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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

lynching. Punishment for the lynch
ers is the right medicine. The Judge
and his constituents, the jurors, com,
prise the source from whence punish
ment should come. When it is start
ed with vigor, lynching will be stop
ped. Punishment for the lyncher is
most eloquent way of saying that
lynching is unlawful and dangerous
to human organized society.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

The Mayor of Cordele has joined the
great majority Of Judges in Georgia
and promises hereafter to send viola
tors of the prohibition laws to jail
without fines.-Savannah Press.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

The Parent-Teachers' Association of
Brunswick will give its active sup,
port to the movement for compulsory
education laws in Georgia. When the
parents and teachers decide that a
thing is desirable, it is hard to see how
a politician can muster the temerity
to suggest that it is not essential
Savannah Morning News.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17
OUR LITTLE COUNTRY PAPER.

William Allen White in Harper''
Weekly Magazine has this to say
lbout the country newspaper:
"Our papers, our little country
papers, seem drab and miserably
provincial to strangers; yet we
who read them read in their lines
the sweet, intimate story of life.
And all these touches of nature
make us wondrous kind. 1t is
the country newspaper, bringing
together daily and threads of the
towns's life, weaving them into
something rich and strange, and
setting the pattern as it weaves,
directing the loom, and giving
the cloth it's color by mixing the
lives of all the people in its color
pot-it is this country newspaper
that reveals us to ourselves, that
keeps our country faith strong.
when the girl at the glove
counter marries the boy in the
wholesale store the news of their
wedding is good for forty-line
wedding notice and the forty lines
in the country paper give them
self-respect. When in due course
we know that their baby is IL
FOUNDER, named Grover or TheO-
dore or Woodrow, we have that
neighborly feeling that breeds real
real democracy. When we read
of death in that home we can
mourn with them that mourn.
When we see them moving up
ward in the world, into a firm
and out toward the country club
neighborhood, we rejoice with
them that rejoice. Therefore,
men and breathren, when you are
riding through the vale of tears
upon the California Limited, and
by chance pick up the little coun-
try newspaper with it's meager tel
egraph service of 5000 or 1000
words or, at best $4,000 or 10000;
when you see it's array of country
side items; its iterminable local
stories; its tiresome editorials on
the waterworks, the schools, the
street railroad, the crops, and the
city printing, don't throw down
the contemplate little rag with
the verdict that there is nothing
in it. But know this, and know
it we'll; if you could take the clay
from your eyes and read the lit
tie paper as it is written you then
would find all of Gods beautiful
sorrowing, struggling aspiring
world in it, and what you saw
would make you touch the little pa
per with reverent hands"
All of the country papers do not
deserve to have such things said OF
hem, and yet what a perspective!
The country editor who doesn't try,
When he reads this, ought to be warm
d up to his opportunity.
There is not more powerful local
orce than the country newspaper.
'he good ones are the absolute law,
they are the opponents of all the
tandards in the communities where
hey circulate and industrially and
or the most part intellectually, the
is much the same as its
newspaper.
In hundreds of the best country
communities in Georgia the editors
f the little papers are sleeping past
heir opportunities. How many OF
hem fail to stand for something or
ry to set stakes all the time for
just little better. Where
here is a country paper with the
oul of a man throbblng in it, his
leart beats are for the warming OF
,ther hearts. The power for good is
here, and time cannot change it.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

SECOND HAND FURNITURE-Tay
lor The Trader, buys and sells sec
ond hand furniture and refrigerators.
Reworks house and Office furniture, OF
all kinds, and makes it look as gooo
as new. 80
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17
|lNE CENT 4 WORD.

Frank E. Williams keeps horses
and mules for trade or sale all tne
anu ~ 49-tf
time.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

If you are looking for something
and can't find it, ask Frank e. WI.
anu 49-tf
liams.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

wANTED-To buy good second hand
refrigerator cheap. Apply al one
70 w. H. Higgins, Americas, ia. o-1t
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

FOR RENT-5-room house known as
p. M. Gum residence on Northern
Heights. Apply to DR.. W. W. McCoi-
52-tf
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

The death rate of persons under 45
is decreasing, of those over As it is
increasing.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17
J. ]. Williams.

