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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-13

the ideas and habits Of thought of
other peoples.
This is indeed change Of thought
for the count. When Washington had
to kiss him goodbye, he was not half
so sensible, or, at least, If he was,
few knew it. The trouble with the
count is the same as that of millions
CT beaten Germans. He had to have
it hammered into him. He had to get
it to the tune of American cannon
and machine guns, American air
planes and bombs, American dash
and bravery of her four millions!
The world is minus about seven and
"a half million of the best of the races
of men. A like amount is MANNED and
crippled for life. The peace and hap
piness of half the earth is destroyed
for generation because Germany
would learn this by no other method
than war. The world is reeking with
murderous Bolshevism and Germany
is now in the darkest shadows be-
cause it took war to bring Germany
to this way of thinking.
Won Bernstorff seems to have agreed
with himself that the old Germany
way must have been wrong. 1t may
not have been so long since, but he
talks like convert He learned how
in America. Let us hope he renders TIN 81
German republic real service. He
had little opportunity to render the
kaiser service in America. His day
may have come.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-13
RULE OF PUBLIC OPINION

Count Won Bernstorrf. former Ger.
man ambassador to the United States
must have gotten among other things
some real ideas Of how our democrat
tic people proceed to run government,
while he was in America. Talking to
1.-The Democratic Club" in Berlin the
other night, he told his rearers that
public opinion must become the real
sovereign in Germany, but it must be
enlightened opinion based upon de.
mocratic development and conscious
OF its great responsibility. Public
opinion, he said, must be so develop.
ed that no government can stand
against it, but it must net disregard
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-13
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY
EIGHT MORE DAYS

Citizens and business men of CrisI
county who would like to see a bond
issue with which to build permanent
highways have but eight more days
to make their plans for 1919 On March
Goth the state highway commission
will close with county projects for
this year. Should Crisp desire to get
in on the large fund now available
and available after July /, next, it will
be necessary to lay before the com
mission plan for such improvements
according to the usual specifications
and requirements.
County after county in Georgia has
during the past ten days laid plans
for bond issue to build paved roads.
Sumter and Colquit are the latest.
Sumter is asking for 100000 and will
vote on the issue April 9th. Colquit
will vote on a similar amount. Other
will follow till all the permanent
roads fund assigned to Georgia is
taken up. Should Crisp remain out
of it? We may do it, but that's not
the spirit or the desire of business
men in this county.
Get on the necks CT your county
commissioners and get them to for
mulate a schedule for 1919 improve
melts reaching 100000 and let them
get in a request from Crisp for $780,
900 of the federal fund before March
20. If we plan for an issue of bonds
and get it, we can go on with our i'm
provements and build permanent paw
ed roads. If we fail, the request for
the federal fund lost us nothing. The
counties will get their federal fund
for permanent roads in the order in
which requests are made for it, more
than likely. An early move on ouT
part might mean success.
Get your roads superintendent anC
your commissioners to tell you how
much we are spending each year tC
maintain present roads, and then you
will be able to get an idea of the
meaning Of permanent roads Remem.
Der, too, that the condition some,
times is not good.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-13
THE NEW HOUSE PLAN

