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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15
THE CORDEIE DISPATCH, CORDELE, GEORGIA.

Stacker reference to dead Americans
on the field of honor" as a ground for
resenting what the nation is now do
ing is but another terrible blunder in
estimating what the sentiment of
American people really is. The first
dead American on "the field of hon.
or" will only add determination to
what is already beng done in the
war against Germany. The Stacker
himself will be less a Stacker the mo.
ment he sees a casualty list or else
there isn't drop of American blood in
his veins.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15

Hon William j. Harris, it is now
widely stated, is candidate for the
United States senate in opposition to
Senator HardwiCk, If his candidacy is
to mean the most, all opposition tc
Hardwick should be conferred in this
man. He is generally and widely term
ed fitting man to succeed HardwicE
and one who is not only conversant
with conditions in Washington, but is
thoroughly in sympathy with the pres
ent administration.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15
This Man Knew.

| am afraid of nothing on earth OF
above the earth, or under the earth
but to do wrong. The path of duty
shall endeavor to travel, fearing nc
evil and dreading no consequences. ]
would rather be defeated in a good
cause than triumph in bad one. ]
would not give a fig for a man who
would shirk from the discharge of
duty for fear of defeat.-Alexande H
Stephens.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15
A JUDGE NOW?

The appointment of Judge Beverly
D. Evans to the United States Court
for this district by President Wilson,
1t is said, will bring a number of
changes on the bench in Georgia. Here
in Cordele we are looking for Judge
Walter George to go up. Judge Luke
has been mentiond with Judge George
and it is probable that one of these
will get Judge Evans place in the
supreme court
We sincerely hope this appointment
will not displease Senator Hardwick,
and we likewise hope it will please
Senator Smith. Judge Evans was
among those mentioned as being suit
able in the list that Senator Hard
wick sent up to the department of JUS
tice. Here's hoping this gives us a
Judge and settles the disturbance.
And here's hoping that Judge George
of the Court of Appeals gets a pro-
motion to the supreme court
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15
sity take a dose of their own medicine

sity take dose of their own medicine.
The university had constantly
sought money for education. The
house members proceeded to devote
quite little bit of the states funds
to education, but it was not the kind
the friends of the university wanted.
Now Georgia cannot pay what it has
set aside for the common schools and
the university has a jolt,-a jolt that
it will feel for years
There were men in the legislature
at the outset who we're determined to
get rid Of the carpet Dagger amend
ment to the constitution because ii
made it impossible tor any county to
provide local tax for schools with.
out two-thirds majority of the voters
favoring. They had determined to pro
vide a means of securing local sup.
port for the schools in each county
If that means could have been pro,
vided, the common schools of Geor
gia could have gone forward under
their own financial support exactly as
they should do. The rich counties are
row providing for the poor counties
Some of them sit back in absolute con
tentment and devote no effort to edu
cation, waiting for the state fund to
come in. For such counties there
ought not to be a state fund.
But the friends of higher education
SMILED and made no effort to get the
law passed which would force every
dormant county to wake up and get
behind the schools. AS a result they
lost their own piece of pie and the
legislature is just now dangerously
near to an extra session.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15
May Need 1t Later.

The Griffin News notes that some
mighty small guns are firing at Sena-
tor Hardwick Well, what's the use
of dragging out heavy artillery to
shoot a sparrow?-Walton Tribune.
Not a bit. The high cost of ammu
milton suggests that it is prudent to
be saving it.-North Georgia Citizen
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15

Over $4,000 volunteers have gone
to the American army since April LIST
this year. This is considered a credi.
table showing. When those who go
by draft without exemption claim are
added il will be indeed an immense
fighting machine.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15

DowE in Savannah is a city court
Judge who is dealing with the liquor
sellers with stern justice, apparently
Many mcr who, deep down in their
better selves do not like to violate the
law, are Easing up the liquor traffic
in Savannah and soon it will be left to
the INSCRIPTIONS. Then it will go
rapidly and the whole law abiding
community will resent an effort to
sell it,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15

How would you like to be Repre-
sentative Winn of Hart? Well, he
knows one thing more than he knew
when he went up to Atlanta to repre-
sent Hart county. He has found that
the general assembly doesn't think
as much of T. E. w. as he does.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY

Soft coal, the kind used generally
in these parts, is to come cheaper as
soon as the government can take a
hand in the regulating of prices. We
are looking for considerable relief be.
fore the winter.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15
MORE FREAK LEGISLATION.