A million persons assembled in
crowd, with due allowance of three
square feet to a person, would cover
an area of about 10 acres.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

nor sALE-Cow Peas, cheap; Syrup,
Molasses, Coffee and Rice. Write
for rrices. w. H. Davis, Box ia, Au-
~ a. 6-24t
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17
lump Hunt.
Mrs. ]. B. Walters.
Mrs. P. H. Willis.
Mrs. r. G. Harris.
EXPLOSION OF POWDER
PLANT KILLS EIGHT

Gibstown, NJ j., May Height
men are reported killed and dozen
hurt in an explosion at the Repauno
plant 9th e Dupont Powder company.
Among the dead are believed to be
the superintendent and his assistant.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

WANTED-Two unfinished rooms.
Address F, care Dispatch, City git
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

LOST-Small ladies' mesh bag, con-
tanning $3.50 in silver and other con-
tents. Lost at union depot. Return
to J. P. Cutler or this office and re-
ceive reward.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

Frank E. Williams will trade for
anything.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

j. r. Kelley.
Mrs. Tom Hill.
E. L. Kiker.
A. E. Grant.
Mrs. W. P. Fleming.
Miss Mary Macarthur.
NJ. NJ. Fakes.
c. B. Wilkes.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-17

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
c. L., Mcmillan.
Mrs. Joe Espy, Jr. =.
Mrs. l. G. Ingram.
Mrs. Cecil Williams.
Mrs. R. E. Harris.
Mrs. P. S. Little.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
o. HENRY,s KITCHENER.

Use of the living public character in fiction
is not as a rule very significant He does not
belong to the story. But all rules are subject
to exceptions, and one exception stands out
prominently in one of the best remembered
stories of O. Henry-"An Unfinished Story"
Henry used the hero of Khartum for a definite
purpose. A New York shop girl who gets a
wage of So week is fighting off the very
tangible temptation to supplement her earnings
as some of her less particular friends are do
ing. On her bedroom wall is portrait OF
Kitchener, and more than once when the long
ing for ease had almost overcome the girl a
look at that uncompromising face turned the
tide and the invitations of certain too friend
ly admirer were refused.
Many readers have commented on the choice
of the British general as the girls hero. It
was commonly said that popular actor sing
err or author would more probably have APP
pealed to her imagination. But the choice
once granted, no questioned the fitness Of
Kitchener as an incarnation of the high spirit
that holds its course uswerving through the
distractions and allurements
of LIES Vanity Fair.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
A MARTYR TO RESEARCH.

To the earnest and imprisoned social worker
who knows no bounds in his devotion OF time
and energy to the cause Of research, the Massa-
chusetts young woman who was killed IN her
adventure as tramp must seem martyr. ohe
had chosen to live the life of tramp IN order
to take complete view of that interesting ms
fortune or depravity, and at the time OF her
death under the wheels of freight train she
was even dressed in tramp's clothing. Here
was a rigid resolve, and she intended to serve
it with all her strength.
On the other side, the side that appeals in
stantly to the more materialistic mind, the eS-
perimenter was over reckless. Her zeal was
greater than her judgment, and her risk was
out of all proportion to the value Of her study
At the best, her average journey would have
reproduced an interesting magazine article; at
most, it would have turned the attention OF
other social workers to some new phase OF
tramp life and would have added to the public
interest problem that is never solved. Jack
London tried it once and gave it up.
Some Of the deepest investigation into our
social ills has been conducted by fearless peo-
pie willing to make personal sacrifice. But
surely there are limitations to be observed
There have been girl tramps before; girls have
played at soldier, have sampled all the deeds
that test mans courage or his luck. 1t
seems questionable, at times, whether they are
to be praised for it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
Mails and Churches.

Webster City Freeman-Tribuns
The Freeman-Tribune believes thi
the bill now before congress to Civ
the postmaster general power to clos
the mails against any publicatid
that attacks a church is pernicioul
if correctly reported. The freedod
of press and speech is one of Ii
fundamentals of republican form
government like ours. The public,
ton that assails church can
dealt with by the courts by due PR
cess of law, but 1t is putting an III
warranted power into the hands
any officer Of the government to pc!
NIT him to say that periodicals ma
or may not be given the privileges
Of the mails. Only in our foreig
relations or during war, Is there jul
LITIGATION for a press censor. Vastl
more harm to free people wi
come from the suppression of tn
press and rostrum than can com
from any abuses Of such freedom.
Is just as true today as it was IL
years ago when Thomas Jefferso
said: Our liberty depends upon tn
liberty of the press and that ca
not be limited without being lost"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
TRADE CONTINGENCIES

note of warning was sounded at the recent
convention of the National Association of
Manufacturers which cannot too often be re
lterated If we are to face our commercial future
successfully. The principal motive of the meet
ing was discussion of the possible measures
to conserve the interests of American trade
after the war. With the technical side of
such measures the association could cope with
out trouble, but with certain conditions which
are at present unpreventable, great difficulty is
foreseen. Manufacturers in this country are
confronted by a cost of production which will
be absolutely prohibitive of competition with
foreign production after the war; the wage
scale has been raised on the basis of war prices
and the end is not yet Everything we make is
at a greater cost than ever, partly because of
higher wages partly by reason Of higher cost
of materials. Now, if the cost of production
would automatically lower when the war is
over as if has automatically risen, it would help
greatly, but there is no precedent for the sup
position that it will. Again, if we had practi-
cal business sense at the government helm in.
stead of the erratic tactics of dOctrinaire ad-
i nistration to contend with, the future would
more hopeful. We face the race for
orld trade heavily handicapped by the adj
yantages our labor has over that of our com
petltors, advantages which show no disposition
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
MASONIC CELEBRATION
AT KAHOKA, JUNE "a
st. Johns Day Will be Observed or
That Saturday With Special
Programs.
Especial to The Gate CITY. !

