The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-11

tian way. We wanted our friend at
the drug store to know what was be-
ing said of him on account of bev-
erage he was dispensing and we want
ed to tell him be fore we stabbed him
in the back.
The ladies wouldn't get their bon
nets and come on down, and we would
not print the w. c. IT. U. communities
tion. but we did get uD our drug store
friend and tell him. He appreciated
the friendly act, for he is everything
but a bad man. The newspaper is just
as nowerful an agency for destruc-
tion as it is for construction. We
studied the w. C. T. u communica-
ton pretty carefully and finally got
an idea that it would mean destruc-
ton for one man and his business and
it might mean injury for others. We
believe we did more good by pursu-
ing the other course.
We never heard any more from the
ladies till Sunday night. But in their
first call they wanted us to express
our deep sorrow because of the desc
Grafton of the Sabbath by the drug
stores that kept open and sold candy
and cigars and soft drinks,-for all
of which Zefre ;hments we have n
laundering. We told them we didn't
want to be sorry We do not know
why just now. 1t wasn't disrespect
for til e ladies'. May be, it was general
cussed ness, or cussedness on general
principles Later we told them we I'M
derstood that mayor and three mem
bers of the city council are soon to
be named and that if one of them dar-
ed to say a word about closing the
drug stores on Sunday we would vote
against him eve didn't say the Dis
patch would oppose him.
The Dispatch expressed its views
Sunday about closing the drug stores
for fear that somebody might put one
over" on us all too soon. And along
with the opinion about keeping the
drug stores open we said something
about the unwisdom of trying to run
politics with church organizations.
Nobody bothered the drug stores on
Sunday but as for us Sunday night
something was put over" we heard
part of it and had to get the other
by word of mouth second-handed.
Now, in addition to all this we are
having to print on this page COM
munication that, for involving our pr
vate life, is a hundred to one worse
than thew. c. T. U. communication
which we did not print.
We have never said, written, Or
thought anything, so far as we remem-
Der, that would deserve the 'skinning"
we got Sunday night and through this
letter. 1t makes us feel powerfully
uncomfortable"
For instance, we just last week got
our household to town and haven't yet
got the pictures on the walls. Now
they ask us our church pedigree. Blu:
here it is: Joined the Baptist church
at Arab in 1892 at the age of Is
years; carried our church letter
around with us till we entered college
at Mercer; now a member of Vinevillc
Baptist church, Macon; attended ser
vices there regularly past two years;
fairly we'll satisfied with Baptist doe
trines, except as to close communion;
not strong on that, but haven't felt as
yet specially called to the duty of max
ing change for the Baptists as to
this; get fretted and say bad words
sometimes love to think as we please,
and have the highest ambition on
earth to retain an average, plain com
mon sense view of things.
Now for the prohibition record:
How shall we proceed? We never
sold whisky or beer in our lives; never
frequented the saloons in Macon while
we labored for the Macon Telegraph;
never got any of the brand they used
to squeeze out of the papers we helped