North Georgia Citizen:
There is now pending a bill in the
legislature to reduce the legal advertis-
ing rate now charged by the newspa-
pers.
We do not know whose massive
brain conceived this massive piece of
legislation, but it is not too much to
hazard a guess that is some disgrun-
tied politician who has felt the sting
of newspaper criticism when it ex-
posed some of his hypocricy and de-
amgoguery.
The newspaper renders more free
service than any other institution in
the community. Always it is standing
by helping every worthy cause in the
community. 1t is nearly always pro-
gressive. 1t works for the upbuilding
of schools and roads, and frequently
loses the respect of certain individuals
who by nature are opposed to every.
thing from paved streets to the plan
of salvation. All community knockers
and kickers are unfriendly to- the
newspaper as rule, and now it would
seem they are to be joined by the bel
ly-aching contingent in the legislature.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15

All south Georgia will sympathize
with Triton in the losssof the packing
plant even before it was completed.
Fire swept away the half finished
structure Saturday night. 1t is an,
nounced that it will come again bette,
than ever. And it will.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15

r. f, w. reports $4,000 as funt
on hand with which so test the selec
tive draft The war isn't going to
wait for this test in the courts and
those who are making the contribu
tons are throwing away their money.
In very brief time those who resist
will be facing court martial, not the
court. a
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15

1t takes the good newspaper with
come slight trace of a spine to expose
tie rascality in public places. The
white light of publicity in the honest
newspaper saves untold impositions
ard often puts the perpetrator of high
crime to rout
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15

Georgians dissatisfied with the rec
ords of Georgia in the United States
Senate are beginning to talk about
Senator Smith and lay some of the
fault to this big man, Senator
Smith knows how important il
is that the administration have
the strongest democratic support.
He knows as well as any man
in Washington the meaning of such
"bucking" as he and Senator Hardwick
have done.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15

In another column is "a letter from
Mayor Jones about your fall gardens
Don't stop to- ask what he knows about
gardening. Go plant your garden and
make just as many fall vegetables as
you can. He is right.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15

Do you ever borrow your neighbours
paper? Well, you must stop that
when our new daily is going. Your
neighbor takes paper because he
wants it, He will take the daily be-
caus he wants it, You must take it
because you want it.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15

Perhaps the only one hundred per
cent success was attained by the man
who invented our non-leak fountain
pen which so lives up to it's name
that it will not even write.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-15

Entered as second class matter at
the post Office at Cordele, Georgia,
nnder the act of March Sth, 1879
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-06-20
DOING 1T ONES SELF

According to the old schoolbook fable, in the
meadow Of a farmer the hay was nearly ready to cut.
and the birds that had been reared in a nest in the grass
were nearly ready to leave. The mother bird charged
her young each day to listen carefully to the conversa-
ton between the farmer and his sons. and to report 90
her. One day, on her return, she found the little birds
in a great state Of excitement. They had heard the farm
err tell his sons that on the next day their friends and
neighbors were coming to cut the hay. The wise old bird
on listening. The next day the farmer, after waiting in
vain for the friends and %neighbors. told his sons that on
c4he following day they would have all their relatives
ffn1ere to cut the hay. Again the little birds were fright
dined and the mother remained calm. Then when the
failed to appear the farmer said to his sons,
'"Since our friends and relatives have both failed us, we
will grind the scythes today and tomorrow we will start
cutting the hay ourselves" When this was reported to
the mother bird she said, 1--WE will move at once. When
a man depends on other people, his work will not soon
be done, but when he makes up his mind to do it him
self it will not longer be delayed"
The automobile men of Towner, N. D., are giving a
practical Illustration Of the old birds wisdom. In GER
tain sections in that locality badgers are numerous. A
sharp, clean-cut badger hole in a hard wheel track is
not a good thing for tires, rims, spokes or springs.
After lodging holes as best they could a number Of the
car owners decided that each should carry a spade, and
that when he came across one of these holes he should
get out and fill it up. The result is that long stretches
of really dangerous road have been made safe, and it
didn't take much Of any one mans time, either.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-06-20
PERISHABLE PRODUCTS

