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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17

ing would indicate that he was q
capable officer The English appear
TO be ready with measure against
profiteering and plenty of punish
ment for the person who violates it,
but the whole aim is TO stop pro-
fiteering and not to throw all the
people into prison.
American profiteering must be re-
gulated, Restricted 1t is a great
wonder that something more has not
been done to bring relief. Advances
in prices since the war on many
commodities have been greater than
during the war. The worst of it all is
the fact that there is no stopping
point Prices are showed up higher
every day.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17

some so mineral springs, was seiec'
ed as the first object of attack. and
number of speakers were sent there
to spread the dry" doctring. 1t was
also decided to pay particular atten
ton to Scotland where. under new
regulations, local option is possible
Other plans, it was announced, are
in the making and within a year the
campaign will be in full swing.
Most of the newspapers have done
nothing but ridicule the movement
and urge that owing to the climate
British men and women needed stimu
lants and would never voluntarily re.
linauish their alcohol.
Lady Henry Somerset, late presi
dent of the British Woman's Tenn
perance Association, is quoted as OK.
pressing the opion that the pro
hilton campaign will do positive mis-
chief by making prohibition appear
to be the sole alternative to a re-
turn to the pre--war position.
The liquor interest say they have
not given the question much atten.
ton, preferring to believe that the
prohibition experiment in the United
States will fail and therefore there
will be no need for action in England.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17
''PARL OR, BEDROOM AND BATH"

That famous festival of fun, Par
lor, Bedroom and Bath" one OF the,
most successful farces in years will
be presented at the School Auditor
ium, Thursday, November, A2dth for
an engagement of one day direct from
years run in Chicago and New
York. 1t comes to Cordele direct
from its overwhelmingly successful
engagement of seven months at the
Republic Theatre, New York, where
it proved one of the most popular
farces in years. The play is in three
acts and is the work of c. w. Bell and
Mark Swain. 1t contains what Mr.
Woods believes to be one of the most
novel plots ever embodied in comedy.
The story deals with the escapades
of an eminently respectable young
benedict who is compelled to assume
the guise of a Don Juan to satisfy the
the sentimental cravings OF his ador-
ing bride. Assuming strange role
that i'll fits him he finds himself in
desperate plight in a wayside inn,
with more Nvehturesome 4adies on his
hands than so gentle an individual
ever dreamed existed. That is as
far as the management will disclose
the plot. But developments that en-
sue made New York and Chicago
laugh uproariously for more than
year. The play has been staged with
elaborate care and good taste. A
splendid company Of farceurs has
been chosen to interpret the play.
Seats will be placed on sale at Jen-
nings Drug Store.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17
FROM HERE ANR THERE

OF the twenty odd million acres
which comprise Ireland nearly one
seventh are barren. being mountain,
turf. bog or marsh.
Kilkenny Castle is one OF the old
est inhabited houses in the world,
many OF its rooms being much as
they were 500 years ago.
"a peculiar fact about the banana
is that no insect will attack it, end
another is that it is immune from the
diseases that fruits are subject t..
1t is a fact that, while the common
snail has lungs, heart, and general
circulation. being in every respect
an air.breathing creature. it is never
theless able to live indefinitely with
out mhaling air, an element which
is supposed to be essential to the ext
stence of all creatures endowed with
lungs.
England has a score or more of
peeresses in their own right who may
become eligible to seats in the House
Of Lords. but il is likely that age or
in6rmities would keep at least three
fourths of the number from exercis.
ing their privilege.
In the jewel collection of the Ouch
ess OF Newcastle is wonderful cor
onet with feather eight inches long
made entirely of diamonds.
Every Chinese child, rich or poor
is carefully taught how to address
his parentss' his supeeriors, his fell
lows. and his interiors with fitting
courtesy. Even among the poorest
classes considerable portion OF
, each day is devoted by the child to
the study of etiquette
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17
THE ENGLISH VIEW

