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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17

of living just strongly as does any
other agency for good. No large com
munity ought to be without the very
best in this line, any more than it
ought to be without its churches, The
uplift is worth the price of good
playground many times over.
AS we now are situated, only the
cheap. noise making shows, hardly
worthy of ones time, are willing to
take chances, and even they have to
charge $50 for a IL cent show.
For the purpose of securing a real
theatre, if for nothing else, Cordele
ought to have new city auditorium
And there are other reasons, just as
good, why we should have the new
city hall For the largest better shows
travel is expensive. They need good
playhouse here and must have it. Our
own advancement requires it.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17
OUR OPERA HOUSE

Cordele is comparatively young
town, and Yet some OF her older citi-
zens remember our local playhouse
as the same that greeted them in
their younger days, twenty-eight
years ago. We have the same opera
house and city hall that were here
when our main business thorough
fares of today were tnew ground" No
one has seemed to think new city hall
and opera house, or city auditorium
as Albany has it, is u necessity. hut
it is.
From the one viewpoint, that of the
playhouse. we are far away from our
present needs, Many of us look for
the standard attractions.--fo the
plays that make the stage one of the
moving elements of civilization. hut
we never see them. We cannot see
them as long as we have a playhouse
to which they cannot come. The
house is so small. they cannot earn
expenses coming here. The stage is
so small and untitled for modern
theatrical needs that the praise
worthy attractions cannot even use
their furnishing when they come. and
a company that thinks something OF
the impression il makes. win not dar,
Try a show here
The theatre plays its part instilinl
into mankind the truer, nobler traits
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY

Wonder if Germany has told the
nations of the world they are Tree TO
trade on the high seas again. This is
one. of the terms of the armistice.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17

Just about 100000 more Frenchmen
had joyous surprise coming to them
when they were liberated from Ger
pribons. 1t must have been really com
forting to them to find when they got
on the outside that their military foe
for more than a century was beaten.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17

Fully two thousand dollars behind
on the War Work fund yet. If this one
fails, it will be the first of the whole
war Some Of the campaign workers
who have failed to cover their terri
tory ought To go in and finish the
task.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17

II did not take the political revolu-
ton long to put Germany out of the
war. II might likewise not take the
moral revolution long to put that
country back in the ranks Of respect
able nations,- but when may we
look for the moral revolution?
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17
CROWN PRINCE is NOW
IN 9'n's INTERNED in HOLLAND

London, (Friday)- The former
crown prince of Germany has been in
termed at the castle of his friend
Count Metternich. at Swalmen, in the
province of Limburg, Holland, says an
Amsterdam dispatch.
1t is reported that his wife is with
him.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17

There will be omore torpedoing OF
ships by submarines, at least for a
while. If might be news for the allies
to rive out an account of how many
subs were captured and destroyed
during the war.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17

Llodyd George seems to be the IS
sue In the British elections. He ought
to win for the good he has already
done, not beaten because Of what ms
enemies think he cannot do.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17
HEALTH FIRST

