. The people here, most of them, know that the Court of Appeals could not be trusted to a better man of the four teen who asked for place than Judge George. Time is a great leveler. It is going to take time more than anything else fully to reveal the dangers. Time swings the pendulum as surely one way as it does the other. The good people of Georgia do not often miss :heir aim. They are not committed to the incendiary prejudices that strike at good men for public office. The printshop at Thomson has more nearly dictated terms to the politicians of Georgia this time than it has be fore. Walter George never called at Hickory Hill for his credentials. I'\”e dit not have the time, and he didn’t ‘eel that he ought to do that. When the clans asked for the O. K. it was bungled somewhere in transmission or leliberately misstated at the start and Jeorge scarcely cast a shadow wher ver it was possible to circulate the iews of his alleged Catholic affilia jon. It is certain that north Georgia ras told that George was a Catholic. There will be other fires burning. ‘Wihen they are lighted on the hills f old Georgia there will be other Jans, clans whose purpose will he‘ o wrest their own affairs from un'} lean hands. These will be clans bent‘ n filling their high offices with men apable of doing the most good for he greatest number of people. Walter George must fight now in he convention as the fourth man, shereas, all south Georgia, politica]‘ rejudices aside, know he is qualiﬁedi n every way for the office he has ask-i d of the people of the state. | When the Hickory Hill method hasi eached its fullest force, it will be rought to the door of every voter of ‘eorgia. In Dooly, Ben Hill, (Trisp; nd Wilcox counties the voters must! now already what it means, for Judgei ieorge is known in these counties of is circuit as a man who loves the sork he is doing. He studies the law urely as a devoted jurist and we oubt seriously if the Court of Ap‘ ,eals could have a better man in 11 the state. Our people know him nd our voters, almost to a man, ap reciate his work. - The strange yard ‘stick; this ‘mew olitical code, will find its way into ur midst again. It will be as impos ible as moving the mountains to .ame any man who goes out without redentials from Hickory Hill, no mat er what his qualifications. Don't talk to us about Catholic tome! A new Rome is on our poli ical sky. You who won and you ‘ho lost, answer our querry, will An ient Rome’s edict ever be felt in ‘eorgia as the edict from Hickory {ill has been felt in the past week? BUSINESS AGAIN. | Cordele is coming to be one of the ‘vest business communities in all s>uth Georgia. The business of the resent fall is going to outstrip so far nything that was ever done here un -1 the business man who makes com arisons will have to pinch himself to scertain whether it is a dream. Not ne out of ten has expected half the usiness that has been showing itself lready and the next three months romise a great deal. A steady outward evidence of com -lercial strength is prevalent. Oc asionally through the past summer 1e business inquirer could find a cuth tone gossiper or a goods box warmer cussing” the town, but that thing is ot stylish any more. There is not business in town but whose owners nd operators are so busy that it is ften very difficult to get away with alf the business calls in a day. There are a number of larger bus iess houses and manufacturing con erns here whose strength is begin ing to loom on the commercial hori ym of south Georgia. Some of them re doubled in strength in the past ~o or three years, and their advance ; now even more rapid. There ap ears business for everybody and Cor ‘ele is in every sense of the word a ‘ery busy town. But there is not enough. There is ‘bundant room for more business ang hose who are here to take care of it vould smile broadly if they knew more yusiness is scheduled to come, and is ‘oming. The industrious establish rent,—the men who work for it,—are voing to find themselves more than igreeably surprised and strengthened by the great increase of business. Some of them will have to double force and enlarge to take care of what is coming. The next five years will witness a doubling of the commercial strength of this center in business if development is permitted to go its way undisturbed. That short period of time will reveal the hustler with the most of the gain. It is a day when the goods box warmer will be lost in the scramble. The fashionable hurry of business life will sweep on past him. Cordele is going to build strong in many lines,—new lines. The old business enterprises wre promised much, and all along the line the worker will be the winner. Our only impending danger may rest in our becoming satisfied with the increases that naturally fall in. if we do