Great fun is being poked ut Ameri.
can prohibition workers who are in
the campaign to make England dry. 1t
is not all fun. Last week brought an
account of an effort or students to
handle a speaker from this country
roughly. There is wide disposition to
regard these workers as fanatics.
"Pussyfooting" is the term the
newspapers and British liquor inter-
ests have given the campaign to
make England dry, and "pussyfeet"
is the title they have given those
members of Parliament and Ameri,
can Anti-Saloon League workers
who are pressing the movement,
1t has been announced that there
is abundant money behind the move
ment. and the nucleus of parlia.
mentary prohibition party has been
formed by nine members of the
House of Commons to first fight for
the retention of war time liquor re-
gulations while forming their lines
for mara drastic actjOp
Harrogate, 4 health resort with
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17

Half a century ago the custom of
washing the brides feet at wedding
was common in Scotland. 1t was u.s.
ully performed by the attendants of
the bride-eleet on the evening be-
fore the marriage ceremony was to
be performed.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17
GERMAN TRADE PLANS

| German manufacturers are plan
ming to rehabllitate their world trade
by "a new policy, according to a
writer in the Deutscher Handel Warte
of Nuremberg. It contamplates moth
| ing less, he says, than abandonment
Of the FLOODING of foreign countries
with trashy goods"
Admitting that the outlook for Ger.
| man exports is "unfortante." in view
OF the progress Gn manufacturing
made by Japan, America, England
and other countries. the belief is ex-
pressed that those nations are so
busy trying to increase their indus
trial production that they are becom-
ing lax in the matter of beauty,
quality and price.
America seeks to drive Germany
from the world markets, says the
article. "The Entente concerns itself
nlso working against our exports in
neutral countries. Yet all this cannot
scare us. II is thereby made clear
that boundless esteem exists for Ger
man manufacturers in enemy coun'
tries. The goods which are best most
beat ful and cheapest will find THEM
way into other lands.
Through improvement of our
scientific methods our government
must promote German export bust
ness. The means are already at hand
We possess research institutes for
coal, iron, leather, textiles and food
chemistry. We must step farther
along this road. Besides, professional
schools are to be improved in order
to raise the general level of labor.
Technique and science must work to-
gether to save the raw material.
Already foreign firms are seeking
German goods. In Berlin German
American Merchandise Exchange has
been organized A number of Ameri.
can chambers of commerce have
raised the demand to renew bust
ness with Germany as soon as pos
sible. 1t is known that in South
America there is also lively need for
German wares. The sharp competi.
ton which is already apparent be.
tween England and America will be
profitable for our exports. The ten.
year-long relations of our merchants
with other countries can build the
bridge for our export trade.
THE earlier flooding of foreign
counties with trashy goods will
cease. We shall lay emphasis on
goods of quality for only the best
value products will hence forth gain
entrance to the worlds markets. If
peace and order can be restored in
the fatherland then we need not be
uneasy about the outlook for the fu.
ture."
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17
FOR CITY COUNCIL.

I Hereby announce myself a candi
date for city council in the primary
set for November 25th. If elected ]
pledge myself to every good interest
Of the city and community and will
do my best to perform faithfully all
the duties imposed in the office !
seek at the hands of the voters.
WAYNE FAINT
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17
DON'T SHAKE
YOUR LIFE AWAY

You know the cause. Your system
is full of malaria; get it out of your
system. Get rid Of those strength de
stroying chills with Ameco.
The minute you take dose of
Ameeo, you can rest assured you
will miss that dreaded chill day.
at kills the caills."
A few doses breaks the fever and
after taking one or two bottles as a
tonic, the fever will not return.
Ameco will also cure any ordinary
cold in "a hours.
Try bottle of Ameco. You will
DE agreeably surprised how quickly
and thoroughly it does the work,
Every bottle guaranteed.
PRICE rs CENTS.
Pudgen Bros, Wholesale Distributors,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17
Members Of Associated Press.
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY.
BRITISH FRIGHTENING

