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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-01

70 RRENT-Store room formerly Oc-
cupied by Steads Drug Store; will
be for rent after August l. For in
formation apply to w. c. Mckenzie.
lift.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-01

If you cannot get satisfactory re-
pairs on your car, bring it TO me.
Jack Nipper. Bland Villa. 2l3t-pd
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-01

Plenty of money to lend on farm
lands in Crisp county at IL per cent
interest. HUGH LASSETER 22-tf
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-01

Our mill is now in good shape. We
are grinding new wheat for public and
making very fine grade flour. Send
us your wheat and see what we can
do for you. |. M. Powell & Sons Mill
ing Co. f3-tf
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-01

Every tick is sucking at the nations
Commissary.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-01

INFORMATION TO VOLUNTEERS
Call on Postmaster for information.
regarding joining the U. S. Army and
NAVY. 102-tf
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-01

FOR RENT-Five room house. Elec-
trio lights and water. Call United
Wooden Co. TIL
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-01

QUICK LOANS-Made on both city
and farm lands. See C. M, McKen'
Zie. 29'tf
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-01

Grinding for public solicited, and
new flour and shorts for sale. l. M.
Powell G. Sons Milling Co. 13-tf
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26
ANCIENT AND MODERN FINANcIERING

A coal sales company which markets the out
put of number of mines has just declared q
cash dividend of thirty per cent. and added
thirty per cent. to it's capitalization. This COM
pany appears to be admirably managed in the
interest of it's stockholders. Its tonnage han
died is not given but whatever it was, its profits
are as satisfactory as they would have been had
| it marketed three times as much coal at profit
of ten per cent. Consumers might naturally
have been better pleased with larger output
and lower price, but the company doubtless
saw advantages in the course it took.
| This way of doing business is somewhat re-
motley suggestive of notable financial trans
+ action of about 367 B. G. 1t was at that time
that the Cumaean sybil, who was one of the
most sagacious salesladies of antiquity, dis
posed of her library to Tarquin the Proud.
lShe offered him nine books at price which
staggered him, and when he declined to buy
she burned three and offered him the other
six at the original price. Again he refused,
and again she burned three volumes and Of
fered the remaining three for the same old
sum- This time he took them and if the sybil
would have made ten per cent. upon the nine,
she made thirty per cent upon the three which,
if arithmetical processes are dependable,
amounts to much the same thing.
And yet the two only similar, not
the same, as the coal consumer VINO pOnueIs
the matter thoughtfuly will perceive The
sybil IS methods while notable for her times were
crude as compared with the fnanciering Of
today. Really she only ''piker'' as COM
pared with the coal sales company; for while
she destroyed two thirds of her stock in order
to make the profit desired on the remaining
third, the more sagacious modern method is not
to destroy but simply to hold the two-thirds
back to be offered another year. AS matter
of fact the ancients were only children in fnan
cial acumen as compared with us. Croesus,
for all that he is 80 much talked about contrived
to get only about six million dollars together;
and Crassus, who was the Jay Gould of his
times, could not have held candle to certain
eminent operators of our day.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26
Ending One Controversy.

ST. Louis Globe-Democrat: Presl-
dent Wilson has ended the contro-
versy between Major General Goeth'
ais, manager of the Emergency Fleet
corporation, and Chairman Denman
of the shipping board, by accepting
the resignation OF the latter, making
public letters to each, SO nicely bal
anced as to make it difficult for even
Colonel George Harvey, that expert
in the standings OF presidential rhet-
ORIG, to tell which the president loves
the more There Is no tnttmation as
to which was right or the neare.
right in the controversy. Getting rid
of both was avowedly done "in order
to make invidious decisions unneces-
sary," a position ostenstbly taken on
personal grounds. There will be
much speculation as to actual rea-
sons, which will be safer after the
execution OF the shipbuilding pro-
gram continues for time, but thu
general public is chiefly interested
now in having the ships built at
once.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26
Get on With the War,

Chicago Evening Post: The Bri.
ish house Of commons spent three
days discussing the Mesoptamia
scandal; whereupon Premier Lloyd
George spoke thus:
"The government does not wish to
shield anyone responsible for the ter
rible catastrophe in Mesopotamia, but
I am bound to point out that for the
better part of three or four days the
army council, chiefs Of the army, the
war cabinet and both houses Of par
lament have been discussing matters
that have nothing to do with the
practical prosecution of the war. and
all this time events on which the
whole future of civilization de-
ponds are happening. l beg you to
realize your responsibilities and to
urge and help the government to get
on with the war"
We wish Lloyd George or some
body equally pointed and emphatic in
speeding would talk that way to the
debating societies we have at Wash
ington.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26
NONE rs INDISPENSABLE.

