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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-28
Musical Items
BY the "BeazIey" Man.

| guess some of the Dispatch read
ers are wondering now who the Beaz-
ley man is. We have several Beazley
men, but only one special one, and
you who don't know him may have a
chance to get acquainted with him if
you go to Zion Hill next Sunday 3af-
ternoon to the big singing He likesSto
go to singings. and likes TO see others
go and enjoy singing. A N4 Z
There are others too, of the same
disposition, thing which WEI are
proud Of Who will be at Zion Hill
next Sunday afternoon. You should
go and get acquainted with them.
Next Saturday night at Pleasant
View church, five miles north of Sc
vile, there will be a musical concert,
which will be the closing exercises
of music school which is being con-
Quoted By the "Beazley' man. Every
body has an invitation.
There will be at Sandy Mount, near
Hatley, a singing next Sunday night.
We are expecting good time there.
We also expect to have class taught
at Sandy Mount some time son by
some good teacher.
Everybody should read the papers
and keep UP with our dates and come
to our singing. Whether you can sing
or not, come right on, even if you
like to hear singing.
If you can't sing your presence is
encouraging If you can sing, you
known, you are always welcome any
where.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-28

Following is a letter from w. M. SUIT
ton, farmer and merchant of Edison,
Ga, to Palmer-Jones company of this
city. Every farmer should read it:
Yours of few days ago to hand and
contents duly noted. Yes, l suppose
| am a practical southwest Georgia
farmer. My main crops in the past
have been cotton, corn and oats and
some live stock In the fall of 1915
we had just a few boil weevils and
could only find them in bottom places.
Very few even in the bottoms. So our
county demonstration advised that with
no more infestation of the weevil there
we had in the fall of 1915, that we
could make anywhere from half to
two thirds of cotton crop the next
year 1916. So the majority of the cot
ton planters through our section de-
cided that they were from Missouri
and had to be cited. Mr.. Boil Weeyil
cited us, all right. ! had just lots OF
blows that made from fifteen to eigh-
teen bales of cotton each in 1915, and
on those same plows with an increase
of fertilizer last year, 1916, | made
from three to four bales of cotton to
the pillow. The weevils are so numer-
erous with ue now until | can't figure
how we can make any cotton this year.
However, we are going to try five or
six acres to the pillow and try the plan
of catching the weevils, picking up the
punctured squares and burning them.
If we fail to do this, we can't expect
to make any cotton at all.
No, did not plant any peanuts last
year only for my hogs. But lots OF
my neighbors did and they proved to
be very profitable crop. | presume
the high price Of peanut crops of 1916
was due largely to the high price of
all kinds of oils and the great demand
tor seed peanuts.
We made just about onefourth of a
cotton crop through this section last
year We might have made something
like half crop of cotton last year
had it ont been for the wet weather,
But we usually have rainy weather
through this country in the summer
months, so it is dangerous PROPOSE
ton to say the least of it, to go ahead
foolishly and plant big acreage in
cotton right in the face of the boil Wee
vii and the odds all against you.
planted 2,700 acres in cotton last
year and used something like SCOOP
worth of commercial fertilizer. | ought
to have made ordinarily, from thou
sand to fourteen hundred bales of cot
ton, but made only 312 bales, due to
the wet season and boil weevils, main
ly to the boil weevil. Who knows but
what we will have more wet seasons
this summer If we do, | will guaran-
tee that we will not make the seed
we planted.
| advise all people between here and
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-28
MAKES A CONFESSION.

The Palmer-Jones Company of this
ity, in the effort of its members to
4 at the facts in real boil weevil
rritory have secured a letter from
v. NJ. Sutton, farmer and merchant
4 Edison. Ga, the value of which
makes it interesting reading matter
Or the farmers of Crisp county and
aw weevil territory everywhere 1t
$ published in this issue of the Dis
'atcr in order that more of our farm
IS may know what actually occurred
We have extensive cotton growers
I'll around us Mr. Sutton says he
had the mules, the help. and even the
cash with which to make another crop
after the weevn showed up. He de-
icrmined TO make one more heavy
crop.-and lost between $4,000 and
100000 in the effort He predicts
that our farmers will make the same
brave foolishl dash. And. be it re-
this is our one-more-big
crop year. This is the year in our
community that has spelled disaster
Tor the hard-headed cotton grower in
ether communities. We have the warn
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-28
THE CRY FOR BREAD.

