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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

into counties as are our states, there
would be three high schools for The
people. twenty rural libraries and
twenty-five rural and teachers libra
ries to each county. The folk high
schools are schools where teachers are
RETAINED at good salaries. Training is
real AMI actual. Iliteracy is but a
shadow as compared with the great
mountain of ignorance among us.
The Danes are said to be a prosper
Gus little land Of cultured, well-todo,
prosperous farmers who practically
control the government and run things
their own way. II is said that you
might travel the land over without
finding one illiterate adult 1t would
be really hard to find people who know
more about the outside world than the
farmers Of Denmark II would be
hard to find more happy people-a
people who get more out of life
And here we are with 100000 regis
tered young men for war who cannot
even write their own names. What
vast differences. Does any body
5now why?
It is wrong to assume tn at we do not
want better conditions in the schools,
but we have not that general interest
which it takes to secure advancement
The day that an awakening is reached
constant missionary work of
school heads and teachers is the day
that will mark the elimination of our
illiteracy. Hasten that day.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19
STRENGTHEN EDUCATION

How can the ordinary citizen fail to
find interest in the panorama of things
foc the daily gaze so sadly revealing
our neglect of training of the boys and
girls? An official last week reporting
on the QUESTIONABLE turned in by the
young men Of the nation between the
ages of p and 81 said there were
100000 of them who could not write
their own names.
What an indictment! We cannot
claim that Georgia is not responsible
tor large percentage. 1t is response
bic for a shamefully large number. a
number far too large to be paraded in
orr prints-of the very young men
that make up this list
Here in Georgia we have neglected
or schools and we are paying for it
hundred ways The trail of the
moonshiner today is the trail Of the il
iterate. The limitations Of agricul-
ture are the cost of poor schooling.
The misery and suffering of unhappy
ZONES and neglected little ones. in an
astounding large degree, are the di-
rect result of no schools or poor
schools. How shall we bring all our
people to full realization of this? Is
there one who would dispute the truth
OF the assertion? Is there one who
does not believe it? That doesn't alter
tacts-and these are facts,
Nv Here are two records presented Tor
that they are worth There is a Geor
sIa county that operated 80 schools
last year with sixty teachers for an
average of four and a half months at
l cost of $3.50 per pupil. Ten of the
schools had not even blackboard and
there was no library-not a trace of
one. Out of 1922 boys and girls WHO
entered their names on the school
rolls of attendance during that four
and a half months, not one of them
graduated. This a Georgia record
one not so far away from home
Denmark is far away. but it is a
country where citizenship is measured
by standards of education. Divided
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

the invading asmies' Ibrutally put to
death, reduced to wholesale starvation
and desolation waists tracts of the
richest and most industrious districts
of Europe have been deliberately
stripped and plunged into famine, sole
" in order that the invaders might
make war cheaply. Irregular troops,
contrary 10 all the practice of war
have been systematically murdered,
and civil populations indiscrminately
massacred solely to spread a terror.
A regular system of ingenious terror
ism has been directed against civil
ans. as horrible as anything in the his
tory of civil or religious wars Large
and pOpulous cities have been, not
once, but 20, 30 40 times, bombarded
and burnt, and the women and children
in them wontonly slaughtered. with
the sole object of inhicting suffering.
All this has been done not in license
or passion, but by the calculating fe-
rocity of scientific soldiers"
The above was not written, though
it might have been, yesterday, last
week, last month, or last year, II 7ap-
poared in the English Fortnghtly Re
view February, 1871, shortly before
the surrender of Paris. Frederick
Harrison, the writer, is still alive It's
statements were true then, are true
now. julius Caesar in his Common
taries narTates events which show that
even before the time of Christ the
Germans demonstrated the possession
of all of the rudiments of their modern
"kulture." 1t is no new thing; and
hundreds Of thousands. OF men will
have died in vain in this war if this
sinister thing is not absolutely and ut
tcrly exterminated forever by the for
c2s Of civilization arrayed against it
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19
HISTORY OF THE HUN.

