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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-04
FEED MILLS. ARE PROJECTED
ALL over over CRISP COUNTY
"UNCLE GEORGE" SAYS CRISP
HAS MANY FINE CFCPS

County Commissioner G, " Shep-
I ard puts in word fer Ito fnc farms
along the western border CT the coun-
ty of Crisp. He declared on bis re-
turn. from an auto ride Sunday that
it has been many day since ihe FIRM
ers. cut towards Patevlle, especially in
the neighborhood OF p e. Gleaton's
and Hardy Stephens fine farms, have
enjoyed such splendid prospects for
great crops.
The weevils are showing up in this
section of the county more rapidly
bat the farmers are said TO be out
and after them with determination
and the effect is going to be good
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-04
POWELL GIVES A
LARGE BARBECUE
CORDELE FLOUR MILLS OPERA
TOR ENTERTAINED FRIENDS
WITH BIG DINNER FOR FOURTH

A celebration of the Fourth that
proved quite pleasing to a number Of
friends and the tenants and employ
ees about the farm was the barbecue
which was given by Mr.. |. M. Powell
today at noon. A number of friends
invited attended and were shown a
spread that in every way met the re-
quirement of the old time Georgia bar
becue.
Mr. Powell, members of the family
and the mill force devoted their time
to seeing that everybody enjoyed the
occasion. Mr.. Powell operates one of
the largest farms in this section, be-
sides the flour and corn mills at his
place and the porkers going into the
barbecue were taken from among the
hogs being raised on the farm.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-04
EXEMPTION BOARD HAS
STARTED WORK IN CRISP

Sheriff Ward, Ordinary w. P. Elem
ing and DR.. Smith are taking up the
work developing upon them, as mem
bers of the exemption board in Crisp
Their first work was done today, pa
triotic time for a patriotic deed
They are getting the rules by in.
stallments and as soon as they learn
one lesson well, they get another. II
will be some time yet before they be
ain the serious part of their duties.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-04
BIG MELON FOR DISPATCH
SENT BY WENONA FARMER

w. c. Elder, one of Wenonas pro-
gressive farmers, sent one of his best
watermelons to the Dispatch Monday
and it was sufficiently large for a
square meal for each man on the Dis
patch force. The melon was one of
the seasons largest, was Of the Wat
son variety. and one of a fine crop
that Mr.. Elder has raised this sea-
son. His wagon is in town almost
daily with melons that are being sold
here.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-04

moves up as he gets older, not as he
masters study. He is never in school
long enough,-never is under the
charge of one competent teacher long
enough-to master anything. He quits
disguised when he gets old enough to
kno whis schooling is all farce. And
there are his blasted hopes, all charge
able to us!
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-04

Constant vigilance is the price OF
freedom from flies. 3.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
The Fountain of Democracy

Democracy upon pradoxes |
 slowly realizing that God hath made Gente mold The startling peuarites alien peoples had democracy hopeless
  government fundamentally alike, vay different
  family look Him Father differences differences
 
  multiple strands her voice voice righteousness Democracy built  but men kind
  pefectne The notion of 0 be in time. their history introduction democracy
  confidence  disabled all be
  Christian.
 of confidence He of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
A Tribute From His Enemies

IAN all of The " political opponents oecon waited inquire into his adjudgd Christian 
  suitable presidency on Mr. DuPont Thompson,
   Thompson he would kind? And people  worship God live life?" thunder he appase value this full well that
 
 
 
  of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30

In several of Detroit's new buildings, and he Is now planning a great hotel. which may be operated by Robert R. Meyer of this town, who has made such a success with hotels in Jacksonville Atlanta and Nashville.
 Weston Is enthusiastic over his work in Detroit "Everything is done on large scale here" said he. "The man who wants anything done, wants 1t not only substantial, but artistic, and the builders the money to get the best work.
 Detroit is the most prosperous town I have ever known. There are thousands upon thousands of workmen in the fac tories here. They have good houses In which to live and not one single great manufacturing concern in or about De- troit conducts a commissary. The work ing men spend their money with the mer-
 
