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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21
GARRETT SAYS FARMERS
ARE HUSTLING NOW

U. S. Garrett, the popular represen-
tative of the Moline Plow company,
who is making Cordele headquarters
for this section, during the past two
weeks has travelled over Crisp and adj
joining counties. He states that the
farmers of the section are making
rapid progress in their work of plant
ing and maturing an early cotton crop
before the weevil can get in it's dis
astrous work. The farmers of Crisp,
says Mr.. Garrett, are as well advanced
in their work as those of any adjoin-
ing counties.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21
"THE LORD IS MY LAWYER"
HODGES TOLD RECORDER

that he had bought liquor from
Hodges.
The plaintiff did not mince words in
heaping condemnation upon the ne
gro "spotter" and all characters of
lis calibre, and he. proved a complete
abb in the introduction of witness
who testified that at the time the
'spotter" stated that he bought liquor
from Hodges, the plaintiff was doing
carpenter work on a negro house
several miles from town.
He had no sooner concluded his
lengthy argument on his own behalf
when the mayor, convinced of his in
nocence, withdrew the charges against
him and allowed him immediate free
dom.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21
negro MAN VICTIM
OF SHOOTING ARRAY
WHEN NEGROES RAP OUT THEIR
SHOOTING IRONS AT SATURDAY
NIGHT "FESTWAL" WILL HAIR
YER GETS A FATAL WOUND.

Will Harver, a participant in a ne
gro "festivar' Saturday night in the
Zion Hope community, was fatally
shot by Jerry Cobb, another negro.
Harver died Monday morning, and sew
eral hours before his death Cobb was
taken in custody by Sheriff Ward. He
is now lodged in the county jail.
Cobb alleges that he was drunk and
that if he shot the other negro he did
not know it. 1t seems that thet "fes-
tival" was the provocation of number
of other negroes firing off their shoot
ing irons. 1
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21
DEATH TAKES AWAY OLD
DOOLY COUNTY PIONEER

BENJAMIN Brown in 1884. Her hus-
band sustained a stroke of paraly-
sis while he was serving as miller
at the Hart water mill and he died IN
February, 1884. She was never mar
ried again, and in her declining years
she was blind.
Three daughters and two sons sur
vive her. They are Mrs. D. Arnett'
w. w. Brown, Mrs. Ashley Wade, and
Mrs. William Musselwhite, all residents
still close to Cordele, and B. F. Brown
in Colquitt county.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21

Mrs. Sara Hayes Brown, widow OF
the late Ben Brown, one Of the pioneer
citizens of old Dooly, passed to her
reward at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. William Musselwhite last Friday
at the family home two miles south
of Vienna. The remains were carried
to borough cemetery for interment,
beside her husband.
Mrs. Brown was Sc years old, was
the daughter of the late Wiley Hayes
of Pulaski county, was married to
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21
NEGRO CUTS WOOTEN
IN QUARREL OVER DEBT

Charlie Benjamin, negro, painful
" cut C. C. Wooten in difficulty Sat
urday night in the c. B. Bowen gro
Gerry store on Eleventh avenue.
1t seems that the negro had been
owing Wooten an amount of money
for some time, and this was the origin
of the trouble. Wooten struck the
negro several blows and the negro
slashed his left arm with pocket
knife, inflicting a wound several inch
es long.
Benjamin escaped and has not yet
been apprehended.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21

Louis Miller is now located in his
new store on Eleventh avenue, and
while things are now badly dsrranged,
as soon as the stock is entirely moved
and placed in order, the store will
present an appearance as city-like as
any in Cordele. The show windows
constructed for this store are especial
ly attractive.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21
METHODIST REVIVAL
\ GROWS IN INTEREST
IMMENSE CONGREGATION HEARD
REViVALlST SUNDAY MORNING
AND EVENING IN TWO OF HIS
best SERMONS.
Mrs. Mary G. Taylor.

