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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-12

parts, and he formed the keystone
Bridge Works. They built, as thei1
first great piece, a bride over the
Ohio river, with a span of 300 feet
Demand for similar structures became
general, and the Keystone works got
The big orders and profits.
Carnegie then began to see that iron
rails must be given up for steel. On
visit to England in 1868, he dis
covered the success being obtained
there with Bessemer process. Car.
regie quietly brought it home and be.
fore; the English makers were aware
of the fact, he had adopted it in his
mills.
The romance of his success was
such that the immigrant boy of 184S
became some forty years later the
worlds leading producer of steel, a
multi-millionaire himself, and fast
bringing a score of other men into
the same category. Many square mil
es of his mills surrounded Pitts
burgh. He reached into Upper Michi-
gan, 700 miles away, and acquired vast
regions of ore land. He established
railway and steamship lines to bring
the ore to him. He boosted of the re-
duction in price of steel rails from
$95 ton down to $26. His critics
claimed that even the lower figure
was maintained only by the fact that
he had monopolized the industry. A
former secretary once divulged what
was alleged to have been official cor
respondence to the effect that the
Carnegie steel combination could sell
rails at profit as low as $12 ton.
1t was certain that the grip which
he had upon the steel situation made
his elimination necessary if others
in quest of wealth in steel were to
realize the millions they saw going to
him. He was, accordingly, bought out
in 1901. The sydicate headed by J. ri
Morgan, which desired to form the
billion dollar United States Steel
Corporation, paid $42O, 100000 in their
five percent bond for the Carnegie
holdings.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-12
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY

We are looking for a ten-thousand
bale crop of cotton in Crisp The wee
wills and the wet weather have played
havoc in some communities but in
others there will be a surprisingly
good yield. w made thirteen thousand
bales last year and this year there is
a large acreage in Crisp.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-12

You will do your own fair exhibit
justice if you get it ready now, for the
fall fair. The farm and live stock show
should represent our whole improved
farming and live stock raising. 1t will
do that this time in great style. Our
fair is going to be a good one. Get
your show ready,-and make it a real
show.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-12

Still discussing the high cost of food
of living, are you? Would you like
to see some agency take hold and do
something? Nobody has anything to
lose, not even the farmer and live
stock man who find that the dollar
buys nothing even after a high price
has been paid for their products.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-12

In comes cotton grower and saws
the weevil is getting credit for more
than he is doing. The rains and ex
IRENE wet weather have done untold
damage to the cotton crop, regard
less of the weevil, but the weeyil is
unjustly accused of having done all
the mischief. May be some truth in
that. but the weeyil is bad little
animal.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-12

Better be careful with that herd of
hogs and keep them in good condition.
They are worth attention and atten.
ton now will mean dollars this fall
and winter. Don't kill them with
quack cholera remedies, but watch
them and use preventatiyes. 1t will
preserve health, but keep them in
condition to Withstand hog ills. Don't
forget the value of your hogs.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-12


portant messages we handled. | ven
tured to take this one.'
He did it correctly and delivered tn,
telegram before the regular force wa
on duty at all. 1t won his promotion
to the key sounder. When the Pennsy
vania railroad put up telegraph wir'
of it's own he became clerk under Di
visional Superintendent Thomas A.
Scott. His salary jumped to $35 {
month. "Mr Scott, he observed, twas
then receiving $123 a month, and
used to wonder what on earth he could
do with so much money"
Andrew was 16 when his father
died, and he became at once the bread
winner of the family and true capita
list. He had been told by his trusted
employer that ten shares of Adams
Express stock could be had for $500
and it was a, good investment. At a
family council that night Carnegie's
mother decided she would mortaf
her little home for $500. The stock
was bought, and it brought monthly
dividends of one percent.
81 can see that first cneck Of ten
dollars dividend money now" he said,
when he became a, retired ironmaster
with millions. at was something, new
to all of us, for none of us had ever re-
ceived anything but from toll"
The next step toward independence
and fortune came when T. T. Wood
ruff, the inventor of the sleeping car,
approached him with model of the
invention. "He had not spoken to me
a minute, Carnegie has since recalled
before, like a flash, the whole
range of it's value burst upon me.
yes, said, that is something which
this continent must have"
He consulted Scott, and the three
invested for the manufacture of the
cars. Carnegie, then earning $50 month
ly, had to borrow 5000 on his first in
stallment of capital, but later when
he sold out his interest to the Pull
man Company, he had realized $4,000
for the venture
Carnegie was 26 when the Civil War
broke out and he saw his old employer
and friend Scott elevated to the post
CT Assistant Secretary of War. Car
negie in turn, won an appointment as
director of government railways and
telegraphs. To the carnage he saw at
several battles may be traced his life.
long belief in the folly of warefare--
"a blot upon civilization"
Unwittingly following the lead of al
man who was later to eclipse him in
fortune building, Carnegie, at 80 years
of age, invested in oil. AS one of a
syndicate he bought up a, vast tract.
of oil land. In a year, to the surprise
of all the investors, it paid the aston
ishing return of $1,OOO,OOO in cash divi-
dends upon capital of $4,000.
But iron was the magnet then at
tracing Carnegie, The railroads were
experimenting with cast iron bridges.
Carnegie foresaw the demand for a
factory that could turn out the iron
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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-12

