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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10
W. j. HARRIS SPEAKING
DATES IN SOUTHWEST GA

Americas, Ca, July 9.-William J.
Harris friends here announce that the
senatorial candidate will be in this
section during the current week, and
that he will deliver a number of ad-
dresses on political subjects. Thursday
he will speak at Ellaville; Friday he
will make addresses at Richland and
Preston, and on Saturday he will adj
dress gathering at Lumpkin in Stew
art county Saturday night Mr.. Harris
will come to Americas, and rest here
over Sunday.
An important conference of his
friends is being arranged for Saturday
night, when the candidate will attend.
Thee is a we'll organized and vigorous
Harris club in Sumter, of which H o.
Jones is president and it is quite pro-
bable that he will speak here at an
early date.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10
ACCEPTS AMERICUS CALL
Or. Carl w. Minor to Become Pastor
of Baptist Church

Americas. July 9.-Rev. Carl w Mi
nor, D. D., has formally notified the
congregation of the First Baptist
Church here of his favorable decision
regarding the call to this pastorate
recently extended him. c. C. Hawkins
chairman of the committee of fifteen
who invited DR.. Minor to become pas
tor here. made announcement of his
acceptance to the congregation.
DIR. Minor is at present president of
Cox College at College Park, and it
recognized as one of the leading edu-
Gators within the Southern Baptist
Convention He has, however, had
wide experience in pastoral work, hav-
ing been pastor of several South Geor-
gia churches before going into educa-
tional work as head of Cox College.
With his wife and little daughter, DR..
Minor will move to Americas at an
early date to assume his new duties
here.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE

The Mayor and City Council OF Cor
dele, will offer for sale. on the pre-
misses, beginning at 10 o'clock A. M,
on the 18th, day OF July next, the pro
perty known as the "City Hall' prop
erty, and being lots Nos S and on
Block number 10 as appears from map
of survey of the City of Cordele, TO-
gether with the building located there.
on. Said plot of ground has 100 feet
frontage on Wall Street and runs
back north 100 feet to railroad right
Of way.
The Mayor and City Council se
serves the right to reject any and all
bids, and the sale is made subject to
ratification and confirmation by said
,yor and City Council. Should any
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10
PROHIBITION AMENDMENT
CONSIDERATION DELAYED

Washington, July 9-Although ma
tional prohibition as a war measure
was discussed briefly in the Senate
today, the amendment to the S11 900.
OOO emergency agricultural appro-
priation bill under which the manufac-
ture and sale of all intoxicants would
be prohibited during the war was not
taken up.
There were no indications tonight
when consideration of the amendment
would begin, as the agricultural meas.
ure may be replaced by the resolution
authorizing Government control DUR
ing the war of telegraph and tele-
phone lines. When the amendment is
reached, Senator Penrose, of Pennsyl-
vania, Is expected to press a point
of order which he made today against
its inclusion in the bill on the ground
that it is general legislation attached
to an appropriation measure in viola
ton of the rules.
The Senate today proceeded with
consideration of other amendments to-
the emergency bill approved by the
agriculture committee, but finally
cut it's session short because COMMITTEE
members were not present to explain
the reasons for the provisions. Pro
hibition leaders charged slow pro-
gress was due to efforts of opponents
of the prohibition section to delay
action in the hope that the telegraph
control resolution could be brought
before the Senate. Opponents denied
this.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10

party, or parties desire to submit pri-
vate sealed bids, they may do so by
depositing the same with the clerk,
said bid, or bids to be opened after
the public auction herein referred to
and any and all such private bids shall
be considered by the Mayor and City
Council, and accepted, or rejected, as
they may see fit, in the same manner
as the public bid.
Terms, one third cash, balance to
be arranged to suit the purchaser, the
deferred payments bearing eight per
cent interest.
]. II. LAMB,
Chairman. Building and Grounds
Committee.
6-1O-to 7-15-1S
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10

6-11-26t
STOCK OF GOODS FOR SALE
Will sell entire stock OF merchandise
at my place in parcels or as a whole
at wholesale cost. This is an oppor
tunity for some one to take hold and
operate a profitable business. This
stock consists of shoes. hats, notions,
dry goods. ovcralls, work shirts and
farm supplies. | will be glad to sell
small lots or any amount to merchants
who wish to take advantage of the low
cost prices.
mean business. have spent forty
years in this kind of business and
when I say | am selling at cost, it
means just that. am going to quit.
This is rare opportunity. Anybody
can buy in any amount. retail or whole.
stock
]. S. PATE. 6.2S.12t
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10

TO prove they are not connected
with the United States Navy without
cause these yeowomen went on in a
regatta on the Charles River at Bos-
ten and took first prize in a race
against several other crews.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10
PUTNAM TAKES
AMERICAN LEAD
TENTH VICTORY CREDITED TO
MASSACHUSETTS MAN