 in circulation. giving everyone chance.
 T don't want to criticize Birming- ham," he continued. but if the com panies operating commissaries within the city limits of Birmingham and right on the city's borders, would close up their commissaries, it would mean d great thing for Birmingham. think in these prosperous times 1t would be well for the managers of the manufacturing concerns in Birmingham to give this matter serious consideration. Not one of the great factories here operate commis- saries, and they are all prosperous and have contented labor.
 "Of course the coal mines and plants from street railway facilities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30

century ago 1t set the pace for all the later churches by providing a Sun day school room in the rear that is well adapted for intensive and pro- gressive Sunday school work. I re- member what an innovation 1t was and how much talk it created.
 f This reminds me that in those days had fallen out of the habit of go- ing to Sunday school. To be truthful, I wasn't even much of a churchgoer. One day I was in a downtown bank. I might as well own up, 1t was on a Sunday. B. B. Conner happened to pass. In those days he was a banker and a teacher in tho First Methodist Sunday school. He saw me and Jumped on me for going back on my raising and not only invited me but insisted that go along with him to Sunday. school, and have always liked and honored him for trying to get me back in the mar row path of righteousness I daresay he has forgotten it. but haven't
 
 Now yesterday afternoon prominent mon In all walks of life spent several hours on the downtown streets urging friends. and even strangers. to be sure and attend Sunday school. Perhaps someone asked you, and you just laughed. and said maybe so," but hav- ing had night to sleep over it, I hope vn PA rlv kN so. am sure 1t will be an encour- agement to the faithful men and women who are behind the movement, and then I also know that 1t will help you. Now, have Sunday free from any preach ing engagement, but expect to be present at the First Baptist Sunday school. not merely because it is the church to which I belong. but because was specially invited.
 rot letter and I suppose many similar letters were sent out by churches of all denominations urging the mem- bership to be present. Here is the way mine reads:
 Next Sunday, September 30. is Rally Day. and with your help we're going to cop the pennant that is being offered by the Birmingham Sunday School associa- tion for the Sunday school showing the largest percentage of increase in attend ance on that day Now, here's what you're to do: l. Be at Sunday school at s:so. Bring your friends. three or four or more 8. Talk Rally Day. talk Rally Day and talk Rally Day. |. Pray and work for Rally Day. 5. Even if you do not come to Sunday school regu- larly. show your loyalty and patriotism by attending Rally Day exs.y rxes.
 And in return you will cpsay l,ausIc by 12-piece orchestra. an Aauan+lly good programme. 'get N lins on ~ wide-awake Sunday scheol snd feesl5e that famoua skeslrat-hozne xe<aszi<.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
Kaiser Plays
 Rumania s King

7HHE Kaiser flatters himself that
 I he is versatile man, but he is not in the same class with President Wilson as a writer and his public ad- dresses, in which he never fails to harp on the partnership which he and the German people have with God, are wearisome and bombastic.
 Speaking to the veterans of the 1916 campaign in Rumania, Wilhelm indulged in his characteristic rho domontade. He described King Ferdi. nand of Rumania, member of the house of Hohenzollern, as "the rene- gade who at the time when Germany was engaged in a terrible war joined the enemies of the empire" All honor to Hohenzollern who spurned his base heritagel
 Continuing, the Emperor referred to the "eternal miracle of German strength" which is no miracle at all, but the result of forty years of inten- sive military preparation while the other nations of Europe were dozing in fancied security, and added:
 Indeed, the averaging hand of the Judge above us has sealed the fate of this ruthless former friend. What the Lord of Hosts may still have in store we do not know, but come what may, we are able to confidently look the world in the face. We did not will this war, and if it be prolonged it is not our fault"
 By words of similar import, re- peated over and over again, the Kali ser has thus far succeeded in making the German people believe that they are fighting war of self-preservation and may depend on it that they have God on their side, since none other shaA the monarch divinely appointed sSp lle over them says so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
LUKE M'LUKD SAYS

