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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26
WE CRY FOR BLOOD.

In an appeal for new trial for a
negro under sentence of death in Bibb
superior court John II. Cooper, Grim
inal lawyer of note, and a speaker Of
ten capable of exaggeration under
heat of debate, said in Macon the
other day that Georgia is the blood
lest state in the union,-that we cry
for blood
He has little right to bring such an
indictment against the state and never
in this special case. That very utter
ance will not stop till it reaches Bos-
ton and every way station between
Macon and that Yankee city. But it
was made for that purpose. 1t brings
its author certain notoriety he could
not get in a less intense and a more
representative statement.
The truth in that special case would
not have carried the rampant lawyers
utterance beyond the walls Of the
court room, for it happens that he
was defending one of the worst ne
gro murderers in the history of the
county The jury that required Coop
er's negro clients life at the hands
Of tie law knew first that the negro
murdered his wife in cold blood Coop
er knew it when he roared forth the
following:
Georgia is the bioodiest state in
the Union. Her citizenry cry for
blood No man can get fair trial
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26
FIGHTER VS.. FARMER.

Senator Bill Tom Hardwick got
cussed for his effort the other day to
keep the proposed government nitrate
Elant from being allowed also to make
Up the nitrates useful in the manufac-
ture Of fertilizer.
Senator Hardwick is quoted as say
ing:
while | am quite willing to concede
that it is a legitimate governmental
function to provide the gunpowder
which is necessary for the use of our
army and navy in time OF war, just as
we provide arInor plate factories for
the ships of our navy am not wor-
red about that do not think, how
ever, it is legitimate governmental
function to engage in the manufacture
OF fertilizer and the sale Of it to the
farmers, no matter how much we love
them and no matter how often we pro-
test that we do"
The Southern farmers fertilizer bill
is something like $1O,OOO,OOO a year
but that does not make it necessary
fer the government to go into the bus
mess of making fertilizer for him. The
Lord knows, the farmer gets skinned
alive often enough in the fertilizer in
vtstments he makes and in the poor
ly judged uses OF them, but the govern.
rent cannot help that any more than
to try to teach him correct uses.
1t is not a question as to whether
il is right to help the fighter and leave
out the farmer Fighting is the gov
e7nment's business when there is any
to do Farming is altogether another
matter.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26
a HISTORY OF CRISP.

The history of Crisp county COM
prsed i'll the handsomely bound vol
ume just from the press and now in
the hands of Fort Early chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, is a literary treasure that will
be priced highly in the home of every
citizen who has a pride in his com
munity.
1t is q history that for it's accuracy,
authenticity and literary style, will
be retained in Libraries all over the
state and especially in the home libra
res of families whose life interests
are tied to the soil of this section.
This book is a credit to the ladies
who are members of Fort Early chap
ter. They took assignments and near
ly every member had to do with the
preparation -of THE" edttion: For~its
completeness and it's abundance OF
information, the people of this com
munity have to thank these women
for this historic collection of infor
nation is not only worthy a place i'll
any library, but it is a book which
in the years to come is certain to be
consulted by the historian.
The work is dedicated to Mrs. Ger
trude Taylor Land, Mrs. Max E. Land
of this city, who was the first regent
of Fort Early chapter, ID. A. r..
through whose efforts the chapter was
organized and through whose long la
Dor the historic collection was put in
to book form. 1t is understood the
ladies are selling the book for the
small sum of fifty cents per copy. 1t
is not likely that they will find it diff
fcult to sell what they have printed
in their first edition, for the book
should so into every home. Mrs. Z
NJ. Espy is now regent of the local
chapter
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

when feeling is at it's height take
no stock in the Law and Order
league mass meetings. 1t is the
function of the court and the jul
ries, and not that organizations
to fulfill the law"
Publicity sometimes helps the good
lawyer but notoriety Of this kind does
not help the state. This lawyer knows
full well beforehand, too, what such
statement will mean to the good
name Of Georgia He ought to be too
proud OF his own state and every 9TH
or man ought to be too proud OF it to
besmirch it with such misrepresenta-
lions. Watch the yellow journals of
the north and east fasten upon this
utterance.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