Paris, July 10.--Lieut. David Putnam,
Of Brooklyn, Mass, formally became
leading American Ace in succession to
Lieut.. Frank Bayliss. missing since
June H. :!
Puman's tene'h victory June 30, has
been verified officially. lg I'll
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10

THE VERY BEsT ACCOMMODATIONS
in loans on residence and business
property in cordele and improved
farm lanus in DooIy, Wilcox, Turner,
and Crisp counties. We will serve you
efficiently and promptly and to your
very best advantage II you need loan.
DORIS AND BROWN, Attorneys,
Exchange Bank Building
coRoELE, GEORGIA.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10
GEORGIA WEEKLY EDITORS
WILL MEET NEXT WEE

Atlanta, July 1O.-Many Georgia cd,
tors will assemble for the thirty
second annual session of the Georgia
Weekly Press Association which will
be held at Wrightsville, Ga, July 10
II. The convention this year will be
one of patriotic purpose and the con-
ference will be directed toward discus
sion of the best manner in which aid
Uncle Sam.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10

THOUGHT A LINEN ONE BETTER
Mr.. Bacon don't like those pa
per napkins, dear.
Mrs. BacOn-Why don't you like
them,
well, you know very well, dear.
that it doesn't look very high.toned
for nue. to eat with paper napkin tuck
ed up under my chin"
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10

SOC Cures Headaches, Bilious
ness, Loss of Appetite, foul.
breath, or that tired aching feel
ina due to Malaria or Colds. -
1t remOUeS the cause.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10

4 great demand has arisen in North
British Columbia for clean spruce
wood as the best material for air
planes
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10

Many woman's tongue is kept
busy trying to get her out of the trou-
bic it got her into.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10

QUlCk:-Transfer Service we move
you from one town to another right
now, transfer trunks and do your haul
ing in unsatisfactory manner at areason
able price. City Dray and Transfer Co.
Phone 366-J
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10

A mans good name is his best mbnu
ment.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10

The rarcst fur is that of the sea OF
or.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10
PRIDGEN BROTHERS
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS

FOR RENT:-My residence at 4O8
l.. 4th Ave, can give immediate pos
session. If interested write J. G.. Bar
row 480 Simpson ST., Atlanta, Ga.
V 7-9-3t.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-07-10

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IH6 lo 40
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
By Hayden Church

TOW soon will women sit in the
British Parliament? At present
it is not even clear whether
women are legally entitled to be M
P.'s, for although six million British
fair ones now possess the franchise,
the act of Parliament which recently
conferred it upon them is absolutely
silent as to whether the rights and
liberties of these new voters differ in
any respect from those of the or
dinary ones. The act, in fact, gave
women votes but not seats.
Now, however, the whole question
OF whether women may sit in Parlia.
ment is to be put to test. The test
is being made by woman, Miss Nina
Boyle. She Is endeavoring to gel
nominated as candidate for Parlia
ment at Keighley, in Yorkshire, where
an election is pending.
1t is to fill the vacancy created by
the recent death of Sir Swire Smith
who sat in Parliament for Keighley
as Liberal. This constituency, which
is an industrial one, has for many
years been regarded as "safe'
Liberal seat.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

ence in rights and liberties could be
maintained.
"The House of Commons, in spite OF
the warning note raised in the Lords
turned its back on tho whole question
hoping, it is to be presumed, that in
the first place it would be a long time
before the question was raised, and. in
the second place, that it could be re.
ferred to the courts"
What will be the attitude of women
voters In England to candidates of thei,
own sex! The results of investigations
on the spot should not be uninterestinp
to advocates of female suffrage in the
United States and elsewhere. The feel.
ing here is particularly significant be.
cause OF the economic Independence O,
the women of this locality, exceptional
even in this part of the industrial
North, and also their capacity for pass.
ing their own Judgment on politica
questions.
"l'll tell you why most of the womer
mere would not vote for woman this
Time II they had the chance" said :
suifragist in the town-an able we1I.
informed woman.
Ihey say that, now we have ,nlv
just. got the vote, we should wait >
DIT before going any further. York.
shlre women, like their men folk. are
very cautions-some people would saw
obstinate. They are slow in coming
to decision. but when they have made
up their minds they will stick % to il
through thick and thin. -
The women of all classes here GRAD.
ually made up their minds thew mus,
have the vote. They will just as SLOWLY
declde that they must have q woman
IN Pariiament-but that may be ten
years hence. They have never before
had the opportunity and the privilege
OF voting for man, and they want to
enjoy that privilege and see what effect
their votes will have on the men in
Parliament before turning to their own
sex for representatives.
Most (of the married women will
vote the same as their husbands. The
single women will prefer to vote fol-
men,. This is not because they are
wanting in independence. The olde,
women have known the time not SO
very long ago when they earned more
money than their husbands and when
those husbands did their share of the
housework."
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
unspeakable Richard-had he with

