The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-09-30
MAKE IT A BIG FAIR.


iation is bending every ecort now nthat direction
and it win take something unforeseen to keep it
from becoming much greater success than the
ordinary county fair. Large plans have been made
and large show is to be the results.
The various county districts are bending their
energies to the making pc displays that will
push the winners for the district prides All Crisp
county is intensely agricultural and there is not
even remote section that cannot put up good
show because every farmer is a good one, if we
permitted TO comapre ours with others in adj
joining counties
Farming interests, live stock raising of a high
order, and general educational information of
most valuable kind must come from holding the
air and those who are directing the work are do
ng with the purpose of advancement for
I'll interests. The fair is being held to help just
he interests of Crisp county that are upperomst
every progressive mind.
Great advancement in stock raising and in d
lersgfed farming is taking hold all over the coun
y The fair will end encouragement of the right
NEED OF A READING PUBLIC.
According to the United States Bureau of educa
ion, it is going to take reading public that
ook facts squarely in the face to get the most out
# the lessons of the present war Disoron OF
acts is not patriotic duty of any kind Be
ieving distorted facts is less patriotic A read
ng public, discriminating reader, an educated cit
zen, the right kind, if you please
Are we gong In he sufficiently educated m ma l,p
h. most of the great conflicts that are almost daily
hanging the destines of whole nations of people?
Cor every person who has to answer in the mega
i've there is a snatch of tragedy. Those who dwell
oday in superstition and ignorance will tomorrow
all TO grasp the advantages thrown to us by the
land that directs the destnies of nations.
But hear DR.. Claxton tell the rest of it:
The training of young people and of the parents
through the pupils to lake an intelligent part in
he decision of public questions is important
nough at any time, but it is peculiarly so in this
whose meaning for the individual citizen is
lot so easily brought home In 1923 and 1927 when
he Monroe Doctrine was under discussion, DAME!
Webster referred to the people who thought that
EN- of mutual insurance for hereditary rulers
against popular movements. What, they said, have
to do with Europe? The thunder, it may be
said, rolls at a distance. The wide Atlantic rolls
between US and danger; and, however others may
suffer shall remain safe Websters answer
o this question was strikingy similar to some of
lie utterances of President Wilson: 4 think it is
1 sufficient answer to this to say, that we are one
the Garth Wehave as clear an
interest in international law as individuals have
ore the steamship, the submarine, and the wire
2ss had broken down still further our splendid
isolation. Today we are fighting for our own
rights, but and above those special rights of
our are fighting for international law itself
without which no nation be safe least of all
these democratic governments which are less eff
tectively organized for war than for peace
mo one can take an intelligent part in a great
onhict for the safety of democracy under an or
Derby system of international law unless he is
really interested in and knows something about
other nations than his own-about the dicerences
between a republican government like our own
that of France or the scarcely less democratic
of Great Britain on the one side and
in sharp contract to all of these, strongly mon
archal system like that of the German Empire in
which the most important measures affecting the
national welfare may be practically determined by
a single hereditary sovereign a small group of
such sovereigns"