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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-13
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SHALL WE HELP THEM?

The negroes of the community have
asked the Dispatch for space each
week in which to report the good
things that they are trying to do
among themselves. Their plea is that
heretofore the burden of the news
of the negro has been about the mis-
chief the criminal element has done
somewhere. The good things. they try
to do, they say, never reach the
public
They ask for the publicity because
they believe it will encourage better
living, higher aims, more praisewor-
Thy citizenship and in the end will at
least develop an interest in what is
transpiring in the world through an
encouraged reading of the newspa-
pers.
The Dispatch, acting on it's own
| judgment, has consented to try it out
| Nothing offensive or out of place, it is
agreed, shall be permitted to pass the
editor The negroes do not aspire to
an equality. Nothing that will tend to
create hatred is sought. Simply
newspaper record of the praiseworthy
eoffrt is the thing that the Dispatch
understands the colored population
wants.
| You are asked to watch it and re-
port your opinion of it to the Dispatch.
Say what you think Of it. Be plain and
speak frankly. What you say will be
held in confidence and treated as sim
ply information to be used in direct
ing the future policy of the paper.
The negroes have their property in
terests. They pay their taxes, have
their little bank accounts and fill
their places as laborers among us.
Most of them know how to be respect
full and polite. They know they are
negroes, but they want to be better
negroes, better in all their places as
laborers and as colored laborers. The
Dispatch would help them.
1t is understood that should this
effort prove distasteful to the reading
public, the appearance of the news
! items for the colored people is to-
cease at once If you have an opinion,
please do not let go without sober
thought Weight it and then speak.
Your wish will have consideration.
The idea of a news column for the
colored people is not a new one here.
Several of the larger papers print
such a column. None, so far as The
Dispatch knows, have abandoned it,
but on the other hand, they have en-
larged the service.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-13
RuYIGN BONDS.

Editor Dispatch: Il deem it mysduty
to inform the people of Cordele
| through the columns of your paper,
why the entire sinking fund of the
city, amounting to more than $4,000
has been invested in bonds. Under the
requirements of the law (Acts 1910
page 100 we are required, and it is
! made mandatory, that we invest the
sinking fund in municipal, county,
state or government bonds.
Heretofore the mayor and council
have kept the sinking fund money de-
posted in the banks of the city. We
could not deposit the money in banks
without violating the law, and de-
post in the bank being nothing more
than straight loan to the bank. I'm
der the requirements Of the law, we
had no more authority to loan the
sinking fund money to the banks, than
we would have had to loan it out to
any merchant or private parties TAX
ing note for same.
Mr. j. N King, chairman of the city
finance committee, and myself began
more than month ago securing
bonds, and we have so far succeeded
in buying in 100000 of Cordele
bonds, $4,000 East Point bonds, $4,000
Valdosta bonds and $4,000 Liberty
Bonds. The Cordele bonds bear five
per cent interest, East Point and Val
dosta bonds five per cent and the Lib
erty Bonds IL per cent interest
The city will realize 5000 annually in
terest on these bonds and save per
cent interest on the Cordele bonds
$3.50, making a total of 81, 440 annual
ly to the city. 1t is the purpose of
the Finance Committee to keep the
sinking fund invested in bonds as fast
as it accumulates, that the law of the
state governing the sinking fund will
be complied to the letter.
j. GORDON JOENS, Mayor
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-13
Wish We Deserved 1t.

The editorial page of the Cordele
Dispatch is fully up to the standard
of the best weekly or semi-weekly
newspapers Of the state. Editor
Brown carries level head and yields
trenchant pen.-Albany Herald.
The editor of The Dispatch wishes
he could deserve such credit as Edi-
tor Mcintosh extends in this para
graph. This editor is looked upon all
over Georgia as the states dean of
journalism and we younger set meas
ure and work and work and measure
with his editorial page as our own
standard What world TO encourage
ment and inspiration in what he says!
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-13

