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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04
WORSE THAN -
DEADLY
POISON GAS

Kidney disease is no respector Of per-
sons. It attacks young and old alike.
In most cases the victim is warned
of the approaching danger. Nature fights
back. Headache, Indigestion, insomnia
lame back, lumbaSo, sciatica, rheuma-
tism, pain in the loins and lower abb.
domen, difficulty in urinating, ali are
indication of trouble brewing in your
kidneys.
When SUCH symptoms appear youwiIl
almost certainly find quick relief in
GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules
This famous old remedy has stood
the test for two hundred years in heln~
ing mankind to fight of disease.
1t is imported direct from the home
laboratories in Holland, where it has
helped to develop the Dutch into one
of the sturdiest and healthiest races i'm
the world, and it may be had at
almost every drug store. Your money,
promptly refunded, if it does not re-
ieve you. Be sure to get the genuine
GOLD MEDAL Brand. In sealed packs
ages, three sizes,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04
MiIIer's Antiseptlc Oil, Known as
Positively Relieves Pain in Few Min.
utes.

Positively Relieves Pain in Few" Min.
utes.
Try it right now Tor rheumatism,
Neuralgia. Lumbago, sore, still and
swollen joints, pain in the head, back
and limbs corns, bunons, etc. Aafter
one application pain usually disap-
pears as if by magic.
a new remedy use0 internally and
Xtcrnally for Coughs, Colds, Group,
sore Throat, Diptheria and Tonsilitis.
This oil is conceded to be the most
penetrating remedy known. It's
prompt and immediate effect in re-
lieving pain is due to the fact that
it penetrates to the affected parts at
once. AS an illustration pour ten
drops on the thickest piece of sole
leather and it will penetrate this sub
stance through and through in ten min
utes.
Accept no substitute. This great oil
is Miller's only, Every bottle guaran-
teed-30c,, soc and 81 bottle at Fant's
Drug and Seed Store, Cordele, Georgia
3.4S0t.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04

In conference of men high in the
management of the affairs of the I'm,
tied States in Washington Monday it
was stated that the Seattle, Butte
and Lawrence disturbances were not
simply industrial upheavals. They
were actual efforts to establish SOW.
let governments in the United States
if Secretary of Labor Wilson has a
correct diagnosis of the troubles.
-=-s-sfva. -. .,...
Well if that's so, Mayor Ole Hansen
of Seattle has the distinction OF hav
ing uprooted the soviets once in his
life.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04
TRADE BOARD MEETINGS

Said Charles Lamb You &C can't
hate m-man you know" And some
times you have better opinion of
the other side of a question when you
hear it set forth reasonably and dis.
passionately. At any rate you have
better chance to judgeproperly your
fellow man the questions that contin
ualiy arise il you can meet him and
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04
WHAT ApvsRTlslNe DOES

II you were fortunate enough to
attend the business lecture last night,
you got a bit of business mans idea
Of advertising and what it means in
the building of a business The Dis.
patch was not looking for just that,
but it sounds Just like a sensible
piece Of advice,-that Mr. Kennedy
gave, He was talking about newspaper
advertising.
Two years ago the editor of the Dis
patch bargained with merchant in
this community on advertising in
such away as to bring agreeable sur
prise to both the business man and
the newspaper man Both planned
and gave the public the very best
taey could in carefully arranged adj.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04

Here comes that wheat bill! You
know, it is not right to coyet,-
something is said about this some,
where in the Good Book, but somehow
we wish that was cotton bill instead
OF wheat bill. The cotton growers
might have been nesting in their
easy chairs and enjoying life, had they
not reared so about price fixing.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04
OLD hoss SALE

The American Railway Express
Company will sell several hundred
packages to the highest
bidder for cash on March II, 1919, at
Cordele, Ga, w. S. Murrey Agent
2-1S to 81
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04

The allies are going to call on Ger
many and Austria, and Turkey and
Bulgaria, and their friends for some
thing like hundred and twenty bill
lion dollars as a small reparation fee
Nahd reminder that they must not
try to whip the whole world
again until that price for their folly
is paid.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04
WILL CONTINUE SEARCH
FOR LAWLESS PROPAGANDA