DR. NJ f. Haygood, Medical Direc-
tor Of Rural Sanitation, of the State
Board of Health passed thru Cordele
this morning motoring his way. He
was looking for the Chamber of Com
merce but it being early did not have
time to take up the matter in the
way he would have liked, or to meet
members of the dody.
He said that Dooly county had act
ed on the matter of sanitation for
the county and that if Crisp would
come in with Dooly, it would make
territory large enough to establish a
Sanitary District and get sanitary
survey Of the district.
He said the time would come when
medical practice would be mostly
preventative, and that most disease
es could be prevented and those con
sidered fatel could be postponed
much longer from death,
Some time since travelling man
visiting LAGRANGE was taken i'll and
died in a few days, He had Brights
disease Had he been examined few
years sooner no doubt he would have
been told to eat foods not albumen
and his life would have been prolong
Cd
In the way of preventative practice
he said almost any man would give
IN dollars for a certificate of exami-
alton showing himself in perfect
laalth? Eyes, it's cheap insurance"
1t is related that in Mexican war
the man in ten died Of disease. the
Civil war, one in %, the Russo-Jap.
var one in 40 and the Spanish Amer
ian war, one in So And the present
war one in 500 up to the time of in
i,uenza Sanitation is responsible for
he saving as we know by the great
care for the present day soldier. Near
=. home in Troupe county, the deaths
f'om dysentery have been reduced
IS per cent, Typhoid 63.
In New York two districts we're
icked out, one was put in charge
the sanitary men,-the other the
me size, was left alone. In the dis
.ict over which the sanitary people
perated deaths were reduced rs.
For the average family of six to
treated with TYPHOID serum the
st runs quite high, probably five
,ollars per head, and to the average
lmily the drain or income is too
Ereat.
In Troupe county 10000 vaccina-
tons for smallpox and 1900 for ty-
nhoid were given at cost of 50 .525-
much less than 20 cents a piece, so it
"ill be seen the immense saving to "a
immunity which has public santa
Ion looked after
DR.. Haywood said that If the SAM
1ry District composed of Dooly and
risp were established that the
Rockefeller Foundation and the State
iaard of Health would bear half the
&pense. That is quite an inducement
cr these counties to join in the pro
Hress.
There was precipice at the trun OF
Ne road. So many autos went down
lie prospice and people were hurt
hat Il philanthropist said he would
put up a hospital to care of the
lounded. A wiser man said why no
ut up fence and save the auto.
rom going down and you won't neeC
hospital
That is compared with the santa
ion proposed by the State and tn,
"ockefeler Foundation.
a clip that holds piece of chall
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17

a clip that holds a piece of chalk
y door AT any height desired forms
D new skirt guage for dressmakers
\ new leather travelling bag has a
cllapsible bottom which permits it
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17

For out or door writer's a desk that
is strapped to one knee with an elias
tic band has been patented
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17

The Ford Model One Ton Truck is really the of
the farmer manufacturers contractor and merchant It has all
the strong features of the Ford bigger and stronger
has the powerful drive large emergency
ing on both wheels and controlled by hand lever
wheel base yet turns 46 foot circle and has
ougy tested We know it is absolutely dependae We advise
giving order without delay that you supplied as soon
possible The demand large orders are filed in rotation
Leave your order today.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17

PateYille, died at-nine- o'clock Thurs
ly--s--s---.- -,----.:.s.------ .4
day night. The funeral and inter
ment occurred yesterday afternoon
at three o'clock at Zion Hope church
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17

Comm nicetlons on all topics pub
lisbod when not too long and accompa-
nisd by full names and address. MOI
responsible fofviews Of contributors.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17
DEATH TAKES LITTLE -.
THIRTEEN MONTHS BOY

William Gwyn, thirteen months
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ X. Sims Of
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-17
Nemhers Of Associated Press.

Members OF Associated Press.
fhe Associated Fress IL exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
Ut all news dispatches credited TO II
Or rot otherwise credited In this pa,
Ner and also the local news published
Eersin.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-08-10
ARMY UNITS.

Some knowledge of army facts and
figures is almost essential nowadays
and it is well to know that
An army corps is 10000 men.
An infantry division is 10000 men.
An infantry brigade is 1000 men.
A regiment of infantry is 5000
men.
A battalion is 1000 men.
A company is $50 men.
A platoon is 60 men.
A corporaPs guard is IL men.
A field battery has 1876 men.
A supply train has 283 men.
A machine gun battalion has 296
men.
An engineers regiment has 1908
men.
An ambulance company has 60 men.
A field hospital has So men.
A major general heads field army
and also each army corps.
A brigadier general heads each in
fantry brigade.
A colonel heads each regiment.
A lieutenant colonel is next in rank
below a colonel.
A major heads each battalion.
A captain heads each company.
A lieutenant heads a platoon.
A sergeant is next below a lieu
tenant.
A corporal is a squad officer.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-08-10