Those who think the outbreak of
bloodthirstiness in German is only q
temporaryIhing. have something else
to learn Those who would talk peace
until Kufture is exterminated know
very little of the terror which it would
leave abiding with the human race stul
at the hands of the Huns
every village they have passed
through has been the victim of what
is only organized pillage. Every city
has been practically sacked, ramsaeked
on system; its citizens plundered, its
civil officers terrorized, imprisoned
outraged or killed The civil popula
tons have been, contrary to the useage
of modern warfare, forced to serve
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19
IMMIGRATION IN THE FUTURE

In my opinion all the warning .coun.
tries will do everything they can to
keep their able bodied men at home
They need lE'am for reconstruction
purposes. Certainly this will be true
of England. Germany and France.
Any material immigration from Ger
many is doubtful. The same is true
OF France for the reason that the
French people are homecoming peas
ants. In addition, France has been So
called almost as completely as Ger
many. Something of the same sort
has happened in England. In Russia
and Austria-Iiungary necessity has
forced similar activities upon these
countries, and they toe, will be in a
better position than ever before so far
as national political organization is
concerned, to take care of their PEG
pie. -
While all this is true, unless the gov
ernments forbid it, there will almost
certainly be a heavy immigration from
Poland Hungary, Bohemia and the
B9lkan States This part OF Europe
has suffered most from the war. Not
less than 100000 people have been
driven from their homes. Millions of
these people have friends and relatives
n the United States, and these mil
lions will look longingly toward war
rec country. And they will be helped
10 come to America by friends already
here.
One thing is certain-there is going
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

Firms or individuals paying officers
or business employees a portion or all
salaries and wages during the war per
iod in which they are in the service OF
the United States may deduct these
amounts from their taxable incomes
according-te a regulation by the Com
missioner@of Internal Revenue.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

From Jnne 5 to December /. 1917
only 5,S7G@arrests were made or re
ported to--the Department of Justice
for failure 10 register under the selec
tive service act. OF these, 1868 were
released after having registered and
prosecution were begun against 2,O59
of which about 1880 cases are still
pending. 80,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19
From the beginning Of 1914 e A

From the beginning of 1914 to Au
gust /, 1917 there was total advance
of so per cent in the retail prices OF
bread, according to the Department OF
Labor, In the last few months there
has been decrease, and prices care
now 66 pei. cent higher than at the be
ginning of 1914,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

The prospect for the 1918 wheat crop
in Japan is said to be very good by a
report To. the Department of Com
merce The 1917 crop is estimated ut
nearly $4,000 900 bushels.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

More than 1000 tons of anthracite
coal were condemned in Pennsylvania
markets hyrepresentatives of the Fuel
Administration recently in the cam
paign to compel the delivery of clean
coal
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

A division of "betterments and addi-
tons has been added to the railroad
administration in charge of Judge
Robert 81 Lovett The division will
have jurisdiction of betterments and
additions to railroad lines throughout
the country.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY.

All cheese now in storage must be
marketed before June 15, unless spe-
cial permission to hold is given by the
Food Administration.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

to be a big competition for men all
over the world Canada has lost heavi
ly, and Canada will try to draw PEG
pie from the United States, as well as
from England Mexico will probably
be at peace; and while Mexico is not
inviting immigrants, she is planning
to break up the big monopolstic land
holdings in that country and provide
free land for settlers. The same is
true of Australia
Instead of a surplus of labor, there
may be quite a universal shortage, and
those countries that make conditions
most attractive for labor are going to
secure immigrants and keep their own
population. 1t would not. be surpris-
ing il hundreds Of thousands Of able
Bodied foreigners leave the United
States for Europe. In fact, the steam
ship companies report from 100000 to
100000 persons planning to return to
Europe after the war 1t may be that
the action of Europe is preventing inn
migration, the curiosity and desire of
foreigners already in this country to
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19
PROFESSIONAL CARDS

DIP. 3. DANIEL, Internal Medicine and
Physical Measures, such as Electro
thierapy, Hydrotherapy, Vibration,
Light Treatments, X-Ray, Etc. Cor
dele, Georgia.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19
DISPATCH PUB. co.
CHAs. B. BROWN Editor.
Subscription Price-DaiIy