unspeakable Richard-had he with
held his consent to the journey!
-- His appearance on his arrival in
New York gave no indication Of his
having undergone harsh treatment
in his solitary confinement. In fact,
he looked to be in capital health
and spirits. Even his monocle was
in order. He had no doubt concealed
it somewhere about his person
through all his English experiences
and preserved it to counteract his
astigmatism by some efficient and
adroit German necromancy.
Immediately after his arrival
Tauscher was arrested.
Then London issued a sworn con-
fession by Won der Goltz on April
26, 1915, which mentioned Buck,
of New York; Fritzen, of New York !;
Tucker, of New York; Busse, Co.
vani, Hausermann, Luderitz, Taus-
cher, Won Papen, the consuls at St.
Paul and Chicago; Tuite, of New
York; Seaman, of Buffalo; Ryan, of
Buffalo; Captain Hecker, of New
York, etc.
Let me say here that Captain
Hans Tauscher was acquitted by. a
jury on July /, 1916. After one
hours deliberation they found "that
while Captain Tauscner had sold
Horst Won der Goltz, leader of a
band whose activities were ordered
by the German military attache
the dynamite and pistols they used
he had no knowledge that they were
intended to destroy the Wellano
Canal"
1t is not my intention to go into
the Tauscher case now, it being
merely incidental to this story. 1t
is Won der Goltz, in his character as
q German secret service agent, who
has the centre of the stage
Naturally, the German-Americar
newspapers ridiculed him anc
scorned him. Some of them even de.
scribed him as a small, emaciateo
man of thirty-fve or forty, whereas
he was big, good-looking young
fellow of probably twenty-four al
the time of the Tauscher trial.
He brought a good deal of ridi
cule on himself and lost his power
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

and whenever the laws are brought
into question without exception it
throws the responsibility on the law
courts.
SIS this reply typical of the govern
ment's encouragement to women to
give of their best? Even now, when,
after nearly four years of war, it is
recognized that the war cannot be won
without the women, the same stupid
attitude is maintained. Nevertheless,
just as the government was bound to
reward women's services by giving the
vote, so also will they be compelled to
go step further and grant to women
equal rights and opportunities to those
enjoyed by men,"
Says Nation Is
Being Cheated
Miss Boyle recently paid her first
visit to the House of Commons in the
character, as she put it, "of law
abiding citizen" The opinion she
formed of that historic assembly is not
lofty.
"The tense vitality and vigor of the
suffrage movement" she said. "pre-
pares one i'll for the fiat. dead atmos-
phere of the Mother of Parliaments
The smallness of the attendance and
the number of speeches addressed to
empty benches give sense of dishon-
esty. The nation is being cheated. To
talk of debates in connection with
those dreary stretches Of monologue is
| farcical.
"All my life have heard gibes and
| jests at the expense Of women's meet.
ings and women's committees. have
often joined in them, but have neve,
been on Nwoman's committee that did
not get things done. The methods OF
the House OF Commons would drive q
women's committee crazy.
"a very good example of these
methods is to be found in the present
situation. An act was passed having
the effect of enfranchisins some six
million women. The question was
| bound to arise whether, as between
those voters and the others. differ.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Outwitted Police
To Make a Speech

Miss Nina Boyle, who, if she is per-
mitted, will offer herself as a candi-
date to the voters Of Keighley, is one
Of the famous suffragettes, who, in
days that now seem almost prehis-
toric, raised such particular hob in
their then fruitless efforts to obtain
the vote.
She was the organizer and heroine
OF one Of their most spectacular
coups.
Together with some Of her fellow
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

for women to stand for Parliament it
is not equally inadmissible for women
to be sworn in as police. and whether
1T would not be possible to challenge
any arrest made by these women.
His reply to that question is that
the answer can only be determined
authoritatively by court of law. That
is just how Parliament always evades
responsibility for the laws it makes.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
Miss Nina Boyle

Boyle be returned" for Keighley, it
would then rest with the courts to de-
eide whether or no she should be per-
mitted to sit in Parliament She ex-
planned the situation in an interview.
II wrote to the Home Secretary"
said she, with reference to my pro-
posal to secure nomination as Parlia-
mentary candidate for Keighiey, and
asked whether, if it is not permissible
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