| mongrels. "Lay down your arms and
dispersed"
First Shot of the War.
The Minute Men stood firm as the
bridge itself. Pitcairn blazed at them
with his pistol and yelled an order to
his troops. A gust of musket fire
poured into the gallant little hero
group. The Minute Men returned the
volley as best they could. But when
the smoke rolled up and cleared the
field great cry arose from the women
at the roadside, for sixteen of the
brave farmers lay dead or wounded
on the green.
The first shot Of the revolution had
world" the shot whose echoes were
never to die into silence until our
country should be free.
On toward Concord marched the vic
torious British, pillaging and destroy
ing as they went. There they turned
back toward Boston. But they speed
lily found it far easier to thrust ones
hand into a hornets nest than to
draw it out again unstung.
By this time the whole region was
alive with armed men. They shot
down the redcoats from behind bush
and wall. They were everywhere,
they were nowhere. Whenever Pit
cairn tried to face them they were
hidden. AS soon as he began his march
again they were pouring hot shot into
his ranks.
The British were moved down by
dozens. They marched faster. Soon
they broke into panic flight, throwing
away their guns and knapsacks and
rushing pell nell for safety. The
farmers burst from cover and chased
them. Only a strong reinforcement
sent out from Boston to meet them
saved the whole British force from
destruction.
Thus ended the first days fighting
our country Gas a country ever knew
the day on which Liberty was born.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-08-10
A PERFECT EVENING SPOILED.

"Isn't it glorious here?" she ex-
claimed when the waiter had taken
their orders.
"Do you think sol" he replied.
'It's perfectly lovely. Everything
is in such beautiful harmony-the
fountain, the trees, the swaying Ian
terms, the music-everything is ideal.
It's like Fairyland."
"I'm glad you like it."
Pm simply enchanted. Doesn't it
make you feel as if you had stepped
out Of the everyday world into some
thing strange and new?"
mot Bit"
whats the matter? You don't
seem to be enjoying yourself"
'My boss is sitting at the third
table over there to your left, and
can tell by his look that he's wonder
ing how can afford to blow myself
at place like this. Dayton News.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-08-10
HISTORIC DAY ON WHICH AMERICAN
FREEDOM WAS BORN, APRIL 10, Its
By ALBERT PAYsoN TERHuNE.

In the gray dawn of April 10, 1775,
group of shirt sleeved farmers and
shopkeepers huddled in front of a
bridge near the lower end of the vii
lage green at Lexington, Mass.
The roadside was lined with women,
wet-eyed but unfinching, and with
half-dressed children. Some of the
women were clinging to the arms of
their husbands or lifting their chill
dren to them for good-by kiss.
The shirt sleeved group at the
bridgehead was made of Massachu-
sets Minute Men," none of them in
uniform, few carrying any more for
midable weapon than the family shot
gun. About one hundred and thirty
of these Minute Men" were gathered
there. Captain John. Parker COM
manded them.
Every eye turned at intervals to-
ward the road beyond the bridge, the
road leading to Boston, ten miles
away. For along that road, some
where in the chill morning mist, death
was advancing.
The thirteen American colonies had
rebelled against the unjust taxes and
oppression crowded upon them by
England, their mother country. Eng
lands German king, George III,
would not admit that the colonists
had any rights.
No organized blow had yet been
struck. But the hour was ripe. All
the country was watching Massachu-
sets. For there, it was felt, the war
must begin
A strong force of British regulars
held Boston. Thruout the surround
/ 49, ~ l.
drilling and were collecting arms and
ammunition and provisions against the
approaching clash.
Secret Stores in Concord.
The British in Boston learned that a
quantity of food and arms was hidden
at Concord, seven miles beyond Lex
ington. And on the night Of April IS
a force of 300 veteran redcoat troops
under Major Pitcairn, was sent to
seize or destroy this collection. Paul
Revere, Boston goldsmith, heard Of
the plan. Slipping past the British
sentinels, he galloped by night to Con.
cord, spreading. news of the coming
expedition as he rode. The whole
countryside was at once astir.
At the Lexington bridge the first
detachment of Minute Men waited fol
the British to arrive, the British who
not only outnumbered them six to one
but who were trained soldiers, well
armed and equipped. A kindergarten
child might as well have tried to stoI
the rush Of q heavyweight pugilist
But, tho these grim-faced farmers
knew the fearful odds, they knew
no fear.
Presently boy came running back
from the road beyond the bridge
shouting that the vanguard of the Brit
ish was in sight. Thru the dawn
stiffness came the measured tramp OF
feet. Thru the mist glowed the red
uniforms and shining muskets of the
enemy. Major Pitcairn, riding in
front, saw the pitiful clump Of armed
farmers drawn up to defend the
bridge.
"Disperse you rebelsl" he bawled
as il trying to scatter a pack OF
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-08-10
HAVING A COOP TIME.