Communications on all topics pub
lished when not too long and accompa-
MED by full names and address. Not
responsible for views of contributors.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19
Members Of tie Associated Press

Members OF TIE NssocIateu PfeSs'
The Associated Press is exclusive ).
entitled to- the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this pa
per and also the local news published
herein a.-,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

Following the plan adopted for Cali
fornia and Colorado, the Food Admins
tration has appointed commissioner
to determine the cost of producing SUI
gar beets in Nebraska. The commits
sion has no power to fix prices, but it
is expected tn at its figures will serve
as the basis for voluntary price agree
ments between growers and purchas-
ors Of sugar beets.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

go back home, but most of all the be-
lief on the part of many that they can
acquire piece of land in Europe, will
convert America rom nation Of i'm
migrants into a nation of emigrants
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

w. n. DoRRlS-Attorney-at-Law over
Exchange Bank, Cordele, Ga.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

DR.. A. H. kENDALL-Dentis
Disease and Orthodontia, Holmes Bldg
Phone No. 40 Cordele, Ga
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

Or. T. E. BRADLET-Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat and Fitting OF Glasses.
Westbrook Bldg. Cordele, Ga
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

JONES G. sUSSEY, Lawyers. Prac-
tice in all courts, State and Federal
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-03-19

DIR. w. w. MccoLLUM, Dentist, Wess
brook Building, Cordele, Ca
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12

doughboy show to which women could
come and still have it funny. But they
showed skeptical ones, and everybody
had to laugh with the fun and be SER
ious with the "homesicky songs" which
were popular and there WASH t a single
"unsanitary" feature of the program.
AS the chaplain said, after they d
called on the "Holy Joe" for talk,
everything passed the censor. Nobody
"cussed" a single "cuss' word, and
the colonel said in the bully speech he
made at the end of the performance, he
couldn It tell them how proud he was of
them because they'd been in the
trenches long time and every dough
boy was absolutely clean.
A Good Finale
Along toward the end of the
stunts" they heard a machine gun
firing, and everybody looked up thru
the branches to see a Yankee plane
diving into a cautiously fleeing German
plane. It was almost too appropriate to
be real this American aviator hover.
ing over to ward off prying boches.
The American artillsrymen somewhere
in the woods turneG IooRe with theil
evening salvo for the boehes, and with q
patriotic song from the regimental band
| il was finish that left everyone fiji
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12

were only seven girls to fifteen hundred
boys, Anyway, there wasn't any ball
room.
And just before the program started
with Hawaiian songs by the stringed
quartet, somebody looked up and saw an
American sausauge" balloon directly
overhead. The observer wasn't invited
they say, but he was looking down half
the time and toward Germany the other
half, and it a safe bet he didn t miss
much of the program.
Quite A Program.
They had skits, and boxing land
songs, and band music, and, as the
star feature brought on "Lady Evelyn"
the Hula Hula dancer. Everybody
thought "Lady Evelyn" really was a
lady, with her mincing steps and ballet
movements, until some one pulled off
the wig and the boys recognized the
assistant cook in B company.
Somebody said they couldn't stage a
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12
SEVEN LADIES WERE
CONTINUED from page One)

Which would have started rot sure,
if anyone had done it, because there
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12

and cheerful. Then the officers enter
tanned their feminine guests with a
dinner, topped by strawberry short-cake
first ever seen at the front, it is said.
Reports have II, three officers walked
10 miles and back to get those straw
berries in a village behind the lines
which goes to show that officers as well
as doughboys appreciate Cougnnuts and
pies and kindnesses.
After that they had band concert
until dark, after which it was safe to
20 home to dug-outs and ruins without
shopping boebes seeing things, and
everyone did so with the feeling that
the chap who sang was right when he
rendered as a grand finale to the pic
mic, that old "homesicky song, )" The
End of a Perfect Day.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12

