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The Cordele Dispatch
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OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY.
WHO'LL STOP THE WAR?
The whole civilized wirld has eyes
turned on this country watching for
the part it is going to play in restor
ing peace in Europe. Out of the hands
of the central powers direct to oul
president came the first proposal
Those fighting and those who are for
tunate enough to have yet remained
neutral alike are expecting that the
terms can be dictated and will be
dictated from American shores.
There is not a question that
the American people sympathize
with the entente allies, but it is not
unreasonable to add that most mnen
tral nations have a leaning in the
same direction. The German emperor
is not too sleepy to have found this
long ago. It may have helped to de
cide his present course. But our sym
pathies need not prevent us from
laying foundations for permanent
peace and our president is likely soon
to be about the task.
‘What is to be accomplished in a
diplomatic way is yet to he revealed.
One of the chief things in the way
is the apparent unwillingness to quit
in the camps of the entente forces.
Modern warfare, of course is nothing
like that of the past, but if these Eu
rcpean nations were to quit so short
of the usual time devoted to a war,
1t might leave room for the hope of
the elimination of war from the earth.
On the plains of Europe a hundred
years ago Napoleon warned his gen
erals that the Lord is always on the
side having the most cannons. This
law of warfare dominated his plans
as he swept over Furope. His en
gines of destruction—nhis men and his
guns—needed nothing with which to
answer the furious assaults of his ene
mies but more of his own men and
guns. This would seem to imply a
belief on the part of the greatest man
in battle the world ever saw that God
throws us on our own resources and
leaves us to ourselves. There is Bi
ble for it.
Fifty years later in the American
civil struggle where the bravery of
fighting men surpassed all history,
Abraham Lincoln said: “That the
Lord should be on our side does not
concern me: We should be on the
Lord’e side.” Does this view of it im
ply God’s minute and constant inter
vention in our lives? There is the
Bible too, for this view, ‘“Are not
two s’parrows sold of a farthing?” Na
poleon would ask: “What number of
guns?” Lincoln’s question would be:
“Are we right?”
Are both of these views correct,
and are we to decide when the one
exists and when the other? The
world and the laws that govern its
natural existence are the handiwork
of an Infinite Power. The death of
the soldier here charging against the
weltering fire of an enemy at war is
as much a part of the eternal plan as
the peaceful passing away of the aged
mother who reared that soldier. Both
life and death are common issues
bound up in the mysteries of His
making and control.
Who knows but that somewhere out
of the unknown may come to us a
way to stop their bloodshed? 1t is
time now to be stirring. We have the
greatest of all opportunities,—or at
least such a good office seems in the
end to be ours to fill when the time
is ripe. Wise disposition of matters
falling to us tc handle should have
weight.
Not in the Long Run,
From the Rome Chronicle:
“Bigotry don’t pay, from any stand
point,” asserts the Tifton Gazette. Not
so as you can see it. Only on dress
parade, and then it doesn't, :
’ BUTTER AGAIN.
It was suggested through these col
!umns several days ago that a cream
ery is a necessity here. Every time
we have to pay forty cents for a pound
of country butter and fifty cents for
a pound from Elgin, 111, we feel more
like saying it again and again till we
have made somebody believe there is
some truth in it. We wonder what
our neighbors do for butter? But this
little individual necessity is not the
most serious part of it. We do not
need a creamery for one or a dozen }
families alone. We ned it for com-]
munity that consumes several hun-|
dred pounds of butter weekly and gets ‘
most of it from Elgin 111, a tremen
dous cost.
It has not been five years since one
.ould buy all the butter needed at
'wenty cents. Cheese went at a rea
sonable price no longer than last
vear. As long as we are forced to
yuy and bring in these products none
f us need feel proud of it, for there
s money to be made and lots of it on
he marketing of that which can be
yroduced locally.
Many people are becoming interest
'l in the proposed creamery. This
s something we must have sooner or
ater. The longer we delay the estab
ishment of an enterprise which will
nsure local output of butter sufficient
‘or our needs, the longer will we have
o pay the middle man to sit on the
yutter hox and wait for his profits.