American people cannot truthfully
boast of having beaten the English in
the right handling of profiteering
since the, war. England has not al
together held down this evil but the
record undeer the PROTECTING act at
fords some very interesting comment
Great Britan's stupendous effort
to grapple with profiteering is just
disclosed by the work of 1000 tri-
bunals which have prosecuted 1850
offenders and secured 1920 convic.
tions, with fines aggregation $4,000
Besides setting up these local tri-
bunals to which complaints against
dealers are submitted, appeal tri-
bunals have been established in spe-
Gifted areas of England, Scotland and
Wales. In addition Central Commit
tees also have been formed to invesi-
gate suppose trusts or monopolies
which may be manipulating whole,
sale prices. This has been done I'M
der the PrOfiteering Act.
orst frn hn n.
laints, the Board of Trade which is
charged with the administration Of
the anti.profiteering law, is indie
pendendently investigating prices,
costs and profits of large number
OF articles in common use. 1t has
formed a Costings Committee, compos
ed OF distinguished accountants,
which is assisting the Central Com,
mittee in its task. A subcommittee
on trusts has been empowered to
obtain whatever technical and ex'
pert assistance may be required.
In scope, the act applies to "any
article or class of articles which is
one of kind in common use by the
public" or to any material, machin-
cry accessories used in the produc'
ton of such articles The act does
not apply to controlled" articles,
such as butter, sugar, beer. flour IL
ouors- commodities for which maxi
nm prices were fixed by wartime
legislation.
"A clear-cut definition of the term
"prOfiteering" has been n point
which has given local tribunals much
difficulty in the prosecution of their
tasks. So far the definition laid dem
by Sir Auckland Geddes president OF
the Board OF Trade has been accept
ed as basis for prosecution. 1t fol-
lows: 1.-THE making of an unreason'
ably large profit all the Circumstance
es being known by the sale to ones
fellow citizens of an article which
is one, or one of a kind, in common
use" N1'V{-SyN' VIZ
On the moot question of what con-
stitutes an unreasonable profit"
c. A. McCurdy. parliamentary secre-
tary TO the Ministry of Food, recent
" declared zone of the causes OF
profiteering Is. the fact that the pub
lie seems TO have lost all sense of what
is reasonablee profit. A good prin-
ciple for tribunals to work upon is not
TO ask themselves whether the pro-
fit is higher than someone else is
charging. bat is the profit arrived at
on any reasonable business principle
or is it merely dictated by averiee
or gree"
The number of causes a policeman
makes is not the thing that
makes him good officer. or his vic,
Tins any better. The number by his
vigilance and wisdom he avoids max
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17

A farm engine invented in Europe
is driven by a gas motor and is equip
ed to produce its own fuel from
such waste material as bark. sawdust
or dry leaves.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17
Regular Bowels Is Health

Bowels that move systematically
free one day and stubborn the
next-shonld be healthfully regu-
lated by DIR. Kings New Life Pills.
In this way you keep the impurities
Of waste matter from circulating
through the system by cleansing
the bowels thoroughly and promOt-
ing the proper flow of bile.
Mild, comfortable, set always re-
liable, DIR. Kings New Life Pills
work with precision without the
constipation results of violent pur-
gatives. 25e. as usual at all drug
gistS.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17

is completely washed out Of the system DS
the celebrated Shivar Mineral Water. 7Pes'
lively guaranteed by money,back ofier
Tastes fine: costs a triAe. Delivered any
where by our Cordele Agents. heard Gro
Gerry Co. Phone them.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17

The lot of the young wife in Indie
J. .aJt.J"C @.a1thS- He'l9.
is in many respects an irksome one.
.Iuf32j(stl,a
In certain parts Of the country it is a
common custom that a young wife
living, as she does, in a joint family
of ten or twenty members, must never
show her face to her husbands father
uncles. or older brothers, or talk with
them.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-17

In some parts of China, if man
fails to pay his debts, his creditors
carry away one of his doors. 1t is
thought thaot this permits evil spirits
to enter.
Milford chronicle., 1919-07-04