Especial to The Gate City.]
KAHOKA, NO.. June 15-On st.
Johns day, Saturday, June "a, rhe
Macons of Clark county, Missouri,
will celebrate at Kahoka, with a big
basket dinner. followed by n good
program of lectures and music.
Among those who will speak are
Ere sident Huber w. Hurt Of McKep-
cree college, Lebanon, ILL.,, t:rand
Mas ter Frank r. Jesse of Webster
Groves; Deputy Grand Master r. l.,
Higbees of Kirksville; DISTRICT Deputy
GIand Master G. F. Rixie Of Gala
tir, and Miss Nellie Page of Canton
whn is state grand lecturer, Order
Eastern Star.
The celebration will be in conjunc.
ton with the annual graduating exer-
cises of county rural school gradu-
ates. And through this fact and the
united efforts of the county organiza.
ton of Masons, it was possible to pre-
sent such an imposing lis. of talent
for the days program.
Everybody has been invited to cele.
brate with the Masons and 1t is ex-
pected that a large crowd of Masons
from adjoining counties and larger
crowd Of Clark county people will be
in Kahoka on that day.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
No One Was the Boss.

Davenport Times: One of the re,
markable developments al the Chi
cago republican convention was the
absence of the effective bosses. There
was no man or small group of men
who went around this time with the
delegates in their pockets. Penros
could not control his delegation and
neither could Brumbaugh, for he
wanted to throw the delegation TO
Roosevelt, and when the split came
only IA votes were cast for Teddy.
The same thing prevailed in the
other state delegations. Preliminary
to the voting on the third ballot il
was difficult for. a number of the
state delegations to determine what
to do. In fact some of them did not
make UP their minds until after
reaching the convention hall on Sat
urday. Caucuscs were even held on
the floor OF the convention. There
was no steam roller. no machine. 1t
was clear. fair and impartial con-
vention throughout.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
Iowa and DRINK.

Cedar Rapids. Gazette: The STATE.
ment that intoxicating liquors to the
value 90 of $35,000.000 per year are
consumed in Iowa is all buncombe.
Iowa has population OF less than
100000. The males over twenty ono
years of age do not number more than
one-fourth, or 625,000. Comparatively
few women are consumers of liqu,r
and still fewer minor girls can be so
ciassed. The boys who drink an
thing, with few exceptions compared
to their total number, drink as a
family custom and not to excess. OF
adult males more than half are to all
intents and purposes ahstainers.
Those who may be called tipplers can
not number 100000. That would leave
an average annual drink bill for these
men OF $3.50. If spent for good
grade of whisky that would provide
one hundred gallons per :sAar to the
real Iowa drinker, two gallons a week.
Somebody must think I'VE Won't
Go Home, Till Morning" is our state
anthem, and that this is heaven be-
low for delirium tremens specialists,
and grave stone dealers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
sAsco, ILL.
~ = <~>>>>>

Mrs. Lamet and children Of Warsaw
were visiting relatives in Basco and
vicinity.
Arthur Triboulet and wife are at.
tending teachers institute in Strong.
hurst this week.
f. J. Rue was Carthage visitor
Tuesday.
Harry Winters, our merchant. is
rejoicing over the arrival of a fine
girl at his home
Douglas Steffey was a caller in
Basco Saturday,
Laurence Clark and wife attended
the funeral Of the gentleman's father
in Denver Saturday.
The little Bowers boy, a lad of four
years of age had his leg broken by
throwing grindstone over on him
while playing at his great-grardmoth.
er's Mrs. Thompson. DR.. Rankin from
Keokuk, with the assistance of DIR.
Stowe attended the little fellow.
Florence Triboulet is home from,
Macomb where she has been attend.
ing school.
Mrs. Arthur Triboulet and Mrs.
Myrtle Triboulet entertained the On.
portunity Circle last Thursday.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
ART AND BREAD.

War has cheapened art abroad American
mllionaires who have coveted the works Of
master painters and sculptors have an oppor-
trnity to realize their dreams, and many OF
them are taking advantage of it, painting
for which the owner refused half million dol
lars three years ago recently purchased by
an American for four hundred thousand dol
lars. Other works of art, once deemed price
less. are now in the market at comparatively
any old price.
Europe's need today is bread A starving
man would give Valesquez for dinner or a
Stradvarius for loaf. As the value of the or.
lnamental decreases the worth of the utilitarian
increases
Theoretically, if Europe were swept bare OF
necessities the treasure chests of art would be
thrown open to whomsoever might buy. Ameri-
ca. with an abundance of the necessities de
manded by Europe, would Immediately seize
the opportunity to obtain the priceless objects
upon which its eye has long been fixed. Such a
situation would be- of course impossible
Europe will never be in exactly such straits.
But the doors are not closed as tightly as thew
were.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
GROWING AT PEACE.