People who have cows are learning
jow to produce feed for them and
hose who have gonod cows are pro
ucing more milk than they can use.
Vhy not have the creamery here so we
an buy up and use this surplus from
he small producers all over the coun
v? Why not provide an industry
/hich will make it possible for the
»od crop grower to make more cattle
sed and turn it into money from his
ows?
We are now to the point where it is
Imost a necessity to try to cut off
he Flgin products for the price is'
ext to prohibitive, We have larger
wrms. We grow more velvet heans{
nd more hay. We know how to get
hese crops and they“are going t,u!
ome at smaller cost the more we
sarn about making them. The milk
ows and the big hay and bean crops
re all we need. What we need is a
varket for the milk as it is produced
nd the milk will come by the car
vad, ( We are not producing milk
ow hecause there is no market for
and there is little good judgment in
eding the farm output to cows for
jilk where we have not learned to
tilize it except as a feed for the fat
ning porkers.
A local creamery will provide a !
.arket for the milk from every place.|
he farm with one cow can do as
ell as the farm with twenty head for
e reason that there will be a demand
or all that can be produced. If this
ommunity ever needed an enterprise,
! needs the creamery. Five or six‘
f the big farmers who whittle sli(-ks‘
ometimes ought to be looking into'
his thing. Moultrie, they have as
arted over and over again, has neverT
ad to hunt a market for a pound of
s butter. A good article is produced
nd it brings the highest price. |
We need the creamery to turn the
ich food crops of our farms into but
r. We need it now to help find use
% the crops other than cotton which
st be produced on some of the:
ands. We need it above all to elimi
ate the food products gambler so that |
e can no longer draw his wealth from
us.
Only a few days ago a car of eggs
tarted in Indiana at a price of 24 1-2
‘ents per dozen and finally found the
;onsumer in a New York hotel where
L price of 43 cents per dozen was paid.
mvestigation proved that the car of
ggs changed hands nine times after
+ left the poultry raisers before it
reached the consumer and every one
made his profit. This fully explains
he price of butter and all the more
cmphasizes our need of t he local
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ADD THE CATTLE.
The economic advantage of a profit
able cattle industry in the develop
ment of Crisp county farms cannot be
questioned, even on the poorest places.
A few catile cannot save everything
from a farm mortgage, but they can
transform poor, unprofitable lands in
to rich, paying fields. They can fur
nish the family of little ones plenty
‘ur milk and butter, and, according to
size of herd, they provide ready mon
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, CORDELE, GEORGIA.
ey for the owner out of the yearly
sales. !
A farm without cattle is much like
the home without children,—its days
are numbered. The many small ad
vantages that come of having a few
cattle on the farm, all summed up, are
sufficient to permit all owners of plan
‘tations to encourage their tenants to
! raise them. Good cattle of either beef
or dairy type, well cared for, are al
ways a source of profit.
There is no need of arguing or
standing behind on account of the cat
tle tick. This cattle pest can be easi
ly and permanently removed and is
being removed. If there is a farm
er, white or colored, who has no cat
tle on his place, the next best thing to
do is to see that the start is made.
Growing feed now is not the problem
it was when we did not know how.
There will be plenty of demand for
fat beef cattle and plenty of demand
for the spare milk and butter. If lo
cal dairy and creamery interests do
not provide a way to use it, those in
neighboring towns will, and they will
come after the milk at a fair price.
Add the cattle and make them your
best farming asset. |
Somebody asks if a ton of coal or a
shipment of butter or eggs would be
an appropriate Chritsmas present.
What’s the use to tell him?
“Mrs. Highbrow has a new automo
bile. She has passed her next door
neighbor several times since it came
without even as much as speaking to
her. The thing is getting unbearable.
Nothing wrong with the carols and
the church celebration of Christmas,
but, gee! how the little boy missed his,
—we mean his fire crackers. To him
there is no holiday season with them.
From the number of applicants for
Judge Lambdin’s place on the federal
bench, we presume South Georgia
must have a large number of excellent
gualified men who could serve as jur
ists.
News item says a man committed
suicide by hanging himself in the
presence of five other men. Maybe,
they did not interfere with the cere
mony because they thought he was
acting wisely.
