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Entered as second class matter at the post office at
{ ordele, Georgia, under the act of March Bth, 1879
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY. |
‘ Savanan launches a ship today. ‘T'wo more are soon
io follow. When Savannah has a little time on the ship ‘
}»uilding business there will be more to follow. |
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i Now let the slacker lawyers go on up with their appeal
}.om the decision of Judge Speer which says the selec-‘
%n(' draft is constitutional, They ought to earn their fees, 1
l.’. Watson may be a high priced man, but he hasn’t
farned that six thousand yet.
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| Macon is going to offer the slacker state meeting liitle
Lomrofl ‘and encouragement tomorrow. Delegates have
ihmen elected from many points to such 2 meeting in Ma
“on ‘but Macon people, mayor, council, police, county
authorities and all, say-it can’t be did.
FARMERS, STICK TO 'EM.
It is more than likely that Crisp county farmers have
ine largest food crops ever produced wilhin their terri
tory. They will have an abundance of their products
v-;}ofl‘er and the local market should be made a strong
ong in order that they might have tho best possible
M‘ices. For what the farmers buy they have to pay warl
e prices, For what they sell, likewisce should they get
war time prices. If in the latter deal they are left short,
uéy suffer.
al}eorgia,flnnns‘ do not produce better food stuffs than
are coming from the farms of Crisp a! the present time.
They are worth @s much as the market can afford. !
"e‘t our farmers prepare what they have to sell in such
manner as to make it command a good price. Let it go to
nnarket in uniform packages, clean and whblesome, and
then there will be no excuse for offering less than the
market for it.
But the farmers will in all probability have to stick
fo.'em. The buying public is not atlecp. It is taking
things at prices no higher than are absolutely necessary.
That 1s always the case. it is but natural and will always
be the case. And our farmers may look for people who
will want what they are now making at a much lower
price than that fixed by a sharp deman.l.
There are many ways of realizing fullest value. 'l‘hose‘
who are up with what is going on in the word,—those who |
take ‘their papers and keep up with conditions, are the
producers who get fullest value for what they have to
offer the buying public,
FA good farmer residing ten miles out on a good farm
where p]oniy of meat is produced, had an offer this spring
fn his own home community for the meat he could sell.
The price did not seem near enough to the prices being
quoted ‘daily in the papers. He mace an investigation
that netted him just six cents a pound more for his meat
than he would have gotten had he stopped with his first
offer.
It will pay this year more than ever to keep up with
vonditions. There will be greater volume of food stuffs
‘0 effer. There will be greater demand and higher price
f)t}fi(\_.;_c\qgnt of war conditions. It will pay lmndsonwly‘
for the farmer to stick to 'em and shake down more nearly
u_prl@ in accord with conditions and costs of production. |
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ANIMAL DECREASE.
Information coming to this country is to the effect that
he. world has decreased in meat food supply since the
\'!,'ar started by a hundred and fifteen million animals. The
ljiuitet&a.tea has more cattle and hogs, but less sheep.
’{,‘he ‘G:‘hand on tms country is growing apace. ‘
;}{(>re x;t:\'honie hog raising is going on with great zouli
and cnergy. Our local meat supply is going to be enor
n:lous within the next six or eight months, but it isn‘ti
éoing to fill up the void any more than a mustard seed‘
xéight put out the fires in ancient Vesuvius. The demand ‘
i$ going to make our meat far the most valuable ar
dcles we will have to offer. |
i We should be giving every moment of our spare time
tp plans for raising more hogs, biggger porkers. Meat
p}o‘ducers among us are going to outstrip anything, There
=’jn't an enterprise anywhere to beat it. It is the demand.'
the urgent need of it all over the world that is making'
rj;e difference. } ’
, Did you get the meaning of that price -.mneteen dollars
and seventy-five cents a hundred on the Chicago marketl
list week for hogs on foot? Could any one ever lm\'o!
n:;ade you _believe it? It will be better than that soon.!
