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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-15
oFFIcIA LoRGAN CRISP COUNTY.
BIG CROPS PROMISED.

Fhe coming year already promises
greater acreage in Crisp and adjoin-
ing counties for farming than ever
was known. 1t only takes a short trip
along the roads to determine this
and that thing is nothing new with
lands and there will be an even great
er demand.
More people are moving back to the
farms than were ever recorded. and
please do nc worry about scantylabor
On the farms There is a rush. There
will be greater rush. The farm is
now pretty generally the safest pros
pect for sure food supplies first hand
and that thing is nothing NV with
the people who are going back.
We are going 10 make rs per cent.
larger crops next season if our sea-
sons are half as good as they have
been the past two years, generally
speaking. We are sure to have more
than 25 per cent. increase in lands
under cultivation
We have way of intensifying that
is going to count Our farmers know
what t means to make more on an
acre of lannd. They could not pro-
duce ten years ago the amount of
cotton to the acre that they get now.
And so is with their other crops.
Some of cur labor is gone, but more
OF it is going back to the farm to
take the place. For several years
past at least fifteen percent of our
labor has hung around the cities and
towns, doing hardly half work and
starving in order to be where things
are moving along n a more lively
gait. That labor is already realizing
thats4 lthe'inch of hunger is promised
in such conduct for another year and
it is flowing back to the farms.
Our farmers may hope for the best
in this line and their acreage will be
increased to the very fullest possible
production before the cropping seas.
on fully sets in. Our food crops and
and that rapidly. We need both and
need them badly
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-15
FINE REPORT MADE
BY MRS. JOHNSON
HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT
HAS STATEMENT SHOWING
MUCH WORK.

Following is the annual report made
by Mrs. Ruth M. Johnson of her work
during the past year in Crisp county
t. is an excellent one and shows mag
nificent efforts:
Miles travelled on official duty-2, $50.
Conferences held concerning work.
1 100.
Letters written concerning work
1,O66.
Circular letters sent-1,125.
Government bulletins distributed
1000.
MEETINGS attended in interest of the
work-14
Meetings held during the year-S4.
Attendance at meetings 900.
County meetings held-S.
Visits made to schools and clubs
70.
Visits to Teachers meetings..
Visits made to club MISUNDERSTOOD.
Visits made to demonstrators-155
Visits made to other homes not
named above-1O0.
Visits made to agents home by club
members and demonstrators-35.
No. club patches measured-50.
No. club members enrolled-55.
No. club members completing the
years work-30.
No of demonstrators enrolled-50.
News articles written in interest of
work-16.
Reports made on work done-140.
Demonstrations given:
Canning-42
Breadmaking-17.
Fireless cooker-14.
Fly trap-24.
Iceless refrigerator-29
Buttermaking-5.
No. of pounds of vegetables raised
on club patches 10000.
Containers filled by club members
$4,000.
Containers filled from farm and or
chard in homes of club members-3,-
OS6.
Value of club products-$3 $4,000.
Estimated No. of containers filled
in entire county-40,O00
Estimated value of all containers
lled-$8,000.
Estimated number of those infuen-
ced by home demonstration work.
500.
Club members making uniforms-40
Meetings held with women 40.
No. of labor saving devices made in
county-20
Demonstrations given to colored peo-
ple-2.
No of containers filled by colored
people in Cordele-3,000.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-15
FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN scHoo

FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN SCHOOL.
Only 10 cities out of 1853 of $4,000
population or over reporting to the
Bureau of Education teach foreign
languages below the seventh grade
of the elementary school, according
to statement just made public. In
~ of these cities German is the for:
eign language taught; in three cities
German, French and Spanish are all
taught in the elementary grades, in
one city German, Italian and Polish;
while in the three remaining cities the
languages taught to elementary school
children are French and Spanish,
along or in combination. In few
cities the foreign language is taught
in all grades, from the first to the
eighth; in others the instruction
does not begin until the fifth or sixth
grade. The number of the elemen-
tary school children taking German
RACES from 40 in one city to $4,000 in
another.
Few of the superintendent favor
the teaching of German or any other
foreign language in the lower ele-
mentary school, though many of them
believe thoroughly in foreign langu-
age study for students in higher
schools. A California superintend-
dent says: I was in doubt before
the war. I am becoming convinced
now that our public schools should
be one nation, one language, one flag.
The teaching of foreign language
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-15