There may be times in . girls life when she thinks that she is too young to marry. But there is never time in her life when she thinks that she is too old to marry.
 What has become of the old-fashioned politician whose slogan was: If you can't lick 'em; jine 'em?'
 When a married man Is in doubt about anything he finds out that he isn't ap soon as he argues the matter with his wife
 Another good bet Is that the advocates of an eight-hour working day for women would have fit If provision were made to include wives.
 A fat woman doesn't hcar much of the sermon when she happens to bust cor set garter when she kneels down in church.
 A man never has any trouble locating the dividing line of his neighbors' prop erty when he Is shoveling the snow off his sidewalk in winter
 When they are engaged he admitp that she has more sense than he haa. And when they are married he Is never al- lowed to forget the fact.
 Why is 1t that an invalid imagines that doctor has no business getting sick?
 When a gossip tells . woman . secret and the woman starts to tell tho secret to another woman, only to ind that the gossip has also told the other woman the secret, the woman indignates and announces that some old cats can't keep anything to themselves.
 Mans inhumanity to man is demon- strated when one man gets . hair out and massage on Saturday night while eight other men who need slaves sit and yawn and glare at him.
 Al general rule, husbands pay Tor the new ss2k{S >si 44 { tf4 W fkH1x
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30

reached "Gray Gables" his summer home, he was fitted with an artifi- cial jaw of vulcanized rubber, which did not affect his speech or tho quality of his voice.
 Mir. O'Brien says that "one can but marvel at the completeness with which an event of such magnitude es- capped the scrutiny of the press," and remained a secret until "this late day." and yet no one, as the author of the narrative says, can hereafter tell the story of the Cleveland admin istration and omit the triumph of surgery which "saved the life of g great President"
 When MT. Cleveland arrived at "Gray Gables" the newspapers had already got an inkling that something serious was the. matter with the President. Correspondents immediate ly flocked to Buzzard's Bay and tho wires were kept busy. One of the cor respondents telegraphed to his paper a rumor that the President had been, or was to be, operated on for can cerous growth. This was denied with considerable vehemence by Dr. Joseph D. Bryant, the Presidents physician and close personal friend. Nothing ailed MT. Cleveland, the doctor said, but an aching tooth. Dan 8. Lamont, Secretary of War, who was in the party at Gray Gables, called the Presidents malady rheumatism. He sent this reassuring dispatch to Sec retary of State Walter Q. Gresham: "The President is laid up with rheu- matism in his knee and foot, but will be out in day or two. No occasion for uneasiness." Everybody around Mir. Cleveland denied the truth for "the country's good," which brings to mind the old question in moral phil osophy, "Is lie ever justifiable7"
 The cancer gossip soon died away, but few weeks after MT. Cleveland had recovered, P. J. Edwards, writing for the Philadelphia Press over the signature of "Holland,' revived the story and gave substantially the facts, but not aAdi1g Eama's rep utation Yof paif s'aklys wnrk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT DETROIT AND
 ITS WONDERFUL GROWTH AND PROSPERITY

1 1T WAS in Detroit several days ago for | the first time in many years. There
 is something inspiring about this town-a feeling overcomes you which makes you instinctiveiy say T am glad I am here"
 The stseets are beautifully paved, with safety zones for pedestrians, painted in white lines on the asphalt pavement The street cars run fast. and the auto mobiles faster, and the people push along as If everyone had business in view. There must be fully 20 great automobile manufacturing plants in the town, and hundreds of factories manufacturing au- tomobile accessories They are all of stone and reinforced concrete and glass neat and spick and span. There are thousands upon thousands of neat look ing, well paid workmen, who live in good houses and .have every air of prosperity.
 New factories are going up for miles around. on every available site.
 Henry Ford is building a plant to cost s1o0Oo.00o to make small traction blows and farm machinery. He Is putting up his own iron furnace and steel plant to make everything that goes into these machines.
 Another concern Is putting $1o.0O0. 600 into an airpiane plant having a contract with the government to turn these hha- chimes out by the thousands.
 
