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OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY.
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A justice of the peace in Bell Hill
has been sued because he married a
couple on a license which was issued
over in Turner county. The ceremony
was illegal and the suit sets out that
in event recovery is made, the amount
80 recovered is to be given to the
education of others hesides the chil
dren. How about the J. P.s and the
marrying public? y
Automobile owners ought to be
careful with their cars. When thny!
are left on the curbs over night, llnis‘
invites theft. It is easy to get away
with a car wheyp it is left to the
mercy of the theif. Those who own
cars can stop some of this if they
will exercise a bit more caution,
The Georgia Stump Pulling Com
paign is to be started from Cordele
on August 2. This is one of the great
est movements for improved farming
in Georgia that has come to the minds
of the public in a full decade. When
stumps are gone, improved farming
can be started in effective form. Let
this campaign do the great good which
is intended.
Somebody in a little south Geor
gia town found a dead rat in a pack
er's pound of butter the other day and
this made members of the family so
ill that a $25,000 damage suit is about
to result. The suffering public ought
to find a dead rat in every package of
it till the packers can sell no more. A
Georgia family ought not to be per
mitted to buy a pound of the eighty
cent stuff,
Senator Hitchock who fought bhrave
ly and courageously for the peace
treaty and the league of nations when
a democratic stand meant a sacrifice,
is said to have been cast aside by
the president because of his refer
ence to the manner in which the pre
mature copy ol the peace treaty got
into the hands of New York bankers.
This is denied from the White House,
and we hope the denial means that
Senator Hitichcock is properly il])-‘
preciated for his labors at a critical
time. That senator was loyal and
fought for the cause with great vigor
and effect. We hope he will still have
opportunity and a disposition Fo
stand by the guns. The battle is yet
to come,
MAKE A SANE FIGHT }
A great majority of the people in
central and south Georgia are
strongly in favor of removing tho;
state capital to Macon, but they are!
the kind that soon get enough ()f!
newspaper hair pulling. \\'lmo\‘vrli’
wins that fight will have to make it
a same fight and reasonable one. Lung!
columns of argument about the purt!
the negro may play in it are all rol-!
ten reasoning. The negro is not vut-i
ing in Georgia, and isn't just ready
to hear all this excited talk.
The negro deserves a whole lot more
thin to be drawn on the other side in
a heated political contest between
factions. He has not a thing in the
world to with this question or the
suffrage amendment involving the
right of white women. to vote. The
lnegm knows fairly well his citizen
'fihip can never be benefitted by be
'mming a buffer on every occasion
wiere dirty, mean political action is
!threatened. The good negro ought to
]resent such suggestion every time it
]is offered,—and the well advanced ne
¢ro is the only colored man who cares
[a straw about voting. He is the onlyi
‘possible colored man who may bei
Ihelped by the ballot. He dosen’t want‘
his opportunity to vote, whenever ii
comes, tied up with a base purpose
like that. His record is at stake, his
good name is on the rack. The ballot
cannot he deserved in 2 ‘housaand
years if he permits threats like the
capital removal to absorh his voting/
potentiaiity. i
Eva:y time a referen 2 is made teg
the negro vote in the capital removal
agitation, the author of that refrenece
cheapens the cause he represents
and he unjustly intimates that the
negro would cast the damning vote
if he could. The negro dosn’'t deserve
}any such contamination in advance,
. Some day those who have by their
;(ouruge and faithfulness labored in
such a way as to deserve the ballot
may get it, and that element of ne
groes ought to have the fairest
chance to exercise the privilege to a
good advantage.
Mdke the capital fight a sane one.
Let the negro alone, Pitch the fight
on a high plane and go ahead with it
in a reasonable manner. That will
count more thap any one thing that
can be done.
| GROWTH OF BIG PACKERS ~
The Federal trade Commission
made a loug report to Prezident Wil
son the other day which contained a
warning of an approaching domina
tion of the nation’s food supply by the
Big Five Chicago meat packers. Here
is a sketch of their growtth as the
Trade Commission gave it to the
presient:
“To reconstruct the economic and
financial history that lies behind this
bare record of outward charge would
Ihe an undertaking replete with hu
man interest. There can be little
‘(]uu'bt that such a history, if it could
l?;e written, would reveal imagnation,
I'sln'ewduuss, and (ndomitable deter
mination on the part of the founders
of these great slaughtering compan
ies, but would also reveal, even if
obscurely, a back-ground of wreckage
brought about by unfair and oppress
ive methods followed by these pack
ers in their progress toward their
goals.” ;
“From four slaughtering plants in
the decade, 1858-1867, the Big Five
had"built or acquired by 1917, 91
}sluughler plants—22 34 times the
number in 1867. In the ten years from
11908 to 1917, their number of slaugh
;tm'ing plants increased 60 percent.
