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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-04
WHAT WILL HAPPEN?

In Georgia the old topper who new
er had enough ahead to order his two
quarts is the only man who has TO be
good. And often he gets very close
to one of the tigers" so very close
that everybody knows he has been
there. Our imports of liquor indicate
that prohibition does not prohibit
The Florida liquor houses through the
express company have rather large
tr.,nic.
The going of open saloons has add
ed wonderfully to- the needed sober
business life of the state. 1t has Civ
en- better clothes and food to moth
or. wife. and little ones in some Of
our homes. In others ii has even made
it possible for little savings accounts
to be started. Here and there is a
l. DOfer WHO uSeu W guy ShtiE 'h''iS7
On credit and pay for nothing, Just so
long as his credit would carry him.
Some of these are now paying their
way as they go. Fewer men go 10
rolice court. Fewer switchmen and
rail employees die in accidents. and, APP
parently there are fewer homicides,
This does not mean that Georgia
now has no killings, no accidents, no
mishaps due TO excessive drink 1t still
las them. but not nearly su many Nor
should any one get an idea that this
STATE is consuming any small amount
of liquor. II is using far more than
anybody presumed would be shipped
in. but far less than was used under
The regime of the open saloon.
Now the wonder is. what will happen
when shipments are excluded. as they
surely will be. under the Webb-Kenyon
national law which has been sustained
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-04

Up goes the price of gasoline. John
d. has built a new filling station in
Cordele. This is bad way for the
old fellow to introduce himself Case
line sells higher in Georgia than in
many another state. Inspection laws
are badly in the way Of cheaper fuel.
A proper grade at low price is bet
ter than an inspected oil at a higher
price that is no better.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-04
SAME NOW AS THEN.

That was an amusing account OF the
work of the Veazy investigation COM
mittee of the grand jury OF Bibb in
the Macon News Monday. OF the few
grand juries of the state having
Veasy committee none that we remem-
bar except this one declares the law
q good one. Bibb's grand jury in its
renort declared that any OF the in
stitutions visited might easily abridge
the rights of good citizenship. And the
report contained in the presentments
Of the grand jury says that at Mercer
University and Wesleyan College their
requests for information as to wheth-
or the students were confined against
their will was met with laughter and
applause.
Wonder il the students at Saint
Gtanislaus and good old Father Ber-
rard applauded. The report is alarm
ingly silent as to this institution, ex-
cept for the general conclusion that
acne of the institutions are OBTAINING
heir inmates against their will. We
tried to find what the committee had
y saw about Mount DeSailes, but it
was not there. We do not know Faith
= Frankhauser so we'll, but we won
,Icr whether our fine old friend, Faith
or Mcdonald, might not have hung his
head in shame if he had been there
chen the committee came to investi-
cate the results of his years OF faith
eul toll and struggles for the educa-
lion of the Catholic youths of the COM
munity. We wonder if that Veazy COM
nittee found in thir brief visit all they
should know about the good work OF
Bernard and Mcdonald and Frankhaus-
,r and the Catholic trustees of those
TWO Catholic schools of Macon.
There isn't anything but a pretty
avn and flowers and wide, inviting
entrance at Mount DeSailes to keep
Inc committee from gaining admit
lance. AT st. Stanislaus there is a
beautiful campus, wide walks and the
nrcttiest hedges in the world, and
aCain, a wide, inviting entrance. On
ordinary occasions Father Bernard an
sy.crs the door bell himself with the
v;armest kind of welcome for the
stranger.
We look just as sharply to- Mercer
2rd Wesleyan for an abridgement or
the rights Of citizenship as we do to
Gtanislaus and Mount DeSailes, in
In spite of the fact that the visit or
the committee was greeted with laug-
ter and applause. These old Catholics
are faithful to their duties, but they
eve trying no harder to instill Cath
Oh cism in their institutions than are
the Baptists and Methodists trying to
uphold their doctrines at Mercer ana
Wesleyan. They are all trying to do
coed, each in their own way.
The Veazy law is modern inteler-
ance stamped with the approval of the
state because it is law. Bibb's grand
Jury is mistaken. The Weary law is
mel a good law. Protestant intolerance
today is no better than was Catho'
lie intolerance in the days when Rome
Was all powerful
WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-04

Saw an official stamping cold stor-
age eggs under a pure food regulation
in the movies the other day. The
law of some state requires every egg
to be stamped May be this is in New
York or Chicago where the red tape of
the inspection laws is worse than the
high price 1t is certain that all this
unnecessary procedure in the hand
ling of eggs has much to do with push
ing up the prices.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-04
FOR THE WHOLE TOWN.