| Ind endow. He gave away many mil
| ions after he amassed his fortune an,
most of it went to the Libraries whicl
---s.- --------
Jear his name.
The little boy and the little girl WIFI
'requent the local library ought t
snow something of his life, for it wal
lis philanthrog that made the splen
lid reading rooms possible.
His first penny he earned unexpect
IDLY as as a child when he astonishet
lis schoolmaster in Dunfermline by
Getting Burns long poem, MAN was
Made to Mourn" without a break
There is an ancedote of how, when
lsked in Sunday School to recite a
)royerb from Scripture, the young
Scot unwittingly forecast his own for.
.une by giving the homely advice
Lock after the pence, and the pounds
will take care of themselves.
Andrew was 10 when his father, a
Master weaver, was brought almost to
restitution. The steam looms drove
lin out of business. The family num-
bered four, including candy" and his
youngest brother William. The parents
lecided to emigr3te to America,
whence some relatives had preceded
them with success. They settled at
Alleghany City, Pa, across the river
from Pittsburgh, in 1848. The father
and Andrew found work in a cotton
factory, the son as bob in boy. 1t was
mis- first work. The salary was 1920
a week. He was soon promoted, at a
Ilight advance, to engineers assist
ant He stocked the boilers and ran the
5ngine in the factory cellar
IN those ding quarters where he
worked twelve hours day, came the
that later led to his lib
rary benefactions, he said. A Colonel
Anderson, possessed of some 400
books, announced he would open his
library every weekend and allow boys
to borrow any books they pleased,
Carnegie was one of the most eager
readers.
"Only he who has longed as | did
for Saturdays to come, he has said,
"can understand what Colonel Ander-
son did for me and other boys of
1t is any wonder that | re-
solved, if ever surplus wealth came to
me- | would use it initiating my ben
efactor"
AT Ia Carnegie emerged from the
engine cellar and became a telegraph
]. Douglas Reid, a Dun
Termline man, who had come to Amer
lea early, was head of the office and
he made Andrew his protege. Tele-
graphy was then almost a new thing
Nobody ventured to read the dots and
dashes by sound. They were all i'm
pressed On taps. Carnegie said to have
been the third operator in the United
States "a accomplish the feat of read
ing messages by sound alone. He prac-
ticed mornings before the regular
operators came around.
"One day a death message signal
came" he has related, before the
operators arrived. In those days
death messages We're the most i'm
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-12

Remember that you are not to sc;
too busy on September first and Sc
cond. These are the days set aside for
cur Crisp county stump eradication
demonstration. The tractors will be at
work, too. There will be something for
you to learn about how to install i'm
proved farming on your place. The
time will be well spent. You must re-
move your stumps. That is task
that is heaping itself up on your
shoulders in great style.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-12
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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-12

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Not responsible for views of contribu.
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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-12

Miss Mary Rowden should be Civ
en- every encouragement by the bust
ness community on her return to Cor
dele to open the business school. plans
having already been made. This is an
institution which is necessity We
hope wide patronage Will be secur-
ed Miss Rowdens work is of the high
est order and students need not fear
poor training. If the students is cap
able of taking it. the training will he
efficient.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-12

Il would give us great satisfaction
to see our own building begin. Many
cities and communities are beginning
TO build with a vim and residences
that have been needed for four long
years are going up. The one crying
need here is for more houses. Better
make plans to put that extra money
into home. There is nothing like it.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-11-20

over-supplied, and dealers say they
may have some difficulty in meeting
the demand. Therefore, the price
may be expected to be higher than a
year ago. Ell Centre meat market
proprietors said today that turkeys,
geese and ducks will all sell, up to
Thanksgiving day, for the same price
-45 cents a pound, dressed. This
seems to be the lowest figure that
can be set. Chickens may reach the
same figure at the last, but at present
the indications are that the retail
price of chickens, dressed, will be 40
cents a pound.
"Valley growers seem to have gone
out of the poultry business in large
numbers" said dealer this morn
ing. There are fewer big flocks of
turkeys and fewer ranchers who raise
small flocks than in former years,
the very high prices
that have prevailed"
Imperial Valley press., 1919-11-20
7 turkeys WILL
COME HIGH THIS
YEAR-45 CENTS