 And our good friend, William C. wes- ton, the architect who added so much to Birmingham's growth, is doing his full share in the making of Detroit. Ills ar tlstfc and master hand is already shown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30

had friend once who when chided on his indifference to attendance on d. vine worship replied. T am regular church attendant go regularly every Easter"
 Now, whoever you be, young or old man or woman, when you read this re- member that special effort Is being
 made to get you out to Sunday school, for today is Rally Day"
 sss Now I know some of you have moved to town and gotten out of tho habit of attending Sunday school. but back at home in the country you either attended.
 taught . class or perhaps was super intendent. If you come under either cf
 these heads just get ready end show up and get . new start.
 Now there is a curious idea that Sun day school is just for children. but it's a place now where any grown person can ind competent and willing teachers who are in every way capable of in- teresting wide-awaks and intelligent business men or busy club women or professional men.
 It is well known by those who keep in touch with tho Sunday school move ment that 1t Is abreast of the times and that it's organization is one of the widest awake in the whole religious world Time was whom anyone without preparation was thought fit to teach g class if they only had a smattering of knowledge con- corning the Bible.
 But today through teacher training courses thousands of men and women are well versed in the Book of Books and eager to give out their informa- tion to those who haven't tho leisure or
 the inclination to dig for it. Few peo- pie not connected with an up-to-date Sunday school have any conception of the amount of time that the average teacher of class devotes to studying the lesson in order to be able to properly teach 1t.
 well remember tho time. even in
 place like Eufaula. when it wasn't
 thought necessary to have separate
 rooms for the Sunday school classes
 but all were held in the main preach
 ing auditorium and there was Babel
 of noises and endless moving about to
 distract the attention of the teacher
 and the pupils. but all that has been
 changed now and tho churches are
 modsrnized in that they have special
 accommodations for the Sunday school
 As a matter of fact, Sunday school
 architecture has como to the front so
 rapidly that there ara specialists in
 1t and already a number or Docks on
 the subject have heen Issued E Now. Birmingham has always besn
 a Sunday achool town. When the First
 V Idist church built its handsome
 hui'Gsng back moro than . QuastsR os
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
THE SCHOOL OF BORROW

Anonymous.
 sat in the school of sorrow; The Master was teaching there, But my eyes were dim with weeping
 And my heart oppressed with care. Instead of looking upward
 And seeing his face divine. So full of tender cornpaSsion
 For weary hearts like mine. only thought of the burden.
 The cross that before me lay, The clouds that hung thick above me, Darkening the light of day. So could not learn my lesson
 And say "rhy will be done'' And the Master came not near me,
 And the leaden hour went on. At last in despair I lifted
 My streaming eyes above. And I saw the Master watching
 With look of pitying love. To the cross before mo he pointed And I thought I heard him say. My child, thou must take thy burden And learn thy task today. Not now may tell the reason,
 'Tis enough for thee to know That I. the Master, am teaching,
 And appoint thee all thy woe.s Then. kneeling. the cross lifted. For one glimpse of that face divine Had given mo strength to bear 1t And say 'Thy will. not mine" And 90 I learned my lesson,
 And through the weary years His helping hand sustained me
 And wiped away tho tears. And ever the glorious sunlight From the heavenly home streamed
 down
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30

narrative was denied. Of course, the "secret" was disclosed to the inner circle at Washington when it could do no harm, but it was still kept sealed from the public. | And now the beauteous Pauline Fred erick has married May we hope that Billie Burke and Dthel Barrymore will not corner all the maternity honors among stage beauties? Women need not give their exact age , in registering for war service at the re- quest of the womans committee of .he national defense council. Blessed dis pensation!
 MT. Heflin seems to think that getting his own immaculate shirtfront soiled in scuffls is worth while if he can get Congress to wash its dirty linen in public.
 After shutting off all news from the front for two days. the esteemed censor should make amends by providing the newspapers with some first class copy. V With the nitrate plant in sight. opti- mistic citizens of ruscumbia, Florence and Sheffield see skyscrapers springing up on every corner . the allies may be induced to postpone proposed offensives until after the cham pionship is settled. The Kaiser has made Won Hindenburg . prince. The least he can do for La Toilette is to send him an autograph letter of thanks.
 A contemporary discusses "LAFollette's 2 Crown" The consensus of opinion seems to be that he is wearing . spiked helmet. The custom of hypothecating one's Hb- erty bonds is not becoming general. but that Is a quick way to raise money
 N In the meantime, what progress are the professors of pugilism making in whip ping the national army into shape7
 
 Kerensky could not bs heclkled more If he were running for office in this land of the free and home of the brave.
 You will notice that bulletins on the state of health in the Romanoff fam fly are no longer being issued.
 