1t cannot be disputed that Presi-
dent Wilson and the Democratic gov
eminent have had their hands full
during the greater portion of the time
they have been in power, but the full
reins that have been left in the hands
of the food products sharks begin tc
reveal the bad effects of governmental
plumbers somewhere of a most danger
Gus kind.
Hungry people crying for bread
fighting for something to eat because
they are hungry in land of plenty is
one of the most remarkable situations
ever confronting civilized, we'll order
ed races of men. There is no excuse
for the fact that potatoes are selling
for 7 cents a pound in New York and
Chicago today while England has all
she wants at 1-2 cents in spite of the
part she is playing in the worlds
greatest war. .f@.
The head of the ordinary family,
if he is an ordinary laboriug man, can
not even provide food and clothing
for his household at the prices prevail
ing in the larger eastern centers. Hun
ger stares him in the face, work as he
will. When it comes to the pass
where he cannot by his days honest
toll provide for himself and family, ii
is time to fight 1t is time to throw
regard for organized society to the
winds 1t is time to take by force
what he has been deprived of earn.
ing in honest manner.
Conditions that are prevailing in
the east are going to give the gov
eminent harder problems than are
our relations with Germany. unless
a rigid check is kept on the men of
money who seize upon the necessities
Of life to add TO their wealth. Pres,
ilent Wilson and the national govern
ment are strangely tardy and appar-
entity do not weigh these hunger riots
with the proper significance. If they
do, the rest of the country has to wait
impatiently for the government to pro-
coed for relief.
What is occurring in New York is
but the outburst of a feeling that pre-
walls al lover the country. People are
ready to go to fighting for something
to eat because they cannon earn it in
the usual way They need but the
slightest prOvocation and the country
will be aflame with bread riots. With
the people so apparently at the mer,
cy of the thieves, it seems that the
government might offer assistance.
And food products are not the only
commodities tied up in the hands of
the trusts. There has been no search
ty of paper nor any real reason for
high costs which have been imposed
of late. There are other commodities
still in this same condition. 1t has
been a fad among the men who profit
by the unholy operations to grasp a
necessity and swing on with teacher
Gus bent.
1t is getting time the president and
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-28
A Bit oE HISTORY.

A BIT OF HISTORY. 'li3lF
1t was in the month of April 1856,
at the close Of the Crimean War that
seven of the leading nations of Eu-
rope,-Great Britain, France, Austria,
Prussia, Russia, Turkey and Sar-
dinia,-signed the "Treaty of Paris"
The plenipotentiaries representing
.hese nations also, al this congress,
agreed upon certain rules for govern
ing maritime warfare in the future,
which should dispense with the prac'
ice, then common, of fitting out priv
lteers to prey upon an enemy's com
merce, and dispensing also with the
right which England had always
claimed, to search neutral vessels and
seize neutral cargoes, on the high seas.
These rules comprise what is known
Yin history as the Declaration of
Paris" It's provisions are as follows
First: privateering is and remains
abolished. Second: the neutral flag
lovers enemies goods, with the ex-
option of contraband Of war. Third:
neutral goods, with the exception of
c0ntraband of war, are not liable to
,apture under an enemy's flag. Fourth,
plockades, in order to be binding,
must be effective; that is to say,
maintained by force sufficient real
to prevent access to the enemy's
coast.
Of course, this declaration was only
binding on those states that acceded
o its provisions. The United States
lid not accede to the declaration but
proposed to broaden it's humane pro
7isions by exempting from capture
the goods of any private individual,
even though he be citizen of belli-
gerent nationality The proponent ma
ions declined to agree to this I'M
ess the United States would forego
n9ivateering, which, having no nation
al navy, she did not feel she could
safely in those days the United
ates government was dependent al
most entirely upon these privateers
fitted out for terrifying the commerce
of a maritime enemy nation. 1t had
SEN done most successfully in the
Revolution, and again in the war of
1912, against England.
In the war between the States some
ort was made by VIM. II. Seward,
Secretary of State, to have our gov
3nment admitted as a party to the
celebration of Paris, but this could
lot be done at that time, without pre-
| iidice to the interests of the Con-
sederate states, which England and
'gance had recognized as belliger-
| gAt, and the negotiations were drop
| ped.
In the Spanish-American War both
balligerents announced their intention
10 adhere to the provisions of the De
c,aration of Paris. and these princi-
'cs have come to be accepted general
| " by nearly all the nations as COM
p1nent part of the law of nations.
| Though we have never formally ac-
g ded to the provisions of this ia
| "us document the much Wanted
| "Sistence of President Wilson on the
freedom of the seas, in the troublous
mes now upon us, finds its basis and
origin in these we'll defined and
amane principles
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-28