TIE NEW TlOO0E FLAW
All over the country the business
men of the various cities and towns
are engaged in serious discussion
eff plans to secure the much need re-
sidences that have not been built
during the four-year period of the
war. 1t is vital matter and one which
must be settled. 1t is in this commun-
ity vital matter and owe which
should be seriously considered by
the entire business community.
The Dispatch is indebted to local
business man for an idea which comes
from Greenville, South Carolina. The
real estate men held smoker and
made plans to utilize the vacant lots
fir desirable residences varying in
cost to suit the needs of the present.
Some thirty to forty houses, they be-
lieved, were to be secured by the
methods settled upon.
This consists in securing connec-
ton with building and loan interests
which would put up the money to con
struct the houses, Those who own
vacant lots now not earning anything
are to put them to earning money by
securing the necessary loan for the
house, and taking the rentals, plus
what is necessary ocoVer repay.
ments on monthly plans, thus to re-
move the loan in a period Of five to
six years. Thus the house becomes
an enterprise which pays for itself
very nearly.
The man who owns vacant lots in
Cordele can put them to earning re.
sidences if he will but secure the
necessary loan for house on each
lot and build such a house as rent
al from the average family will repay
in five to seven years. Nobody need
question the demand 1t is strong and
will be stronger for a full five years.
Within the next five years this conn
munity must build $50 to $50 resid-
ences. The demand will still make the
house a safe investment. This, too,
with all the advantages of selling at
a profit during the period in which
the house is earning its own cost.
The rental houses, to become de-
sirable, must be constructed after
modern ideas and must be carefully
designed, with some taste and appre-
citation of refinement. Such construc-
tion again would put the house in the
desirable list, two.thirds of the rent
ing homes in COrdele are nothing but
weather beaten, unsightly sheds not
half as neat in appearance as a west
em farmers barn. The pretty cottage
Of five to seven rooms will take like
wild fire. 1t can be constructed, even
at the high prices Of today within
such figure as to make handsome
earning each year on the money in
vested.
While we are on this topic, let us
assure prospective builders that
building materials is up to stay where
it is full ten years. The whole
world is behind with its building be-
cause of the war. and the half of
Europe has been destroyed. Brick will
not hold the present price Paint will
come down, but much of the MARTIAL
will remain high. Careful investors
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-13

sion, said he had four sons in the
army and had bought liberty bonds
with the money derived from his still
The man, the officers said, confessed
he simply travelled from town to
town and that he had been in Savan.
nah and Atlanta recently.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-13

Argentina leads the world for lin
seed production, cultivating about
100000 acres annually as compared
with 100000 acres in the United
States and 100000 in Canada.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-13
Haves' HEALING Honey

Stops the Tickle, Heals the Throat
and Cures the Cough. Price 35c. A
free box of O-PEN-TRATE SALVE for
Chest Colds, Head Colds and Group
is enclosed with every bottle-Tu-Th
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-13

The kissing of the hilt, which
forms part of the sword salute, is
a relic of the Crusaders. whose sword
hits were in the form of a crown.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-13

Communication on all topics pub
Iished when not too long and accompa.
nSed by full names and address. Not
responsible for views Of contributors.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-13
Members Of Associated Press.

Tue Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
Of all news dispatches credited to 1t
or not otherwise credited In this pa
per and also the local news published
herein.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-13

Colds Cause Grippe and Influenza
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tab
lets remove the cause There is only
one "Brono Quinne" e. w. GROVES
signature on the box. SOC Thurs. ts
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-08
SLEEPS NEAR ZOO.

1t was after midnight, but there were
still several men in the smoking room
Of the club. The conversation turned
upon hair-breadth escapes. A weird,
aerie feeling p~ervaded the atmosphere
as one man described the dangers he
had beer, through.
That's all very we'll" broke in a
strong-featured individual. but for
real awe and uncanny terror, give me
the roaring Of a lion or the sharp trum-
peting OF an elephant, or the howl Of
the wolf, or the low, menacing hiss OF
the slow-ereeping serpent, borne on the
still night air as you lie there weak
and helpless as a new -born babe
They looked at him with great inter
est.
Have yeu really slept In the iungls
and heard these sounds? 2" asked one OF
the listeners.
well. not exactly" he replied az he
edged toward the door, blu sleep with
my windows open and my flat ID close
to the geological gardena-"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-08

grasping greed, and an utter lack OF
self -cortrol, and consideration for any
other human being
What we would do without the
eamouflage of bad health, heaven only
knows. We would probably have to be-
have ourselves, and do our part in life.
Thank goodness, no such calamity is
likely to befall us. Our nerves, like the
poor, are always with US, and they are
an ever present help in times of
trouble.
Let US once persuade ourselves that
we are delicate, and we are equipped
to ride rough shod over our families
forevsr after, without giving them a
chance to protest against our greedi-
ness and selfishness, II there were any
tonic Of honesty with which you could
dose the sick and make them tell them
selves the honest to goodness truth. for
five minutes, you could cure nine
tenths of the inValids as by a miracle.
II we could only be honest. with our
selves. But perhaps zone usscould
know the truth about ourselves and
survive.
copyright, 1919, by the Wheeler Syn
dtuata Inc
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-08
THE NEWS NCIMTTA DAILY COMIC
MAGAZINE FEATURES
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BEDTIME' STORY ]