Washington, Mar. 3.-The contin-
uation of the investigation of lawless
propaganda during the congressional
recess with a report at the next SEES
sion was authorized today by the SEN
ate.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04

The aggregated calamities of the
world are all bound up in the consti-
tuition of the league of nations, so
says another Of the republication sena
tors. Sherman of Illinois apparently
is not on very good terms with Pre-
sident Wilson.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04
TRENCH ARTILLERY FROM
EIGHTYCSECOND ARRIVES

Newport News, Mar. 3.-The 18th
Trench Artillery of the S7th Division
Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee
troeps) -werv-among the units arriv-
ing today on the battleship Michigan.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY.

II you ever catch Bill Harris at the
stunts performed during the past two
or three years by his predecessor in
office,--just tell him about it,-tell
Bill Harris about it. The new senator
is going to make Georgia good one.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04
n..mbst, Of A..oeIsssd .press.

Members Of Associated Press.
Tue Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
ct ill news dispatches credited to 1t
or not otherwise credited In this pa
pr and also the local news published
herein.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04
Groves TasteIess chill! ionic

Groves Tasteless chill ionic
which is simply IRON and QUININE
suspended in syrup, Restores Vitality
and Energy by Purifying and Enrich
ing the Blood. So pleasant even
Children like it. You can soon feel
its Strengthening, Invigorating Effect.
Price COO. Tues. If.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04
ATTENTION. SOLDIERS!

The pension money has come. Must
be receipted for in person or by an
agent appointed in writing.
w. P, FLEMING Ordinary 2 st
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-04

Communication ON all topics pub
lished when not too long and accompa-
Aiea by full names and address. Not
responsible for views of contributors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02

legitimate business of "Information?" 2"
 Well, I've taken the trouble to find out; and it's this: to furnish numbers which have been turned in too late to go in the telephone directory, and to furnish numbers according to street addressesl There now!
 Do you know that many people in this city are actually too lazy to take the telephone book off of the hook and look for numbers? And just here let me say that if you belong to this nice. idle indolent class you may as well know right now that "Information" has your number" An, ha!
 know a woman, (no I positively re- fuse to tell her name) who has abso- lutely discarded her telephone direc- to.y!"
 Whats the user" she said not lons ago in talking about this very thing, and. by the way. it inspired me to write this story. I don't know how the Telephone company will feel about me "butting in' on their affairs and say ing what I think, but I can't help that: I've got it in my system and I've got to get 1t out; so on with the dance mean story.
 Anyway this nice lady (and she is nice) said:
 What's the use looking for num- bers when you can call Information color scheme of the telephone diree- tory doesn't blend with the color scheme of my bouooir and-' But why not tear the outside leaves ! off?' I suggested.
 She winced at this. because nothing could possibly hurt her feelings (she's very artistic) more than the sight of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
BIG GRETNA PLANT
 MAY BE SCRAPPED
Chemical Works in England Employed About 22,00O People During
 the War
By kssncIated PrAsa
Gretna. England. January 2.-(

Gretna, England. January 2.-(Cor- respondence of the/ Associated Press) With the ending of hostilities, the British government has on it's hands unused a s50,000,000 military chemical plant, the most important in the em- pire, employing during the war 22,000 persons. Apparently the government is undecided whether to try to utilize It or to abandon it. Economists say it is too inaccessible for private com mercial use. and that it's plant and machinery should be scrapped and the government should pocket the loss
 The workers are rapidly being de- mobilized and the population of Gret- na has shrunk to 5000. Recruited as they were from almost every branch of industry, many of them unskilled and inexperienced, the absorption of these workers into the new economic order S giving no little concern to the gov ernment and to themselves. for. eco nomically, Great Britain has not yet recovered her balance.
 The unemployed intuition workers and Gretna is only one government ac- tivity of many similarly affected-ara taking the Unemployment wage pro- vided by the government, and are making the most of 1t. As this wage Is much less than they received while
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02