- S' Oy'S's
ESunday last marked an eventful
heriod in the revival services at the
First Methodist church, which were
ushered in by a Surprise prayer
meeting" conducted by the Senior
Leagle. At the Sunday school hour,
the entire school assembled in the
by DR.. Lane.
lii response to this discourse, where
in the boys and girls present not only
realized that the speaker has deep
Vacection for the young, but that he is
wonderfully conservant with the life
experiences of the child. At this hour
Decision Day" was observed, and
number of the pupils of the school
united with the church.
At the IL o'clock hour, DR.. Lane ad-
dressed a large appreciative audience,
his subject dealing with the wicked
to the green bay tree, flourishing only
and their destiny in counterpart to
the righteous; the wicked as analagoes
for season, and the righteous to the
continuous, systematical growth of the
grandest ecort delivered by DR.. Lane
during this series of services, YER
liable compendium of literary and
scriptural gems. Dr. Lanes tribute
to woman at this hour was touchingly
beaTiful representing man as little
lower than the angels, and woman &C.
cupying the niche between man and
the angels, and that only the more re-
cent decades have identified woman
with her exalted position in the his
tory of the world. Then followed a
solemn apprehensive pause when the
speaker expressed fear that woman
betimes might advance beyond the
confines of her beautiful realm, the
mos; exalted pinnacle, next the heart
Of her maker.
At the evening hour, the musical
"Testimony'& meeting was most ex-
pressive. 1t was conducted by the
Rev. Notestein, who in his consecrated
service by the ministry Of song has
been a power for good during these
revival services. The efficient faith
fulness of the church pianist, Miss
Birdie Bulloch assisted by Miss Fakes
I and others, has been fully demonstrate
ed during this meeting, when music
has formed such an important part in
the services.
The largest audience Of the week
assembled Sabbath evening and
heard Dr. Lane from the text, What
shall 1 render unto the Lord for all OF
His benefits towards me?" In gen
tie but decisive earnestness, the
speaker desired all to accept the
boundless mercies of God, but prove
the migrate in their lives. Beautiful
" DR.. Lane cited the showers OF
blessings bestowed upon this, which
he conceives the garden spot OF Geor-
gia; of the gracious hospitality ex-
tended him as guest in number OF
Cordele homes since his enjoyable
stay here, pleading with his hearers
to recognize their gracious privileges
as coming from the hand of the Giver
of all good gifts. The earnest appeal
following this mastery discourse,
doubtless found Judgment in the
hearts of scores of DR.. Lanes hear
ers TO Weld a bountiful fruitage after
this man of God has gone to his
reward. s
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21

lobe Smith, negro living in the
vicinity of Drayton, in Dooly county,
fired three shots from a revolver into
the body of Liza Johnson, because
she would not marry him, and turn
ing the weapon on himself, sent bull
let into his brain. The affair took
place Sunday after Smiths persistent
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21
SHOOTS WOMAN WHO
.SPURNS Ills ATTENTIONS

pleadings had been ignored by the
woman, as had been her accustomed
attitude time after time.
The man fingered for several hours
after the shooting, before death oc-
Cured. The woman is still living
and physicians say there is some
chance of her recovery.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21

DoUGHERTY COUNTY SHIPS
FIRST TlckLESS CATTLE

Albany, March 20.-The first car
load of tick free cattle from Dougher-
ty county was shipped to Atlanta Sat
urday by J. w. and w. L. Johnson. The
cattle were in much better condition
than beet cattle usually passing thru
Albany.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21

bles has established a new wrinkle in
the enterprise of buying hogs. He
has converted his Ford into truck,
having constructed big cage on the
truck in which he can carry from
fifteen to twenty hogs. The truck is
capacitated to carry an aggregate Of
from twelve to fifteen hundred pounds.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21
DR.. LANE TO CONDUCT
REVIVAL AT EMORY COLLEGE

friday evening services will close
TIE revival at the First Methodist
church. DR.. Lane will leave for his
home in Macon, from thence he goes
to Oxford to conduct revival services
for the student body of oxford Uni
versity.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21

Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Robuck, Mrs,
T. M. Diffee and Mrs. ]. K. Carswell
drove to Forsyth Sunday by automo-
bile to visit Misses Lucille Diffee, Lii
Ian Carswell and Evelyn Robuck,
students at Bessie Tiff. Mrs. w. p,
Fleming accompanied the party to Ma
ron. spending Sunday as the guest OF
friends. They returned home Mon
dag
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21
BLAZE AT BIVINS HOME.