There p always q big problem in the marketing OF
pefishaole products ana that problem 10 by no means
snplified by the conditions arising out Of the war. Take
the item of wheat AZ a sample of the non-perishable food
products. 1t contains great food value in comparatively
small weight and space. 1t can be shipped to the ends
y the earth. and 1t can, be stored indefinitely without ap-
probable waste. 1t, like some Of the other great staples,
Is IN constant demand, and the demand 10 30 stable that
1t can be forecast with reasonable accuracy for . long
time In advance. It IL entirely feasible under present
conditions for the government to fix a minimum price
for wheat which will relieve the grower of all but the
risks arising from natural causes, such as weather. fire,
and so forth. and the results of personal negligence. The
government can agree to take all the wheat offered at
a certain stated price. 1t can do this without risk, for
the price fixed, assuming it to be q reasonable one. and
based on actual conditions, will be the price paid BY our
foreign customers who look to the American government
for fair dealing in this as in other matters II all the
crop Is not speedily absorbed it can be held over until Il
Is needed. Even If the government should be caught with
q large quantity of unsold wheat on Its hands, something
which is improbable. and the later conditions should de-
mand a reduction Of price. its holdings could always be
marketed at the ruling prices of the period. In no case
could there be such a thing as total loss.
But the case is entirely different with a vast line Of
products which are needed for the consumption Of our
people. which are raised in very large quantities. but
which detertorate rapidly. and. If kept moro than a SIN
gle season. become a total loss. Potatoes, onions, cab
base. parsnips. carrots. are some Of the great staples in
this line. They are needed. and have an important place
in the diet of a nation. But they are heavy and bulky
In proportion to food value. They will not stand exposure
to weather. and, except at a cost which is prohibitive.
they cannot be stored moro than 4 few months. Among
these articles, too, one may readily be made to take the
place Of another. 80 that q shortage in one line may be
made up by an excess In another. For the government
to agree. for instance. to take all the potatoes offered at
a dollar a bushel might easily result in the payment Of
millions Of dollars for potatoes which would merely be
allowed to rot. This would be true in even greater meas
ure Of other vegetable products.
At the same time there is an opportunity for the
government to use its authority in maintaining a balance
In the marketing Of these products, so that consumers in
one part Of the country will not be paying extorttonate
while producers in another are obliged to let their
crops rot on the ground.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-06-20
NOT A VAR OF INCIDENTS

The United States has had just cause of offense
against Germany In any one of a great number of Incl
dents which have marked the career of tho kaiser and
his councillors since the war began. But it is significant
OF the spirit in which the American people have entered
upon this war that those incidents are rarely mentioned.
or when they are mentioned. 1t is to illustrate q point
and not to justify the war to ourselves or others.
The outside observer, if there were one, unfamiliar
with the history Of the past three years, and DESTROYS of
obtaining Information as to Americas point of view and
purposes from current comment among Americans,
would learn that there had been such things as the Lusi-
stania horror and the Sussex outrage; that German ships
of war had violated American rights at sea: that Ger
man conspirators. acting under the Instructions Of their
government, had sought to destroy American domestic
tranquility and to undermine American prosperity. But
he would find that when these things are discussed it is
for the purpose of illustrating and demonstrating the
spirit of lawlessness and observation-disclosures which posses
Ses Germany. These incidents, atrocious though they
are, are but the natural outgrowth of that spirit.
We make war on Germany, not to seek vengeance
for injuries which We have sustained, but to destroy the
spirit out Of which they grew, a spirit which. so long as
it exists as a controlling force in a great nation, is a
menace to civilization and to the peace Of the world.
This is not a war of incidents.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-06-20
HUMoRs OF CENSORSHIP
Good Intentions Of Newspapers Nulli-
fed by the Department
~ OhACial2.