snd here among us the prices are going higher and higher. |
Go after every hig| You'll need more of them, huc:ulso‘
vou can sell them at a big margin of profit. ‘
' And the iu:h with the cattle is likewise in possession of%
a gold mine. No man with an opportunity to clear some
thing at cattle raising under ‘ordin:r,v conditions can fail
to see that this is the time of all times for him. It is a
time for raising and marketing big fat cattle and hogs. |
et rrd 20 SODIAETOBLASATRIONS. 2. 1 TR TR
While we are on the matter of our duty to stranger l&}
ilies in the community, it might be well to do away with
the idea that we are aiming special criticism at existing
social organizations among the ladies., Nothing of that
kind has entered our mind. We have our own indivdual
doubts about whether some of the customs followed are
in accord with the neighborly duties of one person to
wards another, but we are not worrying about what be
comes of the social organizations that have restricted
memberships, It is their duty to answer for their own
conduct. This is a free country, ;
We are asking what shall become of the stranger? We
are interestgd m the new family coming into the ocm
munity. We want every person who moves here to find
a social intermingling of some kind befitting his station
in life. We want that much for the stranger because it
is our‘strongest means of keeping him. We have ;10'
great parks, electric railways, theatres, museums, zoos,
and the like to offer him as has the'the large city. He
has to come here and bring his family because his busi
ness, it may be, promises attractive profits. If the social
side of his career here is lacking, eventually the whole
thing is going to leave its impress. If the stranger and
his family can know no friends, certainly this thing is
going to hit amazingly hard, for no man lives to himself.
The ‘stranger cannot do it in Cordele. We are due him
comething. He comes expecting it.
. It would be a matter of deep sorrow and regret to us
were we to find that we failed to pay the stranger his
Just dues because we worship at the shrine of caste. The
‘plain south Georgian is usually the most warm hearted of
‘ull of them. He knows no caste if he is let alone, He doesn’t
even know how to take in the latch string, and the stranger
isn’'t a stranger with him. The most ridiculous thing
in all the world is a plain Georgia cracker trying to
behave as if he knew blue blood coursed in his veins.
There is little excuse for permitting the stranger coming
into our community to remain a stranger. It will not
build for us. We ought to absorb him the moment he hits
town, One week's time should be enough. He could
never get away. But why do we not do that?
There are communities that tie families hard and
fast and when they go away it is only through the great
est inducements from other points. Are we ‘warm heart
ed? Are we good neighbors? Good strangers fall into
such communities as good neighbors can make and stick
always and a day.
If it is.caste or social restriction, or even an effort to ape
such a fliifig, forget it, forget it. We want to build a big
ger, better community,
; ELITAINATING WATSON.
One of the greatest blows ever struck Tom Watson wag
the removal of his publications from the United States
mails the other day. A blow nearly as significant is the
falling away of the larger number of more intelligent fol
lowers who have not sided with him in his severe ar
raignment of the selective draft. The next thing he is
80ing.tQ, do, is ta force the United States government to
suppress his publications entirely.
There were people in the distant rural communities who
would read nothing but Watson’s publications. If any
thing came along other than Watson it had to be fully
in accord with Watson or it had no welcome. Now Wat
son cannot afford to distribute his papers to that element.
The plan of coming to town to get it will not last. The
died-in-the-wool Watsonite on the far-flung headlands,
away in the valleys, miles and miles from -civilization.
read after Watson by virtue of the fact that the govern
ment delivered the publication.
By this act the government has rid thousands of fire
sides of one of the greatest menaces to civilization. The
mails that brought enlightmtent to the darkest corners
of the earth in the shape of publications, periodicals and
papers, were abused by Watson so often and so fiercely,
war or no war, they ought long ago to have been ex
cluded. Our forefathers who gave this country the postal
sysem cerlainly must not have had Watson’s kind in
mind, else they would have provided against such das
tard influence.
i Good people here and there over intelligent communi
ltios have fallen away till Watson has no very ardent ad
mirers save the most unlettered. There are rare cases
yet. It is hard for a most loyal friend to follow Watson
in his attack on the president, the administration, the
war, the selective draft. It is hard for any reasoning per
son to explain why Watson's publications should be longer
allowed to exist,
Nobody in America knows better than Tom Watson
that this government has a right to use any means to se
cure an army that it may choose. The government is the
people. When the people through its representativgs
’udopt such a method as the selective draft, there can be
\ none to protest save the slacker, and how shall the slacker
‘win by appealing to those who have already decided
against him?
Intelligent people see all this and refuse to follow Wat
son. How he will be able to reach the more unlearned,
we shall see. As it stands now, the sage of Hickory Hill
for a spell at least, will not pipe so loudly and effectively.
And it is all the better for Georgia and the nation.
’ STUDY THE PEANUT.
Now is the best time for our farmers to study the possi
bilities of making a living out of raising peanuts. What we
have produced this year and the cost thereof, the compari-
I son with cotton making under weevil conditions, must be
' a study for the man who makes next year’s crop the biggest
i SUCCess. 3
‘ We know one man who took vacation while the weevil
ate up his cotton in Crisp county this vear. He did not
‘helivve in this destroyer as an effective pest. We know
lunmhpr who did his best with all his forces,—picked dead
'squzu‘vs with all his might, and still he has a mighty small
| amount of cotton for his trouble, But most of our farmers
l who fought the weevil faithfully, have good cotton yields.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, CORDELE, GEORGIA. :
}m But ;ghey are nqt :"go'ing-"fd do 56 :é(ql,l
:next year. The weevil is to pro've.
