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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05
MAKING PLANS FOR
Big negro MEET
WILL DISCUSS EMIGRATION AND
TRY TO INFORM NEGROES OF
REAL CONDITION..

Negroes of Crisp, Ben Hill, Dooly,
Sumter and Wilcox counties are. to
meet in Cordele on Saturday and
Sunday, Aug. Is and IS, to arrive at
"the truth about emigration" The
leading negroes of these five counties
are to have part in the discussions
which are to take place.
], B. Ellis, acting as general mana
ger Of the occasion, has secured the
consent of Mayor J. Gordon Jones
to speak at the Saturday meeting at
the county court house. The first ses-
sion will be held in the afternoon at
one o'clock. .
The Sunday meetings will be held
at the Colored Methodist Episcopal
church. w. E. Bailey, A. S. Clark, e.
H. Neal and others among local lead
ers will have to do with making the
meeting a big success. =
1t is hoped that a full understanding
OF the situation with reference to
emigration may be had with all those
who attend in order that this part of
Georgia may be saved the troubles
that are attending the negroes going
north and east to become unwilling
participants in mobs that result from
rivalry in labor.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05
TYPHOID TAKES
ESTEEMED WOMAN
MRS. ELLA THOMPSON SMITH
DIED FRIDAY LITTLE OAUGH
TIE RDlED MONDAY.


A particularly sad death was that
Of Mrs. Ella Thompson Smith, wife of
G. B. Wilkes, and daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Thompson of Wenona,
which occurred early Friday morning
from typhoid. Little conference.-the
old Martha-Maud, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Smith, had preceded Mrs. Smith
the grave Monday. Mr. Smith is
himself now suffering from an attack
of typhoid, but is slightly improved.
Mrs. Smith was but 10 years of age,
was young woman of lovable dispo-
!. sition and had hosts Of friends Her
death is distinct schock. The fun
eral was conducted at Antioch Gene
terry by eRv j. O. T. Taylor, pastor
of the Methodist charge at Wenona
A large number of sorrowing friends
attended and paid last tribute of
respect.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05
MAY FORM RIFLE
CLUB in CORDELE
MATTER HAS BEEN UNDER ADJ
VISEMENT FOR SOME TIME.
NUMBER PERSONS INTERESTED

There is steady increase in interest
in a rifle club for Cordele. W. O..
Roberts has for several months had
this matter in hand and number of
friends have given time and thought
to- a proposed organization which
might afford just the kind of recrea-
ton and drill that the prospective
members might desire.
Those who desire to form the club
will, within a short time take def
mite steps for completing the orga%
cation. The hope is to make it a
live, progressive sort of organization
that will have many good objects in
view.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05
over SUPPLY OF
CORN and BtANS
CRISP COUNTY CROPS SAID TO
BE BETTER THAN EVER IN
HISTORY.

81 have just completed fairly good
trip through the farms of the county
and have never seen such promise Of
fine corn and cotton yield since | have
Deen here" declared an cid resident
yesterday They are the finest in
he world. have to adrit that I
cannot remember better prospect.
There are thousands upon thou
sands Of acres of corn IN Crisp coun-
ty above our average crop. Added to
this, we have a much better yield than
is usually in prospect.
Heard one farmer say he had APP
nrcXimately Is tons OF beans and
900 bushels Of corn in prospect above
his REQUIRED supply for his own con-
Guess that ought to- be
some testimony as to our making
what we need and then some"
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05