What constitutes recreation de-
ponds, of course, on the point of view.
Here is that of certain small citi-
zen in school for dependent chill
dren. He wrote to his father thus:
ave are having good time here
now Mr.. Jones broke his leg and
can't work. We went on picnic and
it rained and we all got wet. Many
Mr.. Smith fell off of the wagon and
broke his ribs, but he can work lit
tie. The man that is digging the deep
well whipped us boys with buggy
whip because we threw sand in his
machine, and made black and blue
marks on it. Harry cut his finger
badly. We are all very happy
Everybody's Magazine.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-08-10
NO OCCASION FOR
PESSIMISM HERE
AMERICAN AND GERMAN
FINANCES COMPARED.
Our National Resources Estimated at
$3.50, 000, 000, 900, With Annual Earn
ings of $4,000, OO0, 900; National
Debt Is Only $4,000, 000, 900.

| Pessimistic Americans who view
with alarm our increasing national
obligations may derive a great deal
of comfort from a comparison of the
financial condition of the United
States contrasted with that of Ger
many.
The total resources of the United
States are estimated at about $780,
600, 100000; our annual earnings are
Our national debt, including the third
Liberty loan, may be put around $12,-
600, 100000
| Before the war our government was
spending about 81 ,000,0 100000 a year.
When the war is ended, interest
charges, less the interest collected
from our loans to our allies, govern
ment insurance expenses, and other
necessary expenditures growing out
of the war may conservatively be esti-
mated at something like $1,000, 0O0,-
900. We are confronted, therefore.
when peace comes, with raiisng only
couple of billions a year revenue,
a slight task for nation Of such ire
mendous wealth, capacity and re-
sources.
The resources of Germany before
the war were estimated to be $780,
900, 100000. The annual expenditures
then of the imperial government were
about 100000. Her debt now is
$50, 900, 100000, and her resources and
man power have been severely i'm
paired. After the war she is con-
fronted with additional expenditures
growing out of the war totaling some
| $4,000, 900 900.
The interest of her war debt, even
if the debt grows no larger, will be
about 81 800 600 600 Altho she is
niggardly in her pensions to private
soldiers and their families, $1,000,-
100000 a year would hardly suffice
to pay even small pensions to her in
jured and the families of her SOL
diers who have been killed. Her war
debt must be paid some time and a
sinking fund of per cent would add
81 SOC, 900, 900 to her annual taxation.
Here is total increase of $4,000, 00O-
900 all due to the war.
OF course both the United States
and Germany may greatly increase
their debts, but the increases will not
change the relative situations.
The German government has
drained the German people Of their
gold, even their jewels and heirlooms,
and yet the Imperial Bank Of Ger
many now has but little over $780,
100000 of gold in its vaults. The
United States has made no special
effort to obtain gold, has made no call
upon the people for the precious metal,
and yet today has in its treasury
vaults practically $4,000, 100000 in
gold coin and bullion.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-08-10
PASSING OF MELoDIoUs MULE.