the department labeled Foolish Ques- tions."
 Imagine how versatile Information" must be; she must know all the Smiths, Jones' Perkinses, Robinsons, Browns and Williames in the entire district; and whether the Smiths who live in West End have a daughter named Julia D. and whether the Browns in East End have an aunt named Sarah Ann" and whether the Familiar Quotation'-
 "Brevity is the soul of wit is from Hamlet or Macbeth and wha. the latest bridge" rules are; higher mathematics; First Aid"; how to read gas meters; the pay of soldiers from Private" to a major general; dates of wrecks, floods, fires and cyclones; re- cipes for lemon pie and what to give the baby during it's teething months; train schedules and everything else un der the sun.
 The ambassador to the court of St. James was never required to know more than these nice little Telephone Ope-- ators.'
 A typical foolish question, No. 9,S99,9 ,9SS is something like this:
 Information please! Hello, lnforma- tion? l live out on z avenue-you know where-this side of sed mountain; we heard an explosion just now. Can you tell us what it is?'
 "Informa ton, please" comes again "Information, did the windows down at the telephone building rattle few min- utes ago? What? They didn't? We'll they did out at our house and we though. maybe you might be able to tell us what the trouble was" | These foolish questions are just g sample of what Information" heats hundreds and hundreds of times every | day of her nice little life. l And "Information'' must get terribl. tired of it-wouldn't you if you were | "Information?'
 Just think of having to tell house wives how to grease the saucepan!
 around the edge to keep the stew from 1 boiling over, and to hand it' to somt ! flossy gentleman who asks foolish | questions about some wager he i' 1 about to make on an election or prize | fight of cake walk!
 Do you happen to know the real and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

eS'ss:'s%,2. s: %,.::. :::::'' sss on: !. ;. '',:: .s.
 best "old saws" we have with us today is that once upon time it killed a perfectly good cat.
 Not being satisfied with scalps by the wholesale, this "Old Chronic Curiosity is adding day by day hundreds of other scalps to its belt, not all of which are feline, however. for if you'll only ask the nice little telephone operators down at the big telephone exchange they'll probably tell you that the curios- ity seekers are two-legged cats, both male and female with leaning towards females.
 Just think of the big numoer of girls that the big telephone company pays salaries to, who are bothered to death hundreds of times a day, for nothing on earth except foolish" questions. The word foolish" is used advisedly, for these do not include the hundreds of other questions responded to which are legitimate quiries, over the plugs marked -.Information."
 Every day some 4o00 foolish questions fmore or less) are asked and during the war times when everything was so up set (and upset to some extent now oe~ cause we can't adjust ourselves all Tn a minute to constantly changing condi- tions), it was pretty hard to answer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
on1oI That Impulse When the Desire Comes You Soy Intoraon and Put YOHseD h Lle Telephone Operators Place
 Who Alu AnsWe Steen Hundred "F00Zish Questi0nS Day

Information, which is correct, If l
 was you,' or If you was me|
 Information, do you know the little tune that starts, Ira la la, dunn dunn dum?"
 Information, would an orange colored crepe de chine blouse be suitable for
 matinee party? You know l don't live here and I don't know how people dress for the theatre Information, I'm going out with young man this evening and is it proper | for me to take his arm or for him to | take mine?'
 Information, does a young lady pro- | vide her own collection when she goes to church with young man?" l Information, do you know the name l of the chairman on committees for indig-
 nant husbands?' Information, what time does the train leaving here at 45O p. m. reach | Due West, Arkansas?" Information, I don't want anything | special. My husband is out and I'm all alone, and feel better to know you are there. so if I need you I can get you" | And the tribunal" who sits upon all
 these questions and answers them, is the nice young woman you mean when you ask for Information please" l She Is So reliable, so infallible. so yer
 satile; she may we'll be called "Our Mod
 ern Fountain Of Knowledge" All humanity is on dress parade" be- l fore the "switchboardn' Life and death,
 work and play, idleness and progressive
 ness-all put their wires into the switch
 for Information, please" | How does she like her patient serv- l ice?
 l Does sHe ever grow weary and tires Io, 4l,; l Is there ever a dark murder in Bss heart? (There would be in mine.) 1 Does she ever feel hurt when you are snappy and mean and cross and ugta ! to her?
 | Just take the receiver off the hook land let Information, please, tell you
 about it herself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
DOLL Y-ETTES
Would you call Wife, who starts one every day, a Daughter of the REVOLUTION?'

