The Cordele dispatch., 1918-12-12

unusual. No service stars of that lus-
ire shine for this sanctum.
Here is what Editor Herring writes:
In fact the part the men
en- in the fight for Liberty in intense
Iy gratifying to every patriotic Ameri-
can, and especially to their brethren
of the press. 1t is a part that will be
remembered and cherished while the
tradition of America in the Great War
live.
Just from the exchanges to hand
we note: The Atlanta Constitution
has a Service Flag with ninety-two
stars representing the number Of en-
ployes in uniform; several of these
have been wounded. The Atlanta
Journal, seventy-three stars, two gold
ones for captains who gave their lives
in France. The Savannah Morning
News, twenty-four stars for men in
uniform. Savannah Press fourteen
stars. And so on, through the papers
of Columbus, Macon, Augusta, and
other Georgia cities
The showing by the country press
is even better. Many Georgia weekly
papers suspended, that their publish
ers might don uniform; others chang
ed hands and many are squeezing
along, as best they may, with limited
force until the boys over there re-
turn, just as the large papers are do
ing Only as illustrative of conditions
in the smaller cities will say that the
Gazette has furnished five employees
| (all volunteers) direct from it's office
and that all these are across the wa
ter. And what is true of this paper is
equally true of the average in a town
of this size. To be sure, we are told
Of one South Georgia paper boasting
three dozen men on it's payroll, that
was without a single volunteer until
the draft pincers closed in, but that
is notable exception. AS whole the
newspapers of Georgia were the first
of the states great industries to fur
nish their quota of volunteers. We
think the fact should be widely pub
lished, and tenderly remembered.
When it came to the great sacrifice,
the newspaper men took no second
place
But Georgia newpaper men have
no claim to distinction is this respect;
the same is true the country over.
From the staff of the New York
World two officers had lost their lives
in France before this country declar-
ed war. They were among a number
of employees who had volunteered un-
der the Canadian flag. If recollection
serves, the Tribune, Times and other
metropolitan papers made a showing
almost equal to this. Since America
entered the war the number of their
men in service has climbed to several
hundred and poets, artists, critics and
editorial writers joined in swelling
the casualty lists. What is true of
New York is equal true of Chicago
Cleveland Philadelphia, and other
large cities, and what is true of the
Of the weekly press of Georgia is
equal true of the country press the
nation over north, eest and west.
A Senator who Writhed under the
r.l'>uiH cf the r1ess. was quoted last
spring as saying lie would like to
march all the Ecwa.,aper men of the
country UP the firing line; the most
&blebUdied among them had already
safe at home
gone, while the Senator remained
When the future writes the history
of the war, the part taken therein
will be distinguished by the bravery
of the newspaper men who went to
the front as by the loyalty Of those
forced by circumstances to stay at
home.
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