this, our commercial growth will be stunted. Cordele as a trading center, as a commercial town, is go ing to amount to in the end what the individual concern amounts to. The long line of presperous stores and en terprises of the city are in reality the ity itself. The hustling business men »f the community collectively repre sent all that there is in the business life of the town. They are the men vho must go out and fight for the bus ness. They are the men who make the own felt in the commercial world and their success will be the only success ‘he town can call its own. While the time is opportune we sught to be out after it. There never will be a better time for broadening yur trade interests. If we become a ‘arger center, our individual concerns wnd our husiness men must lay the slans for bringing new business. Let 1s be after everything that can be had. That will make us strong. The commercial foundation is laid for a bysy important center. Our work will count more now in the season of srowth. Let us be at it with great energy. HEALTH OF THE CHILDREN. We seriously doubt if there are not wndreds of things of far more impor ‘ance in the schools than medical in spection for the children, but since his thing has been provided for, and iince it is certainly a measure which neans . good: in many - directions, ' it yught to have the attention of the proper adthorities. When the schools are in session many a little one Subjects others to his ills and many a sound little body ‘s first affected by troubles arising at the schools. It is a commingling of ‘ife which makes it doubly easy for one little fellow’s troubles to spread to every other playmate and class mate. The medical profession contends that inspection should be broadened wnd extended until every school child ‘n the state is reached by it. Strip ning the subject of all sentiment, ‘it s not right to bring children into the world, physicians say, and let them become crippled or killed by causes hat can be prevented. Children who live in cities or towns where medical ‘nspection exists, and those who live in counties like Glynn, Floyd, Irwin, lift, Dougherty, that have - adopted the Ellis Public Health law, which yrovides for medical ftnspection for :ountry school children, have a much better chance for life and will have a very much better chance in life than do those children who live where no provision is made to protect them against the ravages of disease. If a child is in a public school and is found to be suffering from a dis case or a correctible defect, the par ents should be immediately notified of the existing condition. They will gladly take such steps :as are within their means to have the defect prompt ly corrected. This should be done tor the benefit of the child, for the benefit of the other children and for the benefit of the tax payers. A sound mind seldom exists except in a sound body, and it usually costs more to educate a sickly child than it does a healthy one. Healthy chil dren are bright and quick to learn, sickly ones are dull and not only back ward themselves but hold their class es back. Society is as much respon sible for a child's body as it is for a child's mind, and society will be only partly performing its duty until it gives to both mind and body their due proportion of attention. The Governor will not find it easy to name a successor to Judge Joseph; Henry Lumpkin who will be able to grace his place as associate justice of the state supreme court as well as di? this able jurist for twelve yearsA! | 1 THE CORDELE DISPATCH, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER, 17, 1916 One, two, or, say three, months af ter Dorsey becomes governor he will have to part company with Tom Wat son. As governor, Hugh will have to be “for” and Tom is always “agin” and then what? <Here's hoping Hugh will sit right on the job. We could not tell the truth and say we are satisfied with the show down. But we can say we hope Hugh Dorsey will make a goed governor and we mean it. If he succeeds, he will need the support of all the people. We'll be there along with the others trying to help every good cause he may have to fight for. If the people of the Fifth congres soinal district named the better man for office, W. W. Larsen must be a good one. “Dud” Hughes is a goqd man in and out of office and some thing unusual must have occurred or else the new man is some humdinger. The burning of a costly courthouse and the destruction of valuable re cords at Decatur is said to be the out come of strife resulting from Tues day’s election. A near homicide re sulting from a shooting affray be tween two prominent Twiggs county citizens at Jeffersonville Wednesday is another outcome of Tuesday’'s pri mary. These are but election ways too dangerous for the safety of proper