| boris neighbor? Are you going to
shut yourself in your restricted social
organization and thus turn your back
upon the wonderful opportunities you
| have of throwing a ray of sunshine
into every life you might touch by liv.
ing for all?
Do you know the difference between
the shrine of restricted social or
ganization and real Christianity?
There is a difference, you know. Do
you send missionary money to the ice
huts of Siberia or to the Indian jun
giles or to the land of the Yellow Man
One of the first laws OF those henight-
ed peoples is that the one shall have
neighborly interest in the welfare
Of another. Did you know that?
There is an admonition of the days
of Moses: "Thou shalt love thy neigh
Dor as myself" Ever hear of it? It's
at the foundation of all true religion.
But it is law you will not find in the
lexicon of restricted social organi-
cation.
Tie restricted woman's organization
in Cordele has served to destroy
friendships and to arm one family
against another for long season. 1t
IS our worst enemy to- community
advancement 1t makes it impossible
for everybody to work to one good
end And around many a home there
is high wall through whose gates
come only the few What a contrast
when we think of the Arcadian homes
of our fathers whose doors were barr
ed to no man!
Oh, good woman, would you have
the generations of the future bless you
for your effort? Then strike down the
wall Of this low-vaulted restricted So
ciai order with your own broadened
usefulness. Make all mankind feel your
uplifting hand. Look out and around
You and hear,-and hear the call.
There is voice, sure, unmistakable
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-13
PROVIDING CANS.
Cordele, Ca, June u, !

Cordele, Ga, June II, 1917.
To People Desiring to- Purchase Cans ::
Within q short while there will be a
goodly supply of cans on hand to be
sold first TO meet the needs of the can
ming club girls of the county Cans
not taken by these girls in their club
work will be proportional out to- 9th
er parties desiring cans. 1t is thru
the generosity of three or four of our
good business men that these cans
were secured to be sold at cost, which
likely will be under five cents for the
No. 2 can and under cents for the
No. can. Two-thirds of the shipment
of 10000 cans will be the No. 2 cans.
Don't forget this in making your re-
quests and also when you think of put
ting something in cans to sell on the
market.
The Watt-Holmes Hardware Com
pany will deliver theGeans only on APP.
prevail of the county agent in agricul-
ture and home demonstration work.
So all parties who wish to secure cans
thru the channels so freely furnished
by good friends will please make it
known to the agents named below,
preferably by mail, the number of
cans desired so all of the cans may
be delivered promptly Decide at once
about this matter, for you may not
find cans if you delay and expect to
get them later. The sale of the cans
will be for cash strictly We shall
make known to you the time to come
for the cans. Very respectfully,
J. A. JOHNSON, County Agent
MRS. RUTH M. JOHNSON,
County Agent in Home Economics
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-13
WHY WE ARE AT WAR.

We hope our good friend, the edi-
tor Of the Moultrie Observer will see
an item the Albany Herald reprints
from the New York World about why
we are at war By this time he must
have seen other reasons offered fully
as forceful for reasons there are in
plenty, we think. The majority of
the American people voluntarily
would never have waited this long
but for their faith in the administra
ton at Washington and Washington
moved when it found the German high
rank official laughing at American
cowardice.
With apparent great perplexity
Potsdam wants to know why America
is entering the fight, but Potsdam
knows already. For us to lag behind
now and wonder why, is to do exactly
what cur enemy in derision is hoping
we will do
The World says:
There are Americans under Ger
man influence who are asking even
now why we are at war and what
we hope to gain by war Belgium,
Serbia and Armenia have been for
gotten The perfdious disregard of
treaties has been forgotten. The
massacres of the sea have been for
gottel The lawless challenge to us
and to the whole world forbidding
foreign comemrce except upon condi-
lions denying national sovereignty and
right has been forgotten. Militarism's
broken pledges, its disregard of every
humane consideration that stood in
its way, its avowed purpose to reduce
the earth to subsection, enforcing its
hdeCus conceptions of Kultur especi-
ally lave been forgotten by every man
foolish enough or perverse enough to
ask the question which Potsdam and
its agents put into LIS mouth.
The ruling class in Germany
knows why we are at war and what
we expect to gain by war. 1t knows
that it is an arch-offender against
civilization and that as surely as we
triumph it is to be punished by the
only restraint it recognizes, which
is force. 1t knows that ii is running
amuck for the last time. 1t knows
that the peace to come will be just
and democratic peace and not the
hateful thing of terror, humiliation
and plumber going by the name Of a
Prussian peace,
II suits Kaiserism to maintain that
it is not at war with the United States
and that it is unable to understand
our purposes, but no American can
echo that mockery without comics.
sion of guilt and shame"
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-13