Merris yesterday we captured more than
~ prisoners and ten machine guns, y
the statement SAID. "'Yesterday we con
ducted successful raid northeast of
Merris.
9 Duriug the night, Welsh troops raid
Cd German trenches at Hamel, eaptur.
ing sixteen pr soners and machine gun
and destroyed dugoms. Other success.
ful raids we've made by us at Meteren
and prisoners were taken in patrol en-,
counters at Cavrille and in the KEN
mel sector.
"An attempted enemy raid yester.
day south Of Bucquoy was repulsed."
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12
Sergt. Arthur Guy Empey in
Vitagraph's master production,
"Over the Top

GA Voice fom the trenches" is the
way Sergeant Empey's great story,
cover the Top" has been described
by critics. AS drama with the fight
ing sergeant in the very role he en-
acted in the trenches it will be shown
next Thursday, Friday and Saturday
at the Liberty theateT.
The soldier-author with this play
holds the mirror up to human nature
as he found it in the English private
soldier. His story viii appeal to young
and old alike, to all who love pathos
and humor, great deeds and manly
men.
The New York Times in commenting
ON the story "Over the Top" said:
"Propective soldiers can learn here
pretty nearly just what is awaiting
them, in both incident and sensation,
while their folks at home win be heart
ened.'
Like the book, this Vitagraph drama
is filled with anecdotes that will
bring the smile and laughter Empey
proves that life in the trenches is not
all gloom by any means. He says:
"War is not a pink tea, but in a
worthwhile cause like ours, mud rats,
coolies, shells, wounds or death itself
are far outweighed by the deep sense
of satisfaction felt by the man who
does his bit. There is one thing my ex-
perience taught me that might help
the boys who may have to go. 1t IS
this-anticipation is far worse than
realization. In civil life man stands
in awe of the man above him, wonders
how he could ever fill his job. When
the time comes he rises to the occasion,
is up and at it, and is surprised to
find how much more easily than he
anticipated he fills his responsibilities
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12
Take Prisoners and Guns.

London, July 12.-More than 100
prisoners and ten machine guns were
captured in a minor operation southwest
of Merris, on the Flanders front, Field
Marshal Haig reported today.
Successful raids were conducted else.
where on the flanders front and in Pi
eardy.
I'm a minor enterprise southwest Of
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12

I'm normal times the candy industry uses only 81
Iper cent of the sugar used per capita in thisl
country. Right this amount has been cut square
lly in two.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12
Subjects Of Neutral
Countries May Enlist

Washington, July 12.-All subjects
of neutral countries who have declar-
ed their intention of becoming citi-
zens of this country and who wish to
avoid military service may do so un-
der the provisions of the army appro-
priation bill, explained Provost Mar
shal General Crowder. Such men, how
ever, will have to cancel their natural
ization applications and be classed as
aliens forever. The provisions do not
apply to those neutral countries with
which we have treaties.
This provision makes a large reduc-
tion in class one men who are yet to
be called, stated Crowder.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12

Victor Rakowsky, mining man of
Joplin, Mo-, who is interested in zinc
and lead mines Of that state and who
recently became interested in the man.
ganese mines in the Lake Creek district
has arrived in Medfurd from Joplin
having made the 1400 mile trip by
auto. He will locate at Medford.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12
FOUR AMERICAN
CONTINUED from page one)


bten taKen.
Longpont is strategically important
village on the eastern fringe of Vilelrs
Cutteretts forest, 13 miles south and
west Of scissors and about the same
distance directly north of the American
position at Bussiares. Corey is a mile di.
rectly south of Longpont and Faverol-
les is three miles southwest Of Corey.
Chavigny farm is q mile northwest Of
l.ongpont.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12

The Turkish war office recently re-
ported an allied air raid on Constantin-
oplc Us having occurred on June 80,
but declared there was Gro damage. y
COnEtantinople is nearly 800 miles
in an an line from the nearest allied
lines, cn the Salonika front. 1t is pos
slhle, however, that these raids were
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12
Constantinople Raided.