Courtland's about a month ago and I want to invite her to join my unit for the uplift of-of-"
 And the "uplift of-of-," whatever it Is she is concerned with, is conducted from her "chaise lounge" without a telephone book, just Information, please"
 And the women aren't the only ones who bother the life and soul out of for a lonesome man who has come to strange to'u to "call up" just to talk-to hear the sound of a feminine voice-sweet and gentle.
 Central, will you tell me the time?" is the lone best bet of both masculine and feminine 'fnquirers;" also
 Wont you hum the first line of 'Smiles'?" or some other popular song is another of the foolish" questions asked the pretty little operator, who must also advise Mrs Newly Wed about the first little Newly Wed who has swallowed a dime, telling her that the thing to do is to hold him upside down and shake him vigorously until the lime falls out; also that a table spoonful is dose when new tonic is being started in the "Rundowns" family.
 And think of the foolish questions people ask who haven't the strength to give the telephone book the "once over. Information" gives the number they ask for. '"The line is busy" say Central, and five minutes later when the party wants the number again she's forgotten it, and off she goes to Information for the self same number.
 Have you ever stopped to consider what it costs the telephone company to print telephone directories?
 Why ocdles of money and oodles o1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
THE BOOK SHELF
By THE BIBLIOpHTLE

THE YEARS FOR RACHEL By Berta Buck. Illustrated by E. c.
 Caswell Dodd, Mead & Co.,, publishers,
 New York city.
 And Jacob loved Rachel and said.
 I will serve thee seven years for Rachel'
 And they seemed unto him but a few days"
 But what of Rachel? The modern finance might wonder how those years seemed to her Well perhaps I, Gwen Bl ook, aged 2S, ought to be able to give an opinion. My own was long engage ment. It lasted nearly 10 years"
 And so Gwen begins her story by tell ing of her engagement at IS to Selby Har- rlson of the various unfortunate circum- stances that kept delaying the wedding; Of the first few years of joyous compan- icnship in the little Welsh village; and finally of the coming of the gerat war and her decision to go up to London to they could be married.
 That marks the turning point of her placid career. Life becomes more com plcated, more full of action, and further and further removed from the quiet of the li4tle town where she had lived and dreamed. You grow more and more inter- ested in her development and you feel so sure of the outcome of her adventures that certainly you are as much sur prised as her friends at home at what firally happened to Gwen in London.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
Li'l Honey, CT Gal ain't got no respec' fer CT Man dat THREATENS ter Kiss her, specially eff he don t MEX GOOD. Naw'm!

an "undressed telephone book.
 "No lady would use a telephone book without a petticoat on,' she saId suavely, meaning the telephone book of course-not the lady.
 Picture her boudoir while this con- versation takes place as she promptly calls '1nformation, please,' and pro- ceeds thusly:
 'Informa tion, I want Mrs. Van LaN- derbilt No, her name isn't in the di- rectory; yes, yes; she lives at-oh, ohl T don't know the number of her house; no; I don't know her first name either. What? You can't find it? Then give me someone who can. Yes, she's very well known here; I met her q! an exclusive little tea at Mrs. Van
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02

time and oodles of sense and bodies of energy are expended upon getting up these books which you kick and cuff and throw around like so much dross; besides,
 it is pretty hard on the little telephone operators to have people so lazy and in
 censiderate as to take up their time ask
 ing foolish questions and numbers
 which if they would only look in the
 directory they'd find without one bit of
 trouble. and save everybody's nerves and
 everything.
 "Where's the fire, Central" Is one of
 the best little foolish questions we
 have. The first clang of the fire bells brings this question in batallions. If
 the inquirer only had energy enough to poke his head out of his own window
 he might locate the fire and finding that the conflagration wasn't near him and
 he is not In danger, his curiosity about where the fire is would be allevated The minute an ''Uxtry' is called in the street, Information, please comes in for her nice little fat job of answering foolish questions.
 Information, has anything happened to the President?"
 Information, has anything new hap pened to prohibition?'
 Information, is anything announced about what the government is going to do with the railroads?" Equally as foolish come a thousand | more questions: Information, what must do with my kitten; it's just swallowed some rat poison and oh, I'm so unhappy; it's throwing a fit and-and--' Information, can you tell me what 1 time the grocery stores closer Information, do you know how tc
 take the seeds out of Bar 1e Duc?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02