 No doubt 1t makes poilu feel sad to reflect that the place where he was born is only shsll crater now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
Eo W the Press Was
 ept in the Dark
TROUGH the rece,

TROUGH the recent disclosure
 v by Dr. w. W. Keen of a dan sAENus surgical operation on Presi-
 Cleveland twenty-four years ago the public has been informed of the jeopardy in which the chief mag istrate's life was placed, at a very critical period in the affairs of the nation; but much fuller account of what at the time was baffling mys- tery, now appears in the Boston Her aid, from the pen of Robert L, C'Brien, the editor of that journal, and in 1893 MT. Cleveland's personal secretary.
 M The narrative deals in detail with many points of absorbing interest, especially the methods by which the newspapers were "thrown off the scent" It was grave situation, and had the fact that the President was suffering from a cancerous growth in the mouth which required the removal of his left upper jaw, became gen. orally known the country would have been thrown into panic.
 Tue operation was successfully per- formed on board the S*sNf 9hfida. After the distine gssiept
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
Why Latins Don't Like Us

some people have wondered why south America has been so offish with the United States" said M. B. Smith. who spent several years down below the equator in railroad work, but it's easy enough to understand if one has lived among the South Americans. It Is the race question. White and colored mix in way down there that is not permitted here, and the majority of them resent It because we frown upon it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30

about Birmingham must operate com. missaries. But the others could well abolish them. I would like to sec thi, tried out for month or two to test the results"
 MT Weston told me that many Bir- mingham and southern negroes were in Detroit. They were principally of the house servant variety rather than la borers. The negro laborer, unless he was skilled in some line. had not much opportunity, but the domestics had come there in droves. Detroit had adopted the system of addressing them as ''Mr.. Mrs or Miss" and the negro newspapers of Detroit mentioned the southern ones particularly in their social columns. As consequence, it appeared that they are there to stay.
 Taxicab fare in Detroit is apparently the highest In the world.
 One pays dollar to go from the sta- ton to the hotel, ana it cost mo SIS for an automobile to visit two of the automobile factories in the afternoon and walt for me while I was looking them over. In other words, when one uses an automobile in Detroit for any length of .time he feels almost like he has bought the machine. But everybody Is making money and 1t circulates almost wildly.
 We may in reasonable time see Bir- mingham another Detroit The oppor- tunity Is here.
 7 0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
SERIOUS PROBLEM.

Tt takes Jagsby long time to put away a few drinks"
 He likes to finger over his liquor, l supposer'
 NO. 1t isn't that Every time he takes a drink he gets out g. pencil and a piece of paper and estimates how much he has reduced the visible supply
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
NO REDRESS.

T wouldn't let that interview in the paper bother mo. Say you were incor- rectly quoted and blame the reporter"
 'Confound the luckl I can't do that I carried the interview to the newspaper office myself and argued with the man. aging editor half an hour before he would consent to publish it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
Drain on Trained Labor

The cantonments have to a certain extent not only made labor scarce, but
 made 1t hard to get good work, even when one Is willing to pay the price, !" said L. M. Houser, trainmaster. T find that the present war conditions have de-
 moralized many of the workers, and that
 more and more the better class of labor Is going north or west and that what Is
 left is untrained and therefore not used
 to hard work or discipline
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30

Don't forget Rally Day, September 30, First Baptist Sunday school. Sixth avs- nue and Twenty-second street. We'll see you then.
 FORSYTH E. GORDY,
 Chairman Publicity. ' F. B. B. means First Baptist Boos- ter" Are you one?