We have had the hot days now till
we need something else. Last week
many of our planters complained
about the cold weather. We offered
the suggestion that June was next.
And the hot weather came with it..
1t always does. The rain is due next
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-13
STALLINGS COMMERCIAL
AGENT FOR G. S. w. G.

The Georgia Southwestern & Gulf
railway has appointed Ed Stallings
commercial agent for its line between
Albany and Cordele Mr. Stallings en-
tered upon his new duties several days
ago.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-13
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNT
WoMAN's USEFULNESS.

Not hundred miles away once up
on time a woman, a poor woman,
but q queenly, modest, tireless, toiling
Christian woman who worked late at
nights by her lamp to keep her chill
drenl a good appearance in school and
at church, made the mistake of let
ting ian ambition get hold of her to
join lone of the fashionable women's
exclusive Societies in her community
At the next meeting of that exclusive
women's society her application was
disclosed. The poor woman came
squaregTup to- the written law and
qualified she--had come from good
families: history making families of
the past and her pride in this made
her confident.
BUD listen! She did not become a
member Of. that exclusive organiza-
ton of ladies. The membership com
mittee decided that to admit her
would SO lower the prestige of the
body and so undermine the general
purpose as to bring the organization to
a much lower level socially speaking
The applicant moved in a strtum al
together too modest and unassuming.
She was denied the standing to which
her good birth entitled her and was
barred What an awful mistake the
poorswoman made
That woman doesn't live in this
community but the ghost-ike illusion,
-ths heart crushing machine the
womans organization with a restrict
ed membership, does. and it lives on
and son with an ever strengthening
frowning derision upon the nobler
things for which woman was given
to tie world
Isn't it time to swing open the pic
ture galleries of the wrinkled faces
and stopped shoulders of the past, so
that Che grandmothers may persuade
the mothers of today that they are
living for all time,-that the cradles
at home are rocking, rocking for the
great law-making bodies of the
worla, for the palaces, the pulpits, the
banking houses, the professional
chairs, the prisons, the almshouses,
the cellars and bitches?
OH the world is full of frivolities,
but IS that any reason the ambitions
of woman's restricted social organi
cation shall become the cancer that
eats Aout the heart of our future wo-
IaanAood and manhood? Mother are
you Worshipping at the shrine of Que
of these social organizations? Who
is rocking the cradle for you. How
will your children become useful UNI
der such administration?
Is Chat any of our business? No.
But who is taking care of mothers
influence at home? Do you know
whatsthe inG3enee is? VIII the COS,
pei q these social frivolities do for
the children to live and die by?
In one 10 the Pacific Isles is a gran.
lite column thirty-six square feet in
size, Thich is thought by the natives
to decide the worlds continuance. An
angel. with robe spun from zephyrs
oncefn century descends and sweeps
the hem of that robe across the gran
lite, and when, by that attrition, the
column is worn away, they say time
will end. But were that myth truth,
the gganite. might be worn away, and
still-and stili-the mothers influ-
ence would hold out!
And shall we resolve thus TO live
to ourselves? Are you your neigh
90
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-13

gia for tie year 1917, Bill t. Is e 81 en-
titled "An Act to amend an Act Gre
ating new charter for the City of
Cordele, in the County of Crisp ETC.,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-13
NOTICE OF TAX. -. .-.....i 4.

NoJlce Of intcat.cl To -v,..r j.
the approaching session Of the Cen
eral Assembly of the State of Geor-
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31
Star Has Silver Stomach.

