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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-07
AMERICAN CONCERNS ORDER THEIR
EMPLOYEES TO LEAVE MEXICO AT ONCE

.El Paso, Dec, 4.-Gertain American
concerns operating in Mexico order.
ed their border representatives today
to prepare for getting their Ameri.
can employees cut of Mexico. In some
cases tho definite instructions were
given for immediate with drawal of
Amer can employees out OF Mexico.
American emp Dyes from Mexico.
Names of these companies were
withheld because CT the possible dan.
ger, it was said, to their employees in
quitting the Southern republic.
Danger to Americans in Mexico.
should diplomatic relations between
the countries be broken off, has been
seriously discussed on the border in
connection with the Jenkins case. 1t
was felt that an order from the gov.
rnment such as was issued by Presi~
dent Taft in 1912. ordering Ameri.
cans to quit Mexico, would create an
i'll feeling south Of the border and
might cause bloodshed.
The problem Of getting the Amcri
cans out Of Mexico, should diplomatic
relations be broken, would be il diff
cult one, according to their employ
ers, for they arc scattered throughout
the country and many are great dis.
tances from railroads aud telegraph
lines. Withdrawal of the Americans
woul close all operations in the in
dusthies and mines, it was admitted
and hundreds of Mcxicans would be
thrown out of employment, Property
valued ut millions Of dollars would
be forced to be idle.
Companies preparing to get their!
employees home hesitated today to peri
nit publication of their intentions.
Then it was decided that the situa.
lion appeared SO critical that notice
IF their action might point the way toI
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-07
TO ABANDON CONTROL
OF SUGAR DEC. 3lST.

Washington d. c. Dee 4.-The gov
crnmcnt will not attempt to control
the distribution and sale of sugar
after the sugar equalization board is
dissolved Dec 81.
Attorney General Palmer in max
ing this annauncemers. today, sair
that no funds had been provided
Ey Congress for carrying on the work
of handbag sugar she Department
CT Justice would confine its efforts
to the punishment of profiteers.
In explaining the abandonment of
the program for defeating the sugar
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-07
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

DO not take your children to buy
new boots in the early morning. In
the later part Of the day the feet are
at the maximum size. Activity and
standing tend TO enlarge the feet. If
people would only remember this
rule there would not be so many
complaints of the shoes piuching the
toes and so causing unsghtly iblem
ishcs.
Ammonia will he found excellent
for renoyating and removing stains
from blue serge dress. Buy some
ammonia and dissolve it in a wine
bottle of hot water Place the gar.
ment flat upon the table and thorough
ly brush it until it S free from dust
Now proceed to rub it well over with
n cloth soaked in ammonia water
taking care that every little.-stain is
rubbed. Repeat the rubbing process
if necessary. Hang the skirt out on a
line in the air till dry aud press on
the wrong side with hot irons ad
damp cloth.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-07

safety to other Americans in tho in.
terror.
Should a resolution breaking off
relations be passed, it was said, there
would be II general exodus OF Amer
cans to the United States.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-07

The Persians are renowned lovers
Of jewels, and Teheran, "the City OF
Jewels" given iewel-names to Ms
streets
Tho movement Of drifting ice in
the Far North is about two miles a
day.
The shortest people in the world
are the Laplanders; the tallest are
the PatagonianS.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-07
UNITED STATES ARMY GOODS FOR SALE

deep
hot tank Large Oven with
nmena shelf Also
$16150
galvanized
1noS' ne" SS4So
beautiful stove slightly used good wood coal regular
u Army heaters Big Seven Suitable for home
Army regulation double wheel
complete, worth 1925 set Our Price
u s. Army Mcclellan Saddles
T. Mcclellan Sadles
Z. aters.
" s. Army leather
Deep ID inches wide with
u All
u Navy fammock
40
o. Wool Overcoats
Special 1885,
s. Army leather
comfort Special $3.50
u s. Army heavy galvanized
russell Shoes $3.50 u
Simmons high
Cash with
BACK If NOT SATISFIED Prices T. O.
toners within 500 mile radius visiting
BRADLEY BONDED WAREHOUSE COMPANY
GREENVILLE. SOUTH
Largest Dealers United States Army
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-07
ODD AND INTERESTING
The beech is less frequently struck
by lighting than any other tree.

