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vTordele Dispatch
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under the act of March Bth, 1879.
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. OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY.
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uJ ' I}IA{I‘I‘I'ING A LIBRARIAN.
The trustees of the Public Library
hrave on their-hands a most important
,P’diity to perform evei‘y time they are
called upon to decide as to the proper
person to fill librarian’s place. It is
~~gever easy and only once in a great
; ~_v((_hil.e is it possible to get the best re
sults from a new selection.
The work of Miss Helen Brewer in
. the capacity of librarian for the past
" three ‘years at the Cordele library
" need not be so warmly praised now.
Her worth has been found by a larger
gity and she will immediately take up
‘.'work where she will have opportunity
‘?f gserving more people and conse
quently doing more good. This is al-
Hmys the case. The world has a way
iqt making room in the broader fields
,for the more honest and the more
“Aaithful.
But the immediate community and
* the country @round has been brought
/' 1o a wonderful appreciation of the li
brary largely through her efforts. This
library is now more than half the ev
“ery-day practical education of hun
..dreds of people who have been taught
1 how: to make the most of it.
' 'Miss Brewer never failed to realize
the importance of her work and she
labored with the one purpose of en
larging the usefulness of the library.
In books and building the library
- might be worth a million dollars and
m‘f?“"h’dd only some pretty, frail crea
ture who only knew the best effects
of the. various complexion powders
or dress fabrics, to stand as a guide
for those who come to learn through
library reading, the whole institution
wouid not be worth a song. :
¢iored on those book shelves is the
learning of all the ages. The works of
the great students and scholars of all
time,—the teachers, the philosophers,
the scientists, the poets, the critics,
the historians, the novelists, the es;-
sayists, the biographers, the states
men, the political economists,—their
~ best thought and their best effort, is
““&11 there available for every person.
The library is truly the school for
the grown-ups. It brings to our doors
Aall tllese,&rea‘sums. and yet,—and yet,
Lif"we have only a shallow pleasure
seeker to preside in the librarian's
sohgty, how far we miss the value of
“guch an institution!
The more the librarian studies the
‘surroundings of those who come, the
more she knows of their habits, their
inclinations and their trend of thought,
the more she knows of their ambitions
and the more will she be able to help)
them when they come to enjoy th
mau_ters. She must even know as
“much as possible of their intellectual
attainments to make the library worth
most to them,
And most of all, she must herself
"know the works of the masters, the
creations of art, how to find them
quickly and direct her reader on the
way. What culture and refinement
Blie may impart! What sweet satisfac
tion will slip into the lives of those
who through the bookshelves learn
that they can talk, face to face, with
~lhe wisest and the best men and wo
rmen that have lived in the world in
ali the past ages!
Miss Brewer knew her noble calling
and her successor must know likewise
that her highest duty is to impart in
telligence and enlightenment through
Jthe library. The masters there would
lalk,—talk on eternally to their lis
teners from the pages of the books and
never tire. And every person within
reach would listen, late and long. for
the love of learning, if they only
¢ lfr}eW how. :
bt Pretty somebody with pretty clothes
at the librarian’s desk might not serve
so well. Give us somebody with a
purpose and working c¢lothes on and
+e will continue to make the library
serve one of the greatest of all needs.
THAT DIFFEE GINNERY.
If you live in your little corner of
thiis community and have not seen
that Diffee ginnery at work, you
ought to get your friend to take you
over. There was terrible hair-pulling
and much sleep lost when it was put
up, but now if you would see how well
such an enterprise can serve a com
munity, just get your hat and go over
‘here where that big motor hums and
‘hat modern, modest little plant does
's work.
A nuisance? Nonsense!—but that’s
.nough. Go and look at it. There ig
Jome capital working for home people
vith the greatest possible economic
perfection. It is the best. And when
we have the best, we ought to be sat
‘sfied.
And think of it! The Cordele Elec
ric Company turns the wheel. The
sower plant there is a big motor which
(ost approximately $1,5600. I would
1o honor to the Jackson Dams to be
_ermitted to make that think hum. The
“ay current does the work at a cost
shich will enable the exterprise td
ravel on at full c;ipnclty. 1t does this
uietly at the tripping of a switch.
" here is no delay for anything, no
aiting for steam. The ginnery is al
ays ready.
It would hardly be possible to over
ax this ginnery. The farmers of
. risp cannot block the Diffee ginnery
ith business and we doubt whether
ey could find greater efficiency in
.1 the south. Cotton cleaning, good
ymple making, enlarging the yield
‘1 lint, are all items that count here.
Give us a hundred enterprises of
nat kind. They are worth much
:1d they bring us, ¢ ommercially
¢ eaking, right into the ‘front rank.
i his is a small one, but what a fine
(nae!
FOR HEALTH'S SAKE.
Streaking its way through the heart
«f the residence section of Cordele,
<outh, east, north and partially on the
.-est is a muddy, wet weather ditch
{"at gets in its worst against our
I.oalth condition during a rainy sea
<omn. Wet summer months help this
“‘teh to do untold damage to the oth
_~wise almost perfect sanitary condi
{;ons of the community.