making shot and shell, being about $750 a week, there are fears they will soon miss their high wages and in time may become the cause of indus
 trial unrest. Sometime must elapse while military plants are being trans
 formed into factories that will produce the things needful in ordinary life.
 The factory has a wonderful housing system, with comfortable homes, churches and recreation halls for the workers. and in ordinary circum- stances it ought to be useful for many years to come. But the highly explo- sive nature of the product necessitated the planting of the industry outside the ordinary walks of commerce and manufacture. This makes it reasona- bly, certain in the minds of economists that Gretna will have to be abandoned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
BREAKS COLD
 IN AFEW HOURS
First dose of "Pape's Cold Com pound" relieves all
 grippe misery
Don't stay stuffed-upl

Don't stay stuffeu-up!
 Quit blowing and snuffling! A dose of *Pape's Cold Compound" taken every fwo hours until three doses are taken will end grippe misery and break up a severe cold either in the head, chest, body or limbs.
 1t promptly opens clogged-up nostrils and air passages; stops nasty discharge or nose running; relieves sick headache, dullness feverishness, sore throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness.
 "Papes Cold Compound' is the quick est surest relief known and costs only a few cents at drug stores. It acts with out assistance. tastes nice and causes no inconvenience. Don't accept sub- etitute-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
Collecting War Relics

With the American Army of Occu- patton, January 1.-Helmets of every type worn by German officers and men during the war are being col lected by the United States receiving commission for the war college in Washington and the museum at West Point. The collection for each also will contain swords of various kinds, rifles and revolvers, breast plates worn by German snipers and other styles of armor, gas masks, and in fact, a sam- pie of nearly everything excepting the heavy artillery brought into use oy the Germans during the four years war
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
"RICHARD BALDOCK.'

By Archibald Marshall. Dodd, Mead &
 Co.,, publishers, New York city.
 This is the first American edition of what Professor Phelps of Yale calls "one ot the best books Marshall ever wrote. v
 It is a story of English country life, chiefly concerned with Richard Baldock- his childhood and school days; his choos- ing of a career, and his success in his work. as well as with the beautiful lady he loved.
 It is not full of the pep and punch of a first seller, but of the charm of one tha, vii. always sell-another one of those novels which head extactly like life itseli
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02

THE NEXT STEP IN RELIGION" By Roy Wood Sellers, Ph. D.. The Mac
 milan company, publishers, New York
 city.
 "The Next Step in Religion" by Roy
 Wood Sellers. Ph. D., Is An Essay To- ward the Coming Renaissance"
 It is a discussion of religious belief from the point of view of science. Pro- lessor Sellars brings before his readers the latest conclusions in anthropoloby, in natural science, in Biblical criticism, and ir many other fields of research, and pre- sents these conclusions in a simple and effective fashion. He shows the nature of the origins of religion in primitive customs, and the appearance of most of the principal religious beliefs in an early stage of human culture. He discusses the various early religions, especially that of the Hebrews, analyses the record of the four gospels. takes up the transformation of the early church through St. Paul 8 theology, and goes on to discuss the course of the Catholic and Protestant or rganizations and theologies.
 The religion which the author urges is a religion freed from dogma and ritual, but devoted to certain ideals or values in life. Loyalty is to be the great virtue, and loyalty is to show Itself in a ra- tional determination of values and cour- ageous seeking after them.
 "IEAGUE OF NATIONS" CvOLUME ID. CTS PRINCIPLES EXAMINED). By i, Theodore Marburg. The Macmillan company, publishers, New York city. Here MT. Marburg pursues the subject dealt with in his first volume. Basic ele- ments and human motive are considered and the philosophy of the movement is developed He touches on that greatest kind of conquest, conquest by the spirit, and shows how the existence of a league will further it. He points out the differ cree between empire which imposes for