from promiscuous credit and the habit
grows once it is started
Outside the community people are
learning to appreciate COrdele and
Crisp county as paying set of bus
mess men and citizens. Favorable
comment often comes back from a dis
lance about local appreciation of an
obligation or business agreement. In
the years past when cotton buyers
took the farmers crop in at a price
too low in the spring, it is credited to
the good name of this community that
those who made such bad trades stuck
to them while in other commun' ties
the buyers had to sue and watch de-
PENDANTS take Bankruptcy or other
ways of escaping. Our local good
name is worth something to us. 1t
ought to become matter of pride In
every business house Of the communi-
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26
LOCAL CREDIT.

The Crisp county citizen evidently
has learned that his good name de-
ponds upon the manner in which he
keeps up with his accounts. There
are on all sides unquestioned traces
of developing tendency to have rigid
care for the creditor and TO keep him
assured. if there must be delay. that
obligations are going to be met
Plenty Of loose business will be done
always. Credit at random will be eX-
tended by the inexperienced business
man and this will continue to disturb
regulated and systematized credit
which means most to business COM
munity.
One day the business world is go
ing to demand cash as it goes. Il is
coming nearer and nearer TO this
thing and the tighter the ropes are
drawn, the more steadily will the cash
system grow Everybody ought to
Awelcome it, for all business suffers
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

The Los Angeles Times furnishes q
splendid edition covering the develop
ment of the Imperial Valley, the Cali
fornia country where cotton is being
grown. This edition points out soil
which grows in many instances one
and one-half bales to the acre. The
value of the present years crop, this
paper claims, will be more than 3d.
100000. Wonder if the boil weevil has
found this out
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26
ZION HILL CITIZEN
REPORTS FINE CROPS

E. z. Taylor, who lives in the Zion
H.ll community, was among the well
known farmers in the city Saturday.
He reports that crops throughout the
entire section of the county in which
he lives are in splendid condition. The
cotton crop he says is far advanced,
while wheat growing has become more
extensive this year than ever before,
and the farmers of his section all have
fine crops. Weather conditions have
been exceptionally favorable 20 the
farmers of that section, and while, as
a whole, the oat crop of this year falls
short of the average, the crops of this
kind in the immediate section in which
Mr. Taylor lives are fully as good as
the average.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26
The Darien Gazette is going

The Darien Gazette is going this
week into its forty-third year. II is
a creditable weekly newspaper, made
up Of the affairs of its community, not
the patent cree,l5 and sayings that
have been going the rounds for a life
time. A little effort makes the chan
ces Tor newsy, crisp and fresh make
up quite different. Ii tells in the long
run in the paper, too. We would like
to see this one live on another 43
years.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
is urging a state highway commission.
Wonder how long such a commission
could keep one portion of the state
from jealousy as to work in another
portion. Right now we are wondering
whether the Atlanta Chamber doesn't
want this commission in order to fix
up things so all roads will lead to At
lanta.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

Governor Harris, in the appoint
ment of a successor to Judge Dick Rus
sell on the court of appeals, has had
splendid opportunity to reward home,
folks. When he elevated Hodges, it
gave him another chance at another
home man. 1t would be fine oppor-
tunity to even up in other portions OF
the state if he could hand them all
around.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

Frank Mangum, formerly editorial
writer on the Macon News, is now edi
tor and publisher OF the Swainsborc
Forest Blade. There's going to be one
more good weekly in the Georgia field
We know him. He will be given a
hearty welcome on every hand. We
hope the high cost of material does not
destroy his hope of manipulating the
financial end of the enterprise toe
soon.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26
FEAGLE'S NEW MANAGER
GIVEN BUSINESS WELCOME