by lighting than any other tree.
The tallest and shortest people in
Europe the Norweg:ans and the
Lapp, live side by side.
African catfish have the power of
discharging an electric shock SUI
ficiently powerful to disable a man
The muscular power of the flea is
so great that it can leap a distance
of two hundred times its cwn length
Cultivate the habit of walking with
head up and the shoulders thrown
back. 1t is cheaper and better than
bottle tonice, say the United States
Public Health Service.
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03
The Death of Grammar

[From the Spokane Spokesman Re-
view.[
English as commonly written to-
day certainly seems to have lost the
purity and strength that it had a
century ago. Then such masters OF
the language as Cobbett. Coleridge,
DeQuincey or Hazlitt were jurnal-
lists as we'll as poets or essayists. and
their leading articles lost nothing of
effect on the public from being liter
ature.
The arrival of the age of steam,
electricity. and cheap postage was
followed by a change, not for tho
better, in the popular style of speak
ing and writing. Say what you have
to say as briefly and quickly as pos
sible, and don't bother about fine-
ness of expression" became the gen.
eral rule and practice. The new
millions of readers demanded that
their reading be expressed in the
Language of every day speech. The
obligation of compressing conclu-
sions about important matters into
one thousand words, or fewer, is
death, in the end, to style. The lit
erary form favored is in touch with
the turned up trousers fashion of
wearing ones clothing. 1t is free
and easy and crariNed with linguis-
tic atrocities Pioral. subjects are
polygamously welded to singular
verbs, and Lindley Murray turns in
his grave, on account OF the death of
grammar - - ~ 49, r--s-. .---.->-..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03

but the alternative which the speaker
resented-namely, that Americas
help must be given promptly and
free. handedly, the people in the
market seem to have accepted as the
alternative which would be adopted,
and to believe that the wonderful
energy, ability and vast resources of
the United States would be energeti-
cally employed to help Europe safely
out. as Mr.. Vanderlip had said must
be done If disaster was to be escaped.
Evidently, over here, the problem
of readjustment is being solved with
comparative steadiness. and the
marks of progress this week are un-
mistakable. The demand for steel
has improved definitely, accompa-
MED by growing confidence in the
trade. Impressive evidence of the
country's undiminished supply of
funds is furnished by the oversub-
scription to the Victory Loan
amounting to $3.50, 100000. The
large oversubscription to 100000 300
in. bonds of the City of Rio de ia
neiro shows what can be done in our
market with foreign securities.
These occurrences and others like
them mean that the buying power of
the country is something well-nigh
measureless. The effects which may
come from this are hard to compute.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03
NdDy Must Be Maintained!
[From the Kansas City Times1


Secretary Daniels urges Congress
to SHOW it's confidence in the cove
nant of the League of Nations" by
cutting down its naval program. He
processes his own confidence in the
league and calls the covenant "the
most momentous document in two
thousand years"
The United States to trust to its
defense to a treaty! 1t passes COM
prehension.
Is the country to base it's security
on the personal faith of the Secre-
tary of the Navy in an experiment
which has repeatedly been tried and
always has failed? Mr.. Daniels may
risk his personal fortunes on any ex-
pertinent that appeals to him. That
is. his private affair. But the for
tune of the Nation is another mat
ter.
China is appealing to the league
to protect her. And how much pro-
lection is China getting? And If
Italy should get Fiume who would
go to the rescue of the Jugo- -Slavs ?
Not. the League of Nations!
The Navy is Americas first line
of defense. This Nation must see
that that line is maintained. If it
should ever be foolish enough to put
it's trust in the good intentions of the
world, instead of in its own power,
il will be inviting disaster.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03
HUNNISH REASONING