explanations 1Or the 1allure OIL LnlS
plot were not what you might call
convincing, but, whatever the rea-
sons were, he found himself back
in New York on September "a.
He reported to Won Papen that he
was being watched by Secret Service
men, but the captain told him not to
worry-that the State Department
had given orders not to molest him.
Nevertheless, he was furnished with
false passport in the name OF
Bridgman Taylor, as he was then
known, and he escaped from the
country on the Italian steamer
Duca d'Aosta, which sailed October
for Genoa.
Returning to Berlin via Munich,
he reported to the government and
asked to be sent back to active
service. Notwithstanding his en-
treaties, they offered him his
choice of going to London for spe
cial work or being confined in the
fortress of Glatz.
Needless to say, he chose London.
He Ate Two Pounds
OF Paper Evidence
He arrived in London from Rot
terdam on November 4, registered as
Bridgman Taylor at a small hotel
and prepared to carry through his
instructions. But on the morning of
the second day he was recognized on
the street by a Russian spy from
Petrograd. Knowing that he would
be suspected" and that he could not
get away, he audaciously presented
himself at the British Foreign Of
flee and professed to be able to give
them special information about Zep-
pelins and submarines.
There were many discriminating
papers in his possession which he
feared to burn, so what do you think
he did? He ate them, and there
were two pounds of them he had to
chew and swallow. Notwithstanding,
he was arrested by the Naval Intelli-
gence Department on November 8,
, but, as he had meanwhile digested
his two pounds of papers, all they
found on him was leave of absence
from Raoul Madero.
The British sentenced him to six
months hard labor in Pentonville
prison, where he had to sew bags
and was kept in solitary confine-
ment. His beard grew, but he stuck
to his monocle. From Pentonville
he was transferred to Brixton
prison in June, 1915, and kept there
in solitary confinement until they
sent him to Reading.
In January, while he was in
Reading, Won Papen, who had mean
while been dismissed by the United
States, had his papers seized by the
British government, and the iden-
tity of "Bridgman Taylor" was dis
closed. That settled it. When the
British learned that he was really
the celebrated Won der Goltz-not
the Turkish pacha, of course, but
more dangerous-they put him in
Jail at Lewes and kept him there
until March 3, 1916, when they
transferred him to Bow Street po-
lice court. AS soon as they could
get his extradition papers made out,
and with his confession" in their
hands, they put him aboard ship in
charge of Sergeant Brust and sent
him to the United States.
A very interesting story of ad-
venture, is it not? Especially when
you try to imagine how he would
have been shot in the Tower-to
perhaps become as famous a few
hundred years hence as the "Little
Princes" made away with by tn.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

to sell his services to the German
government agents in Holland. They
wouldn't have him.
So he went to England, still un-
der the name of Bridgman Taylor,
and offered the Foreign Office his
services. They did not take HIM
seriously, but locked him UP in Brix-
ton Jail to keep him out of trouble
making.
Did Not Shine in
Cross-Examination
Meanwhile, Won Papen was ex-
PEELED from the United States.
When he got to Plymouth the Brit
ish discovered a packet on his per-
son in which was list of forty
Communications, among them
Bridgman Taylor, alias Won der
Goltz.
He was in Jail at the time, and
when he heard Of Tauscher he told
them he knew lot about him. He
informed them he had been in ne
gotiation with him to bring arms to
Canada, etc. So he was sent back
to the United States as star wit
ness, in charge of Detective Ser
geant Brust, of Scotland Yard.
He was on the stand in court in
the Tauscher case in the last days
of June, 1915.
AS have told you, the jury ac-
quilted Tauscher, who admitted
having lied to protect his embassy,
but pleaded that he had been misled
by Won Papen and was really an un-
sophisticated and innocent victim of
circumstantial evidence, or words
to that effect.
Won der Goltz did not shine in
cross examination. Tauscher's at
torney, Smythe, made something OF
a show Of him, summing up that the
great question at issue was the We
racity of Won der Goltz and Taus-
cher. Smythe said, "von der Goltz
tricked Won Papen out of his money
and that is all there is in the case.'
Won der Goltz asserted on the
stand that he was testifying volun
tarily, without hope of reward
that he was willing to give his life
for Germany but not his honor, anc
that, though brought here agains
his will, he would not lie!
If we are to judge by the verdict
Won der Goltz was discredited, bu
he certainly gave a bad time tt
quite a considerable number of un
sophisticated innocents.
He was not in the confidence Of
Germany-nor anything Of that sor'
but they used him-to thei1
COST! The matter of providing
the necessities of life-which are
according to the eye Of the beholdel
was as serious to him as to an,
other and furnished his chief in
centive first and last.
Another man who professed to b,
a German devil"-this time !;
"born" Aforementioned up il
New Haven, glorying in the higl
Prussian appellage of Maximilial
Won Hoegen, perhaps by actual in
heritance. One morning he ap
peared in the Superior Court at New
Haven with the German colors il
the lapel of his coat, to the aston
ishment Of Judge Case, who prompt
ly made him take them off befor
he would hear his business. Sucl
behavior on the part of a youn,
practising attorney in an old-fash
ioned New England city was certain
to start gossip, and eventually re
suited in New Haven "tea party,
most unpleasant to Mr.. Won Hoegen
To hear Won Hoegen talk 20,
would have jumped to the conclu