below the seventh grade is a senti-
mental hold of the old country on
Americans of the second generation"
An Illinois superintendent says:
"rThe public schools should not assist
in perputrating a foreign language in
the home and foreign view points in
the community" An Iowa superin-
tendent is careful to explain that Ger
man is taught in the elementary
grades in his schools because Ger
man-American grandparents and
many, parents demand it,"
A typical condition is that in Balti-
more, Maryland, where the introduc-
ton of German as a, subject of in
struction in elementary schools in
1874 was partly due to the fact that
there were large number of German
private schools in which the atmos-
phere was entirely German. By the
introduction of German into the public
schools private schools were elimina-
ted and the childrn gradually came
under the influence of American
ideas. In this city the superintend-
ent reports that "The number of pu.
pills taking Grman has been reduced
SO that now German is taught only
in few instances in the seventh and
eighth grades" In st. Louis in
struction in German in the elemen-
tary schools was discontinued in THE
sos. In Cincinnati agitation against
the continuation of German in the
schools has resulted in the reduction
of the number of children studying
German in the grades from 1890 in
1867 to 1000 in 1918. German
has been taught in all grades of the
elementary schools of Cincinnati for
76 years.
In it's statement regarding the sit
uation the National Bureau of Educa-
ton makes the following suggestion:
here is general agreement among
educators and public men, both in
this country and abroad, that there
should be no interference with ex-
listing high school and collge provis-
ion for the teaching of German; that
a knowledge of the German langu-
age is more important now than it
was before the war. The upper ele-
mentary grades, especially where
organized n the Junior high school
may quite properly offer foreign Ian
guages, including German, but edu-
Gators generally look upon the teach
ing of foreign languages in the lower
elementary grades as of very ques-
tionable value"
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-15
FOR COUNCIL.

] announce myself candidate for
Alderman for the City of Cordele, sub
ject to the Democratic primary Nov
ember Goth. Your supper will be ap-
preciated.
J. e. ZACHARY.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-15
j. L. WHEELER BUYS
FORMER RAY RESIDENCE

John Lee Wheeler has purchased the
Ray residence on Fourteenth avenue
at the corner of Sixth street He is
making plans to have this renovated
and recovered and other improvements
viii be added in order to make it on,
OF the most attractive corners in the
neighborhood.
The price paid was a little above five
thousand dollars.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-15
THE SAME MEN, BUT

The Cordele Dispatch is to make
its first appearance as a daily today.
ISSUED by me same men who have put
Gu: the sc11iweekly eG;'; Ill it cannot
be otherwise than an ,l;..1lent paper
r. Ii.;.:: '.asette.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-15
PROFESSIONAL CARDS

DR.. 7. E. BRADLEY-Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat and Fitting of Glasses.
Westbrook Bldg. Cordele, Ga.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-15
FOR COUNCIL.

announce myself a candidate for
reelection as alderman for the City of
Cordele, subject to the Democratic pri-
mary of November 20.
J. M. HUNT.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-15
subscription-One year, $500; six
months, SIPS! three months, 75c.

Entered as second class matter at
he postoffice at Cordele, Georgia, un-
der the act of March 9Th, 1879.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-15
Members of the Associated Press.

WSHHUeTS OF the ASSocIated PfeSS.
The Associated Press is exclusi1e'y
entitled to the use for republication
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herein.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-15
FOR COUNCIL.

l announce myself a candidate for
alderman of the City of Cordele, sub
ject to the Democratic primary on
November 20.
NJ. WAKEFIELD,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-15

