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Cordele Dispatch
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CHAS. E. BROWN, - - - - Editor
J. C. BROWN - - - - City Editor
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Entered as second class matter at
!/ the post office at Cordele, Georgia,
' under the act of March Bth, 1879.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY.
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FREE SCHOOL BOOKS.
: A community can never do enough
tor the education of the youth for
whose training and usefulness as cit
izens it is responsible. Wherever it
is possible every encouragement
should be offered to both parent and
child and, since it was long ago deter
mined that this is one of the best
things on which the public funds in
any community can be spent, every
dollar of the educational funds should
be made to count for the greatest
good.,
Dne of the things the community
ought to attend with great zeal and
faithfulness is the supplying of books
for the children everywhere. It is not
right for the parent to hide behind the
excuse that he is unable to get the
books. Many times this is true. Real
good comes of the free book move
ment in such cases. More than 75
per cent of the children’s parents;
are amply able to furnish the means
with which to get the books, but where
funds are provided for some, others
should be permitted to take advantage
of the same. ]
But it is not the charity fe- ‘ure that
stands out first and foremost. It is
the encouragement which this thing
gives. Whether a parent is interested
or not, if he knows that the books are
supplied out of the public funds for
every child that goes to school, he will
be more nearly willing to let the child
go and enjoy the training. If he is
required as a tax payer to help pro
svide the fund for the books, he is
more apt to feel a community interest
in the education of his children. Free
books help wodnerfull in the matter of
getting the indifferent parent to give
attention to the school attendance
fromn his own home.
There are progressive communities
that are providing free books to all
who ‘are enrolled and a wonderful dif
ference is felt where three has been
time to note the effect. All the sys
tefils that are well regulated are soon
““er or later to adopt the method and
the sooner it becomes a part of the
system in Cordele and Crisp county,
the sooner will education of the chil
dren take on new and stronger inter
est in the homes.
Our local school heads may preach
till doomsday trying to get the at
tendance of those who little care for
education and they will not do half
so much single-handed. They need
the backing of the officials who spend
the public money. They would suc
ceed as they have never done before ‘
in getting children into the schools
Free books would be worth while.
BACK TO PEANUTS.
1t is all silly to preach peanut grow
ing to a farmer who can get sixteen
cents a pound for his cotton and 65
cents per bushel for his cotton seed.
And the man who has cotton to sell
at these very attractive prices is not
going to listen at anything else so
long as there is a possidility of pro
ducing more cotton.
But what of the man who cannof
show the cotton? If the weevil gets
it, a dollar a pound for the man who
loses to the weevil does not mean
much. He must have the cotton or
there will be little doing.
There has been much said of the
success of peanut growing. Our farm
ers are going to try it till they see what
can be done. Peanut growing for fat
tening the porkers has been the
schedule heretofore. Now if it be
comes a success, it must be through
a production at such a cost as will
enable the farmer to realize on them
in the market. 4 "
The Dawson News has this to say
of one man: o
“Dr. W. R. Terry, of Shellman,
was in the city Saturday, and
while here he informed the News |
that he planted 300 acres of pea
nuts on his farm this year from
which he gathered 10,000 bushels
of peanuts and 100 tons of pea
nut vine hay. The peanuts are
worth on the market 90 cents a
" bushel, which will bring him $9,
000. He has sold 100 tons of the
peanut vine hay and received $2,
000 for it. Dr. Terry says that he
runs forty plows and that he did
not plant over four acres of cot
ton to some of his plows.”
Dr. MeMillan at Byromville says he
is assured of fifty bushels to the acre
on his place this season and it is his
irst. He has neighbors who are get
ting 75 bushels to the acre, so he
states. He believes this quantity will,
be increased as the knowledge of
zrowing and harvesting become bet
ter.
Peanuts cost less than cotton to
produce, but will not compare favora
bly with cotton at the present high
srices. Peanuts are worth while for
he lands which cannot be put in cot
ton on account of the weevil and a
:maller cotton crop and a large peas
wt crop is the wise thing.
PROVIDING THE MARKET.
The business men of Cordele are to
e called together in a meeting Thurs
lay, October 12, for the purpose of
liscussing plans for establishing a
narket for home products of every
.ind. The effort is to get every bus
ness man in the community strongly
nterested in adopting some plan to
ake care of "every saleable article at
(s best market price.
Various suggestions already made
ndicate that the local business men
re to form an organization whose du
y will be to find a market for every
hing. It is suggested that market
ays be fixed so that those who have
ommodities to sell may bring them in
nd sell them collectively, in car lots
r in such quantities as to interest
oth local and outside buyers.
Plans will also be discussed where
y a uniform one-size package
an be had that will be in condition
) be handled as a merchandise. The
niform sack of oats, of corn, of meal,
{ potatoes, of peanuts, the one-size
ale of hay, the syrup package, will
11 be discussed with a view of facil
ating the marketing at the highess
rice.
Education in this line is needed now
jore than ever on account of the
hange which is going to be required
‘om cotton growing.