feel much brighter. SO she wont mind
the rain, or even a thunder storm.
What kind OF flowers?" asked Uncle
wiggily. Would you say wild car
rots, such as I took to Susie as a lace
handkerchief present? Would those
flowers do for Nurse janet"
no" answered Grandpa Goosey,
splashing a little water over his back
to stop a tickling place. Those flow"
ers wouldn't do at all for Nurse Jane
What you want are cheer flowers,
Cheer fowers!" exclaimed the bun
ny. II never heard Of them"
I'm show you where some are grow
ing" spoke Grandpa Goosey, Pick
three or four OF them and Nurse Jane
won't mind the rain then"
So Grandpa Goosey showed Uncle
Wiggily where the cheer flowers grew,
They were large, yellow ones, on tall
stalks-so high, in fact, that Uncle
Wiggily had to gnaw them down with
his teeth, - he couldn't break them off
go you mind II I take some Of you
home TO cheer UP Nurse Jane7" asked
the bunny Of the flowers as they nod
ded their heads In the rain.
"oh, no! That's what we're for" they
answered. I'VE are here TO make the
world more cheerful and brighter"
Uncle Wiggily was gnaWing down
one DIX, fOuuQ sGliO" llONSls "honB III
at once, the bad old Skeezicks popped
out from under a bush and tried to
grab the bunny from behind.
"Oh, no! No you don't! Leave Uncle
wiggiiy alone!" whispered the cheer
flowers. And some of them ratified a
lot. Of hard. brown seeds on the skee-
ticks.
Noh, its hailirgl" howled the bad
chap, q, he rap away This iS no mace
So the skseslcks let Uncle wiggily
alone, and the bunny picked more OF
the big, round yellow flowers. He took
them home to Nurse Jane through the
rain,
Grandpa Goosey says you will be
happy now, even In the storm" said
Uncle. Wiggily. as he gave the bouquet
to Nurse Jane. These are chez
"cheer flowers! Why. they are old
fashioned ~sunflowers!1, laughed the
muskrat lady. "But Z do feel better
already. II we can't see the real sun,
looking at sunflowers is almost as
good" So she put the cheer blossoms
In a vase, and in about an hour the
rain stopped, the sun came out anC
Nurse Jane was happier than ever.
So this teaches us that whenever We
are sad we should bring cheer flowers
to someone else. And If the goldfish
doesn't take all the seed out OF thu
canary birds bathtuN to plant in TIL
cats cradle, I'll tell you next abou
Uncle Wiggily and the green COW.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-08

almost acts as though she didn't care
whether or not Freddie was hurt; but
Of course" che added Loyalty and
quickly TO herself, that's A. nonsense;
not love him--not carsIa
And back in the 1Smitaers house Els.
trelda was replacing handkerchief
that was innocent Of tears, An hour
after dinner, while her father dosed
over his evening paper, ahe found her
where she knew Arthur Parker would
be waiting for her, Her heart, through
some curious sixth sense, felt his pres
Nnee even before she could see plainly
the deeper shadow which was his fig
ure.
lord" he murYnured as he caught her
two hands in his, ages and ages! !
was going TO write to yeu II that wem-
an hadn't left today. I'd have taken a
chance on a motel I'm scared OF the
phone. What's 1t all about anyway?
That-that was-his mother; wasn't it?
'"it's Freddie" broke in Estrelda. She
wa. driven on nv to. .o,o quickly y. By, y th1
she called again. 'she's wounded"
The man dropped her hands; seemed
TO recede from her a little.
Wounded" he repeated slowly, &c
lis it-bad"
"Oh--not the way you mean she
told him impatiently. "He-hen live
all right. Only--hs may lose his lett
an awful fuss over! Mrs. Mason wanted
me to go back to Now York and wait
for him to be sent to q hospital here
IL wouldn't ~leave--you!"
"But-Lord.'' he began, III he's
wounded! If he's"
Look here she cried almost shr1l1
do YOU wan to get rid Of me; is thai
IN Just say 90 Il you do. ] don't
spose it's exactly your place to ~
me how to treat my own h%usband!'
He was a simple brute Just as she
was, so she had said the right thing
for her purposes, 49,,
| her roughly. 'You--you're mine
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-08