Ambassador Gerard's denial of cheerful
statements regarding peace prospects, at
tributed to him by Berlin newspaper, is off
set by the admission that similar statements
were made by him to a representative of a
Munich newspaper.
Diplomatic circles in Washington are re-
ported as being visibly embarrassed, while in
Berlin and in London the several mouthpeces
of official sentiment will no doubt continue to
emit disappearing blasts A dreadful break, it
seems, has been committed by the distinguished
and industrious gentleman who, since the war be-
gan, has earned so much praise from Germans,
Engishmen and Americans. He claims to have
made the discovery that peace prospects have
appreciably frightened of late. His words
come like a CLEAN of sunshine after period Of
depression; but automatically speaking, he
had business to anticipate official German
or English utterances on the subject.
He should have continued to talk about the
weather or women's wear or else hold his
peace. But the encouragement he has impru-
IDENTIFY given those who have been fervently
praying for peace will not be entirely checked
by the growls Of the men his CHER up
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
Must Have Shocked Wilson.

ST. Louis GlobeDemocrat: Mr.
Hughes telegram Saturday was longer
than usual, owing to peculiar circu,r
stances. 1t was his first utterance
signifying his Willingness to forsake
the supreme bench, surrender life
position of great dignity and power
and make campaign for the pres'-
dency. Mr.. Hughes felt shat he
should give the reason why he should
answer his party's summons He did
so in manner that must have bee /
: shocking to the president, who has
Dern surrounded by fatte-ers who
have kept him from knowing the real
sentiment of thinking men concern
ing his administration
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
Author Of the MuIct..aw.

Des MOines Capital: Hon. w. B.
Martin "a former member of the Iowa
Legislature and former secretary OF
state, is dead Mr.. Martin lived for
many years in Adair county where
he was a farmer and also county
auditor. He was the author of what
has always been called the mutct law
which changed the policy of the state
on the liquor question and permitted
the saloons to return to certain locali-
ties by petition. Mr.. Martins measure
met the demands of the time. He
was good citizen. And in. all re-
| spects he was an honor to the state.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE

IN Already.
I walked with Love in Already
When all the hills green,
And there were birds in every tree,
With blossoms set between
Quoth Love, Joy holds more than this
And sealed his gladness with kiss.
walked with Love in Already
When all the hills bare;
There birds in any tree
Nor blossoms anywhere;
Quoth Love, Grief holds more than this
What matters grief have your kiss!'
Charlotte Becker, in Life.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15

to forego If we do not propose to forego them,
we must make provision to protect them or lose
the race before it is we'll begun. Political war
fare this country profoundly hopes to avoid !;
trade warfare it knows it must meet. We have
the common sense to prepare for contingencies
presented by possibilities. It remains to be
seen whether we have the common sense to
prepare for certainties
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15

You Wouldn't Lose Your Temper. John,
II You Used &Gets-It'' for Those Cornsf
contraptions for corns. Here's som
'Gets-It,' it's just wonderful how cas-!
clear and clean 1t makes any cor
come right off. Takes but a few SCI
onds to apply. It dries at once. PT
your sock on right over it-there
nothing to stick or roll UP, form
bundle on your toe, or press on IN
corn. It's painless, simple as rollin
off log Now put away those knive
razors and scissors, use 'Gets-It' an
you'll have a sweeter disposition an
no more corns and calluses."
.'Gets-It" is sold by druggists ever,
where, 25c . bottle, or sent direct ?
E. Lawrence & Co, Chicago, Ill. Sol
in Keokuk and recommended as tn
worlds best corn remedy by Engl'
hardt Z CO.. and Wilkinson q Co.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15

Henry Winneke, Henry Hellman.
Washington-S. a. Krogmeier, Gus
]. Miller, Chas. Morton.
West Point-John Billman, J. B..
Schroeder, Henry Harnagel. Joseph
Harmeyer, Theo. Vonderhaar, Her
bert Lehman.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15
why Swear, Dear?
Use 'eets-It
for Germs!

It's the New Plan. Simple. Sure
Fate. Applied In Few Seconds.
why, John, never knew you
use such language! I've told you Sc
eral times it's no use to try thos
bandages salves, tapes, plasters, IN
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-15

Think not that there is a lion in the way,
nor walk with leaden sandals in the paths OF
goodness; but in all virtuous motions let pru-
dence determine thy measures-Sir Thomas
Browne.