1t is evident at this time, a week
in advance of Thanksgiving day, that
the only way one may anticipate a
good dinner on that occasion without
1.-THE annoying thoughts of the expense,
is to arrange to take Thanksgiving
dinner with ones friends. The high
cost of living will not be more appar-
ent than when the housekeeper goes
to lay in the supplies necessary for
the big feed.
The markets will supply every
want-to those who have the price.
Everywhere the harvests have been
abundant, and the only commodity
that will be scarce is the circulating
medium of exchange. Cranberries, fer
instance, that come next to the turkey
on the list, are selling locally for 20
cents pound, just about the same as
they sold last year.
The poultry market will not be
Imperial Valley press., 1919-11-20
DRAINED SWAMP
CALLED CHEAP
FERTILE FARMS

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Nov. 20-Swamp
and overflowed lands for far smaller
expenditure per acre than is required
to make arid lands fruitful, said Isham
Randolph of Chicago before the Ma
tional Drainage congress here today.
Mr.. Randolph said the reclama ton
of arid land or of land that had been
exhausted was a long process, while
"overflowed lands, if drained today,
will produce tomorrow.
1T is tomorrow" he added, that
every bushel of cereal, every pound
of cotton, every gallon of molasses
and every pound of sugar is needed.
Besides the 1G,640,O00 acres of re-
claimable lands in the Mississippi
valley there are some 26,00O,OOO other
acres of like character lying here and
there throughout the United States. If
all these acres We're in one track they
would have an area nearly that of the
state of Nebraska"
+. Z. Newell of the University of Hi
noise said reclamation of arid or
swamp land would reduce the cost of
living and combat radicalism.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-11-20
WATER SPORTS
FOR FESTIVAL

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 20-Canoe fitting,
slsiff and four-oared races, short and
long distance swimming races, water
polo and other aquatic events will be
included in a special program to be off
cred by the San Diego Rowing Club
December 2, in conjunction with the
1fans-Continental Railway week cele-
bration here. December 3 will be Har-
Dor Day and the San Diego Yacht Club
and lilac Rowing Club, composed of
girl athletes, also will participate. The
events will be held off the municipal
pier, where a good view of the events
will be afforded thousands Of specta-
tors.
Navy officers and blueiacilets are
equally enthusiastic over the approach
ing water carniavl and every one of
the 100 government vessels in the har-
Dor will be dolled up like the pro,
verbal Christmas tree on the night of
December ?. With their searchlights
and signal lights playing and with
each ship gaily decorated with calored
illumination the vessels will pass in re-
view of the crowds on the piers and
bulkheads in one of the most elaborate
naval professions ever staged on Paci-
| fic waters.
Fishermen of San Diego, represent
ing more than n dozen nationalties,
have all agreed to enter their boats in
the harbor day water carniavl. Each
hotila of fishing smacks will bear dec
orations symbolic of the country that it
represents.
On Harbor Day open house will be
held by all the Industrial plants of the
city. Visitors viii be given an oppor-
tunity to see these plants in operation
Press Want Ads Will Sell What
Imperial Valley press., 1919-11-20
LAW IS
DESIRED; MANY
SIGN PETITIONS.

The board of supervisors will be
asked within q short time to pass an
ordinance dealing with cabarets and
swimming pools outside the limits of
incorporated towns in the Imperial
valley according to announcement made
today. The ordinance will be in sub
stance similar to the one drawn up last
spring by District Attorney E. r..
Simon which the supervisors failed to
pass.
More than 100 people are at work in
various parts of the Valley securing
signatures to petition asking the sup
crVisors to pass the ordinance.
Some members of the Ameican Leg
ion, the Ten Thousand Club and other
influential organizations are back of
the plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-11-20
MANY UNEMPLOYED
(Bv Associated f'ress1

BERLIN, Nov. 2O.-Approximately
650,00O persons throughout Germany
are now drawing the unemployed
benefit insurance, says an official
labor bulletin. Since June, it is stat
ed, the number of workless has grad
ually decreased, the largest proper
tion of them being in the big cities.
IN Berlin they average AZ to every
900 of tire ponulation.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-11-20
AVIATORS IN PHILIPPINES
(Rv Associated Pressl

MANILA, p. l., Nov. 20.-The Phil
ippine government has taken posses
sion of land here and arranged with
an aviation company to train at least
80 national guard aviators on the site
during the next wear.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-10-25
CHAS. CARR CONSENTS
TO BE CANDIDATE FOR
POLICE JURYMAN, WARD 6