In eliminating both Mr.. Denman and General
Goethals as factors in the ship construction
campaign it may be that the president has taken
a wise course in settlement Of dispute which
had it been carried on much longer would have
tended to nullify law passed to aid in carrying
food and munitions to the allies and at the same
time minimize the danger of U-boat attacks.
The attitude of the president recalls story Of
James Gordon Bennett of the New York Her
AID related by Sidney Whitman. As the Her
AIDS London correspondent, Whitman has for
years been in intimate touch with the great
editor. He found Bennett a man with ''an ex-
traordinary scent for coming news, - which has
been responsible for many big "scoop' his
paper has enjoyed Mr.. Bennett is not how
ever afflicted with ''swelled head On one
occasion he cabled to New York ordering the
discharge Of member of the staff. The man
ager replied asking him to reconsider, as the
employee in question Indispensable
discharge every indispensable man on the
paper was the reply; II myself am not indis-
pensahe.'
AS is known to every employer, the man who
has arrived at the point where he considers
himself indispensable has really lost sight of
the fact that the world is a mighty big place,
and frequently his head enlarges with this alb
sence of observation. Denman was a stickler
for Formally and Goethals produced results by
attending strictly to the business in hand, as
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

Des Moines Register: 1t is
said that the troubles OF Won
Bethmann-Holweg date back to his
statement with regard to the inya-
sion of Belgium, the statement In
which he admitted Germany's viola
ton of international law.
On August 4, 1914, almost immedi-
ately ont the outbreak Of the war he
said In the reichstag:
Our troops have occupied Luxum'
burg and perhaps have found it
necessary to enter Belgium terri
tory" CAS- a matter of fact, Won
Emmich's army was at that moment
assaulting the forts of Liege.) This
is contrary to international law. We
know, however, that France was
ready to invade Belgium. France
could wait; we could not, as France
would invade our lower Rhine flank,
which would prove fatal. So we were
forced to disregard the protests OF
the Luxumburg and Belgian govern
ments. We shall try to make good
the injustice we have committed as
soon as our military goal has been
reached"
1t is easy to understand the irri-
tation of the, war party at such an
admission, for that and his rather I'M
lucky reference to a scrap of paper,
have been stumbling blocks ever
since.
But the statement seems to have
been perfectly characteristic. He has
never quite fulfilled the expectations
of any party and has invariably said
something to modify the zeal of those
nominally in his lead.
The year before the war he had
written to Prof. Lamprecht of Leip-
sig:
1.-The Germans are a young people
with perhaps too innocent belief in
force, and too little appreciation of
the finer methods. They do not yet
know that force was never yet able
to maintain what force has won."
And only last March when the
Prussian diet troubles were upper
most he declared:
Woe to that statesman who does
not recognize the signs Of the times.
and who, after this catastrophe, the
like of which the world has never
seen. believes that he can take up
his work at the point where it was
interrupted"
It is easy to see why the war
party would feel growing irritation
at such craftsmanship.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26
HOLLWEG WHO STRADDLED

A perfectly characteristic speech
was the one he made last May, after
America had entered the war, when
both parties in Germany were de-
manding a declaration of policy. The
war party called for a program OF
annexation and ruthlessness, while
the social democrats We're insisting
upon mo annexation" Bethmann-
Hollweg met the situation with this !:
"You turning to the right want
me to say that Germany will not
make peace without territorial and
other material compensations. You
turning to the Left want me to re-
nounce any such demands. ] abso-
lutely refuse to commit the German
government to either attitude. Shall
l nail down the German empire in all
directions by a one-sided formula
which comprises only one part of the
total peace conditions and which re-
nounces the successes won by the
blood of our brothers and leaves all
other matters in suspense? No,
will not pursue such policy. 1t
would be equivalent to surrendering
the future of the fatherland. Or
ought I, conversely, to set forth a
program VI COuQucSt. uCSiihO "
do that"
Last Of all has come his interview
in which he declares that drawn
battle is all that Germany can hope,
and has every reason to fear worse
than that: kt
"The greatest danger will come
from Germans who continue to be-
lieve In victory-at the best, the
struggle can only be draw"
And yet Won Bethmann-Hollweg
has survived every prime minister
who was in power in Europe when
the war began.
He has apparently steered middle
course, and held Germany together
for longer time than would be
thought possible. 1t is fortunate for
the rest of the world that an out
and out militarist has succeeded him.
The war party will now have full
swing, and that, while affording some
temporary speeding up Of military
operations, will bring matters to a
conclusion all the quicker.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26
Platinum In 1915
Preliminary estimates has