The new style “cane and sober”
celebration had us firmly in its grip
if we are to judge only from outward
appearances. Everythink looked
guod but the missing fire cracker. It
takes the ladies to sing the carols,
the men to sit up with the egg-nog,
and the boys,—swatting the fire
crackers did them the greatest injus
tice.
Oh, to think of it! The Macon pa
pers say the holiday crowds made
their streets look like circus day,—
and the people had almost as much
money as on a circus day. Wonder
if our shopping crowds looked like cir
cus day? We had the crowds but we
have never had the circus.
If we had our way about it we
would never pass another Christmas
without our fire crackers and spark
lers. Don't care so much about the
big dangerous ones, but the little pop
pers would be brought back with the
next holidays and we would make up
for our present very blank celebra
tions. Wonder if the little boys of.
this day and age are going to look
like natural men when they get grown.
Afraid to Suggest.
The editors of the Georgia exchang
es appear to think the good people of}
Tifton established a most excellent;
precedent when they presented Edi
tor John L. Herring, of the Tifton Ga-}
otte, with a _ hand-sewed suit ol'j
clothes.—Macon Telegraph. The sub
jvditor of the News and Sun thinks}
that the precedent is worthy of emu
lation, but the good people of Griffin
!disagreo with him.—Griffin News and
sun. ‘
; We've been thinking about that suit |
ourselves, but dare not suggest such
' a thing here.
i Something_l—n lt:—
; It is said that Georgia is soon to out
| law cigarettes, just as a ban has been
| placed on liqguor. An Atlanta news
item states that bills to prohibit mo
| tion picture theatres from giving cig
| arettes or cigarette papers, will prob
| ably be introduced into the next legis
‘lature. Another piece of reform legis
| lation expected is a law to prohibit
| motion picture theatres from giving
i“henefit" performances on: Sunday.
i}ieanwhl‘le. we suppose go*d. moral
i old Georgia will keep righq on lyuch-
ing negroes in half dozen lots, burning
them occasionally for a change and
driving them out of communities as
a pastime and recreation.—Tifton Ga
ette,
Mrs. Highbrow has had another par
ty. Last time she induced her hus
band to let her spend a couple of hun
dred or so; it also cost the family
some of its best friends. You see,
some of the other ladies of the town
belong to an exclusive club and this
time Mrs. Highbrow wants to get even
with these “exclusive” club members.
How humiliating it will be to them
when they find Mrs. Highbrow has
entertained so lavishly and they
haven’t even been. invited. Oh, yes,
another matter about to be overlook
ed. As soon as Mrs. Highbrow gets
time away from her Sunday school
class she is going to form an exclu
sive club of her own. She has been
powerfully busy of late with her Mis
sionary Society and her Sunday school
class and her other church work.
THE WINTER SWAT.
The obvious things are often the
ones we are last to see clearly and
adopt. Heretofore we have as a peo
ple confined our worthy and necessary
fly-swatting to the late spring and
midsummer seasons when the housefly
is with us in all his full vigor and pow
er for ham. Up to now, although we
have been summer-swatting flies for
many years, no one has thought to
start anything in the shape of going
after the pesky fly when he is most
easily gotton at and when his ranks
really can be decimated—in the win
ter months.
Of course that is the time to do
it. The fly lives during the winter
amid travail but with some sureness,
for cold weather not only kills an in
finite number of them—for which
thank a compensating heaven—but it
numbs and makes heavy the ones that
do live through and add their innum
arable and menacing progeny to the
swarms that infest us in the warmer
months. To kill one fly this omnth is
as good as killing a thousand of him
in July and August, because that one
fly will add nobody knows ohw many
it he lives through to lay eggs next
year. it
The rétail merchants of Ne€l York
City have taken the idea up and are
l)roadcasfipg the country with litera
ture urging that the 1917 Swat-the-Fly
campaigné'start right now and run
right through. As observed in the be
ginning,. it is. so obviously the thing
to do thatlftiis actuall¥ startling no
cne thought of it before. When you
“ee aflmmf the# fseor in the
office lumbering heavily -about don’t
ignore it but swat it right now. If it
lives through it will send;ia thousand
children to plague you later.on. With
out seed there can be no harvest.