‘tar more effective next season if the
signs are worth anything. With
many a Crisp county farmer that is
going to be the one year too many.
And yet, there need be no loss. We
have sufficient warning.
We' could turn this side of the
world to peanuts and yet have none
too many. We could have big fat
hogs and cattle enough to occupy
every foot of standing room in €risp
county and then have but encugh to
make a greasy spot. If we raised
enough wheat to fill every grain ele
vator in Chicago, it would Le but one
biscuit apiece for our hungry Geor
gians, If every field in Crisp county
had on it an average of 100 bushels of
corn to the acre, the world a few
miles away would hardly feel the ef
fect. If every acre was covered in
velvet beans and every fertilizer or
der cut off thereby for next year we
could but begin the kind of farming
that ought to be kept up constantly.
There is going to be a market for
the things we will have to put into
the place of cotton. The peanut sup
ply is never caught up. There is an
eternal demand. They cost less to
produce than cotton. They are worth
as much. Oh, yes, they are. Don’t
sit and doubt. Get up and try it.
You’ll find this true. There are for
tunes in this one farm product. You
can make them better than any other
section . You have the better lands.
There is no need to risk all in too
much cotton next year. A small ac.
reage will be safe and advantageous.
But never let it be said of you that
you were caught with an all cotton
crop next year. If you do, Mr. B.
Weevil will get you.
ZION HOPE NEWS
Mrs. Willis Johnson, Sr., who has
been sick for some time is improving.
Mr. and Mrs. M. .H. FEllis spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. S. M.
Burton. {
Mr. and Mrs. (.. H. Conner spent
Sunday with the former’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Conner.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Sargent
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C.
A. Sargent. .
Little Ruth Sargent has returned
home from Wenong, where she spent
several days with, relatives, Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Elder.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Dorming visited
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Sargent Sunday.
The many friends of Mrs. S. J.
Poole will be sorry to hear that she
is ill at this writing.
Mrs. M. S. Presley spent Sunday
in Cordele, the guests of relatives.
Mr. C. E. Lee and Mr. C. A. Sargent
made a business trip to Cordele Tues
day..
Mrs.'S. M. Burton spent Monday af
ternoon with Msr. H. F. Strickland.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Summer were
the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. R. Waldrip.
Miss Sallie Nixon, of Seville, spent
Sunday with her parents, Mr. Nixon,
of Finlyson.
...New...
Sweet Potatoes
LEAVE US AN ORDER AND
SEE HOW FINE THEY ARE.
LET US SEND UP SOME
NEW APPLES, ONIONS AND
IRISH POTAQOES. THEY
ARE FINE.
Jake Sheppard
PHONE 33.
Let Us Teach Your Dollars to Have
More Cents.
E. R. OVERBY
The Artistic Picture Framer
At J. S. Pate Store, Next Door
: To Palace Theatre
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Malaria is much less widely preva
lent in the United State§ now than
formerly. The northerri“‘f)oun‘dia"}'y
has gradually receded, “leaving here
and there more or less localized en
demic foci. It has all but disappear
ed from Wisconsin and Michigan,
states once badly infected.
Don't let ticks e?ltrench themselves
in the hides of your cattle.
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Splenaid Roof Paint
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Bargain
W hole car of F amous Birmingham Long-Life
Paint---caught in Cordele “through error in shipping. We
have it for sale at the lowest price existing anywhere.
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This car consists of eighty barrels of paints tor dipping
posts, and for painting arid dipping shingles; and forty batrels of
paint for tin and felt roofs.
This is your opportunity if you need it. You can afford to buy af
our prices. We sell every gallon under absolute guarantee of satis
factinn or money refunded.
J. B. RYALS WAREHOUSE COMPANY
Coadele, Georgia -
BOY INJURED BY SHOT
IS RAPIDLY IMPROVING.
Latest reports from the bedside of
little James Hamilton, son of Mr.
Bufcrd Hamilton, of Vienna, who was
accidentiy shot by his little cousin,
Louis Forehand last week, are to the
effect that the little fellow is rapid._
ly recovering and it is thought can
soon be removed from the Cordele
Sanatorium to his home in Vienna.
WEDNESDAY; AUGUST, '22; 1917./7
No. 666
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India will this year produce 94,079,
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