The fact that every cloud has a sill
yer lining is an axiom of hope extend.
ed to all those who are downhearted
But how much more knpOrtant-tO dys'
peptics certanly-if every stomach had
a silver lining. 1t would more than
compensate for any dark brown taste
the morning after the night before, and
even person Of the most delicate sen
sibilities could refer to 1t In a more
poetical manner than to much talked
of, cast iron varieties.
Jean Gauthier, former soldier OF
France, who is now playing in the
movies In America, not only has .
stomach with a silver lining, but sill
yer stomach. 1t Is fact beyond dis
pute.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31

Sidney Drew tells how the cocktail
originated. "In old New Amsterdam"
he says, "the jolly Dutch burghers mix
ed a throat wash Of gin, water, sugar
and dash Of some herb. This does
not suggest the origin Of the name
cocktail until one learns under what
circumstances the drink was made.
The Dutch women used cocks tails to
dust their furniture, and after the
burghers had their Threats lined with
dust they gathered together and mixed
what they were pleased to call throat
duster-the action of course being di-
rectly due to the operation of the
cocks tails in the busting process"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31

Mary Miles Minter is training an I'M
derstudy ILe lit lie ti.m star has taken
under her sheltering wing the desti-
MES of tiny bit of femininity who
she hopes may some day emulate her
own rise to fame. Little Madeline
Headley, aged five, with big, sparkling
blue eyes and a wealth of tousled
blond hair, is Mary's' discovery"
Some time ago Miss Minter and her
mother, Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, made a
trip to Los Angeles. During their stay
the little star spent all the time she
could with the kiddies at the hotel,
who were eager to meet their idol on
the screen. Little Madeline was among
these The tiny blond confided to her
new found friend her ambition to be
come a motion picture actress just like
Mary. Recognizing the real charm
and beauty of this striking child. Miss
Minter decided to train her as her I'M
derstudy The child plays an impor-
tant role in the production annie For
Spite"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31

90 ner Dit Tor the country Ill war
time. AS practical demonstration
and to prove that she practices what
she breaches she has laid out her back
yard in New Rochelle, n. Y, according
to a carefully devised plan, has dug up
the soil, fined it, fortified it and
planted the seed.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31

Movies-Houdini,C Creator of Miracu-
Ious Escapes, Is to Go Down In Sub
marine and Let Camera Take Him
Under Water.
i" HE camera is becoming one of
the most potent factors in the
social, intellectual and COM
mercial life Of the nation. No
longer does the lady Of fashion, who is
right up to the minute, wait for the
slow process Of informing herself as
pages Of the monthly magazines. She
goes down to the picture show and gets
the instantaneous conception Of the
latest inventions for shortening the
effect Of the length of the skirt from
the fashion films. Even the latest
dances are taught on the screen, and,
to come down to the more sedate af
fairs of life the motion picture is revo-
lutionizing methods of thinking. The
motion picture has done more to exert
a SOLDERING influence In the present
grave condition in which the country
finds itself than anything else and at
the same time it has had the effect Of
promoting patriotism and attaining
practical results Of a farreaching char
acter. 1t has shown the young men
of the nation just what they are ex-
pected to do when they enter the serv-
ice Of the country. 1t has Illustrated
the practical side of the national life.
of the nations defenses and of the
nations guardians in the enlisted
branches of public service. 1t has
invested service with a conception Of
the dignity and honor to which such
service is entitled. The government Of
the United States fully recognizes the
rendering effective aid.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31
s-s-sh! We Know How It Ia Done.

SIS Sh! we Know ROW IL Is Done.
S-s-sh! A little inside information on
how they do 1t in the movies. 1t Is in
the third episode Of the Mystery Of
the Double Cross" featuring Millie
King. Leon Barry, the hero, is over
powered by Ralph Stuart and bound
hand and foot. To gain time in which
to make successful escape Stuart
standing outside the room, locks the
door from the inside Yes; it can be
done and is done most successfully
The idea is this: Two strings attached
to the knob Of the bolt Of the door.
One shoots the bolt, and the other re-
leases it. The door is closed, with one
of the strings extending through the
crack. Pull this and the door is locked
and cannot be unlocked, for the string
which releases the bolt has been
thoughtfully left on the inside. Very
simple and an old French stage device,
which Barry learned while playing In
Sarah Bernhardt's company.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31
No Place For Temperament.