ty and human life. When Mr. Dorsey announced for governor we said that he would 1 run a good race, and the latest re- } turns up to the time of going to ‘ press indicate that we were quite correct in that statement—Haw kinsville Dispatch and News. | Easy now! Seems to us we saw some very good looking Harris “argyn- | ment” in the Dispatch and News be fore the primary. No side stepping. Stand up like a man. The Macon News says: “The In liana farmer who started to marke;t': with ten non-laying hens, only to find on arriving in town that nine of '*he hens had made peace offerings ‘n the form of new laid eggs, had the *ight idea of a punative expedition. IHis bluff worked. Whereupon he very properly crated the repented hens .back to the farm to give them one more chance to establish permanent ‘and productive peace.” Almost as weak as Candidate Hughes is Ex-President Taft in his reasons why President Wilson should not he re-elected. If ever there was evidence in the republican ranks that tney have no excuse, no anything on which to base their claim to the office over Wilson, it is manifested in the public utterance of both Taft and Hughes. They ‘do not make headway. Neither of them can get up steam enough to be heard a block away in the business world. Nothing like it under the sun! l The Albany Herald has the happiest full-column editorial about Frank Park's re-electidn to congress over Gene Cox of its lifetime. Dougherty went for Cox, but a Park victory was the thing and the race got so hot we ‘magine one could see it in the blue etherial. It is not Cox's defeat that we lament, yet we know and appre ciate him as a friend. It is not Frank Park’s victbry that we care so much about, but, withal, he is a splendid public official. It was the Herald's single,handed scrap we were watching, and, bless your bones, it was a scrap. Our heartiest congrat ulations! GOVERNMENT TO BUILD ‘ OWN ARMOR FACTORY Washington, Sept. 14..—The govern ment will construct its own armor plate factory, in the opinion of naval ‘officers. When hearings on the ques tion of the selection of a site for the proposed $11,000,000 armor plant wére resumed at the navy department to day no offers for the sale of private plants had been made and it was be lieved that none would be made. Additional offers of sites were made before Secretary Daniels amil other naval officers today. Advantage of Rhode Island cities were urged first. The claims of more than a hun dred middle and eastern cities al ready have been presented. BAILIFF KILLS NEGRO WOMAN. b ° | Thomaston, Sept. 14.—Louiella Hobbs, a negress, was killed by Leuﬁ Kersey, a constable at Atwater disy trict last night. The bailiff was seach-f ing the house for a negro man when | the woman attacked him. He shot her in self-defense. No arrests have been | made. i OF SUITS AND. DRESSES ___ e e o ——W’M e S —————————— g S—— S T| —— SN ‘X&iﬁ% N el e . T VB A SEE | IRI | LADY : £ eA T ' ‘ ‘~ ’&l‘ L ‘ o | AN | DRESS W e R | ¢ “) '» é?é-i,"é_‘f;‘- .h‘ 5‘A ot N | LINE | 282 %| OR SUIT B > L N | A AN [ RS e e Y - BRI Ygd‘w'xi ﬂgi 3 T wﬁ? T g R . e T BEFORE | ®me. -L& | $lO T 0 f 4/ ety i+ o g!”: : fope MY , Pt 2 Ga® | ( @ 7 | -CZcff o = Lo } & ) ‘ ;;o " 3 7 | Red Cross Boots | 'm = 1 , PR itz A- All New Colors and Styles, all [ N ‘of M . KTe Vi, SRI s 9 Sizes and Widths, Ato E \‘ b | S _ \\ s3¢so TO $6050 \ 5 - WILL BE FOUND AT ® e e Lowms Hiller dtore ‘ LOUIS MILLER, Manager MANY BILLS DIED IN HOUSE. Only Small Fraction of Those Pre sented Became Laws. Washington, Sept. 14.—During the session of congress just closed 17,- 800 bills and 642 resolutions were in troduced in the House. Of these, 252 bills became laws, and 33 public res olutions were adopted, in addition ta 150 private bills and resolutions pass: ed. 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 .-y - - Georgia. HUGH LASSETER Attorney-At-Law Farm Loans 6 per cent Exchange Bank Bldg. Cordele, Ga. MAX. E. LAND 1 ATTORNEV-AT-LAW | Office Over Oid Postoffice | Prompt Attention Given To All | Business e ee s e 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 i McArthur's Olé Stand Over | Williams Drug Co. i Cordele - - - Georgia. } @ THE FARM SHOULD BE CLEAR- ® E' ED OF THE STUMPS. YOU .KNOW : IT. WHY NEGLECT THIS WORK? ! THE WILLIAMSON STUMP PUL LER IS DESIGNED FOR GREATEST EFFICIENCY ON SOUTH GEORGIA @ FARMS. THE PLAN IS EASY. ® eFgo Williamson Steel Stump Puller Co. MAIN OFFICE AND DISTRIBUTING POINT, CORDELE, GA. vt STERVA B &< mmn CRYSTAL CAFE ”ﬂzﬂ;\;l';:;JST RECEIVED SOME NICE SELECT NORFOLK OYSTERS Served in up-to-date style. Try our creamery Stews and toothsome fried Oysters. REGULAR DINNER, SERVED EVERY DAY 25¢ CRYSTAL CAFE 111 ELEVENTH AVENUE THE CASH IS THE THING We Step Lively and Deliver the Goods--Big Values for the Money--See? THE ECONOMY GROCERY