The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-02

credltaDle institution. Inelr real ell
fort was to make people believe what
we said about it was not true.
This misstatement claims that Al
bany operates its power plant by wa
ter. That isn't so. 1t has dam
which helps only small portion of
the time, but that dam does not i'm
pound water and steam plant is nee
essary, just like we have in Cordele.
That handle factory makes enough
fuel to operate by steam but electric
power is necessary in that plant and
electric power is used where steam can
not be used.
Now, we are not so very sure that
the difference in the rate on electric
current decided the issue as betweeH
Cordele and Albany, with the handle
factory operators but something did
decide the matter and-Albany got the
plant We are sure CT another thing:
The operators are now in Cordele ter
ritory making arrangements to freight
timber from here into Albany to be
used in that same handle factory. Let
those who stand in the way of Cordele
enterprise and progress look about just
little and ascertain if this not true,
Let them explain also how it is that
Albany can take their plant away from
us and send them back here along
Flint river to take our timber down
there and work it up into finished
product And while they are explain
ing, let them also give us a fair ex-
PLANTATION of why Cordele is not yet
fairly good manufacturing point. Let
them explain why our raw material
from our farms and our timbered lands
have to be freighted out to other
points and made up into manufactured
goods and then freighted back to US
and sold at a price which will make all
this sort of traffic profitable to them
and other towns.
Cordele is naturally one of the best
distributing points in Georgia. This
is due to the fact that it has the rail
roads and the rich surrounding terri
tory. A wonderful volume of business
is being done through here by outsid-
ers. Instead of terming these ouisid-
ers as strangers" as has been done
in the case of those who came to inves-
tigate the handle factory, we ought to
be opening up negotiations with them
and trying in a business way to make
them see the advantages of coming
here to work cut their commercial des-
TIMES.
When we came back here after fif-
teen years of absence learning how to
run a newspaper, our mission and
greatest ambition was to operate a
creditai lie newspaper whose greatest
usefulness might be the development
of the commercial interests of Cordele.
AS soon as our mission became known,
we were told by those whose loyalty
TO the community should have been the
greatest, that such an effort would
mean business suicide One man said:
Boy, you are headed for destruction"
The longest day we live, wherever we
go, no matter if our future takes us
to the fartherest ends of the earth,
no matter IL we i've = Thousand years,
we will remember that expression
We wonder if that kind of advice is
given other people who come here to
invest. That reception we got has
been ringing in our ears day and
night. Such a reception rings i'll the
ears of new investors. 1t does more.
1t drives them away. And is this the
true explanation of why Cordele is
not larger industrial center? Let our
friends who oppose the bond issue for
the electric light plant answer,
ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
The measure which provides that
the superior courts OF the. state han
die all local legislation has Already