It cannot be moved, nor can the
iopography of the residence section
;. » changed, but the day when it must
" o disposed of is upon us. The longer
remains open, the more costly will
i become to good health. Public of
. oials know this and property holders
ljoining also know it. Risposing of
t is a rather huge task, but we can
: Ot shirk.
Overlaying with concrete sewerage
,nstruction has been in the minds
> the city officials for no short sea
_n and they are eager to get at it.
\ "hen they set out to do this, they will
ahance property values along the
(th of this muddy streak. Proper
-ainage has been provided, but as
ag as the ditch remains open, ma
' ria will stalk forth'in the vicinity.
Those entrusted with sanitation in
"o city love their work and have stud
‘vd hard and long for improvements.
yrdele mastered Sister Skeeter this
smmer long before neighboring cities
<ot out from under the spell. Macon
ught h#foically for more than a
~onth after the worst had been done
" re. Health conditions, generally
heaking, are not bad here.
Property holders and city officials
Light better conditions to a marked
“~gree if they joined hands and shoul
~red the expense of enclosing the
¢ ditch with a subs:antial concrete
wer. That must be done some day.
. 1e sooner, the better.
Health efficiency is perfect manhood
2 womanhood.
Three nawspapers in a one-newspa
o+ town! Such a sad spectacle is
. resented at Cordele. And the only
nes to blame for such a state of af
‘aqirs are the business men of the
cown. We doubt not, though, but
hat they are ready and willing to en
c¢ourage a fourth, and then, like the
cthers, let it starve for lack of sup
~ort.—Unadilla Reporter.
Confidentially addressing you as a
uere man, we don't know where the
.ashion is going to lead the ladies
\ his fall.
OUR COUNTRY SCHOOLS.
Fifteen years ago the writer taught
a country school not far away from
Cordele. Two years of it made him
res olve that if ever the opportunltyl
carne, he would do what he could to
help improve the rural schools of the
state. That resolution has not been
forgotten.
It is announced this week that the
rural schools of Crisp county are to
be operied in October far too late.
There will be ten weeks of the fall
term,— not much more than the length
of the ardinary summer singing school,
And the appalling thing is the custom
of waiting till the cotton is out and
the farm work is done before the
schools are opened.
Crisp county, in more than one re
spect, ie a leading Georgia county in
matters of education for the children.
The city schools of Cordele, however,
will have been running more than a
month when, the country schools are
thrown open. The spring term is meas
ured by weeks, likewise, for the coun
try boy and girl, not by months. The
time cannot be made sufficiently profi
table by even the best teachers that
ever served a system.
With all its love of educational
training, with all its efforts in other
lines, is the county going to lend its
approval to slackening interest and
non attendance by continuing to main
tain a term too short for the boy and
zirl to get a good start before the
scholastic year is over?
The annual report of the state su
perintendent of schools of Georgia for
the scholastic year ending last Decem
ber showed that 169,630 children of
school age in Georgia did not attend
school a day last year. Many of these
have never enrolled in a school in
their lives. We have our quota of
them and we are helping them to main
tain a shallow appreciation of the
school work when we make the year
too short for them.
The children are not to blame,—
it's our system. We know' better,
cvery one of us. There isn't a head:
of a white family in Crisp county who?
would have to be urged long in mat
ters of educational training, for the
children of his household. Most of
; them are already taking advantage of
all we are giving them. Our citizen
ship is not secretive, apathetic, or un
approachable. None of us live in a
past long dead elsewhere. We know
much of the meafiing of the progres
sive present and enlarging the useful
ness of our schools among our chil
dren in the rural districts ought to be
easy. ’
Crisp is one of the finest counties in
all Georgia with'a marked limitation
to the school advantages of the coun
try boy and girl. This is not written
to make Old Lady Know All throw a
fit in this community and that. We
speak in theé interest of the country
boy and the country girl.
Somebody ought to be layirrg-'fim
for improvements. It is an absolute
certainty that the number of days to
the credit of the conuiry boy and girl
in school each term is not fifty per
cent of what it ought to be as meas
‘ured by the attendance of pupils in
the city schools with the nine-month
term.
In other words, the short term and
the poor attendance in the rural
schools are depriving country boys
and girls of over half their birthright
‘in matters of free school privileges
as compared with city boys and girls.
We are glad city children have the
good school'privileged that are theirs.
We wish the city schools were better.
But we are determined to expose this
iunjust. unpardonable. and un-Ameri
can discrimination against country
'hoys and girls. Equality before the
?‘.aw and equal educational opportuni
ty have not yet been provided for the
farm boy and farm girl.
If there is one who is inclined to
question our sincerity, go to it. We
are not going to forget the boys and
girls who stand most in mneed of
school improvement.
Gen. Funston says Villa's power}
seems to be growing. tI looks likei
the man ought to know what we mean
by this time.
A neutral citizen having reported
that meals are high in the German
capital, we think it would be a good
idea for him to come over to America
and tell us what he thinks of condi
tions here.
‘THE CORDELE DISPATCH, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1916.
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