1t looked for time as though Ward
Six would have to go unrepresented
in the next Police Jury. 1t is an cleo
tive office. and no one with qualifica-
tons wished to be a candidate. The
reason seems to have been that there
was so much unpleasantness heaped
upon the last police jury that the
position Of honor and trust was I'M
inviting.
After much solicitation, however,
the influential citizens of Ward Six
have persuaded C. E. Carr to file dec
laration with the executive committee
for the office. There being no other
candidates, at least none that the
Journal has heard Of, declaration is
equivalent to nomination, therefore it
is timely for this ward to congratulate
itself and to tender Mr. Carr the sup
port that is due him. He is very
competent man and thoroughly ia
miliar with the problems that will con-
front the incoming Police Jury.
1t is to be hoped that the coming
administrative term will be one of
Ipeace and harmony, and that the Of
ficials will be allowed to work un,
hampered for the welfare Of the Par
fish.
| The Parish executive committee will
meet on the 9th, after which the list
Of candidates for the different parish
Offices will be made known
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-10-25
NenIected Suhieets.

Sometimes, a subscriber says, 81
wonder why you don't comment edi-
torially on this or that.
Lot of times these people want the
editor to criticise something, or grab
at one of the mental chestnuts In the
fire of adverse discussion.
Often the person is sincere, and
would like to know exactly what is
thought upon this or that subject,
Some questions perplex the reader
and he really seeks all the information
possible upon the subject.
This newspaper is open for its read
ers. 1t will be glad to print their
views upon various subjects, as long
as this is not personal or abuse. II
you are interested in a subject, start
the people to thinking about 1t by
calling it to their attention. Write
your letter to the editor, and 1t viii
be printed.
interchange of views is always
profitable. If you have thoughts tina
you think would be interesting, pu
them on paper and mail them to us
There are probably others who woult
be interested in your opinion on thu
subject.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-10-25
FUNERAL OF J. R. LEBLEU
HELD TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

The remains of the late John Rivis
LeBleu, who died last Saturday at
Stratford, Texas, were Inferred in the
LeBIeu cemetery near Fenton TUESDAY
afternoon, a large number of relatives
and friends attending the services,
conducted under the auspices of the
ODD Fellows lodge, of which the de,
ceased was a valued member. The
sermon was preached by the Rev. Paul
Leeds of Kinder.
Mr. LeBleu was SO years, II months
and % days old at the time of his
death. He was the oldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. Arsan LcBlou, prominent
residents of the north part of the Par
.ish. Besides his father and mother he
lis survived by his wife, who before
her marriage was Miss Areace Boar
geoiS, daughter of Mrs. Adam BuurQue
and one daughter, Ollie aged 10 years
two brothers, Tad and Frank A. Le
Bleu, and one sister, Mrs. c. Vaughn
of Kinder.
The deceased went to Stratford
Texas, about ten years ago on account
of his health, and he"had enjoyed very
good health up until short time age
when he was stricken with typhoid
fever, He had been engaged in tn
conduct of hotel at Stratford. His
wife and daughter will return there
to continue the business.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-10-25
WOODLAND NOTES.

The weather conditions as OF last
week still prevail with the exception of
having been favored by few cool
DAYS which helped, to large extent,
to stop the sprouting of rice IN the
shocks. The majority of the farmers
are still keeping themselves busy cut
ting what rice is left standing, When
the ground conditions permit. we SIN
cerely hope to see better weather con-
ditions, for not only are these daily
downpours detrimental to the farming
industry, but because in some places
roads are becoming impossible, pre-
venting the farmers from bringing the
rice to the warehouse preparatory to
shipping
Mr. John Miller who sometime past
came out of the sanitarium at Lake
Charles. seemingly better, was advised
to go to Hot Spings, Ark, to regain
his health. His brother, Edward Mil
Ter, and Afford Pousson accompanied
him there last week.
MIR. Dan Doescher Of Lake Cnaries,
formerly a resident of this community,
came mere on UUSlnSoS le'oI "Sof'
Mr.. Clerefo Corbello was business
visitor to Jennings last Monday.
Mr.. Henderson Guzman was an
Iowa visitor last Sunday.
The roads and weather did not pre-
vent good crowd from attending the
dance at Iowa last Wednesday night
Four new enrollments were record
ed in school during the week. These
new pupils are from other sections
land therefore add to our total enroll
ments. This makes the heaviest en-
rollment of the school and speaks fol
the necessity of equipping the schoo
for these pupils who are coming IN
This school is carrying eight grades
and three teachers are insufficient. As
Ian example there are forty-five pupils
lin the kindergarten grades up to the
second grade. This school is also car
rying more hours of actual teachlns
lthan any other school of it's kind in the
parish in order to give the proper at
/ tention to the students. Otherwise tn'
/ school is running very well, with tbu
few failures for the past month.
staff Correspondent.