The plans for local Athletic Club
are now in such shape as to indicate
that the community is going to have
gymnasium. swimming pool, public
baths, and the paraphernalia neces-
sary for physical culture classes in
their training. The matter will be
rushed until it takes definite shape
and all the city has opportunity to join
in making it useful.
A committee of citizens is now busy
with the best plans to pursue to Sc
cure a new building that will have
in it on one floor, a reading room.
athletic auditorium and shower
baths and swimming pool.
The promoters wish to be able to
conduct an athletic club which will
provide courses in physical culture,
exercise and recreation for men and
women. boys and girls of all classes
under a wholesome influence as much
so as if the club were under the di-
rect personal supervision of Y. M.
c. A. body.
Those who have taken this move up
with Rev. John Moore Walker are
highly elated over the outlook for the
establishment of a fine institution at
such an expense as the community
-ean~stand ,--.,.-,.r.~r--..a-----,~-'
There is little doubt that the nee
cssary $500 can be started and that
in short order This new club will
serve all the purposes OF both the
Y. w. C. A. and the Y. NJ. C. A. of
other cities,
At least two afternoons in the week
can be given over to girls and women
who may wish to enjoy the use OF the
club house and the swimming pool.
Men and boys should be able to con-
duct their own classes, games, con-
tests of various kinds during the re-
mainder OF The week
The move to secure the club is of
enough Importance to have the at
tention of everybody. When oppor-
tunity is given to contribute TO the
fund with which the building is con
structed and furnished, no citizen
should falter. Let everybody feel
proud of the opportunity, for the club
is going to be made blessing for the
young and old alike.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-04
Editor Dick Grubbs of the Darie

Editor Dick Grubbs Of the Darien
Gazette proposes Senator Hoke for
the senate leadership to succeed John
w. Kern who goes out in March. But
think of the harmony and smooth sail
ing in the ranks of the democrats with
the president running the nations af-
fairs as he sees fit, while Hoke might
be trying to pull in an opposite di-
rection We're for big things for
Georgans, but the senate leadership
tor Hoke while Wilson is president
might not be best, even for Hoke.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-04
coRDELE AND CRISP COUNTY
MUST HAVE A FAIR 1912

Mr. Editor:-We attended our get
together $1.O0 banquet Wednesday
evening and enjoyed the occasion very
much, though we were disappointed
that no definite move was launched
at this gathering for we believe that
was the time and place to do so; for
we had a good representation and en-
thusiastic crowd to start any ball to
rolling. OF course, we remember sew
eral speakers suggested that we or
ganize a Cordele and Crisp county
business League and that their bust
ness be to organize and promote va
rious and sundry enterprises.
We believe an organization OF that
kind would be top heavy and have too
much, rather more work than they
could successfully carry through, for
we all know what is everybody's bus
mess is no ones business, and each
one will wait and depend on the 9th
ctr, etc.
We believe each and every separate
enterprise should have distinct and
separate head, and if Cordele and
Crisp county really and truly want
a successful county fair, we will have
to hire some man to start now and
take the initiative and responsibility
TO solicit funds, interest our farmers
and get their cooperation. For no one
man or committee of citizens can or
will devote enough time towards va
rious enterprises to make them all sue
coed We should turn the fair over to
some enc man preferably citizen),
and let our city and county officials do
nate literally and let the press, bank
ers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, farm
ers and all men, women and children
get in behind this man so he will feel
inclined to take the fair On its merit.
The Farmers Exchange resolved
away last fall to have a fair and have
talked and distributed more than TO-
COO circulars trying to boost and en-
thuse our people and we believe we
haze done so to some extent.
We have consulted and can interest
with us one or more of the best and
most noted fair promoters in the south
and we are going to Atlanta this week
to attend ire meeting of the secreta-
ries and treasurers of all the different
fair associations. Our investigation
SO far shows that it takes lots of time
and money to pull off successful
fair. We would want the world to
know that Cordele and Crisp county
were on the map
We further believe that all labor
ers are worthy of their hire, and no
one man can afford gratis to devote all
his spare time or sufficient amount
to make the fair a success, without
compensation.
We. of course, will do our part free
ly, but there is limit to all things
and generally speaking, free horse
is ridden to death. Our newspapers
should be paid. If Cordele and Crisp
cCunty people want us and will pull
the bride off and donate freely to-
wards the general expense and. allow
us free license, taxes, water, grounds
and lights, etc, we will bring togeth-
err some of the largest, cleanest and
best attractions that our section ever
saw. Besides, we will stir up enthu-
siasm and rivalry among our farmers
and, too. we would want to interest
our school teachers and pupils, boys
corn clubs, girls canning clubs, moth
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-04
First HonorS,