|" ERRORISTS who believe they
can weaken the United States
government and turn the
sthoughts of the people toward it's
aoverthrow by means of cowardly
Hbomb outrages are reasoning as did
kthe Hun when he called in fright
efulness'' in the hope of bringing the
fpeople of the Allied nations to their
sknees We all know that the effect
was precisely the opposite. Germany
plotted her own ruin when she
tturned her bayonets and her bullets
against the innocent men, women
and children of Belgium and started
upon her career of vandalism and
nncendiarism. Germany has paid
dearly in blood and will pay even
more extensively in money for every
crime of the kind her armies COM
mitted.
So with the terrorist who bombs
the homes of good people. He &C
.complishee no more than to make
every decent man tighten his jaws
and register determination to do his
utmost to see these towards brought
ITO the gallows where they belong.
Qnstead of arousing the masses
against the government these mid
night murderers bring us all more
closely together in its defense. They
make us reflect upon the benefits of
uaw and order as compared with the
!bloody uncertainties of anarchism.
They cause us to turn whatever of
.discontent we may have with the
existing order of things against the
men who put their bombs in the
way of orderly progress. Instead of
weakening the government they are
making it stronger by giving to it
1the unqualified support of every de-
rcent-thinking man and woman in
the country.
We need no revolutions in Amer
ica. Whenever the people want any
one thing sufficiently they will go
ITO the polls and get it. Americans
,have no patience with the fool who
would have us believe that the way
to procure better government is by
destroying all government. We have
,been too lenient with anarchists and
Industrial Workers of the World
and their ilk. The only thing they
can understand is the kind of force
they employ and the law should be
brought to bear upon them with all
the power and vigor of the federal
courts. They must be made to feel
the heavy hand of Uncle Sam. The
hunt for them should not cease un-
I'll every one of the brutes has been
hunted to his hole and put where
he will throw no more bombs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03
Our Strong Financial Position
[From the Boche Review. ]

"HE strength of the market con-
tinues, and no event of the week
has shaken it. There have, in
deed, been no real happenings of an
adverse character. German counter
proposals, it is true, present an in
solent and defiant front. The pity of
it is that the situation is such that
these international outlaws dare
come back with any proposals at all.
This brings to mind regrets that the
Wilson points and speeches were
ever put out to vex the situation, and
that Wilson Intervention, when the
German army was tottering, made
an armistice possible; instead,
straight thinking demanded insis-
tence upon unconditional surrender.
failing which our armies would have
marched through Germany. In
either of the latter cases the world
would long ago have been at peace,
and the dangerous six months just
passed, spent largely in working out
ineffective ideals, would have been
profitably occupied in vital rebuild
ing of the world.
1t might have been supposed that
the authoritative and solemn pre-
sentation of European conditions by
Mr.. Vanderlip would have given some
halt to the steadiness of the market,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03
THE GERMAN THREAT

Charles A. Selden, writing from
Paris to the New York Times, says:
Stephen Lauzanne in the Matin re-
ports a talk with Henry Morgenthau,
who, the writer says, has just
brought back from the Rhine the
same sort of threat from the Ger
man people that he heard from
Wangenheim. the German ambassa-
dor to Turkey, in 1915, when he
himself was in Contantinople as
American ambassador. In 1915
Wangenheim said to Morgenthau:
I'VE know we cannot gain the
war. We are ready to end it. Do
you not wish to ask your country
to intervene?"
Perhaps" replied Morgenthau
'1'll say to my President that you
renounce-"
Yes" replied Wangenheim, inter-
rupting the American, I'VE renounce
for the moment. We need peace to
recuperate. When we are rested we
will resume"
And now, four years later, accord
ing to M. Lauzanne, Mr.. Morgen-
thau, just back in Paris from a visit
to Coblenz, has been hearing the
same sentiment from Germans with
whom he talked in the Rhine valley.
YES" said Mr.. Morgenthau to M.
Lauzanne, they have told me they
wished to dominate the world be-
cause they thought themselves the
best guides, constructors, organizers.
and disciples of culture combating
anarchy"
Then, quoting the Germans direct
ly, Mr.. Morgenthau continued:
I'VE have miscarried, and all our
forces are now too much overcome
to continue. But our children will
blot out the stain, resume our inter-
rupted work. Germany cannot re-
main conquered. She will find vic
tory again and dominate the world"
"Once more" comments NJ. Lau-
zanne, "Mr. Morgenthau has seen,
understood, and repeated. What
Waugenheim told him he has heard
all along the Rhine. There are hun
dreds of thousands of German chill
dren who learn and repeat in their
schools the same words the German
ambassador said in 1915 at the Col
den Horn.
But who, then, will have time to-
day to listen, believe Morgenthau,
returning from Germany, reported
the truth? The poor Four! Poor
Ten! The poor Forty! They see
only mines, ports, account. They
think that when they codifled into
formula transaction half way be-
tween that of dreamers among
clouds and men of earthly appetites
they have created peace. They do
not understand that the war has
been made by the brutal will to
dominate. and that we will have
more wars unless that will is crush
ed. 1t is not by mandates or cove
nants that we can transform the
soul of race of prey.
Poor Four! Poor Ten. They
have eyes, but do not see; ears, but
do not understand: but they have
tongues, and they talk-they talk"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03
Glimpse of War Zone
Congressman w. B. Mckinley
in I,eslie's.1