~ “Swift, Morris and . Armour in
creased their cattle slaughter from
2,680,695 head in 1898 to 5,157,830 in
1916, doubling their kill in those 18
-years. From slaughtering 749 per
cent of cattle slaugtered in inter
state commerce in 1907-1908, the Big
Five jumped to 80.8 percent by 1916-|
1917; from 63 percent in calve toj
73.6; from 71.6 in sheep to 86.6 from
53.3 in swine to 60.2. In the face of
this nine-year growth of the Big
Five, the independert interstate
sianghterers lost grour! in actual
nniver of head slavgnie »d ws weli as
in their proportionate shares. In
1908, all incerstate indepeadents
slaughtered 1,786,120 cattle and by
1916-1917 had dropped to 1,783-518—
their insterstate slaughter cut down
proportionately one-fifth in nine
years. During this period, the Big
Five slaughter grew from 5.320,1556
head to 7,515,971, In sheep, the inde
pendent fell off from 2,753,458 to only
11,524,617; while the Big Five inm'o:ls-l
ed from 6,949,087 to 9818,801. The ia
dependents lost over- one-half in
sheep and lambs; three-tenths in
calves and over one-seventh in swine
‘; “Starting with two brar-h houses
i in 1884, the Big Five 211 by 1884; Va 3
by 1904; and operated 1,120 in 1917.
, SHOULD AMERICA ENTER THE
. LEAGUE OF NATIONS?
‘ Progressive Farmer:
| A great tide is also setting in tho
i hearts of men toward some effective
lpr.»\'m:li\'v of war. Now the League
{of Nations may not be perfect.—is
findeed certainly not perfect. But it
lis the only thing in sight which even
promises a start toward the effective
settlement of international disputes
by peaceful means rather than by war.
And for this reason the people of all
jrarties in America are likely to fol
me Wilson and Taft in demanding its
ratification by the United States
'Jenate, |, 6., )
~ “If you can't get the bhest thing, get
the best thing possible,” was Roose
velt's wise metto. A lot of imprac
ticable pacifist-idealists are trying to
leefat the League because it doesn't
ive. them all they want, forgetting
(hat 1f they beat it, they will get
pothing that they want.
One gentleman, for example, recent:
ly sent us a questionnaire in which he
propounded eight critical interroga
tories, such as the following:
“Do you think the Constitution
of the League of Nations should
be adopted unless definite pro
vigion is made for reduction of
armaments and armies?”
The answer we fired back at him
was something like this: “My dear
«ir, if you beat the League of Na
rtions what sort of provision, ‘definite’
s>t indefinite, have you got for reduc
tion of armaments or armies or any
ahing else?’—and we haven't heard
from him yet.
Destroy the League, and the world
las never seen such feverish and un
easy preparations for war as every
nation will feel compelled to make.
ith the League, we at least have
nachinery for the peaceful settlement
{ disputes and a will toward peace
which should soon evelve mode ‘“defi
-lite” plans for world disarmament.
ENEMIES OF THE KINGDOM
You had better watch the men who
aré always trying to raise a stink
abcut some particular branch of the
Christian church. We have been‘
wa(ching such characters for years,
RAILROAD SCHEDULES
EASTERN TIME.
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Cordele Union Depot.
The following schedule figures pub
lished as information and not guaran
teed:
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic
Railroad
Arrives Departs
s:4oam Birmingham, Atlanta 12:35pm
2:35pm Atlanta 12:26am
12:35pm Brunswick,Thom'ville s:4oam
12:25am Brunswick,Thom'ville 2:55pm
Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad
Arrives Departs
3:lsam Tifton, Jacksonville 3:3%am
3:39am Jacksonville, Palatka 4:25am
2:sopm Jacksonville, Palatka 3:oopm
9:45am Tifton 7:35pm
2:4opm Macon 3:lopm
3:29am Macon, Chicago 3:23am
4:lsam Macon 3:49%9am
7:3opm Macon 9:soam
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Arrives Departs
9:soam IHelena 7:32pm
7:32pm Columbus, Americus 9:soam
2:3opm Savannah J:lopm
10:40pm Savannah 3:2Bam
2:2Bam Americus 10:40pm
2:45pm Montgomery 2:sopm
UNITED STATES
RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION
CORDELE, GA., UNION TICKET
OFFICE, PHONE 267.
Announcement
(. 0. Noble has purchased the
interest of J. H. Skipper in the
Central Market and will in the
futre have charge of the busi
ness and the inside service.
Mr. I. B. Weldon who superin
tends the butchering and dress
ing of meats will continue this
service and provide the best
meats possible.
Mr. Noble will continue to buy
hogs and cattle for the packing
Louse.
CENTRAL MARKET
PHONE 35.
Don't worry about the washer
woinan, Put her among the
good old days of the past and
wid the ciothes to your home
Leundr. Dhat wili settle all
your troubles.
McCoy Steam Laundry
PHONE 108 CORDELE, GA.
DELCO-LIGHT
The complete Electric Light and
Power Plant
An electric fan brings summer
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PHONE 49 CORDELE, GA.
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and we are here to tell you that they
are anti-Baptist or anti-Methodist or
anti-Catholic, as the case may be,
because they are in the first place
anti-Christian. Either this, or they
are playing the game for political
purpose. We say again, Watch
Them.—Alphretta Free Press.
Some of them are playing cheap
politics while others are narrow and
ignorant. And in many instances re-
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Powered with the famous Oldsmobile 8-clyinder
motor, the “THOROBRED” will walk or race at
the driver’'s whim; yet fucl economy is a domi
nant factor.
The “THOROBRED?” is designed to comfortably
seat seven, and is moderately priced. Permit
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