The Macon News says it was the
first daily newspaper in Georgia to
declare for prohibition. Do say!-
Moutrie Observer.
And now the good old Telegraph
claims to have been the first to stand
for a "bone dry" state. Putting down
whiskey seems TO be the central
thought in the Central City.-Savan-
nah Press.
Just think of it! We have worked
for both those sheets, great long
time for one of them.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-04

coed as carefully as possible, for these
gamblers are unloading. They are
coming from under with the largest pos
sible margins and the poor merchant
and the customers he will have to beat
or go busted" are to suffer. They
will be the only people left to pay up
and fill the gaps left open where the
food products gambler has dropped
out 1t is time for caution.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-04
ers and fathers.

ers and fathers.
We want the interest and coopera-
ton of all. 1t will take more time and
money than many seem to- think to
make a success.
If our proposition takes favorably,
we will have more to say later.
Yours for the largest and best fair
in south Georgia.
FARMERS EXCHANGE.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-04
Another Bridge Wanter.

Montgomery county has never had
a more convenient opportunity or eco
nomical condition under which a
bridge may be built over the Oconee
river, and the authorities should take
up the matter at once.-Montgomery
Monitor.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-04
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY.

school for teachers at Emory Univer-
sity. More real education for the
teacher of the schools will mean bet
ter education for the boys and girls
the men and women of the future.
Plenty of room for this school at
Emory. May it be a good one.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-04

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CHAS. E. BROWN, Editor
J. C. BROWN City Editor
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-07
STORMS TAKE MANY LIVES
More Than Three Score Killed in Ken.
tueky-Late Accounts Liot Over
1,4oo Persons As injured.

Chicago reports OF
death and devastation in the eight
states struck during the past week by
cyclones are coming in as broken tel
egraph and telephone wires are picked
up and searching Tarties report their
grewsome discoveries in the wake of
the terrible storm. Latest reports in
dicate that no fewer than 1926 persons
were killed outright or died shortly aft
erward of their injuries and that the
seriously injured number 1,401 by the
latest count. OF the injured it is GER
tain that many will die. The property
loss is estimated at S5,000,000.
Late reports from Kentucky indicate
a large increase in the deaths reported
in earlier messages. Revised figures
show the death toll there to be 73.
After the tornado which attacked
the vicinity of Andale, Kan, last week,
a second and more violent storm fol-
lowed and swept from the Mississippi
river eastward across Illinois and leap
ed into Indiana, while another arm of
the tornado swept down the east bank
of the Mississippi, striking many
towns in Kentucky and Tennessee and
spread its death-dealing hand over Ala
bama and Arkansas.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-07
TORNADO HITS MINING TOWN
Coaches Lifted From Tracks BY Tor
nadc Which Wipes Out Missouri Vii
Iage-Seven Killed, % Injured.