Hundreds of progressive farmers
‘om all adjacent communities ought
) be brought into such a meeting as
.is proposed so- that they may get
e fullest benefit. A farm product
orth the most in the market is what
‘e producer in Crisp county most
eds and it is the tbhing he will go
ter when he is shown that he can get
better price for it.
A local organization whose duty will
= to find a market for what the pro
qcer has in a business organization
‘hich can be of untold good service
» everybody. Many of the best bus
.ess men of the community and all
‘ose of the county have already seen
:at the food crop production is soon
y outgrow the local consumption and
.r greatest need is to be prepared to
nd the outside market which will af
'rd the best prices for what we have
y offer.
JUST PLAIN BUTTER.
l'o the man who pays forty-five
'nts per pound for wholesome but
r, does it ever occur that home pro
uets can be made to take the place
" :his almost prohibited food product?
his 18 8 commodity now nearly twice
i costly as it should be. It can be
roduced and marketed at 25 cents per
ound at a profit to the producer.
mare is something radically wrong
‘ith the home production when we
'low this commodity to run up so
igh ard make no effort to get the
.ome supoly increased.
Mboultrie has a creamery that, at
Ist accoun's. has not gone beyond
lie confines of its own community to
ind a buying public for all its output.
t is now producing over 100 pounds
f butter a day and sells it all in Moul
fie.
It would surprise the ordinary indi
vidual to know how much botter is
shipped into Cordele every day. One
would hardly believe as much foreign
iairy products are used kere as are
"veally consumed. And bi:lt‘ez, is sel
l ling at 45 cents per pound, . ‘
Ours is a dintinctly farming dis
trict, a good one. Our grain crops, our
hay and beans and peas are better
dairv feed than that of any other sec
tion. As a dairy feed producing sec
tion ours cannot be beaten. Some!
good husiness man with proper knowl-i
edge of his work, can produce and sell‘
here a world of butter and dairy pro-‘
ducts at a handsome profit. So far
as we know, not a pound of butter is
produced locally among any of those
who attempt to maintain dairy inter
ests.
There is abundant room for butter
and cream producing enterprise. There
’ will be more room as the months pass
and the man with the least bit of
capital and the greatest amount of
good business judgment, will find it
easy going. Every pound of both
cream and butter that can be produced
in Crisp county would find easy sale
here at home.
This section is capable of producing
a great deal of butter. It cohsumes
a great deal of it and it is just as much
a mistake to wait on the Elign cream
eries for our butter as it is to wait on
foreign producers for any of our other
supplies. There will be a strong de
mand for any sort of dependable home
product. We ought to produce great
quantities of hutter and creamery pro
ducts. They are badly needed. Why
make it necessary longer to use an eas
tern product?
BREAKING THE RECORD.
Our business conditions were such
last week as to enable Cordele to pre
sent to the outside world a bank state
ment which revealed half a million in
deposits for one institution. There are
five banks in Cordele, all of them
fighting for business and all of them
enjoying a goodly share. The Ex
change made the first get-over for the
half million mark, and close on this
comes the Cordele National with de
posits so nearly equal that the claim
can fairly be made that two of them
have a million dollars. 5
Our bank deposits will reach so
close to the two-million mark that the
business public ought to know it. This‘
is so much better than has ever been
done in the community that business
nen “lliwe a:][ei;(})v _e_;_(ggessed genuine
satisfaction. The whole business has
an interest in the money increase and
the general disposition to save from
the immense amount of cash which fis
commng in from the sale of cotton and
¢orten seed.
Farmn products going to market at
mood prices have made the gain pos
sible and the fact that much of the
money has found lodgment in the lo
cal banks is evidence that at least
a fair portion is not due on outside
obligations as has been the case here
tofore.
The strength of our banks is often
measured by the amount of deposits
carried here. The strength of our
business community is also measured
by the money on deposit in our banks.
The financial strength of the commu
nity is estimated by the amount of un
spent money on hand. And now that
we have a fairly gooad amount of pock
et change in our thousands of ac
counts in thc five local banks, it cam
no* be said that we are too poor for
any considerable volume of dependa
ble Lusiness.
Cordele and Crisp county will be as
well prepared for the new year's bus
iness as any section of Georgia and
large numbers of our planters will
pray cash for their supplies another
vear for they have the money. Most
of those who have money ahead are
already devoting their time to finding
a way to make it reach as far as pos
sible. What we have now wisely in
vested in the running expenses of the
next season will make us even stron
ger for the fall and there will be lar
ger bank accounts. It is our business
to break the record ivery time.
The French premier has administer
ed a stinging rebuke—so-called—to a
member of the French parliament who
suggested something about peace.
What has struck us about this war
in Kurope is the optimistic tone of
every war dispatch. They never say
anything about losses, but the way
they tell of success is an example
to some of the people who are knock
ing this town.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 4, 1916,
' 'fhe British seem to know how to
turn implements of agriculture into
war weapons oven if they don’t know
how to beat the sword into a plough
share.
Anything that helps the body of our
poorer people is bound to help those
in better circumstances. It is a poor
charity that has to see returns. ‘
Few people realize the value of good 1
books. The close reading of some
good books, has made more people
better than anything else. It you
want to amount to anything in this
world you have to keep up with the
times.