Published Every Wednesday and SUM-
day by Dispatch Publishing Company.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-10
In The Popular's'
Juvenile Shop

I t Is here you will see the daintiest styles in
I Dresses for infants. small girls, the older
girls and the misses. We have never shown
more attractive lines than now.
SMART FROCKS for girls 4 to 10 years, made
of the choice grades and patterns in Linens.
Georgettes. Georgette and Satin combinations.
La Jerz and Crepes. They are Frocks of the
greatest individuality-no two alike-and to be
had only at this store In Ell Paso.
SPORTS DRESSES for the miss, made of
Khaki KOol in stripes and odd figures. also
Linens and Jersey-briIant and more subdued
cOlors-at prices that are decidedly reasonable.
TAFFETA DRESSES for girls IA to II, a wealth
Of the best fashions for Spnngtime, MANY with
girdles that cross in front and produce the de-
sired high WASTED effect, others with touches of
embroidery.
SMART DRESSES FOR GIRLS 6 TO Il YEARS
Coat effects and Chemise Frocks, also Bingham
School Dresses and dainty Dresses for girls , to
years, also in unusual assOrtments.
Fourth Floor.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-12
Bootlegger Swears
Gill Took the $4,000
Like Box Of Matches

Seattle, Wash, March 1l.-"Mayor
Gill didn't say thank you. He Just
picked up the $4,000 roll Of bills like
a box Of Matches" testified Logan
Billingsley, chief witness for the
United States in the so-called liquor
graft trials, when cross-examined to-
day concerning his alleged payment
on August so last to Mayor Hiram
c. Gill for protection of Billingsley's
liquor business.
Mayor Gill, Chief Of Police Charles
L. Rockingham, former Sheriff Robert
T. Hodge and four city detectives are
on trial in federal court, charged with
conspiracy to violate the federal laws
by importing liquor into the state.
Counsel for Gill asked him how he
came to pass the money to Gill on
such short observation-disclosures
having sworn that he had never met
Gill until the day Of the alleged
bribery. The witness replied:
"I'm pretty good authority on
how to give man money. ! have
had a good deal of experience"
Didn't you ask the mayor for a
receipt" asked ellis counsel.
II have never given nor taken a
receipt in matters Of this kind" re-
piled Billingsley.
When taken to task for bribing po-
licemen. Billingsley answered:
"You don't have to ask them to
take money; they come to you"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-12

With ffty-six new industries enter
ing the field in Omaha during the
last year in a manufacturing way,
and with more in process of negotia-
ton all the time, there is every like
lihood that Omaha will this year sur
pass all former records in the out
put of its factories.
Already since the first Of the year
ten or a dozen new industries have
either located here or have definitely
closed negotiations for locations here.
This, together with those which be-
gan business here last year, and to-
gether with the ever-increased value
put on the products, will tend to
swell very materially the total money
value Of the manufactured output Of
Omaha concerns in 1917.
In 1912 the factory output Of Omaha
totaled $187 ,673,466.
In 1916, just a half decade later, the
factory output was $268,05,715.
This reveals gain of nearly 43 per
cent in the brief space of five years.
The figures on factory production
in Omaha for these five years are
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-12
ALLIES MISJUDGE
TEUT0N CONDITION
Field Marshal Hoetzendorf
Says Countries Not on
Verge of Collapse.
WHY PEACE OFFER MADE

Austra-Hungarian Greater Head
quarters, Feb. H.-(Via Vienna and
Berlin, BY Wireless to The Associated
Press, Via Tuckerton, N. j., March
l0)-"Our enemies have made two
cardinal mistakes in this war;" said
Field Marshal Baron Conrad Won
Hoetzendorf, chief of general staff OF
the Hungarian army to The
Associated Press today.
THE first mistake was that they be-
lieved that the races forming the
Austro- Hungarian monarchy would
fall asunder at the wars outbreak.
The second was when, few weeks
ago, they failed to accept our peace
offer, interpreting this evidently as q
sign that the water was well up to our
chins, in other words, that militarily
and economically we were on the
verge of collapse.
mo greater mistakes ever were
made. That the central powers made
peace offer was due alone to the
joint desire to end the senseless
butchering and the destruction of
everything that centuries Of civiliza-
ton have given to Europe. will say
here that to erd this war was and is
the keenest desire OF our emperor, our
commandment -chief, who, in some
thirty-two months Of experience at
our fronts knows every side of the
war"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-12
Legislature Would Know Of
Superior Bank Receivership
tFrom a Staff Correspondent,