James B. Taylor, of Greenville, S.
g., is in Cordele and is now in charge
Of the Feagle Furniture Company as
successor to ]. w. Renfroe who has
taken up similar work in Americas.
Mr.. Taylor is man thoroughly ac-
ouainted with the furniture business
and is fully capable Of caring for the
needs of the trade in Cordele through
the Feagle Furniture company.
He has already been given a hearty
welcome by the business community.
Mr.. Taylor will be considered valu-
able addition to the ranks of the bust
ness men in Cordele.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

Go it, Hoke! You still have enough
loyal supporters on the press of the
state to make the people believe you
had nothing to do with that California
nomination for president. That was
one instance of where Wilson was not
in the running
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

The Honorable William j. Harris
mailed us a copy just today of an ad-
dress which he delivered April 9Th at
Athens before the Athens Chamber OF
Commerce and the students Of the Uni
versity of Georgia. 1t was marked
confidential. Wonder If anyone knows
what he said We are not allowed to
tell.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

Palace and were happy in the thrills
and delights of 1.-THE Child's Appeal"
and the comedy cartoon, "Col. Heeza
Liar" There were two complete
shows.
Then the joys ran up to the highest
pitch on free soda water and ice cream
at the Ryals Drug Store, through the
courtesy of Doc Jennings. Every
child received a soda check and the
pleasure that they got out of it can
never be measured.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

Congressman Parks comes out with
the statement that he has an inven
ton for his syrup producing constitu
ents which will enable them to put up
their output so it will neither crystal
ize nor torment. This he has secured
through the department of agriculture
and the method is pronounced prac,
teal 1t will mean much for syrup pro
ducing Georgia
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

Holy Smoke! Somebody has set
Marion Jackson on Doc Hradman. And
the said jackson charges that DR..
Hardman is being made the tool of the
liquor business. Gently now. Doc
Hardman is a better man than that. He
is just campaigning around so as tC
keep in trim for the real race next
time.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26
FREE SHOW AND DRINKS
WON HEARTS OF CHILDREN

Between four and five hundred lit
tie tots of the city and some OF the
older heads realize rather impressive
ly that the season of Easter has been
here. Saturday was a day that held
particular interest for them and John
Cain, Jr., proprietor of the Palace
Theatre, and T. E. Jennings, OF the j..
B. Ryals Drug Company, provided an
occasion that was a sufficient remind
er.
In the afternoon all OF the children
of the city, or most of them, were en-
tertained at a free Easter show at the
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

Herring, of the Triton Gazette, has
sharp stick after some of the lazy
weekly editors His remarks are time
ly but somebody's going to raise a
rough house. 1t is fact, though, the
person who looks at some of the week
lies is beaten out Of the time he takes
to find there is nothing in them. The
real weekly has higher purpose to
serve than that. Its editor ought to
be more than make-shift and dead
beat.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26
WHOOPING COUGH

One of the most successful prepara-
lions in use, for this disease is Cham
berlains Cough Remedy. S. w. Nc
Clinton. Blandon Springs, Ala, writes.
Our baby had whooping cough as
bad as most any baby could have it.
gave him Chamberlain's Cough Rene
dy and it soon got him WELL OBJ
tainable everywhere.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

They jump on Dick Russell if he re-
signs and they jump on him if he stays
in office Poor Dick, we never saw a
good word in the papers yet about him.
And still he manages 10 get about and
support large family
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26
From n. F. Duckworth the press got

From II. F. Duckworth the press got
q hot one last week dealing with T. E.
w. Now if T. E. w. decides to give
back a hot one things will begin to
liven up. Duckworth wants somebody
to shove him into the race for govern
or. Let him come on in. He is not
qualified to pull hair with Watson un-
til he becomes candidate
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

We want them to sell the state road
pay IN our public debt, including the
school teachers who are always kept
waiting and upt the remaining millions
where the interest will still be com
ing in. And we want the people to
have the say so about that unspent
portion. If. the legislature must de
eide what to do with the rest of it.
please let us still keep the state road
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