St. Louis, MO.-Seven persons are
reported to have been killed and at
least % were injured in a tornado
which virtually wiped out Mineral
Point, Mo-, little mining village Is
miles south of Desoto, Mo. The cyclone
moved southwark to Elijah, Mo-, where
one man is known to have been killed
A relief train sent out from DesotO
brought in % injured persons, and they
are being cared for in the Emergency
Hospital of the Young Mems Christian
Association in Desoto. Four of those
who lost their lives were killed outright
and three others were so badly injured
that they died on the relief train en-
route to Desoto. Virtually every house
in Mineral Point, town of about 300
population, was wrecked with the eX-
ception of the schoolhouse, which was
standing after the storm passed.
Many passengers on an Iron
Mountain passenger train, which
was standing at the depot in Min
eral Point, fed from the train as
the storm approached and took refuge
in the depot. Two coaches on the
train were turned upside down by the
wind but the engine remained on the
rails when the storm had passed.
Many of those who had taken refuge
in the depot were injured when that
building collapsed.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-07
100000 TO JOIN THE ALLIES
Uncle Sam Is to Turn Out 5000 Air
men and Construct $500 War
BipIanes During Year.

London.--An official statement is
sued says that counting the Americans
serving iE the British and French
armies and the additional unit ordered
to France there shortly will be 100000
Americans in France. The statement
says $500 war airplAnes will be con-
structed and 5000 aviators trained in
the United States this year. The Off
cial statement was issued by the Brit
ish War Office with the object OF show
ing Americans complete participation
in the war and its ability to give i'm
mediate powerful aid
1t refers to the draft bill which will
give an army of 100000 men, and
says there are prospects of the great
est success for the loan of which $780,.
100000 already has been advanced to
the Entente Allies. The statement de-
Clares fotillas of destrOyers are co.
operating with the Entente Allies in
submarine zone. that one army diVis-
ion, a force of marines and nine regi-
ments of engineers have been ordered
to France. and that 10000 doctors and
many nurses have been ordered to
England. hundreds Of these having al
ready arrived.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-07
TEUTONS MAKE AIR RAID
Sixteen Machines Take Part In Air
Raid-Three crast Destroyed by.
British ArpIanes.

London.-England has been subject
ed to another German air raid which
cost the lives of 76 persons and caused
injury to ia others. OF the killed 27
were women and 23 children. OF the
injured 43 were women and 10 chill
dren.
The attack took place over South
eastern England. About 16 aircraft
took part in it, their bomb dropping
apparently centering upon one town,
which the official report does not name
(either Dover or FolkestOne), causing
many casualties among the civil popu-
lation and damage to house and shops.
The raiders evidently made good
their escape from the English main
land, but were intercepted in the chan
mel and off the Belgian coast by Brit.
ish airplanes, and three airplanes OF
the raiding squadron were shot down.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-07
REVISION OF The
HOUSE WAR TAX
NEW LICENSE TAX ON AUTO OWN
ERs IN COMMITTEES REVISED
REVENUE LEGISLATION.
Levies Range From $3.50 to $25 Under
Clause, With Cut For Cars in Use
Year or More-"Poor Mans Theater"
Is Relieved Of Burden.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
hington.-Exemption of popular
price moving picture theaters from
amusement taxes and the levying of a
new Fedral license tax on automobile
owners, ranging from $3.50 to $25, with
reduction for cars used year or more,
agreed upon by the Senate Finance
Committee in continuing revision of
the House war tax bill. With the task
virtually completed except for the
newspaper and magazine section, the
committee adjourned so that treasury
experts may put the redrafting into
legal shape. The bill probably will be
ready for submission to the Senate.
Senator Simmons, chairman, and
Senator Penrose, ranking Republican
members, will confer informally with
representatives of publishers and post
Office department officials regarding the
proposed taxation of publications in
lieu of the increased second-class mail
rates in the House bill. Under the
committees amendment all moving
picture theaters charging less than rs
cents admission would escape the tax
of one cent on each dime paid imposed
by the House measure. Senator Pen
rose championed this change, urging
that the moving picture house is the
poor mans theater. 1t was decided to
retain the House plan of taxing, other
places where admission is charged.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-07
TEST FLIGHT is SUCCESSFUL
FIight-CompIeted Months Be-
fore Contract Time.