NNASAAA " ShafA ~StaNePohNSheI
Lincoln, March ll.-(Special. y
Representative Swanson introduced
the following resolution this after
noon in the house and the same was
adopted:
Whereas, The First National bank Of Su-
perior failed March the 9Th. 1914.
Whereas, The reserve funds Of the First
State Savings bank Of Superior were de-
posted in the defunct National bank. Fore
ing the said Savings bank to suspend BUSH
ness. and
whereas, The state banking department
drew out of the guarantee fund s54.526.17
with which to reimburse the depositors, not
a cent Of which has been returned to said
fund. therefore be 1t
Resolved, That the state banking depart
ment be and is hereby requested to submit
TO this house information concerning the
present status OF the affairs of the afore-
said defunct Savings bank. the amount re-
covered from the securities held by said
bank, the total cost of receivership includ-
ing attorneys fees and all other expenses
to date, the time when the money collected
may be expected to be returned into the
guarantee fund and the probable amount
which will thus be returned. Be 1t further
Resolved, That the clerk be instructed to
transcribe and deliver copy Of these reso-
lutions to said state banking department.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-12

frf~--~s>~~e>
made the laughing stock of the coun-
try, the republican minority will be
patriotic enough to step in and save
the legislature, democratic though 1t
may be, from going home in disgrace.
So far the republican minority has
not attempted to pull off anything.
The republican members have simply
set back and voted with the idea that
It was the only thing to do. From a
political standpoint II has not been
necessary for the republican minority
to pull off anything in order to put
the democratic majority in the hole.
They have been putting themselves in
the hole so fast that even the repub-
lican oil can has not had to be used
to make the democratic sliding easier
or quicker.
But from now on it is expected that
politics will be worked to the finish.
The. democrats are beginning to see
that they have simply accomplished
nothing. Less than a dozen bills
have gone to the governor for his
approval or disapproval. Something
will have to be done and in the hurry
and skurry of the closing days it is
possible that one or two important
bills may get through either by mis-
take or by republican votes.
The democratic party in the Ne
braska Legislature Is making history
and not of kind which is giving them
much Joy. On the other hand they
are looking into the future with gloom
and with little hope Of continued
power.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-12
Buy From These Omaha Firms
Omaha Races to New Records and
All Men Call Her a Sure Winner

interesting, both from the total vol
ume of gain and from the steadiness
with which this gain was made from
year to year, each succeeding year
outdistancing the preceding.
BY way Of comparison the figures
for these FIVE years are given here:
1912. .$187, 673,466 1914. 1916, 312,527
1o13.. 193,3Ss,67l 1916. 2l3,643,059
1916. 268057,715
1t has been interesting to note the
gain made in certain lines of manu-
facture in Omaha, and the growth
Omaha has made in the last five years
as a center for certain lines of produc-
ton. In butter, for example, Omaha
leaped from $5,000,000 butter center
to considerably over a $l0,000,O00 but
Reproducing center. All this in five
years, or a gain of over 100 per cent
in volume.
In no other industry Of such I'M
portance did Omaha march to the
front with such mighty strides in
the FIVE years as it did thus in butter,
putting itself in the lead of all but
Reproducing centers in the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-12
EDUCATORS OF U. S.
RESTORE LOUVAIN
American Institutions Will
Take Responsibility Of
Rebuilding School.
WORD COMES BY CARVER

New York, March 1.-THE Uni
versity of Louvain, damaged by fire
and bombardment when the city was
taken by the Germans in the early
days of the war, is to be restored
through the efforts of American edu-
cational institutions, it was learned
here today upon the arrival from
France and England on the steamship
Adriatic Of Clifford N. Carver, for
mer secretary to Ambassador Page
at London and later secretary to
Colonel E. M. House on his last trip
to Europe.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-12
SONS OF VETERANS
ARE MUSTERED IN
Impressive Ceremonies Held
When Officers Muster in
The Lincoln Camp.
CAME FIRE FOLLOWS