Now they are accusing Macon of
cleaning out all beer and liquor in or
der to be ready for the state conven-
ton. Nothing to that argument, Ma
con just naturally likes to be a clean
town-after May l.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26
LEMUEL LANlER CROSSES
BEYOND GREAT DIVIDE

G. l.. and R. L. Dekle received a
message Friday announcing the death
of their uncle, Lemuel Lanier, which
occurred at o'clock Friday morning
at his home at Collins, Ga. The fun
eral services and burial were held at
Collins Saturday afternoon. Mr.. La
nier was a brother of the late NJ. T.
Lanier, of this city.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

Now they want to abolish the state
court of appeals. And this is an insti
tuition without which the state cannot
get along. That's just bunch mad
with Dick Russell for resigning. 1t
will all blow over when Bob Hodges
gets up there and begins to look pref
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26
PEANUT INDUSTRY WiDENs.

PEANUT INDUSTRY WiDENS.
and still they talk about peanuts.
Growing ard harvesting peanuts is
sure to become one Of the industries
of this and adjoining states the very
moment the farmers learn that they
can make something by raising and
selling them. The business Of finding
ota is going on. TOO, in such way as
to reveal that the farmers are inter
ested
Growing peanuts in successful man
het-in such a way as to get a profit
from it,-ought not to be d difficult
process here in Georgia. 1t is not so
certain that we know how to get the
best results, but the peanut crop used
to,look easy We have seen the time
when as a boy we used to steal them
before time On our boyhood 'possum
hunts digging peanuts by moonshine
was the easiest thing connected with
the night rambles. What pockets full
oflplump, fat, green peanuts we have
carried through the woods to appease
our hunger after the miles of walking!
II we have the record right in our
mind the birds, coons, squirrels,-all
the wild vermin and what hogs we
hail combined ate them all be-
fore time to prepare the land for aU
other crop. Millions of volunteers
would come up in the next crop from
the peanuts left in the ground. We
sat II again: Peanut growing in those
days looked easy.
Now this has become valuable
food product for both man and beast.
1t is. considered. for its oil, one of the
finest products Of the soil--it is even
being measured as q competitor with
olive oil, a far better one than the
cotton oils And the meal is going in
to peanut butter for man and into
coarser meals for animal food. And
for all this, the commercial world is
but5just now realizing what value
the peanut has. Recall the history of
theeotton seed,-its start and its pres
ent value.
Cotton mill operators know some
thing of it, They are putting in the
machinery for crushing the oil from
the peanuts and at the same time are
busying themselves getting the farm
er interested in growing more peanuts.
A ,Petersburg Virginia paper is quot
ing now on farmers stock Spanish
peanuts, the kind we grow around us,
-$110 per bushel.
Methods Of gathering should be
watched closely. for it is this that is
to be learned among farmers who have
net been accustomed to grow for the
market. There are machines for
picking and winnowing that will solve
,,;c nrohlo,n sily
II peanut growing is as easy now
as it used to sccm TO the boy on the
possum hunt. and the market remains,
even as it stands today, those vast
areas that are promised iGleness and
rest when the weevil comes along to
destroy cotton. might yet be worth
something to their owners. The farm
er,who is looking into the peanut grow
ing business is not putting his time
to bad thing at all.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

The North Georgia Citizens is as good
a weekly newspaper as Georgia will
ever need. Pity all the others are not
that good. What a different atmos-
phere might be made to surround Geor-
gia industrial and educational inter
eStS
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

Italian soldiers climb snow clad
neaks in white shirts, worn outside OF
their uniforms, in order that they may
not be detected by the Austrians.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

A Georgia weekly carried long ar
ticle last week entitled, From Dram
Glass to He'll" All that and summer
time, too, after May l.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26
Late information is to

Late information is to the effect that
Statesboro is going right ahead with
the packing plant project. That indus
tricus city is to get the plant and that
at no long time Off There is little
doubt that the country around will
make splendid use Of it.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-04-26