CONGRESSMAN w. B. Mckinley
in Leslie's.1
In the one thousand mile auto
trip over Eastern France, Belgium
Luxembourg and Western Germany,
one is brought face to face with the
exhaustion of war. The man of from
twenty to thirty years is gone, killed
or disabled. Horses have been large
ly destroyed by war or eaten. In
ten days ride l saw one hog, one
flock of about one hundred sheep
and one flock of seven sheep. In a
pasture about fifty miles from Paris
counted one herd of thirty cows,
in another group seven cows. l am
sure fifty additional would aggregate
all the cattle / saw in pastures in
the ten days. Cows are used before
the plow as freely as horses. In the
war region you see crowds of Ger
man prisoners filling up shell holes
and trenches, but as in this section
the houses are destroyed, great
tracts of land are not being farmed
this year. The population has not
returned. Even in Luxembourg food
and animals are scarce, because
everything has been sold to the Ger
mans at fancy prices. Germany is
hungry. From information coming
to me l am under the impression
many thousands have died of mall
nutrition, If not actual starvation.
was informed by some of our Of
hcials, stationed east of the Rhine,
that condemned United States Army
horses were sold for food at prices
running as high as three hundred
dollars. Our Government is begin
ming to relieve suffering in our
bridgehead around Coblenz.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03
NELL-AND OTHERS
I wasn't fghtin' for money; I WASH

I wasn't fightin' for money; 1 wasnt
fighting for fame,
Or to save the world for Democrats
as some o. them statesmen claim
But l waded into the Boches, when
ever 1 got chance,
An kept 'em jumping backward, till
they jumped plumb out o. France,
There wasn't much time for thinkin'
when the shot an shrapnel fell,
But reckon that 1 was fightin' for
girl o. the name O. Nell,
Can a girl named Sue an a girl
named Name an girl named
Flo as WELD.
seen what they done to Flanders,
an it kind O. occurred to me
That we didn't want no Boches on
our own side of the sea.
For they didn't act like humans,
an they didn't fight like men,
An the safest way to deal with 'em
was to head 'em home again.
Just what 1 thought in the thick of
it is thunderin' hard to tell,
But I reckon that I was thinkin' of
girl O. the name o. Nell
Can a girl named Jane, an a girl
named Maud, an a girl named
May as WELD.
~ ~ VS.
There's always a little girl at home
that you sort o. wish was there
When a little General comes along
an hands you Craw de Care.
There's always a girl that you hope
to meet when the troop ship hits
the pier,
When you've seen the last o. the kind
of James that v kid with over here.
There's always girl you are home
sick for when you've been away
a spell,
An that's the girl was fighting for
"a girl o. the name of Nell
Can a girl named Lou, an a girl
named Prue, an girl named Bess
as welD.
Exchange.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03
Hdili-And-FdreUeH

They died that we might live
Hail And Farewell!
ALI honor give
To those who, nobly striving, nobly
fell,
That we might live!
That we might live they died
Hail!-And FAREWELL
Their courage tried,
BY every mean device of treacherous
hate,
Like Kings they died.
Eternal honor give
Hail!-and Farewell
To those who died.
In that full splendor of heroic pride,
That we might live!
The above poem is one of three
from John Oxenham's book of verse
called, "All's, Well" (Doran), which
the state of Vermont is using in a
Memorial Day program for use in
the schools.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03
A Bureaucratic Privilege
rFrom the New York World

