The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-02
A FIGHT WORTH WHILE

Some of these days Cordele is going
to outgrow the citizen who is "agin"
everything he has not daddied There
are only a very few OF them left now
They are not strangers, however, in
any community. Old, old human ma
ture has things that way to an extent
in all communities, but the sooner a
town can have all its citizens join in
move for the common good the soon
er it will be able to make telling
strides of progress.
Sometimes the old dads" are the
wiser ones when it comes to careful
business advancement and sometimes
everybody has to ask the advise of the
older heads. That's al well and good
when a community can have all the
elder ones and everybody else balk
of a progressive move so heartily that
it is easy to accomplish things.
But an older citizen, just because
he is one, and just because he has
in time had to do with the good that
has been accomplished in the years
that are gone, rears on his hind legs
at any progressive idea and fights it
hard and fervently every time he re-
members he is not it's Daddy" puts
himself in the way and does himself
and his community great harm.
1t matters not now very much who
did and who did not help Mayor Jones
and the present members of council
get into the offices they now occupy.
They have asked the people of the
community to issue bonds enough to
put the electric lights and power
plants into the hands of the people
aid have it operated in connection
with the water system. The longer
they work the more business-like and
feasible they make the proposition
seem to the ordinary citizen.
In The mass meeting Thursday night
at the court house Mayor Jones GER
tainly must have opened the eyes of
the lax payers when he read the let
ter of mayor of Jacksonville regard
ing The municipality owned light and
power plant. He gave Cordele citizens
the information that Jacksonville bus
mess men do not pay a dollar in II
cense and occupation taxes, because
of the fact that there is sufficient
revenue from the light plant to defray
every public expense with the help of
the real estate taxes.
Attorney o. T. Gowe,, another speak
err at the meeting, hit the key note
when he pointed out that the commun-
ty is already committed to the ques-
ton of municipal ownership and has
now all the overhead expense in the
water plant that will be required in
operating both the water and power
plants. Simply put, the two plants
can be run at what the city is already
paying to operate the water plant and
the people can have the profits from
the electric plant to help defray mu-
nicipal expenses
The thing is so plainly business
proposition, such good business OPP
portunity for the community, that no
citizen ought to hang behind and throw
obstacles in the way because he isn't
the Daddy" of the thing. There is
enough to be gained for the loyal citi-
zen 10 forget personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
and fight to secure the light and pow
er plant Every tax payer can afford
to forget selfishness N this direction
and fight for the community to own its
light and power plant in order that
the profits may be devoted to running
the city government and its schools.
1t is worth the fight.
THAT HANDLE FACTORY.