Der Of the senate committee on inter
state he gave special Rtten-
tion to railroad and transportation
problems Of the government. He is OPP
posed to private ownership of railroads,
but favors sound legislation that will
protect such industry, The senator IL
also opposed to the peace treaty and
league covenant, and says he will never
vote for the peace" instruments while
Shantung, the Chinese peninsula, IL Civ
en- to the Japanese, senator watson
In a picturesque and impressive per-
sonality, a natural leader Of men, Keen
In debate, strong In argument and
f~orceful in his appeal, he ranks among
the best known public speakers IN
America,
The senator was born at Winchester,
Indiana, Nov. ., 1864, and graduated
from the Winchester high school in
1881. He also graduated from De Paw
university In 1883, He was admitted to
the bar IN 1887, and practiced with his
father, the late Enos l.. Watson, at
winchester, Ind. The senator has a
wife and four children--two sons and
two daughters, Both of his boys served
In the army, one, Edwin g., a~Mcaptain
In the regular army, and James n, Jr.,
who served as a private In the ma
rine corps. The later will o be re-
leased to civil life, Ills home is at
RushVille, Ind.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-08
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK
BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF.
By DOROTHY DIX,
NThe Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

bill collectors, refusing to accept the
verdict of the editors, and the man
ayers who send back their books, and
poems, and plays to them, duping
themselves with the balief that they
SSodisstsriing up their false faith n their
abilities by lying to themselves about
magazine editors and theatrical pro-
ducers being in a league against new
talent.
One could weep tears Of blood over
these pitiful self -irposters who might
be happy and prosperous, and do useful
work II only they would take an honest
measure Of their own abilities and be
good choir singers, or sign painters, or
stenegraphers, or merchants.
We also make a barrier OF lies that
bars us from success. Nearly every
failure, within the range OF our ahili-
ties, IS the result of laziness and in
II we we're honest with ourselves and
faced the fact that the reason that we
do not succeed is because we are not
putting enough energy In our work, and
are not giving to It cur highest in
telligenee, and that we are not work
ing toward any definite goal, we should
win out, But we soften our defeat by
wrapping 1t UP in the pink chiffohs OF
We call our lazinsas bad luck, We
even persuade ourselves to think Of ii
as und eserved misfortuns, or the
~chastAHzng Of the Lord, and We at
tribute ether peoples success to luck,
or pull, even while in " souls we
know that luck is only another name
for being on your job.
If the mother who let's flies orawI
all over her baby's food, and who Is
| too lazy to s~terilize it's milk bottles
| would call herself a murdersss instead
| Of speaking of the mysterious dispense
| ton Of Providence, 1t would cut down
infant mortality to q minimum. Per-
haps the blacklist moment Of the juds-
ment day for all OF us will be wher
| we gee the record Of our deeds set down
under their right names, Unsteady Of
| under the deceptive titles with which
we have disguised them tfatu III own
| o~onsciences.
Certainly it would make q vast i'm
provement in domestic matters II We
would be honest with ourselves abou'
| the motives that inspire Us in dealing
with our families. For instance, there
| In the matter of cur health. out Of which
| We create q mountain OF deceit behind
which we hide rank seifishness, ant
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-08