By operating on a mule scientists
have succeeded in making him voice
ess.-News Item.
A few can touch the magic string,
And noisy Fame is proud to win
them,
Alas for those who never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
How often, as the dusk grew near,
And vagrant breezes stirred the
pool,
We've paused beside the path to hear
The evening carol of the mule.
A simple and unstudied strain,
AS from heart that overlooked,
1t rose and fell and rose again,
And died in echoes down the road.
But science, with its ruthless knife,
These vibrant cords has learned to
sever;
That song that spoke the joy of life
In zigzag bars is stilled forever.
A kindly and impulsive brute
In silence must pursue his ways,
The song upon his lips is mute,
And all his days are brayless days.
Now, science may be right, Of course,
Perhaps the mule is no musician,
And merely prayed till he was hoarse
To crafty false ambition.
Perhaps the MUSES. passed him by,
Caruso's genius may have missed
him;
And yet it's sad that he must die
With all that music in his system!
James J. Montague in New York
American.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-08-10
THRUST AND PARRY.

Pangs of jealousy were in Miss
Coldfoot's heart when she heard that
her late admirer had been accepted by
Miss Lovebird, and when she hap
pened to run across her in the bar
gain rush could not resist giving a
thrust.
II hear you've accepted jack" she
gushed. 81 suppose he never told
you he once proposed to me-"
mo-" answered Jacks fiancee. "He
once told me that there were a lot of
but l didn't ask him what they were
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
The advertisers in the Bulletin are
ro,,r fr;arJc- tror;1a fhav,o
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-08-10
PUTTING 1T OVER ON JINKs.

These lines to Mrs. Jimpson-Jinks,
Who frets because her husband drinks,
And who, when hubby is not looking,
Sneaks booze cure into the family
cooking.
Richmond TimesDispatch.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-08-10

The advertisers in the Bulletin are
your friends-patronize them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
LYNCHING NARROWLY AVERTED
In CITY OF "BROTHERLY LOVE
Philadelphia Seems to Be Acquiring
Mob Spirit-Thought Negro
Had Shot Girl.

PHILADELPHIA Pa.-After he
had emptied heavy caiber revolv-
er into a crowd of several hundred
persons in an effort to escape arrest
early yesterday morning at Fifteenth
and Filbert streets, negro giving his
name as Ollie Powell, was saved from
almost certain death by quick-wit-
ted detective.
The fact that one of the bullets
fired by the negro was at first sup
posed to have wounded a young
woman who was standing with three
friends near the station aroused the
crowd to a frenzy. Detective Nc
Cullough, of the Fifteenth and Vine
streets station, seized Powell in the
nick of time, rushed him up the stair
way to the train floor, where he en-
tered an elevator just as the men,
bers of the mob swept up the steps
intent on putting an end to the ne
groe's life.
Hastily summoned a detail of po-
lice arrived on the scene in a motor
patrol and escorted the now thor
oughly-frightened cOlored man to the
station house.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
AIR MAIL SERVICE
NOW BEING PLANNED
THE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT
MAY USE MOST OF THE AIR
CRAFT OF ARMY.

The government is planning to
make use of every available aeroplane
now in the service of the army and
the navy, carrying mail instead of
bombs. If tentative plans are sue
cessfully carried out virtually the en-
tire tirst-class mail of the nation will
travel through the air.
The Washington-New York aerial
mall which may be regarded as a
mere spectacular by-product of the
war, has been successful. Not only
will the carrying of mail be expedited,
but the air service will be a paying
department of the postal system, it
is believed.
There are 1000 young men who
have received training in aviation. If
the program goes through there will
be use for all the men who can be
spared from the military branches. 1t
is expected that hundreds and per-
haps thousands of planes will be in
constant service of the pOstoffice de-
partment. If the plan is successful,
landing places will have to be estab-
lished in or near every large city in
the United States.
1t is expected that the air letter
service will almost entirely supercede
the night-letter telegraph between
cities within a radius of 500 miles.
1t will be cheaper and there will be no
limitation on the number of words in
the message. The dangers in errors
of transmission also will be done
away with.
Statisticians believe that the mail
from New York city can be landed
in Chicago in nine hours, as against
% it takes by the fastest trains. 1t is
also believed that mail could be de-
livered to the Pacific coast in As
hours, as against four days it takes by
train.