Without winter flies there ean be no
summer ones. Preparedness is the
order of the day, and it is now time
to prepare against next summer’s
certain fly time. Get out your swat
otr. It's kicking around somewhere,
in your desk, in your odds and ends,
dloset or atic. And once you get it
out ust it. Winter is the greatest ene
my of the fly. Become an ally.—Ma
con Telegraph.
EIGHT HOUR DAY ADOPTED FOR
CERTAIN-TEED WORKERS
The eight hour day, without any re
duction in any employe’'s wages for
a day’s work, is to be put into effect
January Ist, throughout every depart
ment of the General Roofiing Mfg. Co.,
manufacturers of Certain-teed Roof
ing. This announcemenj from George
M. Brown, president, was made follow
ing the November meeting of the
board of directors. This is not a sud
‘den change in company policy, accord-{
ing to Mr. Brown. On the contrary, it
is merely carrying to completion the '
‘no]imy adopted in theory several
| vears ago, and which has been put in
‘lo effect in various departments as
rapidly as conditions justified.
Mr. Brown said further that this ac
tion was taken despite the fact that
the custom of working eleven-hour
day shifts and thirteen-hour night
shifts prevailed almost universally
among felt and paper mills and roof
ing factories, and that his Company’s
scale of wages was already higher
than the average in like industries.
At the same tim? the annocunce
ment of the eight-hour day was made,
an invitation was given to the plant
employes to offer suggestions for im
provement in safety measures and
sanitary conditions. This, too, is mere
1y carrying on an already adopted pol
icy, for shower baths and other facili
ties have for some time been a fea
ture in all of the company's plants.
The company operates mills in East
St. Louis, Marsaille, 411.,, York, Pa,,
and Richmond Calif.,, and has ware
houses in 29 cities.
CYRENE COMMANDERY HELD
ANNUAL CHRISTMAS MEETING
Cyrene Commandery No. 13 Knights
Templar gathered Monday morning at
11 ©'clock at their annual Christmas
celebration in the Masonic Temple.
Members of the commandery from Vi
enna, Ashburn, Hawkinsville and
cther surrounding towns were in at
tendance.
| It is the custom of the Knight Tem
plars all over the world to meet at 11
o’clock, central time, and give praise
' and hold a ceremonial in commemora
tion of the virtues of the departed
tdoad of their order.
: The annual consumption of potatoes
xm New York exceeds, 750,000,000
pounds.
DR. J. C. PATTEN
DENTIST
McArthur's Olé Stand Over
Williams Drug Co.
Cordele - - - Georgla.
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.
MAX. E. LAND
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office Over Old Postoffice
Prompt Attention Given To Ali
Business
D. A. R. CRUM
Attorney and Counselor-at-Law
1,2, 3 Raines and Oliver Building
Cordele, Georgla.
J. GORDON JONES
Attorney and Counselor-at-Law
Rooms 1,2, 3, Raines & Oliver Bldg,,
Cordele, Georgia.
START
RIGHT
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Be our customer
in 1917 and you’ll
always g et the
best goods and
best service. A
bigger and better
stock than ever.
Jake Sheppard
PHONE 38.
Let us teach your dollar to have
more cents.
RN, PREEN Ty Ole PO T RS S B RN
Ve have a house full of fresh
joods, highest quality table
delicacies to start the New
Year. Get our figures and
We'll sell you the goods. Our
specials are feed stuffs and
bulk groceries.
PRI U FY A A T R Y R
G. C. LEWIS
. PHONE 252
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We Thank You
for the fine business given
us during 1947. We wish
" Everybody |
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\ A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR l
Pl T e e
and want to invite you to
become our customer. We
always offer the highest
type and best make of fur
niture at the fairest price. ,
Our policy is fair treatment. -
Come to see us.
J. M. Witherington
Trade With Us
And get the best the drug store can
Farnish. Letus show you how much
we appreciuate you as a customer.
WILLIAMS DRUG CO.
‘PHONE 516-12 3
Greetings of the Season
—A HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR :
W. L. Williams, The Artistic Framer
107 Cotton Avenue, Macon, Ga. :