There Is an cid saw 10 the effect that
there ara two people to whom we shoulq
never lie, and these are our lawyer ahd
our doctor.
There is a third party to whom it is
even more iTpoTtaas ma ma ,S ws e sh o,,ra
selves. Yet there is no other indi-
vidpal on earth to whom we are so little
candid and honest.
Most of us spend the time from the
cradle 10 the grave in deceiying our,
selves, in eamouflAging our motives and
I intentions so that we will not be able
to detect them with our eyes, and N
pretending, as children do in play, that
we are some Noble Hero, or Perseeuted
Martyr until we come to believe at last
in eur own m~ake-beiieve.
we are like the traditional confluence
ma who was such an artist IN MS
gaining, and 80 persuasive ~eenvihc-
ing that he sold himself 2 go,a DreE Nh
1t is only the most heroic OF VS. Nne
have the courage to sit down in eola
blood and tell ourselves the truth about
ourselves, and to strip the fr1lls n
furbelows from our daily life, and look
upon the mean and soFdid thing that we
We, We might save ourselves. we
our love, y happiness u only we wevid
be honest and candid with ourselves, u
only We weuid give up the assinine folly
of deliberately trying to cheat our7
ls2ek at the way we lie 70 ourselves
abSat our oWn abilities, Think OF the
hundreds Of men and women yeu have
knevp who have deceived themselves
into believing that a peorIa feeble niue
flicker Of talent was Q great flashing
are light Of genius! What q pathetic
host Of them each n Of Us can re-
can! =,
A gfsi with q sweat little canary bird
voice who impoverished her family, and
wasted her youth. taking lessons from
extnrtionate teachers. while she hugged
to her breast the sweet lie that she
would be q grand opera singer, and re-
fused TO recognise the limitations OF her
own voice as she would that of another.
a man with some idea Of form and
color, but with no power or originality,
no inspiration, who dabeled away from
yeuth 10 age with paints, quilting him
self with the belisf that he was a
second whistler, yet never achieving
anything but the veriest potboilers.
Men and woxnen toiling, agonizing,
starving. shabby. harassed BY debt ana
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-08
Copyright, 1919, by Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
BY HOWARD r. eARIs.

Il rsined and II rained and it rained
woodland, near the Orange Ice
Hseuntains, where Uncle Wiggily Long
eassv the bunny rabbit gentleman, lived
IN . hollow stump bungalow,
And, after 1t had rained one, two and
three days, it rained one more, making
iDaar mel" exclaimed Nurse Jane
YuRxy Wuzzy, the N0skrat lady house
keeper for the rabbit gentleman, Il
never saw such dismal weather in all
my life! Never! It's so dark and
gloomy and rainy that I feel just like
sitting down and having a good cry!"
"oh, don't do that" begged Uncle
WlEgtly. as he tried to twinkle his pink
outside without having 1t made wetter
by tears inside. Try, and be more
cheerful The rain win stop-it always
has stopped, be happy"
But Nurse Jane shook her head,
II can't be happy" she whimpsred.
Agt rains 80 much @Rn't get the
clothes dry. I can't go out, nobody
70 bake. oh. I am 50 miserable"
'Dear mel" said Uncle Wiggily, try
ing to whistle a cheerful tune. This
VIII never do! I'll take a hope outside,
Nurse Jane, and see If there are any
signs of the weather clearing. I'll be
p%Ck III q HJllo Wnle. ,
"An right" answered the muskFat
LADY, in a sad sort Of yolca.
Putting on overshoes made from
leaves Of the rubber plant, and holding
over, his tall silk hat . leaf from the
umbrella plant, Uncle Wiggiiy went out
in the rain.
The rabbit gentleman had not hoped
very far, splashing his way through
the puddles, before he met Grandfather
Goosey Gander, the goose gentleman
Grandpa Goosey was Splattering his
way through the rain as II he liked It
Hello, Uncle Wiggilyn he quacked
HOW are you this beautiful, duckS
"oh. I'm all right" answered the
bunny; But Nurse Jane is very sac
"why so?" asked Grandpa Goosey, a.
he poked hta yellow bill down in a muC
puddle to see if any snails were swim,
ming about. Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy usec
70 be so gladstone and cheerful like"
III know" answered Uncle Wiggily
"But this rain, lasting so long, make,
Aer feel bad. She needs something
to cheer her up"
why don't you take her some flow
eFs?" asked Grandpa Goosey, "Brinl
her q bouquet Of flowers, Uncle VII
gily, You'll find they will make he
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-08
SOME EXPLANATION

The scrgeant-msjor had the reputa-
ton of never being at a loss for al an
swer. A young officer made a bet with
a brother officer that he would in less
than "A hours ask the sergeant-major a
question that would BATTLE him,
The sergeant-rnajor accompanied the
young officer on his rounds, In the
course Of which the cook house was in
spected Pointing to a large kettle OF
water lust commencing to boil, the Of
ficeF said
why does that water only boil around
the edge Of the copper and not In the
CENTER"
1.-THE water around the edge, sir" re-
piled the veteran, III for the men on
guard: they have their breakfast half
an hour before the remainder Of the
ocmpany."