London, July l2.-Another British
raid Oh Constantinople was announced
by the air ministry today.
~ Aa ar force on July attacked
Constantinople, dropping ton Of
hombs, the statement said.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12

made from base on some of the Greek
islands in the Aegean sea or that the
machines were launched from British
squadron in those waters.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12
Turkish Troops Mutiny

Athens, July 12.--A Turkish regiment
ordered from Aidin to Mcsopotamia mu-
timed and murdered its German off
GERS, according to reports received from
the interior of Turkey.
Afterward, the mutincers were par
doned and were allowed to remain in
Adm.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12
German and Austrian
Crops Badly Damaged

Zurich, July IA heavy )
rainfall in Austria and south
ern Germany has done immense :
damage to crops, according to
reports here.
: The Neue Wiener Tageblatt ;
: declares that Austria has lost
: more than half of its stock. ;
(
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-12

Adm is in Asiatic Turkey, so miles
northeast Of Smyrna.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-08-15
WOMEN TORTURED,
Suffer terribly with eorns because Of
high heels. hut why
care now

Women wear high heels which
buckle up their tors and they suffer
terribly from corns Women then
proceed to trim These pests seeking re-
lief bat they hardly realize the ter
rible danger from infection says q
Cincinnati authority.
Corls cam easily bee lifted ont with
the fingers if you will get from any
drug store quarter of an ounce Of q
drug called freezonc This is sufh-
cient to remove every hard or soft
corn or cillus from ones feet You
simply apply few drops directly upon
the tender. aching corn or c.iilus- The
soreness is relieved at once and soon
the entire corn OF csillus. root and all.
lifts out without one particle Of pain
This freezone il sticky substance
which dries in "A moment. IL Just
shrivels up the corn without infomins
or even irritating the surrounding It's
sue OF skin Tell your wife about
this adv.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-08-15
EASTMAN DEAD.
Former Hickman Man Victim Of Pneu
nionil al Nashville.

William Eastman age SO years. died
ia Nashville at 2 o'clock Friday even
iug following an illness * Labor
pneumonia" and THE remains were
brought hack saturday to Hickman
for iufermeuL
Alr. Eastman hnd for MANY years
been employed hy the Hickman Of The
Mcneei Box Co. but few weeks ago
.he family went to Nashville. where
Mr. Eastman bad -crmed employment
with tho government powder plant.
Ills death. of course. came uneNpect
eddy He leaves wife and two small
children.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon go the home OF Ben
white. hy Rev. J. D. Miley. Of the
Christian church. and the remains
buried 600 the ciry cemetery with A. W
a honor- Deceased was highly re
SPECIFIED man and has many friends ia
Hickman
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-08-15

Local dealers teli us that the ordi-
narv sewing needle s. almost ihin-
~ thr pl Tay are oH the whole
Sale market entirely. our supply OF
needles ome arsoiy from Germany
Iae local icc plant is sim having
trnu'ir supplying lac demand f,r iei. 3D.
ill0kfnan. Ihey exhausted completely
Meir stoss saturday aud bad car
shipped in Sunday.
Julius I'd Brooks. OF Fulton. WAS re-
ported Sunday as missing ia action
Tie IS som of Tom Brooks. who was
q candidate Tor Jaiicr in the primary
last year.
d. J.. Ambere IS Ga ST. Louis this
week buying new fan and winter
goods Tor The firm Of smith & AMBER
For sale or Trade; Good gentle
Family horsc-Mrs. Joe Ridley.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-08-15
BAND GREAT FEATURE.

The sixteenth annual Kentucky
state Fair % be held IN Louisville the
week Of september s-I4. viii boast IN
Ihaviu's Band OF forty musicians one
OF the greatest musical organizations
over appearing az State Fair. The
Ihaviu organization is made up OF
forty spiendidly trained musicians who
are arrayed in military regaiia and &C
campaigning % IS coterie Of solo art
lists of International repute together
with galaxy % ballet dancers who
are said t0 b. terpsichorean wonders
and fully up 90 the coryphee support
OF Pavlowa. Genee or Ruth St Denis
Ihaviu's Band was one az the six
teen great examinations which played