Atlanta, Aug. 4.-If the Georgia leg
islature adjourns without enacting the
pending market bureau bill, it is going
to mean a serious situation for many
Georgia farmers who have Loyalty re-
sponded to their countrys call and
grown more food crops and feedstuffs
than ever in the history of the state.
1t isn't a question of consumption, for
there will be need for every pound
Of food produced for man and beast.
But it is an imperative problem of
proper distribution-of getting sur
plus foods to the markets that most
need them.
Georgia faces the problem of prop
erly marketing more than $2O0,000,-
900 worth of foods and feedstuffs The
department of agriculture has planned
an efficient system for bringing about
the most satisfactory distribution. The
successful operation of this system
will reuire boqth legislative authori-
ty and funds to meet expenses. To
meet these expenses the legislature
has been asked to appropriate from
the fund now paid into the state
treasury by Georgia farmers, less than
one-fortieth of one per cent, or 25
cents on $1,000 Of the value of the
Georgia produce to be handled.
There is real danger that in the rush
) incident to the close of the session.
this bill may not come up for action at
ali, which would mean it would have
tc go over to next year.
If the farmers of Georgia want this
bill passed now, SO that they may be
assured of efficient assistance in the
marketing of their food crops, they
should get busy at once and insist up
on action on the part of the legisla-
tive members. 1t is their bill and
their interests which are at stake, and
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05
REVIVAL AT ZION HOUE
PROVES VERY SUCCESSFUL

The past week has been spent most
profitably by Rev. w. f. Smith pre-
siding elder, of Cordele, and Rev. j.
O. J. Taylor and Rev Robert More
land of Arab. in a revival meeting
which has been conducted at Zion
Hope church at Pateville.
The meetings have been well attend
ed and a number of persons added to-
the church membership during the
meeting.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05
SUBMARINES SUNK ONLY
2 BRITISH MERCHANTMEN
Last Week 2,747 Vessels Arrived and
2,776 Left English Ports. No Fish
ing Vessels Lost.

London, Aug. 3.-The following is
the British weekly shipping summary
gwen out yesterday:
Arrivals, 2,747; sailing, PITS.
British merchantmen Of more than
900 tons sunk, 18; under 1000 tons,
three.
British Merchantmen unsuccessful
ly attacked, nine; including three pre-
viously.
Fishing vessels sunk, none.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05
this Pig PUTS ON
z POUNDS A DAY
JODIE STRIPLING'S DUROC PIG
PUT ON 76 POUNDS IN JULY
POP POUNDS IN FOUR MONTHS.

Jodie STRIPPING, down in the Bridges
school community, says if we do not
believe that he has a pig that is
some hog" " may just go down to
see. This youngster has a Duroc pig
that was given out along with other
pigs through aid given by some philan-
thropic citizen to county agent John
son to get a pig club started on the
endless chain plan. Judging from the
success of this young fellow so far he
evidently appreciates the opportuni-
ty of doing some good work along the
line of "pig culture"
This one time little pig was pur-
chased and delivered on March 31st
from Churchweli Bros. breeding herd.
When this little grunter entered the
pig club, it lacked two days being
three months cid and weighed 81
pounds. Well, H'Hce the 31st day of
March ard since the pig passed her
3lst pound, something of note can be
told about that pig.
On April Goth. after one month, the
ani!ual Weigl ed 81 pounds and had
gained rs pounds At the close of the
second month it weighed S5 pounds
and had gained % pounds. The third
month showed still more progress
when ii was found that she had gained
4! pounds and weighed 1876. But this
is not all. On the 31st day of July a
remarkable gain of 76 pounds was
found on the pigs bones. She then
pulled 202 pounds on the scales. We
take it that this is some progress for
this little brute in its travel of four
months toward "hoghood."
The one very important thing to be
remembered about this pig in connec-
ton with the care given in feeding
regularly and the right kind of feed
and properly mixed is that of it's hav-
ing ample range with plenty of green
grazing, thus affording plenty of ex-
ercise, and not the kind got by rub
bin lice. 1t is out of the question to
think that rapid and economical gains
can be made with hogs by combining
them in lots or in pens and without
green grazing. Would that this idea
could take root in many minds where
it has even been sown.
This pig has enjoyed the easily af-
fCrded blessings of green grazing and
range and some idea of the benefit
of such treatment may be cotton from
the figures showing the progress of
this pig with its good flood and plenty
of feed
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05
GOOD MEETING OF
farm EXPERTS
FAIR CROWD HEARD TALKS
ABOUT MANY IMPORTANT I'M
PORTANT TOPICS.