Miss Marie Lohr, one of the most
popular actresses on the English
stage, has become London's first ac-
tress-manager.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20

cal boss, the interested employer, the brlbc.giver or others yielding sinister influence were able to en. force their will upon weak or needy voters, and easily to ascertain whom among their henchmen or depend. ents to reward or punish. There was crying need that the whole rotten system of voting should be abolished"
 "These being the evils of the old system sought 10 be remedied, this Cthe Australian bailoD being the instrument with which to remedy them, the Legislature deliberately adopted this remedy and hedging it about with all manner of safeguards, even making it a crime for the off. cers 10 fail to observe it. it is idle to say that its essential terms are not mandatory, but are only direc. tory"
 The Court said that to count the returns from the precincts question. ed where the official ballot was not used and where no certificate ex. pIaining the non.use was returned would be to open the door for all the old frauds which the law was designed to correct to enter
 Reorganization
 "To recapiulate then, the Can. wasting Board must not count the returns from Choggiung, Nushagak, Bonnifield, Utica, Dcering or Vault, These precincts total Wickersham, 60; Sulzer 19.
 Tt is suggested by Mr, Rustgard that if the Court had betore 1t the returns from ali the precincts in Alaska it might appear that there were defects in the returns from oth. 6r precincts, sufficient in gravity and, ,number to turn the result ob. tained if the ballots @ in the pre. cincts Hli5cusscd weer rejected
 "This, of course, is possible, but .he pleadings disclose nothing Of that nature. On the contrary, the an. swcrs, allege that counting the pre- cincts heretofore adverted to Wicker. sham has G49O votes, and Sulzer has G459; that the Canvassing Board
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20

"All the News All the Timo.@
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20
GERTIFI 6 A TIE OF ELECTION MUST
 60 TO SULzER
Australian Ballot Law Is Mandatory, and Demo- Crat Wins by Nine-
 teen Votes.
Continued from Page ono)

ka, and to issue to Charles A. Sul- ger certificate of election to said office.
 "The petition for the alternative writ alleges that the returns from the precincts of Choggiung, Deering, Nizina, Nushagak, Utica and Bonni. field were not entitled to be can. vassed or counted because said re. turns plainly show that no official ballots were used and do not show any reason for the non.use of offic. ial ballots; that the returns from the precinct of Vault were not en. titled to be canvassed or counted because not properly authenticated. The petition further ayers that if the above mentioned precincts are not counted Charles A. Sulzer will plain. fly appear to be entitled to the cer. tircate of election to said office in stead of James WicIersham to whom | the Board was about to issue the certificate.
 "On the filing and presentation Of said petition the alternative writ was duly issued and duly served.
 All the members of the Can. vassing Board duly answered said writ. but all did not join in one an. swer. Collector Pugh filed his an. swer admitting all the allegations of the petition and writ. and ex- ,rnrgy,,,r ly, ,,,t;,., ,,,gIlgrrrr,r. c., I, the things commanded in the writ, but stating that as he was q minor ity member of said Board he was 'powerless in the premises Cover. nor Strong and SuveyOr.General Da- vidson joined in one answer the al. legations of which are sufficiently stated at later point in this de, cision.
 "All the defendants appeared with. out counsel. Mir Davidson, beside filing his joint answer aforesaid, ap. peared in person.
 The plaintiff moved for Judgment on the pleadings, but the Court re- fused to consider the matter on such motion, deeming it better to take it up on demurrer tO the answers whereupon plaintiff demurred ore tenus to the answers. The Court advised the Canvassing Board to SC cure counsel, whereupon Mir. David. l. son made the following statement:
 Your Honor, we have no in.
 tercst in it any more than we
 would like the law point decid-
 ed. and we have made our an-
 swer as best we could. and we
 have no other interest any more
 than to obey the orders of this
 Court, whatever they may be!
 "The Court thereupon inquired if
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20

has finished the canvass of all votes and was about to issue certificate 1f election to Wickersham when the alternative writ was served upon them.
 Tt is obvious that if the votes be rejected which the Court has decided should be rejected, Wicker. shams G49O will suffer diminution of 60, leaving him only 6421, and Sulzers G459 will suffer dimInu. ion of 10, leaving him 644O-in which event the certificate of cleo. ton should go not to Wickersham but to Sulzer.
 "The demurrer will be sustained"
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20
Summer Underwear