FROM Ine new OTk w OrlQ.J
The railroad administration an
nounces that reduced passenger-fare
tickets to conventions will not be
sold earlier than June 10 and that
more stringent regulations will be
applied to the sale of such tickets
ITO make certain that only bonafide
delegates receive the privilege of the
lower rates" That is to say. the priv
ilege will be a characteristically bu-
reaucratic privilege and tied by the
usual amount of red tape.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03
Want Roads Turned Back

Results of QUESTIONABLE on
Government ownership of the rail-
roads, announced yesterday by the
Association of Railway Executives,
showed the newspapers overwhelm-
ingly against continued control. The
questions were sent to 1924 news
papers through the Press Service
Company. The questions and the
nature of the replies follow.
Does public opinion, in your judg-
ment. seem to favor, the return of
the railroads to private ownership
and operation as soon as this can
be properly accomplished? Yes, SO
per cent; no. IL per cent; doubtful
or not voting, 6 per cent.
If so, is this opinion in part based
on the desire to see competition in
service and facilities restored? Yes.
rs per cent; no. per cent; loubt-
full or not voting. 19 per cent.
What is the present sentiment in
your community on Government
ownership and operation of rail-
roads? Seventy eight per cent. esti-
mated public sentiment against
Government ownership; IL per cent.
for; and IL per cent. doubtful and
not voting.
What has been the feeling regard
ing the proposal to extenl the period
of Government operation five years ?
Against, "a per cent; for, 10 per
cent; doubtful and not voting, 1e
per cent.
In the questionnaires the .newspa-
pers were instructed not to record
their own opinions only. but TO ex-
press the sentiment of the territory
covered by their circulation. 1t was
pointed out that the vote apparently
was not affected greatly b. the poll
itics of the papers, both Democratic
and Republican organs reporting
overwhelming public opinion for
speedy return of the roads to their
AowneEA.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03
SCOUTS GOOD TURN
philadelphia Public Ledger. 7

philadelphia Public Ledger.1
THE Boy Scouts deserve all that
is done for them" said a noted Phil
adelphia engineer.
Here's an incident which came
under my notice:
1.-TWO of them were aides at a His
torical Society party for soldiers and
sailors.
ION their way home they came
across colored man lying i'll in a
gutter with a cut on his head. Did
they leave him there? They did not.
'They didn't even call a police
man to take charge. They carried
the man from Sixteenth and Locust
to Eighteenth and Lombard, where
they left him in a third-fioor front
room in care of his wife.
''They were members of Troop %
of Holy Trinity Church. They did
only what other boys of other troops
would do If they had the chance"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03
SocidliSm'S DulleSt Side

LFrom the New York Times.[
Mr.. Hanford Henderson, with
drawing from publication a social
istic book written by himself, an
nounces that he now sees that Gov
ernment ownership and interference,
and paternalism generally. are con-
trary to the highest social welfare,
and tend to make people ineffi-
cient, unjust and singularly unin-
teresting."
The first two counts of the indict-
ment inefficiency and injustice, need
hardly be taken into the court of
American public opinion. After the
experience of the United States with
Government control of railroads and
wires the verdict is unanimous
may be disguised.
That socialism is "singularly un-
interesting" is the point which ap-
'peals most to the imagination, al
though it is the point which the
socialists seem never to consider. The
individual human has always been
the most interesting of visible
things, whether he or she is on the
earth, in the air or under the sea;
in the subway or on the battlefield
or in the cradle. This country
raised twenty billions or so for war
because each and every John Smith
felt that the war would be lost II
he, John Smith, did not dig deep in
his pocket. We fed Europe because
each American on going to his meals
found his conscience sitting on his
plate.
The singularly interesting thing
about the singularly unintercsting-
ness of socialism is that the nearer
that method of government got to
the perfection it's followers promise
for it the duller and more deadly
existence would be. When individ-
ualism at last was locked up in a
MARKHAM tomb with the corpse of
ambition life would be as stupid as
last years telephone book.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-03

German leaders are now boasting
that they will renew the struggle
when they have a rest. That is pre-
cisely the opinion of all who favor
imposing upon the Hun crowd such a
peace as will destroy their will for
future conquest. Our pacifist friends
however, are in the same frame of
mind as they were before we entered
the world war and it is quite the
common thing to hear their protests
against unreasonable terms" for
poor dear Germany. More than Ger
man people can bear!" walls Rantzau
forgetting the Hun record of un-
speakable atrocities.