Lincoln, March 1l.-(Special.)-A
large and patriotic gathering was
held in the Grand Army hall here
last night, when department and d.
vision officers of the Grand Army
and Sons of Veterans met under the
direction of the Lincoln camp of the
latter organization, Under the COM
mand Of State Auditor w. H. Smith,
who besides being commander Of the
local camp is junior division COM
mander of the state organization. The
occasion was the mastering in Of the
Lincoln camp OF Governor Neville.
Conducted By Hague.
The ceremonies were conducted by
Division Commander L. w. Hague,
Minden; assisted by E. E. Ridgway,
Omaha, as senior vice commander;
w. A. Fetterman, Lincoln, as junior
vice commander, and P. A. Barrows,
Lincoln, as patriotic instructor. The
ceremonies by those present as the
most impressive along patriotic lines
of any they had ever observed.
At the close Of the exercises a
camp fire was held, Commander L. E.
Hague in charge and speeches were
made by Commander Stewart, Gov
ernor Neville, Senator Chappell, w.
A. Delzell and the other recruits and
also by Colonel Tom Majors, Past
Department Commanders Hoagland,
North Platte, and Lett; Past Divis-
ion Commanders A. c. Boone, Column
bus; p. A. Barrows, Lincoln, Senior
Vice Division Commander Overman,
Bennett; Junior Vice Division Com
mander Smith, Lincoln, and several
other prominent veterans and sons Of
veterans Of the state.
Would Pay Fare.
A resolution was adopted urging
the legislature to vote the $4,000 ap-
preparation for the payment OF the
railroad fare Of the veterans to the
fiftieth anniversary of the battle Of
Vicksburg.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-12
Will Not Permit Hanging
On Roof of PoStoffiCe

Washington, March 11.-Treasury
department officials today declined to
permit the custodian Of public build
ings at Spokane to use the root OF
the federal building there as loca-
ton for scaffold for the execution
of Edward Mayberry, sentenced to
die March 20 by the federal court.
Capital punishment being forbidden
in Washington, federal reservation
is the only place where the man can
be executed. The request had been
referred to the attorney general, but
today without waiting to hear from
the Department of Justice, Acting
Secretary Newton absolutely de-
clined" to grant the authority request
ed, on humanitarian grounds.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-12
LINCOLN MAN BUYS
FARNAM PROPERTY
Building at Twelfth and Far
nam Streets Brings Higher
Price Under Hammer.
FIRST DEAL UNAppRovED

Rees Wilkinson, young insurance
man Of Lincoln, Saturday bought the
National Fidelity and Casualty COM
pany building at the southwest cor
ner of Twelfth and Farnam streets
under the hammer for S65,250. The
property has sixty-six-foot frontage
on Farnam street, which makes the
price just a triAe less than $1,000 a
front foot.
Mr.. Wilkinson says he will merely
hold the building as an investment.
Wilkinson is only 81 years old, but
seems to have had some idea of the
value Of Omaha real estate, for he
came to Omaha for the sale equipped
with the necessary money to make
his first payment, also bringing his
attorney, Foster, who was to assist
in the legal features of the transact
ton.
One Other Bidder.
The only other bidder in the auc-
ton was David Cole, who opened the
bidding with an offer Of $57,500. Mr..
Cole went as high as $65,000 and then
stopped.
The auction was conducted by A.
E. Agee, representing the State In
surance board. This building was
previously sold under the hammer
some months ago, but the state board
refused to sanction the sale because
it was shown that a previous bid on
the property was higher than the
price it brought at the sale.
This building has steadily been
listed in the assets of the National
Fidelity peoples accounts and with
the state board at $l85,000.
In the previous auction sale, which
was not confirmed by the board, the
property only brought $4,000 in
round numbers.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-12
United Commercial
Travellers Pick Officers

Council No. lib, Omaha United
Commercial Travellers, met at the
Swedish Auditorium Saturday eve
ming and elected the following Off
GERS: J. Howard Martin, past coun-
selor; D. F. O'Brien, senior counselor;
L. Jay, secretary-treasurer; Charles
E. Allen, junior counselor; L. P. Rob-
ers, conductor; Charles Fink, page;
J. F. Marshall, sentinel; ]. w. Mar
tin, w. A. Watt, ]. w. Pope and Jack
West, delegates OF grand council.