In the light weight lisle for spring and summer wear; union suits in the low neck, sleeve less and tight knee. at 65c. S5c. S1.OO and SIPS. Cumty cut vests in the regular and outsizeS, 35c to 75c.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20

f
 Judge wickersham was represented at this hearing, and being answered In the negative stated that 1t would hear the oral argument of plaintiff in favor of the demurrer and would be glad to consider the argument that any friend of Judges Wicker. sham might wish to make or any brief he might choose to file at that time or at n later date.
 "It is to be regretted that Judge Wickorsham has not interveRed hereln-He is proper party. but probably not a necessary party At present, as the Court ,is informed, he is absent from the Territory and the date of his return hereto is problematical Owing to the near approach of the extra session of Congress situation is presented necessitating action by the Court without too long delay believe, however, that his interests have been well looked after by Mir. Rustgard, who has filed a brief herein in which. although the author express. ly disclaims any authority from Judge Wickersham. the points against the demurrer are presented with great force and clearhess; and T cannot see how Judge Wicker sham's interests could be any better presented were he a formal party and here protesting against the sus. taining of the demurrer.
 "The people, too, can be said to be interested in the matter This
 s true however, in limited sense only. It is not true in the sense that the mandamus, if sustained, would, could or might result in the seating or unseating of one who was not or who was the peoples choice-That question is not invOlv- ed here as this is not a proceeding 70 settle contested election. Their
 interests. whatever their nature. would naturally be looked after by .he Attorney.General. The Terri tory is formal party plaintiff al. though that is not necessary under our Code The AttOrneyGeneraI was present in Court at tho argument of the demurrer. The Court would will mgly have considered anything he might have said on the subject It is fair presumption that if he had thought that the demurrer was not well taken and that the interests of the people were about to be jeop. ardized, he would not have remained silent
 "The Court will say, however, that in deciding the demurrer it has con. sidered all possible aspects of the case, the same as if all persons however interested were formal par. ties"
 Australian Ballot Law Mandatory
 In passing upon the point as to or not the Australian ballot law is mandatory or only directory Judge Jennings said that this must be determined by intent of the Leg. | islature, and that the intent of the Legislature may be determined by the statute itself and the things itI was intended to correct. Then pro. ceeded an analysis of the. law.
 The Court said
 "Thc system ol voting which pre- vailed in this country before the in. reduction of the Australian ballot was fairly alive with opportunities for the grossest frauds and those op.I were too often improvedi )y ardent partisans, or gkilful and de. signing manipulators. Our so-callcd . elections 'smellcd to Heaven. They seldom expressed the free choice, he unbought and uncowed will of he electors. All too often the politi.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20
Sheets, Special, soc

4 regulation size sheet for the ordinary bed and made Of a good. strong, full bleached muslin, the only difference is that it is a scanned sheet in stead of a one-piece.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20
New Easter Millinery
PASSES CIGARETTE BILL.

TOPEKA, Kan, March 2O.-Tbe Kansas Senate has passed the House anti-cigarette bill with an amend ment which prohibits sale. barter or use of cigarettes by any one within the state.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20
sUFFRAGIsTs TICKETS QUIT.

WASHINGTON, March 20. For the first time in weeks the purple and orange banners of the Congress s!onal Unian sufiragists were ab- sent form the gates of the White House.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20
SENATE FAVORS TRAINING.

AUGUSTA. Me. March 2O.-Thc Senate has adopted q resolution in favor Of universal military training.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20

Give US your uexr orcer for trans. fer work or coal. Juneau Transfer comosny. Phone 4s.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20

When you want something-aDy- thing-in Printing that is really Gne let The Empire do the work for you.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20
CANADA. SHORT OF LABOR
 LOOKS TO UNITED STATES

WINNIPEG. March 2O.-The pro- visional cabinet has decided to send six men to the United States to urge farm laborers to come to Mani toba.
 The Dominion government also is sending six men to the United States on the same errand." said Valentine Winkler, minister of ag- rlCultUre.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20
MCCORMICK DENIES HE
 WILL TAKE TOKYO POST

HARRISBURG. Pa., March 2O.- Vance c. Mccormick denied a ru- nor that he would be named to sue ceed she late Ambassador Guthrie at Tokyo.
 There is nothing in it," he said.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20