It was omcially and solennly an
nounced the other day that the name
of the steamship which fought OF and
perhaps sank a U-boat would be kept
secret, because IL it were disclosed u
boats would attack her in swarnns.
Likewise, the names Of the naval gun
ners on the gallant American vessel
were to be suppressed. for fear hat
the NOR might meet the late Of Cap-
tain Fryatt, II they fell into the hands
OF the enemy.
Only a few hours later the fact was
ofncially and widely published that
h steamer in question was the
american oil carrier silver Shell.
There was officially printed, too, the
nam Of the warrant ofiosr COM
handing n Silver Shells gun crew,
n 1t was stated by the navy depart
mont that he would be promoted for
his skill and GOODNESS in the light With
the submarine. Not only that. but
the name and address Of every mem-
per OF the U crew was furnished for
publication.
Better coordination Of the wash
tngton preas censors and oficfal pub
nctty specialists would seem to be a.
liable. There 10 2 good deal Of tom
myrot about the process. It may -
the part Of wisdom, for instanca. %
substitute IAN. Atlantic Port" Sor
something more specific IN reportine
the arrival Of steamships, but whonS
Dubiiahed interviews with passGa-
fers betSey the alleged secret to sveey.
uaineA rsader. and Il kas1 plan q
y B g - N a1ast ~, the perform.
ance = fnept And what wAs the %
Of making mystsry .0f tse place o.
0e8eFAl Pe1ShtnGts arrival vhen tie
dbpa11sh stassd h1lEwas Ereotsd On
landing BY ths Lord Mayor ofa I1yer-
DeAl3@RSON11Ao J0ux1inL asa
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-06-20
"SHORT WAR"
PROPHETS WRONG
And With Third Year Nearing
Close it May be Only
Halt Over.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger,

(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)
At the beginning Of May two years
ago, when James ]. Hill said the war
would end in october. 1875" when
Lloyd's in London quoted odds Of 3 to
l against the war ending before May.
1915, while odds were sven that 1t
would end before Sept. /. 1915, and
is to l hat the end would come be-
fore March 1. 1915. some Of the opin-
ions Of big men as to the end Of the
war. then printed ran as follows:N
Lord Kitchener, British secretary
Of state for war, in August, Isi4g
The war viii last three years. In
October. 1914-The war will last two
years.
Georges ~Clemenceau, former French
premier, Nov. 2, 1914-Of onets thing
alone l am certain: The war will be
long, perhaps very long.
ls15-Germany will be vanquished.
he kaiser will commit suicide and
peace will be declared on April 81.
Gen. Francois Joubert.Pienaar, ex-
Boer leader, in France, Sept. ~, 1914
The val will be long ana fierce.
Privy Councillor Richard within Of
Germany. Sept. %. 1s14-There is not
TIME. 1t will be a long war. We are
prepared for three years. r..
Prince Won Beulow, March. IA, 1915
Even II we do o win at once, our
resistance will be long and ma be
changed into victory. The war will
be frightful, monstrous.
Rudolph Martin. former minister of
the Interior Of Germany, early in
March, 1915-Germany will dictate
peace terms in London after two
years of fighting.
In the face Of events all these
guesses and prophecies, save those
tina talked of q long war, seem the
work of mere children playing with
facts and events. And SO with the
somewhat similar guesses being made
today In the third year of the war.
with the opening DE- the fourth almost
In sight. For. as is evidenced in the
views that come from the several for
eign commissions visiting here, no one
who speaks with any authority be-
lteves that the wal is ito end SOON"
Indeed, as in great drouGhts 80 in
great wars, all signs fail, and 1t looks
as II the devolution Of the great con-
fict viii take as long as its evolution.
which would put off peace until 1918.
or until 1920, or later, II men like
Hoover, who ought to know, are good
Judges, for without any desire to be
too pessimistic, they are warning this
country against the fatal faulty Of
thinking the war IL still beyond our
bounds and will be ':all over in the
all. "
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-06-20
By Abbie FarweN Brown.
Of the Vigilantes.
Not to he a soldier?