No. 666 will cure Chills and Fever.
1t is the most speedy remedy we know
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-15
In Mountain Tunnels,

Engineers on the trains which are
sent across the western mountains
with sometimes as many as five or
six locomotives to pull them over the
heavy grades, use respirators in order
to keep them from being suffocated
while passing through the long tun-
nels. Some of these bores are sew
eral thousand feet in length and re.
quire a number of minutes to pass.
The men in the cabs of the rear en-
gines are continually in an atmosphere
heavily filled with the gases and smoke
given out by the locomotives ahead,
and were it not for artificial means Of
getting air it would frequently be i'm.
possible for them to stay at their
places. The breathing masks which
are now being used are funnel.shaped
and designed to fit tightly over the
eyes, nose and> mouth of the wearer.
Attached to one of these is rubber
hose which is connected with the com
pressed-air tank of the locomotive so
that all of the oxygen needed is avail
able. The air is usually passed
through a sponge and cooled by
cracked ice before it is taken into the
lungs.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-15
RAILROADS GAIN BY SAFETY
Fatalities Have Been Noticeab,y Few.
er Since Proper Precautions Have
Been Instituted.

The records of the bureau of rail-
road news and statistics show that
during the last three months of 1914
of the 230,500,000 passengers carried
,S34,OO0,000 passenger miles, not one
lost his life in a collision. There were
only Is fatalities altogether as a re-
suit OF train accidents, including pas
sengers. employees on and off duty,
and other persons" Fourteen persons
out OF seventy-eight killed we're tres
passers. During the entire year of
1914 there were only Al fatalities to
passengers as result of collisions.
The third quarter of the year was e.
bad one, 36 of the fatalities occurring
during that period. But even so, the
record is better than for any other
year-except 1913-that showed any
thing like the same mileage. The to-
tai OF 7S deaths for the last quarter is
unequaled.
Taking the whole year, the record
shows 483 deaths from accidents af-
fecting all persons, employees as we'll
as passengers. This, too, is the best
showing made since 1901, when the
law requiring monthly accident re-
ports went into effect. Since 1910 the
deaths have been 1,058, TAI, 953, 712
and 483. This achievement will be all
the more appreciated when it is re-
membered that in 1902, when the
deaths were 8S1, the railroad mileage
was $4,000 miles less than in 1914,
when there were only 483 deaths. In
the latter year the roads carried $685.,
100000 more passengers than in 1902,
and 735,000,000 more tons of freight.
The increase in the number of passen-
gers carried one mile was $780, 00,-
900. ::
Two factors have operated in bring
ing about this result-the safety first
crusade and improved equipment. Thus
credit is due to both companies and
employees. The safety-first campaign
should, Of course. be continued, since
there are many people who do not
seem yet to- have been touched by it.
Even the railroads may fall back into
their old ways if there is relaxation of
effort. Education ought to continue
since there are always new men COM
ing on-till there-is created a habit of
mind favorable to safety and caution.
News.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-15
From Force Of Habi..

A woman walked up to the teller in
the ladies' department Of a New York
trust company and handed in at the
window a check made payable to her
order for "a. The teller pushed it
back to her, asking her to indorse it.
When she had written the indorse-
ment she fumbled in her pocketbook
and took from it a SIS bill, which she
pushed across the slide to him with
the check. saying take it out OF that"
why madam" he remarked, "this
calls for you to receive 81, not to pay
it." "Oh," she replied YEARLY, II get
SO used to paying bills that didn't
know the difference"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-15
Higher Home Efficiency.

A revolution is going ON in the
homes of America 1t is being brought
about by the study of such subjects
as health, home nursing, child well
fare, foods and food values, textiles
and the making Of clothing, the fam
lily budget and household manage
ment. The outcome will be better
health, and greater comfort and happi-
ness for all at less expense. Because
there is a demand for such i5lstruc-
ton, and because the ends sought are
SO desirable, schools and colleges of
agriculture all over the country are
offering short sessions for the study
of the subjects named.