THE EAIPIRE-All the News All Inc Time, When It Is News.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20
New Ginghams, l5c

Now is the time of year every woman wants to get her spring sewing done, and es- pecially her wash dresses. and the like for housCwear; big lot of new ginghams- l5c the yard.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20

RUty's Mendenhau eggs can only be had at Goldsteins. Special at soc dozen, or two dozen for 95c. m21
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-03-20

Today's News Today-in Empire.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-07-02

dustry are the two most compelling
 facts of our time. With that con-
 centration of wealth and that cen
 tralizGtion of control of industry
 w-nt power It was a greater powCi
 than the power of the state. II compelled the Congress of thc i United States to do it's bidding. The 1 mlchine politicians and the bosses, instead of being independent politi- i cal workers were merely the facilc servants of these great interests. These interests compelled the courts 1 to serve and the story of the rise l of the corporation lawyer from hls | lawbooks to the ermine, is the re- cord of his efficiency and obedience in the service of these powers. And against them what power | could be offered that was not re- viled, blackguarded denounced and vilified, as the great powers always will vilify and denounce opposition. ASdlISL tuCSe W Hat COulu lle CIdlt unions do but shiver and fall and suffer crushing defeat, defeat that ended often enough in the ignominy of the criminal court, in the peni- tentiary or worse.
 Yet take up any history of the United States at random and re- gardng these the really vital fact ors in the development and evolu- tion of the people of America there is hardly a word given. Histories of presidents. many whom were merely fgureheads. stories of cabi net officials many of whom owed their position to their service in che corporations, tales of senators and other prominent ones who owed their seats and heir salariea to their usefulness in aiding in the this work, lot of shallow surface su- pcrfcialities concealing the real life of the nation.
 There may be something pitiable in Carnegie growing insane in his old age. But he merely typifes the route which the system of which he was an effect himself has got to travel before it's final dissolution
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-07-02

, lot shows how ignorant is one DOT
 tion of the nation as to how the | other lives. Indeed candid congress-
 men have admitted that when they read the industrial relations com 1 missions report, it was e revelation
 to them that such things could be possible.
 We have referred to this so that 1 1t could be understood how intin. ately this madman Carnegie is con ] nectcd with the establishment of an industrial absolutism in some lines in the United States. It is not
 quite a perfect absolutism, but with
 time it may be perfected and tho thinking oligarchy will rule. Certainly it was under Carnegie that the prohibition against union ism in the steel mills first began, and not even his association with that brilliant rider of two horses. Sam GomperS, on the National Civic Federation, can conceal this fact.
 Yet it is in Carnegie that we find the saying of Mark Anthony. "that the evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft inferred with their bones'', is not rule without many exceptions and our later day of II-i1l ho membered not for what of tremend ous evil they have done, but for what they have done of good.
 And after all why cavil at the judgment of Fate. That was their allotted destiny. Theirs was the terrible function to strike hard at and wholly destroy those institu- tutions of labor and the masses which were not built upon solid and enduring foundation. The workers were led captive and went down in defaa- because as yet the educational discipline of their eco homie environment was far from complete. Carnegie, like the rest of these ill omened captains of in dustry had to function as such a disciplinary element and the harder they struck. the more truly they obliterated the shams of intellectual resistance With the harmless hob bies of Carnegie; his mania for see ing his name upon the libraries of the land, his erection of peace temp les, his pensions to professors, his superstitious atheism, and all these things were but the scum of the ccaseless and fermenting effort of the man to dominate his fellows for the love of domination. and sup posed by many in these days tH be the ultimate hall mark of pure de- mocracy.
 It was his luck or his fate, to be born into an industrial period that must have it's Tricks, it's Morgans. it's Roekefellers, it's Dukes, it's dozen and one captains of industry who were jockcyed into the lead by the tremendous forces of economic eyo. lution. It was theirs the privilege
 of riding on the crest of these forces and their own mate gifts, consider able however these may be. had little to do with it.
 The concentration of wealth and
 thc c.utralization of control in in