The farmers institute held at the
Crisp county court house yesterday
mornin was surprisingly important
one and was we'll attended. Numbers
of progressive farmers and their wives
were in attendance and made most of
the addresses.
Farm Demonstration Agent J. A.
Johnson had charge. He took occa-
sion to tell about the good work of
the boys in the pig clubs and talked
big about the fair this fall.
DR.. ]. E. SEVERN talked about food
administration in an interesting man.
ner. Miss Anne Rogers devoted a
good talk to woman's part in conser
walton of foods. Mrs. E. M. Espy
talked of the woman's council of ma
tional defense. L. S. Watson discuss
ed good production, and G. R. Jones
talked Interestingly of meat and pota-
to curing processes.
Rermuda last wear nYnorred 19222
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05
RED CROSS FUNDS
ARE Still GROWING
WILL PASS 100000 MARK NEXT
WEEK. COUNTY WILL ORGAN
IZE.

Chairman w. P. Fleming Of the
executive committee of the Rcd Cross
makes a statement amended up to-
yesterday in which total collections
are shown to have reached $1.992.31.
This fund is in the hands Of Treasurer
j. w. Cannon.
The Red Cross work is getting
fairly we'll under Roadway thrc. ghout
the county and those in charge at
the various points are apparently
well enough interested to make the
campaign a very creditable one. 1t
is stated that the fund will be pushed
far over the $4,000 mark by the end
of the coming week
The report follows:
Received fro mall sources, as
per statement 81, $500
Cash Contribution from Mrs
d. II. Hill ............... 25.Ou
Cash contribution from Allan
tic Ice & Coal Corporation. $500
Cash contribution from a child .O1
TOTAL $1,932.31
Cash on deposit with ]. w.
Cannon, treasurer Red Cross
Fund ............ ..... .$1,S53.76
Cash on hand not deposited. 1885
Remittance with application
for charter ............... 5000
TOTAL $1,932.31
w. P. FLEMING Chair Elk. Com.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05
ng more satisfied

Atlanta, Aug. 3.--Student officers at
Fort MCPHERSON explain that they
wear mustache to save time not to
heighten their beauty They are put
through such strenuous pace that they
hardly have time to shave. Taking the
bristles off the upper lip consumes
about four minutes. Hence they let
them grow
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05
EXAMINATION TO BE HELD
FOR REMAN-LABORER

Here's a ~ ting good opportunity
to show your high percentage in phys
ical ability and training and expert
ence as a fireman-laborer at the post
office building in Cordele. An exami-
nation will be conducted ON August
% at the post office for this place
The salary is $4,000 a year,-fairly
good pay. Physical ability will count
forty percent in the examination.
Training and experience will count
sixty percent.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05
coRDELE BOY IS
WIRELESS OPERATOR

The numerous friends Of Donald B.
Hyde, formerly of this city will be in
terested to know that he is now full
Pledged wireless operator, having re.
Gently completed the course of train
ing. He is now stationed at Charles
ton, but will soon be assigned to
ship.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05
MISS ATWELL HERE;
RED CROSS NURSE
WILL TAKE UP TRAINING TOMOR.
ROW AMONG LADIES OF COM
MUNITY.

Miss Atwell, the Red Cross nurse
will be here tonight Sunday and will
open up her classes in surgical dress
ing Monday morning at nine o'clock
at the work room of the oPst Office
All of the ladies will please be pres
est to sign for morning or afternoon
Gloss work.
The Red Cross has been ortunate
in securing Mrs. J. l.. Ryals as secre-
tary, who will be at the Red Cross
headquarters every afternoon from
our to six, and on Saturday rom ten
to twelve a. m. and four to six p. M
Mrs. Ryals is taking the place of Miss
Carswell who is away from the city
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05

A two-wheeled machine that can be
driven over growing cotton to collect
boil weevils has been patented.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05

The spirit ration was abolished in
the United States navy during the
second year Of the civil war.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05

The fire test Of the young papa is
when the nurse asks him if he doesn't
think the new baby beautiful.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05