The returns of some of the old bat
tle flags taken during the War Be
tween the States is a sign of a re
turning unity among our people. The
%latest example of this kind occurred
in Newark, Ohio, last week when an
Arkansas governor-elect presented
Gov. Willis with a flag taken from
an Ohio company, at a battle in Geor
gia. 3
BERLIN 1S SORE BECAUSE
AMERICANS HELP FRANCE
Berlin, Oct. 3.—Practically all of the
Berlin newspapers contribute to the
bitter criticism of mamericans in the
¥rench army. The news of the death
‘light of Lieutenant Kiffin Rockwell,
~f Atlanta and Asheville, precipitated
2 storm of criticism.
The Post declaréd the presence oi
tockwell and others in the eners)
llamps cannot be regarded -as the
.cts of individuals, but declared tnat
America sends her own citizens to
fight Germany.
ACCOUNTS OF EXPENSES
FILED BY CANDIDATES
Atlanta, Oct. 3.—W. J. Eakes, who
sought to wrest away from W. J.
Speer the office of state treasurer,
spent just $2,495.14 in his attempt,
which resulted in his defeat.
In his losing fight Eakes, in a state
ment sworn to before E. F. Cook, or
dinary of Rockdale county, and filed
ing records of the last sixteen bank
failures.
Joseph E. Pottle aiso filed his ex
nense statement, the time limit expir
ing at midnight last night, in which
he sets forth that it cost him just $5,-
736.86 to carry four counties in his
ante-primary race fo. the gubernatori
al nomination. He was the last of
the four candidates for governor to
ile his statement of expenses.
A swimming apparatus made of rub
her cushions that can be inflated
hrough an air valve and so compact it
can be carried in a pocket has been
‘nvented.
Extensive deposits of coal have
heen discovered-in Kongo by Belgian
sngineers. ‘
! DR. B. DANIEL
X-RAY
Electro-Therapeutics and
Internal Medicine
American National Bank Bldg.
REUEL HAMILTON
— DENTIST —
Over Cordele Hardware Co.
Cordele, Georgia
| 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.
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 COUNSLL
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.
MONEY TO LEND
On good city property and improved
farm lands.
BLAKE BIVINS
| EASTMAN GEORGIA
" October 17, 18,19, 20, 21 |
Distinctly Different. New and Novel. Big and
Busy. Live and Progressive.
THE FAIR FOR THE FAMILY
Complete and comprehensive exhibits of agri
cultural products and live stock, woman’s
work, girls’ canning clubs, boys’ corn and
pig clubs. ' ,'
Mammoth street parades, fast harnessraces,
spectacular aeroplane flights, dazzling dis
play of fireworks, monster midway.
One Fare Plus 25¢ Round Trip on all Railroads
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Joseph C. Graveur, owner of a New
York city garage, was shot to death
in the hotel Walton, Philadelphia, by
Mrs. Harry Belzer of Brooklyn, whe
then committed suicide. He had
gone there with %irs. Joseph C.
SENTENCE OF POLLARD
COMMUEED BY HARRIS
Atlanta, Oct. 3—Governor Nat E.
Harris yesterday commuted to present
service the lift sentence of Jack Pol
lard, serving time for the murder of
Jack Chappeile. Pollurd appeared per
sonally before Goveraor Harris at the
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1916-1917 ANNOUNCEMENT
: FORD MOTOR- COMPANY
PRODUCTION GOES UP WHILE PRICES GO DOWN
Ford Chassis - $325.00 Ford Couplet - $505.00
Ford Runabout - $345.00 Ford Town Car - $595.00
Ford Touring Car $360.00 Ford-Sedan - $6.45.00
F. 0. B. Detroit, Michigan = ]
CORDELE MOTOR CAR COMPANY
CORDELE, GEORGIA : '
Leduc of Chicago. Mrs. Belzer, with)
whom he had been friendly, was in-l
sanely jealous. While she . killeg |
Graveur, the Chicago woman was not!
mortally wounded. I
mansicn a few days ago, making al
personal appeal for such commutation.
This means that he wiil be freed from_
prison under virtual perdon, although
his rights of citizenship are not restor
ed. These, however, will be withheld!
only temporarily, pending the man’s
future behavior. 3
FRAMES '
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Nice Picture Framing here
at home, better and cheaper.
E. R. OVERBY
Pate Building — Cordele, Ga. ;
The Southern 3 Express company will
hold an Old Hoss Sale at Cordele, Ga.,
October 24, and will sell to the high
est bidder for cash several hundred
unclaimed packages.
46-9 t W .S. MURRAY, Agent:
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City Shoe Shop
SHCE REPAIRING OF ALL
KINDS AT REASONABLE
PRICES
SEWED ON SOLES 65 to 75¢
WORK GUARANTEED.
Wext door to Citizen’s Bank.
Eighth street, Cordele, Georgia.
At the forty-second annual picnic of
the German settlers in Chicago Mor
ris F. Georgi, age 91, and Mrs. Marie
Bracklein, age 73, took first prize in
the waltzing contest.