The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-06-25
Reflected Dissertations
BY MAX E. LAND.

The question is often asked here as
to why Cordele can't get some facto-
ries and pay rolls. Nearly every
group discussion or corner conversa- |
ton dealing in generalities will ask
this question 1t is argued that we
are in "a fine farming section, that we
have four railroads and that we should |
have a payroll and become a city in |
fact. Of course, all this is mighty |
true, for payroll is necessary to
make rich merchants, general prosper
ity, municipal progress and develop
ment.
We are almost entirely on cot
I'ton basis as the chief foundation for
drawing money to this section. We
have no oil wells, coal mines or cop
per mines or any kind of minerals
! Cotton is our sole dependence and il
it d great thing, giving support to the
whole country. 1t will always make
good country town, but cotton alone |
will not make city. 1t takes some |
thing in the way of a manufactured |
product which pays off laborers every |
month, thus placing ready spending |
money in the town every month and
not once a year There are numbers
! Of cities and towns in the mountains
and in sand beds, which have no cot !
ton and very little of any other kind
of farming, but depend On their small |
or large manufacturing plants to bring |
in enough money to support the peo-
! pie and build good towns and cities |
| We have as fine farming as can be
| found in the entire south, and if Cor |
dele could add manufacturing a sure
enough city would certainly be the
result. Cordele will likely have man
ufacturing plants too whenever the
| substantial business men of the COM
munity want them-I mean want them
| bad enough to go after them in a way
| would get them. How is that? Well
| it is not to be brought about by any
spirit of philanthropy; not by any hot
air, nor stump speeches, nor staging
special attraction for self glory, poll
tics or fun. In other words mere poll
Tics, noise nor personal self glory will
never get a hub or spoke factory for
Cordele, to say nothing about railroad
shops or cotton factories. Well, what
is the remedy?
The thing that will start the manu-
| featuring plants is for twenty bust
ness men, who are selfish and wish to
make good investment for them
selves, not to mention Cordele, that
wish to make more money, and who
have the cash or the property to meet
quietly and organize, not for any pub
lie business, but for purely selfish rea-
sons, who wish to pave the way for
their own riches Those who wish n
enhance the value of their own prop
,erty, whether it be farms or resi-
dences; those who wish to bring more
people to Cordele to trade and traffic
with and sell dry goods and groceries;
| those who wish to increase the bust
ness of every man in Cordele from
the BARRIERS to the bankers. When
they have organized, then let each
man subscribe one thousand dollars, |
making the sum twenty thousand dol |
lars, then have their secretary to put
an advertisement in the Manufacture
ers Record like the following:
Cordele, Georgia, Il city located N
the best farming dictrict of the state,
and having four railroads offers TWEEN
ty thousand dollars in cash to any
| manufacturing plant that will invest
| wtenty thousand dollars and guaran-
tee yearly employment to one hundred
employees.
If this notice was so placed the sec
rotary of the twenty business men,
out for their own interests, would av-
erage a peck of letters a week, and |
then the twenty could pick the factory
which would mean the most to them
| The twenty would make back their
one thousand the first year in increas-
ed business and property enhance
ment. But the most important point
would be that they had started facto-
ries toward Cordele, and one started,
with the labor question settled, they
would continue to come until Cordele |
would be city in fact