Bermuda last year exported 1928
crates of celery.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-05

TOTAL $1,932.31
w. P. FLEMING Chair. Elk. Com.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-24

more than so per cent of the German
population-th total number of mar.
riages in 1914 fell nearly 10 per cent be.
low the number recorded in the previous
year In Saxony, compared with the
last year of peace, the decrease was
about 376 per cent and in Berlin PIG
per cent. Through decrease in births
during the war period the United King
dom has lost 10000 potential lives for
every million of its population; from the
same cause Germany has lost such lives
at the rate of 10000 per million, or a
total of about 100000; and with Hun
gary figuring in these losses at 100000
it is estimated that since the beginning
of the war the total sacrifice of potential
lives in the central empires has been
ten times as great as that recorded for
Great Britain. These are hard, dry facts.
They reveal the strides which Germany
is taking towards complete exhaustion
of her fighting power. They show also
the price she is willing to pay, not for
the triumph, but for the ignominous de-
feat of her plan to dominate Europe and
impose her will on the world.-Boston
Herald
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-24
Germany Paying the Price.

Success in war depends not only OF
ornaments, military skill and organiza
tons ii depends still more on population
How is Germany responding TO this test
AT the opening of the fourteenth century
the countries now included in the Ger
man empire numbered abount 1900,
600 people. The Thirty Years wal
swept twothirds of that total oat Of
existence and worked such devastation
that substantial recovery did not set in
until the beginning of the eighteenth
century. In the nineteenth between g.
900, 600 and 100000 people left the fla
therland a large proportion of that num-
Der finding their way as emigrants to
the United States.
When the present war broke out Ger
many had a population of about. 6S.000,-
600 and Il fairly progressive birth rate.
She entered the struggle with fighting
strength of approximately 0,500,0o0 men,
10 per cent of her popula-
tion. with reserve resources to come in
at the rate of 100000 year, made up
of the young men who would annually
bers fearful inroads have already been
maze DN tHe war. IL IL estlHldt1u from
issued by the Germans them
selves and incorporated into their home
records, that they have been losing men
since August, 1914, at the yearly rate of
sos 200 killed, permanently crippled and
lead through sickness. Deducting the
10000 called TO the colors each year,
his gives a total annual loss of l.24s.-
100. and should that rate hold until
August 1918, Germany will then have
acrificed close upon 5,000000 of her men
ince the beginning of the war.
Nor is this by any means the whole
tory Account must be taken of mar
iage and birth rate returns. Figures
ust issued by the Royal Statistical So
iety of Great Britain show that in
russia. Bavaria. Saxony, Hesse, Ham
urg and Bremen--six states containing
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-24
GAVE REFRESHMENTS
TO FIGHTING MEN
At First the Y. M. c. A. Passed Out
Chocolate, Cigarettes and Matches
to Men as They Passed to
the Front Line.

! Paris, Dec. "a Correspondence of the
Associated Press Refreshments anC
amusements were provided for the first
American troops, stationed for train
! ing in the first line trenches by the
American and Navy Young Mems Chris
tian association. This work began in a
COW she'd in little village INST behind
the front lines under the direction OF
Ira ID. Shaw, former Columbia uni
versity football player. The equipment
to begin with consisted only of small
supply of chocolate, cigarettes and
matches which We're passed out to the
men as they passed the Hut on their way
''up the line
Later the COW shed was abandoned for
a large habitable room with a splendid
open fireplace. The association head
quarters in Paris largely augmented the
supply of refreshments and provided
magazines, writing paper and talking
machine, which was on active serv-
ice from early morning until late at
night Each evening groups of tired, wet
American infantrymen and their French
comrades in-arms iiocked to the room
for bit of entertainment. The bark
ing of the 75's used by the Americans
as the shells started for the German
lines could be heard plainly within the
hut. Nearby were dugouts for shelter
when the German shells came too close
for comfort.
Not many kilometers from this adj
vance hut was another that originally
was a French barracks. 1t was gladly
turned over to the American association
which served there both French and
American soldiers. 1t had canteen,
games, writing material and two coal
fires which We're kept supplied by French
soldiers.
The Y. NJ. c. A. secretaries did not
nonfine their work to the huts but went
almost to the front trenches with news
papers, magazines, tobacco and other
supplies.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-24
Bonds Uncle Sam Is Asked to Buy.