SMALL BLAZE AT BIViNS HOME.
Sunday morning the fire department
resnonded to an alarm from the resi-
dence of ]. w. Bivins on Fourteenth
avenue. Fire had caught to the roof
from the stove flue. Little damage
was done before the department extin-
guished the flames.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21

ary government, and former Premier
Sturmer, accused not only OF reac-
tionary policies, but of treachery
made their last stand in the Admiralty
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21

Building in Petrograd. There they
held a. council, guarded by the one
remaining 'loyal' regiment. They were
and thrown into jail.
Evening star., 1917-01-06

ect. Edward Danenhower. former man
ager of the Army and Navy Club here.
but for the last three years manager
of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association,
was i'll the city few days ago, and
said the Pittsburgh organization is
much Interested in the plan to give the
National Capital an active athletic club
and 10 build a magnificent home for IL
Detaiis or the plan and descriptions
OF the proposed building have been
asked by practically every important
athletic club in the country, it is stated.
ana several requests already have been
received from athletic organizations
Tor places on sports schedules.
IL was stated this week that work
or demolishing the old Hall OF the An
clients and other buildings now occu-
pyinS the new clubs site will be under
way within a short time and that con-
struetion work will be begun on the
new building within ninety days
Evening star., 1917-01-06

fair for one to take his turn. But
where that is not the rule, the good old
Christian doctrine OF preferring one
another cbmes into play most happily,
aad the proof OF it is that one always
feels the JOY of his unselilshnass. There
is Il sort of glow in man standing
back and getting the poor service and
he is sure TO feel it. 1t is a natural
consequence. Let the moral law have
it's way. Give the fellow feeling a
chance There is a real blessing to the
man who let's another fellow get ahead
Evening star., 1917-01-06
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN
IN ATHLETIC CLUB
New Organization Proposing to
Build Twelve-Story Home At
tracts Outside Attention.

Information that Washington's new
athletic club purposes to build a hand
some tweive-story building at New
York avenue and 18th street northwest
has attracted attention in other large
cities of the country. and athletic or
sanizations in these places are mani
testing deep interest in the local prof
Evening star., 1917-01-06
Made True.

From the Buffalo Express.
They used TO talk loosely about
deadly night air." Now that your
neighbor has a phonograph. it is true!
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-01-13
The Way.

Bystander-"I suppose You would like
to take a ride without worrying about
tires and the like"
Motorist (hxing puncture)-"You
bet | would"
Bystander-"Well, here's car-ticket." !"
-Chaparral.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-01-13
UNIONISM BIGGEST FACTOR.

Lancaster. England rade unomsm
is a bigger factor IN wage increases than
skill, muscular power or RISKS OF occu-
patton, says Secretary iindle, OF the
Burnley WeaVcrs ASSOCIATION, IN a CIR CIR
cular on benefits OF organization, The
union oihclal writes;
hat determines the rates OF wages
pad to workers IS 1t the degree OF
skill that the work involves: No!
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-01-13
CUBAN WORKERS WIN STRIKE

Ilavana-A strike against the Cuban
Railroad Company has been settled by
an agreement between the company and
miles of track in Eastern Cuba. When
its employees tried to form union they
were discharged and general strike en-
sued. Nearly $50 strike breakers were
imported from the United States in di-
rect violation of Cuban law. Two-thirds
of the strike breakers did not know that
they were coming to break strike and
were sent back home when they refused
to work
Cuban unionsts notified President
Gompers of the American Federation of
Labor and that official notified affiliated
organizations of conditions here.
The strike Of the Havana Central
Railroad is still on.
The Cuban sugar crop this year
amounted to 100000 tons, with the sell
ing price three times as great as that of
three years ago. The workers are receiv-
ing the same wages, year after year, in
spite of increased living costs, and
strikes naturally follow.
President Gompers visited Havana
recently, and Fl Nundo (The WorldD
daily paper, said:
"The arrival of this well-known
North American leader gives actual i'm
portance to the strike movement. Most
asSuredly the visit of Mr.. Gompers tC
our country will lead to magnificent re-
suits in the organization of the workers
of Cuba and the unIication Of all the
workers of America"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-01-13
JUDE MADE OLIGARCHY
CHECKS MANS FREEDOM