Washington.-Navy officials are en-
thusiastiC over the successful builders
trial of the first of sixteen non-rigid
dirigible balloons ordered by the de-
partment two months ago and said
that the dirigibe program now was
assured of completion much sooner
than had been expected. The airship
left Chicago at midnight and arrived
without accident the following day at
Akron, o. The contract called for de-
livery within four months, but the
builders will turn the first ship over
for active duty in coast patrol within
less than ninety days of the date of
the contract and thereafter 'one or
more will be delivered every week.
The trip from Chicago to Akron cover
cred more than 400 miles.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-07
BOARDING OF FOOD AFELONY
Senators Say Provision Would Be Too
Drastic and Would Prevent the
Equaizing of Market.

hingtOn.-Hoarding storage or
destruction of food, fuel or other nee
essaries of life, to limit supply or af-
feet prices, would be felony under
an amendment to the Governments
first food bill, adopted in the Senate
without a record vote. Several Sen
ators protested that the provision was
too drastic. and would prevent legiti-
mate storing to eQualize markets, but
all efforts to modify it failed. When
Senator Fall proposed that the Federal
Trade Commission be empowered to
decide whether storing is reasonable,
Senator PoindeXter, author of the
amendment, insisted that any such
change would weaken the effective
ness of the measure as a weapon
against spectators. Violation of the
section would be punishable by i'm
prisonment in the peftitentiary for
not less than six months nor more
than three years. Holding by farmers
or others of the products of land cul-
tivated by them is exempted.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-07
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN JAPAN
Seventy Killed and Hundreds Injured
In Explosion That Causes
$6,ooo,ooo Damage.

Osaka, Japan Correspondence of
the Associated Press) Seventy per-
sons were killed and 200 injured in a
series of terrific explosions and a fire
in the warehouse district Of Osaka.
The damage to property is estimated
at about $6,000,000. Osaka and it's
neighboring towns and villages were
thrown into a panic. The sound of the
explosions was heard for so miles. The
first explosion, which occurred in the
Tokyo Warehouse Company's store
house, is believed to have been due to
the spontaneous combustion of chem
icals. The roar resembled the rumble
of a distant volcano. The sky was
darkened with clouds of smoke and
flying debris.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-07
NORTH the Price.

No man suffers in vain, if the events
of life slowly conduct him to the dis
covery in himself of the real and price
less treasure of courage. 1t may even
appear. in the long run, that the dis
coyery was worth all the price of an
guish paid for it, since from it, he
draws the weapons for more endur-
ing victory. For the supreme need OF
life is courage. Courage, in some form
we must have, if we are not to fall
tramp!ed beneath the feet of circum-
stance. 1t is the coward alone for
whom defeat is final. For the cour-
ageous man, however defeated, there
is always a future.-Exchange.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-07
TORNADO DESTROYS TOWN
Wind Kills Twenty-three In Three
Oklahoma ToWns-Four States
Hit BY Storms.

Ardmore, Okla.-Thirteen persons
were killed and the business section
of Coalgate, Okla, virtually was de-
stroyed by tornado that struck the
town, according to telephone mes
sage The telephone circuit failed
after that information. A special re-
lief train carrying physicians and
Red Cross nurses has started from
McAlester, Okla. Coalgate is a city
of $500 persons. Seven persons are
reported to have been killed and sew
eral injured by a tornado which
struck Drake, village six miles south
of Sulphur, Okla. Sulphur citizens
have gone to the relief of the storm
sufferers. Three persons were killed
near Marietta, Okla. Three $4,000,
barrel tanks of oil in the Healdton
field here were burned. The loss was
estimated at $1S0,000. A tornado
passed through a strip of country
seven miles south of Guthrie, Okla,
injuring several persons and destroy
ing many buildings.