Not to be a soldier?
Did you, then, know what you, his
mother. We're raising him for?
How could you tell when and where
he would be needed? When and
where he would best play a mans
debt to his country?
Suppose the mother of George
Washington had said, II didn't raise
my boy to be a soldier!"
Suppose the mother of General
Grant, Or the mother Of Admiral
Dewey, had said 1t; or the mothers
OF thousands and thousands Of brave
fellows who fought for Independence
and Liberty; where would our coun-
try be today?
II the mothers of heroes had clung
and sniveled and been afraid for'thsir
boys, there wouldn't perhaps be any
free America for the WORLD to look at.
Mother. you r living and enjoying
america now. you and the boy you
"didn't raise to be . soldier"
hanks to others, you and he are
safe n sound-so far.
1You may not be tomorrow-you
n the other women; he and the
other men who weren't raised"-if
americans turn out to be Sons Of
towards, Is the Germans believe.)
You want your boy to live and en-
Joy life with you to make you happy.
You don't want to risk your treas.
ure. What mother ever wished It?
q ts indeed harder to risk ones be-
loved than ones self. But there are
things still harder.
You don't want your lad to meet
sdaneer. like Washington and Grant
staught him to admire.
rather kesn vnsrr tsnv -1n.-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-06-20
Americas War
A Noted Dutch Publcist and Educator Makes an Appeal
Through the vigilantes For Right AgainstsMight.
that in this world
J. Might alone was

Indeed, It seemed that in this world
there was no right. Might alone was
the Lord Of Hosts.
That wa iftsen years gro. Not g
quarter Of = lifetime. Yet the world
has changed. "A ray Of light appeared
along the horizon whom The CONQUER
GUS friend willing to undo the harm
Of a mistaken political faction. South
Africa. q willing. enthusiastic mem-
Der Of q union Of independent domtn-
ions, taught the world that the old
order Of things had ceased to be:
France, once the destructive force Of
our continent, aspired TO be h lead
er in all those arts which make life
worth living. And when the brute
against the undefendsd individuality
Of a small state and the foul vista.
ton Of war war forced upon unwiil-
ing Belgium, the rest Of Europe com-
bined to uphold the great new prin-
ciple which told us that the ethics
and morals Of the individual should
be those Of the nation.
That was three years ago. And now
America has gone in. At last we may
expect the political and spiritual re-
generation Of the human race. For
when we tight the Germans we are
not fighting q nation composed OF 90
many million men and women. We
are nghting an idea. The individual
enemy is q neglible detail. Our guns
are not aimed at his trenches and
his forti1cations. They intend to de-
stroy his ideal. that same principle
Of might above right which other and
older nations have successfully dis
carded as unworthy Of q common.
wealth Of free men.
For over q century the nations Of
Europe-and not the least those
small nations who al compete in
matters of the spirit but not in the
figures Of military statistics-have
looked up to America. for their in
spiration. America was the tangible
protest against the political concep-
tons of Europe. America desired no
territorial gains. America wished for
no forced suppression of the indtvid-
ual. It only desired to give all men
an even chance and Al equal start
But America was far away. We. in
Europe, saw It only through the dis
torting haze of the oceans distance.
Until this moment
America has at last gone across the
ocean to help VI realize our hopes
and our dreams. II they como true,
IL America will remain true to her
original mission. the gratitude Of fu-
ture generations will know this o n
fict as the crusade for the lasting
ideal.
And they will call it Americas
| war"