Preliminary estimates based on
practically complete returns made to
the United States geological survey,
department Of the interior, by domes-
tic refners of platinum indicate that
in 1916 approximately 4sS ounces OF
domestic crude platinum (about "A
per cent metaD were refined, producing
l72 ounces platinum, "a ounces or ir.
fdium, and lib ounces of iridosmine,
and that 1o,11S ounces of South Ameri.
can crude platinum, about So per cent
pure, were refined.
The platinum metals produced by re.
filming crude placer platinum, Of both
foreign and domestic origin, amount
ed to s.943 ounces platinum, 235
ounces iridium, 1919 ounces iridosmtne.
and IS ounces palladium.
Refners Of copper matte and gold
bullion report a production from for
eign and domestic material of 2.556
ounces platinum, 100 ounces iridium,
and 2,746 ounces palladium. About
half Of this output was produced from
domestic materials
The total production Of new platf-
mum metals in 1916 was about II 800
ounces of platinum, 335 ounces iridium
200 ounces iridosmine, and 2,765
ounces palladium.
The scrap platinum metals sold in
the United States in 1915 amounted to
approximately 49,400 ounces of plati-
mum. $50 ounces iridium, and 1000
ounces palladium.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26
MOTION PICTURE WAR PUBLICITY.

Motion pictures have been recruited to our
war service; they are to be used extensively
as publicity agents in giving our people facts
regarding what we are doing and what we need
to do. There is no publicity agent so vivid
as the motion picture and, second to the press,
it is our most wide-reaching one What we
need badly at this time is a vivid sense among
our people that this war is personal business
of every citizen of this country. This sense
lis quickening but it can be further enlivened
to great advantage. We have entered this war
without passion, without hope Of national adj
vantage apart from international advantage,
without the usual stir in national emotions that
are concomitants Of war making. We are
doing plain duty to ourselves in making the
world safer place in which to live with decent
freedom to do what we justly want to do. But
people are not so deeply stirred by appeals to
sense of duty as by outbursts of emotionalism.
The sense of our personal place in the war will
come quickly enough when men take their
places at the 'front.' then we shall feel the pas
sions Of war because we shall in large way
begin to share it's sufferings But what we
need now and what we need throughout the
war is not 50 much the emotonaism that comes
from our losses and our victories as the knowl-
edge and conviction that these are necessary.
We want the united sense that we must fight
to save ourselves and others from a state Of
affairs that would be intoierabe to every honest
citizen of the land. We need campaign of
education despite the fact that this war has
Ipreoccupied attention for three years, and mo-
ton pictures, rightly used, can help greatly in
such campaign.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26
Voice Of the People

1.-THE Gate City does not as.,
sponsihlity for views exnraS ae
correspondents. Writers Of c sSea
cations must furnish their namu
not necessarily for publicationu
for the information Of the edit, .
Another Method Of slackln,
To the Editor of The Gate CITY.
Within the. next few DAYS ~.
our. boys whose numbers wers use ss
early enough to place them , utsw|
the first draft will he called !a1
their local boards for examin uulo1
How they will answer the call 40 :
how they will serve, these bnr. sa|
ours, Is already carved on IN.
lets of history. A' "a
Unfortunately there are exca,,,,
to this as to any other mls "
there Will be a few who vii, a
sight OF the honor conferred T., ~
them and who will take adyant.s IVY
every means within their power
gain exemption. This was yerv y
exempldfied by the shameful rns,
the marriage license bureaus A1 u,
the first news Of the contemn,,.
draft became public.
The flower OF our American r,,.
will constitute the national army 10y
all that they asked of Fate W.. I
even break on the lottery, Tba,
all that they ask now and tbars
no reason in the world why ons MI
should make his sacrifice win
smile while another Of equal on. maj
cations and ability but Lacking !
moral stamina should be permits,
to sidestep his responsibility '
The exemption boards have h.,.
well chosen and we can only bo,
that they may realize the marni,nS
of the task which has been la,d y.
on them and prove themselves .
such high caliber that, subordinate
personal feeling to the common pood
they may carry on their work V viii
impersonal justice.
J. PHILLIP.
Keokuk, Iowa, July 25, 1917
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE
THE ROAD THAT LEADS TO HOME.