Chicago-Judges have erected ju-
dicial oligarchy that can and must be
destroyed, writes President Perkins, of
the Cigar Makers international Union,
in the official journal Of that organiza-
ton.
AN oligarchy means government by
the few over the many it is an autocracy
and not democracy" he says.
"A single federal Judge exercises more
power than congress and the executive
The liberties, rights and duties guaran-
teed by the constitution are set aside
under Injunction proceedings The right
of free speech, of assemblagc and of
moral suason are denied and blotted out
of the constitution by the edict Of one
judge,
"A federal Judge, appointed for life
by the President of the United States
annuls law passed by the house of rep
rcsentatvcs, the senate and the Prcsi-
dent, with stroke of the pen. The right
to annul laws passed by any legislature
or congress was not conferred upon the
judiciary. There is not single section
in the Constitution granting such an un-
precedtnted power upon few lawyers
elevated to the judiciary. 1t is usurpa-
ton, pure and simple.
"Thc people, the final arbiters in a
democracy, have not elected them; they
have not chosen them as their judicial
agents, and have no power owing to
the life tenure of the office, to defeat
them for reelection
"The leading members of the Ameri-
can Bar Association, composed Of promi-
ncnt corporation lawyers, have frequent
ly lauded the judicial oligarchy as the
greatest institution on the face of the
globe.
"The highest American courts, to all
intcntS and purposes, have abrogated to
themselves the veto power, from which
there is no appeal DenunCiations and
threats of impeachment will not remedy
this growing evil An amendment to the
constitution, abrogatinG the power of the
courts to set aside laws, is the only prac-
tical solution that can be applied"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-01-13
STRIKE POWER VOTED.
To Brotherhood Chairmcn by Mem
bcrs in the East.

New York-Ihe G4O General Chair
men Of the railroad brothcrhoods have
been authorized by the locals they rep
resent to call strike when in their
judgment the time is ripe" This is prac-
tically renewal OF last years strike
vote, though there was no balloting done
this time.
According to statement made today
by J. l.. Bertrand, of the liremen, the
Chairmcn will turn over this strike pow
er to the four chiefs when they arrive in
Chicago next week. and let them de
eide when the strike shall be called.
"Ncs, it is true that all the locals on
lines east have held special meetings" !"
said Bertrand today, after a confer
ence, "and it also is true that the men
have given the chairmcn full swing to
act according to their best judgment"
The meetings were held early in the
week, it became known today. These
meetings are to be followed by a meet
ing next Monday or Tuesday of the
chairman in the East They will leave
for Chicago Wednesday morning.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-01-13
UNIONISTS WILL FACE FOES.

Seattle, WaSh.-Thc Central Labor
Council rejected a proposal to ask Of
hcialS of the State federation of labor
what steps have been taken to protect
delegates to the State federation of la
Dor convention, which meets in Everett,
January 22.
Nicc-prcsident Short OF the State body
said:
at would be an insult to labor to ask
protection Of the Commercial Club,
which is the only power in Everett COM
petcnt to give it. Labor don't want that
protection and don't need it. Conditions
are such in Everett that they demand the
convention be held there, No other body
OF citizens can do so much to restore
constitutional government to that be
nightcd community as the sane, practi-
cal representatives OF the working class
in their State convention Nothing
more helpful to the Commercial Club in
their fight on organized labor could well
be imagined than the proposal to ro-
move the convention from that city 1t
would be q confession of CowardiCe that
would be held up to the ridiculc of the
entire world by the employing interests
Labor doesn't need to toady, and they
do not need nor will they ask for pro-
lection. We will 90 to Everett and stay
III Everett until the constitutional guar
antecS are established"
The Shinglc wcaverS are still on strike
i'll Everett, despite the high-handed tao
tics of mill owners, business men and
county officials These workers demand
wage scale paid in other sections of
the State.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-01-13
CAR MEMS WAGES RAISED.