| The federal farm loan board wants The
government to buy Sl00000,000 of farm
| loan bonds, and the government, having
created the federal farm loan board and
the system OF which il is the head, will
probably buy the bonds.
The government relies heavily on the
American farmer, more heavily than ii
has ever relied upon him in the past
The farmer, who has asked for farm
loans totalling S225,000000, and whose
request has been granted for Sl05,000,000
cannot get the money unless these bonds
are sold to provide it.
Who will buy them The farm loan
board has been able to sell less than
30,000,0 900 worth, and so it goes to Con
gress.
1t is true that the farm loan bonds are
a splendid security. 1t is equally true
that nobody knows Of their existence.
A little item was printed some time ago
telling of purchase by President Will
son. The syndicate through which the
farm loan board sold what it did sell OF
them advertised the offering modestly.
If the government buys these bonds it
ought to do something to effect their dis
tribution Whether that something
should take the form of alterations in
the membership of the federal farm loan
board, or alterations in its methods of
bond selling, or alterations in the act
which brought it into existence, Congress
might very well undertake, and at the
present session, to find out.--New York
Sun
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-24
Dale's Appeal.

Congressman Dale of the second Yer
mont district did more to enhance his
popularity with his constituents in MAX
ing brief trip to the battlefields OF
northern France and Belgium than by
any action in Washington. He saw the
horrors of warfare and coming back he
speaks in ringing tones TO the people of
this country: For Gods sake. wake mp
and realize what this war meansl" We
believe Mr.. Dale is exactly right. We
also commend to all readers careful
perusal of his statement published to-
day in another column. Mr.. Dale does
not look for an early peace. lie be
lieves that it will be a long conflict, dat
ing from the present time. and that we
shall suffer in loss Of noble young lives.
He wants us 10 rush supplies. guns and
munitions to our men in France. He also
says that we must give more men, men
BY the million, il We are going to win
the war The United States. we be-
lieye, can become the deciding factor
in this great conflict Tor a principle
the principle Of right and justice which
cur president has put before " so clear
u. But we must fight, We must sacri-
fee, and the quicker we act in a way
10 help gain the victory the better
Reformer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-24
County Sheriffs.

| A sheriff in one of the counties of the
southern tier has rendered his resigna-
tfon to Governor Graham, giving as his
reason that he cannot afford to keep the
position at its present salary. The Mes
senger doesn't know what the sherif's
salary was, and doesn't know what the
sheriff's demands ON that salary were, so
it can speak only in general way upon
it. What is good salary for one man
is poor one for another.
The vacancy in the office won't exist
long Whatever the salary is, someone
will take it, There is hardly job so
poorly paid that an occupant cannot be
found for it. Generally we get, in the
long run, just about what we pay for
There must be some people in Vermont
who have done considerable wondering
about our Office of sheriff.
The Messengers idea is that man to
act as sheriff, representing the power and
dignity of the state and being entrusted
with most important matters and re-
sponsibilities, should have some other
commanding qualification than his mere
Willingness to accept job The office
of sheriff, rightly viewed, should be one
that would command the ambition of
higher than second-rate men.
In some counties it does. In all coun-
ties it should. There is great work for
good that can be done by men in the
sheriff's Office. But as rule, generally
speaking, the office to-day does not com
mand the type of men that it should.
Probably an impartial investigation, car.
ried on with proper thoroughness, would
reveal that the work of the office is too
often neglected in too many places, or is
handed on to some subordinate who can
not possibly perform the tasks as they
should be performed
This state of affairs may be due to in
sufficient salaries or it may be due to |
wrong attitude of mind on the part of |
the general public which unquestionably |
has soma bearing upon it. Representing