hts which our democracy has conferred upon il
people are lost to these. If ignorance reduces p,
tential earning capacity by minimum of SIS
week, as compared with that of a literate, thi
bill is almost a valuation of our promise of bel
terments, of haven, of opportunity, because
translates it into terms of humanity and of Pre-
tection"
AmericanizatiOn and Health
There are sanitary and hygiene arguments be
hind the bill under review, too. DR.. Frankel
head of the National Health Association told Mr..
Kaufman that the associations work, "the work
Of raising the health average of the country, will
be advanced not 10 per cent, but far beyond that
ratio if some means is afforded, means that do
exist, of reaching these people and bring
ing them to an appreciation of the values of san-
tary surroundings and ef-protection. This is
the area which affords them the greatest amount
OF difficulty in carrying on their program. It is
the source of most Of health menaces with which
we are dealing, because, living in ignorance they
very, very benghted state. They do not
knew, they do not understand, they are medieval
in their habits and in their practices, and this
bill validates their estate, their health estate"
So far in this article, the dealing has been
with the Smith-Bankhead bill in so far as it
relates to the foreign-born. The measure is
drawn however, to cover the interests of
the native illterate. In this phase the problem
OF education reaches Secretary Lane tells US,
"people who are in the United States and have
been in the United States for generations.
Those are people who vote, and yet they cannot
read or write Is not that matter of national
concern?"
The secretary feels that the country is abso-
lutely behind his bill This confidence he gathers
from the reading of many hundreds of newspaper
clippings which have come before him. And GER
tainly some assurance seems justified when ed
itorial endorsements come with equal heartiness
from Massachusetts and California New York
and Florida, Michigan and Texas.
Milford chronicle., 1919-07-04
81 Cannot Understand"

"When left home this morning my little gir
said that 1t Valentines day, and that abe
had just received a valentine Now, I want to
present to you valentines: Here Is picture of
Uncle Sam shouting through megaphone to the
people Of the United States in a time of war
Forward march, and here are 10 per cent, per
haps less, perhaps per cent, of these people
in this great army that is lined up, who have
the hand up to the ear like that (indicating) and
saying, we can not hear YOU Now, that is the
exact condition that existed at the beginning of
this war. Here was Hoover shouting to the peo
pie Of the United States, Stop eating wheat
and here were the people looking up at him with
gaping mouth and saying, we do not understand
what you say Here was the President explain
ing in eloquent way what the significance was
of this draft that was made upon these boys and
the boy was saying, 4 cannot understand"
Thorough understanding is one way, tits urged,
by which money spent on Americanization will
come back to US. But there are ways more direct,
in an economic sense, by which it will return. To
quote Mr.. Lane again:
"You can figure this thing in hundred differ
ent ways, as to the economy of giving these peo-
pie an education. More than so per cent. of the
in Sf S;=T largest industries are of for
eign birth. If you increase the ability of a man
he is entitled to a better wage, because he pro
duces more. have figured that if you increase
the ability of these men by teaching them the
English language, what the mo smoking sign
means, what the turn to the right sign MEANS
what the warning sign means, saving their
hands and their arms and their legs, saving them
from accidents; teaching them enough to enable
them to read printed plat of directions, as to
what to do in their industries-if you should, by
this means, be able to increase by so cents a day
the wages of the men who are engaged in in
dustry who cannot understand the English Ian
guage when spoken, when written, you would
be able to develop fund for the United States
Of approximately $2,000,000,000 year."
In addition to profitable efficiency in in
dustry, too, to be acquired through the banish-
ment of illteracy, there will be incalcuable gain
in the solving of labor situations when it shall
come to pass that, all through the works. man
shall understand fellow-man and employe and
employer enjoy mutual comprehension in words
and ideas.
Mr. Kaufman, who quoted briefly at the
beginning of this article, pursued in his further
Milford chronicle., 1919-07-04
The Call for Actian

TIE necessity for some action to remedy the
Ills Of Aiteracy is amply elsa; Under our form
Of gov s~nment, the nation !s Bound to proceed
with the work only in cooperation with the
states soVereigB Uncle Sam In the measure
promoted By Secretary Lane, proposes to join
hands and match appropriations with such Of
the sovereign commonwealth shall respond to
his Invitation. And his guarantee Of good faith
will be an initial appropriation Of S5,0O0,000,
for the current fiscal year, with s12,500,00O COM
ing annually hereafter, up to the fiscal year
1925. with additional sums, first of $3.50 600 and
then Of S75O.000 annually, for cooperative work
in the preparation Of teachers, supervisors d.
reetors Of education, etc.
Of our foreign-born helpers in industry, it is
calculated that steel and iron manufacturers en-
ploy 90 per cent; the saughtering and meat
packing trades, 81 per cent; btuminous coal
mining, 62 per cent; the silk and dye trade, 81
per cent; glass-making enterprises, 3S per cent;
woollen mills, 81 per cent; cotton factories, SO
Milford chronicle., 1919-07-04
The Need Is COuntry-Wide