Molly King, starring in THE Mys-
terry Of the Double Cross" says that
Temperament has no place in the NOV
ing picture studio Generally we're so
busy that we have no time for foolish
ishness." She says there are many
people who have an idea that posing
for the picture is all play and no work.
If weren't so interested in my work
that l consider it play l would say that
just the reverse Is true. Working for
the motion pictures is all work and
very little play. In making The Dou-
BILE Cross there were many mornings
when we got up with the sun and
worked all day until the sun went
down again. By that time we were SO
tired that we were ready to retire I'm
mediately after dinner"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31

James Wilder, boy scout commits
sioner Of Hawaii, is playing the role of
a scoutmaster in The Grail" a three
reel drama that was adapted from Mr.
Wilder's story, THE knights of the
Square Table"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31
How Mary Garden Chose "Thais."

TOW wary 1aToen SnoSe inais'
A plebiScite of movie patrons and eX
hibitors was taken to determine which
Of Mary Gardens many roles she
should first appear in before the cam
era. An overwhelming majority called
for ''Thais," and so the first film for
which the prima donna acts is the
screen version of the Anatole France
story which Massenet set to music.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31

What every young girl should know;
Jack Pickford's mamma says he is not
of age yet.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31

HOUDINI, CREATOR OF MANY MIRACULOUS
ESCAPES, TO TRY THE MOST DARING UN.
DER WATER BEFORE THE MOVIE CAMERA
Houdini, the self liberator and crea.
tor of many miraculous escapes, has
accepted an offer from the inventors OF
the undersea method of making motion
pictures to appear in an international
drama of thrills in the air, on land
and under water. one of the feats he
will perform will be to escape from
the inclosiug tube without breaking
through the two inch glass, five and
One-half feet in diameter, that forms
the window of their steel chamber in
which the camera operator sits. Hou.
DIM states that he can turn the trick
without permitting any water to enter
the chamber of the flexible metallic
t.,I4- r~,I;-,o dey.rY, 70 81
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31

Winifred Greenwood went through a
normal school once for the express pur-
pose of becoming schOolteacher, but
her success in amateur theatricals
pointed to the stage as better voca-
ton for her.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31

George Larkin was once the husband
of Dolly Larkin, whom he divorced
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31

Mabel Taliaferro has ordered her
cook to eliminate potatoes and onions
from her table until the prices come
down. She has even cut down the num-
Der Of eggs on her breakfast menu
from two to one.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31

mobilize the back yards!" That's
the plea of Florence La Badie to all
movie fans. She sees in the promotion
of back to the soil movement for the
suburbanite an opportunity for her to
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31

Bud" of Ham and Bud" fame, was
christened Albert Edward Duncan.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31
MAKES HER HATS
FROM OLD JUNK"
Marie CahiII, Screen COInedi-
enne, Is Expert MiIIiner.
GET BUSY ON BACK YARDS

Florence La Babe Tells Others to 40
Their Bit"-Do You Know How the
Animated Skeletons Are Made Which
You See In the Movies?-They Are
Not So Impossible as You Might
Think.
n ~ ARIE CAHILL, the famous
M comedienne who is starred in
Nv the photoplay Gladys Day
Dream" Is one Of the few
women Of the stage, according to her
friends, who makes her own hats. Miss
Cahill is famous for her tasteful MILL
merry, and one Of the delights of her
leisure hours is trimming hats, either
for herself or for one Of her innumer-
able friends. One of the best known
men milliners In New York, whose es-
tablishment Is the best advertised,
probably, outside of Paris, called on
Miss Cahill at her New York address
one day and begged, with many apollo
gies, to know where she got the hat he
saw her wearing on Broadway. "Why,"
laughed the star, Il made it myself
out of lot of old junk" "In that case,
nam selle," retorted the Frenchman
with a low bow, you are the greatest
milliner In New York." and he bowed
himself out.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-05-31

Jennie Lee, who plays old lady parts
was a circus rider in her youth.