Detroit-Wagcs Of the 500 motor
men and conductors employed by the
Michigan United Railway Company are
raised $4,000 year by an arbitration
award that was dssentcd from by the
companys representative, who declared
that the company cannot pay the new
rates and that IAN impossible situation
is created"
The majority of the board refused to
accept this pesSimistic view and ordered
that rates, beginning the first OF the
year, shall be as follows
City lincs-First six months, 2S cents
an hour; second six months, % cents !;
first year, 81 cents; thereafter, 32 cents,
The old rates were 23 - and 26 cents re-
Spcctively.
Intcrurban lincS-tirst six months, 81
cents an hour; thereafter, 30 cents The
old intcrurban scale was - cents an hour
for the first year, % cents for the sec
ond year and 80 cents thereafter.
The decision is retroactive and the
men will be paid from June / last under
the new scale. The company controls
several city and interurban lines in south
crn Michigan
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-01-13

the wrong basis The essence Of the
false basis is that the premium rates
took no account of abnormal industrial
activity which began the middle of the
year 1915, he asserts
The reason that the Ohio State rates
have been maintained with little change
is that there has been a revision based
on experience every six months which
adjusted affairs so that no large discrep-
ancles were possible. The revision ii
the Buckeye State rates were much cri-
tiCized, that the critics have no ground
on which to stand
In commenting on "thc serious over
sight of the liability insurance compan-
les" Mr.. Watson says:
"The liability insurance companies
have repeatedly timed their broad cam
paigns OF Misrepresentation against the
Ohio State insurance plan to come at a
period when the department was under
the heavy stress of rate revision calcu-
lations and renewal ratings, hoping that
the department would be unable to over
come these misrepresentation, as here
tofore rccited that the work of the de-
partment would be clogged, and that a
stampede of Withdrawals could be start
ed among the State insurance risks.
"WOrkcd Serious Hardships.'
"Thesc repeated campaigns of vicious
and deliberate Misrepresentation have
worked serious hardships on the depart
ment. The time that it has been neces-
sary to devote to the correcting of these
abuses should have been given to egiti
mate departmental problems, which our
only contemplated, which
the liability insurance companies well
knew and have vigorously attempted to
take advantage Of"
Watson argues that the present en-
barrassment and humiliation of the
enemies of the Ohio plan Cannot but be
most painfully intense" The difficulties
are augmented and particularly accen-
tuated for them by virtue of the fact
that they take place just on the eve of
so many legislatures going into session"
1t is also explained that owing to de-
changes no revision of rates
will be made as OF January /, but that
statement of the condition of the fund
will soon be issued.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-01-13
ADVICE TO STRIKERS.

San I'rancisco.-ln discussing the re-
cent culinary strike and the lessons to
be remembered as result of this strike,
the Labor Clarion offers this advice:
Under no circumstances should mem
bers of a union who are unfamiliar with
its past affairs, its present resources and
the mechanism of the labor movement
which can be called into play in an emer-
gency be listened to in directing the
conduct of strikes"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-01-13
BAD CONDITIONS AFFECT ALL.

Syracuse, n. Yin an address to the
Central Trades and Labor Assembly on
the necessity for Americanizing the i'm
migrant, Supreme Court Justice Crouch
said that bad conditions in one part OF
city or nation, like malignant disease,
breeds bad conditions all over, and the
foreign-born cannot be huddlcd togeth-
er in insanitary surroundings in one part
of city without injuring the whole city.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-01-13
CLERKS UNIONS TO UNITE.

San Francsco-A call has been is
sued by the various locals of clerks in
this vicinity to form district council.
\ greater degree of unity is possible if
the retail clerks, grocery clerks and
other workers in this calling will act
through central organization.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-01-13
Increases Are Predicted.

In the same connection Mr. Watson
points out that the same increases will
have to be made in Ohio if these in
terests were to continue III business here
The trouble, he says, is that the rates
OF the insurance companies for the com
pensation field have been computed on
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-01-13

Columbus, Ohio - Vindication is
claimed by Emile +. Watson, Actuary
for the State Industrial Commission, in
his latest bulletin to the Ohio employers
who are insured under the provisions of
the workmen's compensation law. Many
months ago Mr. Watson said that the
rates charged in other States by the Ii
ability insurance companies, which are
writing compensation policies, were far
too low, and that it was imperative they
should be increased
Now he is able to quote from the
statements that have been given out of
iiCially by these same interests that an
immediate upward revision of com
pensation rates is necessary" In New
York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania
the State departments have been in
formed of the rate increases and they
are characterized as Imperative" One
of the insurance publications adds that
millions of dollars of compensation bust
ness has been handled by these interests
"at "A trcncndouS loss "