1t becomes, in view of the cooperative feature
of the scheme, greatly important that the scope
and purpose of the plan shall receive country
wide appreciation. There is no corner of the Re-
public which has not its own immediate interest
in this Americanization enterprise
Speaking for the bill last February, before
the House committee, Secretary Lane called at
iention to the fact that while we are spending,
nationally, millions of dollars in treating diseases
that attack the animals of this country, we are
spending approximately but 100000 year on
the whole subject of education through the bu-
reau of education.
"Our neglect in these Matters" he continued,
"was brought out during the war. Then they
discovered that we had drafted into our army
a large number of men-I do not dare to say
what the percentage is-a large number Of men,
hundreds of thousands Of men who could not read
or write who did not understand the orders that
were given them, who had to be given an eemen-
tary education, primary education, not in read
ing Of the language and in writing English, but
in understanding English. If we could have been
given a few hundred thousand dollars for the
education of those people, that humiliation would
not have been suffered by the United States.
"Now, just fancy this picture: A drill ser
Milford chronicle., 1919-07-04
Some Startling Facts Every American
Should Consider

The number of Ieraes in the United States estimated
at EIGHT MILLIONS number equal to the combined Popu
aiOns of Nevada, Wyoming Delaware Arizona dahO ssls-
ppi Vermont Rhode Island North Dakota South Dakota Ore
gOn Maine, E!Grida, CONNECTICUT anu washington
In certain American industries high S5 per cent OF
fOegnbOrn helpers employed Oneuarter Of these can
not read or write their own language.
In drafted for the hundreds of thousands could not
read or write
Over II cent of the in the eastsOuh Central
States have been to school
Approximately 16 cent of the people of Passaic N J
deal with their fellow workers employers through
interpreters.
The nOnEngsh speaking in the anthracite region
shown to be twice liable to death injury the English
speaking workers.
the labor of terate worth S. week less than that
of who read then the teaching of the 100000 would
yield the nation SOO0OO000 annually in of its present
earnings-enOugh to the interest on the debt
Milford chronicle., 1919-07-04
Herbert Kaufman's Plea

"This law" said Mr.. Kaufman, "is really a
law to validate the estate of 100000 Americans
and potential Americans in all the facilities, in
all the instruments of progress in the United
States. When you build postoffice, you build
a share Uf it Tor them; when you build
gressonal library you build a share of it for
them; every forward movement, and every in
stitution to advance democracy and to uplift men,
predicate their pro rata of it; and we have
hundreds of millions of dollars invested for them
of which they are unaware and to which they can
not take title until certify their title by max
ing them literate and aware of it.
"If this act will validate and bring to use
hundreds of millions of dollars worth of national
facilities for each of US, the education of these
100000 will lower the national overhead on
every product which they learn to utilize. For
example, today those people are not potential
customers for any of the forms of merchandise
which are sold through advertising. They are
not customers for any publishers; they are not
customers for the magazines, for the newspapers,
for any product of the printing trades They
can not even read moving picture title.
"The elimination of illiteracy also means the
gradual elimination of falsifed merchandise and
the reduction, the practical elimination Of cheat
ing manufacturers and retailers who rely mainly
upon illiterate customers for their support. We
passed the pure food and drug act for these peo-
pie as well as for our literates, but for them it
does not exist Thus, most OF the greatest bene-
Milford chronicle., 1919-07-04
Secretary Lanes Strong Statement
in Naming National Need

There has been a very considerable lethargy on the
part of the Federal Government with regard matters of
education We do not treat the boy and the girl the
man and the Of the United States with the
consideration that do the hog and the Now that
is rather strong statement but spending hun
dreds of thousands of dollars year, millions of dollars in
treating the diseases that attack the animals of this coun-
try, and spending approximately 100000 year
on the whole subject of education through the Bureau of
Education.