There's dear old road that winds
Over hills, through woodland dales,
Where the heart sweet sOlace finds
In the piping of the quails,
Where the chirping of the birds
In the 1eafed o'erhung dome
Fills the soul too full for words
IT'S the road that leads to home.
On that road in days long past
As a barefoot boy l ran.
Now the years are feeting fast
AS travel it-a man
In sweet fancy which recalls
Every furlong of its loan,
can see the leaf that falls
On the road that leads to home
can see the dusty feet
OF bright children they go
Like the ones I used to know.
Now see them romping back,
Homeward bound, and as they come,
They leave many zig-zag track
On the road that leads to home.
| have Zigzagged on life's road,
Ger the hills and through the dales,
Sometimes chatting meath my load
When beset by vicious gales.
Though sometimes my feet may stray
May God keep me while I roam;
And at last show ME the way
On the road that leads to Home.
Clarence II. Meters
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26
Well Cared for,

Charles City Press: We needn'
worry about the health of the arm,
General Gorgas Is looking after i
He's the medical officer who dror
yellow fever from Cuba, made m
Panama canal zone habitable, AM
cleaned up typhus-plagued Serb,
not to mention various odd Jobs i
South America and Africa. Lk
Goethals and Hoover, he's the bes
man in the world for his task.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26
IOWA pREss COMMENT.

1 IOWA PHESS COW"CN''
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: why
shouldn't gasoline play a part IN mar
yesting oats? 1t helps to SOW the WIG
ones.
! Cedar Rapids Republican: Some
papers are trying to stir up things 1or
that prohibitory amendment to be vot.
ed on in October. But why the eirort
We have now statutory prohlpltloh
and why are We asked to spend money
and time to make 1t constitutional
| If the amendment Is defeated We VIII
still have ample prohibition left and II
it carries it will not change matters
! in Iowa one iota. We regard the
whole campaign as piece of folly ana
useless expense.
Sioux City Journal: Pausfng only
long enough to ascertain that the APP
preparation asked has something TO 90
with wind, the senate without a rec
ord vote passed the aviation Dill.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Wise people
learn by experience-others never
learn. AS some Iowans have had ex-
perience in growing western apples, IL
i is safe to assume that perhaps they
will turn their attention to Iowa ap-
pies now. The best favored apple IN
the world is grown In Southeastern
Iowa The world should be made
aware of that fact and we should grow
hundreds of bushels where one Is
grown today.
Marshalltown TEnes-Republican
AS 60 per cent. Of the Liberty loan mas
been paid in already the government
commercial report should read col
lections good"
Des Moines Register: If that Rus
sian drive is stopped. we fear 1t will De
all off with Kornilon and Brusilon.
Sac City Bulletin: In spite Of the
bone dry laws we understand that
into the state.
Burlington Gazette: Why should
the German crown prince be so ex-
cited about a secondhand crown!
THEY'LL not be wearing them next sea
son.
Sioux City Tribune: Former Gar
Nicholas In offering to take stock IN
the new Russian government by sub.
scribing for few million rupees OF
"loan of freedom" bonds, shows
ready adaptability hardly to be sus-
|pected.
Harrison County News: Fortune
tellers are barred from Omaha to save
the fool women from themselves. Now
watch them drift into Iowa.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The improve
nent of conditions In Mexico is shown
by labor disturbance in the state OF
Sonora, where labor is comparatively
a new feature in the community.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

monster searchlight Of 100000
900 candle-power has been purchased
by the government and installed on
the aviation field at mpstead, L. l.
The powerful light will be used In
connection with aerial manoeuvers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

witness his building Of the Panama canal. But
for the personal comfort Of the president, who
was being made the goat in the matter, both
had to go. Now that something in the nature
of block to progress has been removed, let
the government proceed quickly with the ship
building program.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

those sentiments which make the glory Of the
human being love, humanity, faith, as being also the
intimacy divinity in the atoms and that the
lie right, and provisions emanate from the
anterior Of his body and his mind when flowers reach
rpeness exhales from them and beau
fuI atmosphere is generated from the planet by the
averaged CARNATIONS from all ts rocks and sosEmerson
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

The law of supply and demand cannot be
repealed but the application of it can be con-
troled The trusts have controlled it's appli-
cation to the extent to which they controlled
the available supply. The public in the present
emergency, prefers to place this control in the
hands of the government.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

Won Tirpitz says all the U-boats need is time.
But time, which waits for man, will not
pause for q submarine.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

The campaign to encourage the use of corn
products as foodstuffs is making progress which
is reflected in the rising price of corn.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

Thrones promise to become a prominent fea-
ture of the ''lost and found' ad department.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

AS see it there is only one royal road to
anything approaching contentment and that
road is paved from beginning to end with
service-Leigh M. Hodges
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

Subscribe for The Gate citn.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The improve
nent Of conditions In Mexico is shown
by labor disturbance in the state OF
Sonora, where labor is comparatively
la new feature in the community.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

Harrison County News: Fortune
tellers are barred from Omaha to save
the fool women from themselves. Now
watch them drift into Iowa.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: why
shouldn't gasoline play part IN mar
yesting oats? 1t helps to SOW the WHO
ones.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-26

Sioux City Journal Pausfng only
long enough to ascertain that the ap
preparation asked has something to &c
with wind, the senate without q rec
ord vote passed the aviation Dill.