The Cordele dispatch., 1919-05-12
CEDAR CREEK HEARS
GOOD ROADS TALKS
BARBECUE, SCHOOL CLOSING
AND BOND TALK ATTRACT
BIG CROWD.

| A feature of the good roads work
| in the county on yesterday was the
combination schccl closing, barbecue
and bond speech making in the four
teenth district at Cedar Greek schocI
house
The occasion drew t2gether a large
number of men, women and children,
| including quite n number from Cor
! dele and other parts Of the county,
The school which has been taught dur
ing the past several months under the
direction of Miss Lucy May Todd and
Miss Allie Van Hargret showed care
full ard thorough training Of the chill
dren attending the Cedar Greek school
and reflected credit upon the teach
ers.
The barbecue was well prepared,
and with the ample supplies of fried
chicken, baked chicken, chicken pie,
cakes and all the other good things
TO eat which the good people Of that
section OF Crisp know how t-, furnish
in the best Of style and most liberal
quantities, was pronounced by the
Cordele contingent present, as we'll as
by many others, as among the very
best ever served, and was far more
than the crowd present could half
consume
During tie noun preceding tie bar
W. ?. FlcmIng. and .itt0ruey a. s
Bussey Of Cordcle Jdge Fleming
delivered the literary address for the
school, and happily drove home some
strong arguments in favor of the road
BONDS issue in connection Herewith
MT Bu%sey devoted his entire spe2tE
to the good roads question, showing
that while Crisp county had always
thC progressive counties of south
Georgia, that her proud position would
be lost lf~the bond election resulted in
defeat of bonds next Thursday; that
al other counties in Georgia who have
voted on the issue, numbering a great
many, and including the mountain
county Of White and the Okehnokee
GWamp county of Charlton, have with
ont exception voted for read bonds;
that good roads always result in i'm
DrOvements of all kinds, better homes, |
better farms, better churches, better
better communities, better |
@tOck, better conyeyances; better CO.
operation between farm and city, pro
ducer and consumer, seller and buy |
cr; better prices and reader sales for |
lands; more homeseeker8 and land |
buyers; saves time to the farmer be- |
tween his home and his trading cent !
CT; enables him to haul bigger and |
heavier Loads to market; to haul out !
his supplies and especially gunano !
and commercial fertilizers in a third |
to half Of the time; saves the life of |
wagons, buggies, and other vehicles, |
reduces repair bills on all kinds of con
yeyances used on public highways;
and generally adds in every way to
the progress, advancement and rapid |
development OF community, county !
or section.
The speaker also brought cut clear
iy the fact that the added cost of the |
bond issue to the average tax payer |
IS so small as to be a really neglible |
factC" in the determination of the ma:
Ter, amounting to an increase of only !
three and half mills at the highest: |
that is to say only thirty-five cents |
per hundred dollars on tax return; |
or merely $3.50 on Il tax return of |
100000; or $500 on tax return OF \
81 900 ,O0-that the average farmer tax /
)ayer will more than save the tax on |
his guanos alone.
The speaker further showed that |
with the United States government |
a dollar to match every |
dollar put up by the county that we |
could not afford to reject the first op-
pOrtunity we have ever had of getting |
"ometlhng out of the federal treasury; |
thai for sixty years the southern |
people have been paving their due |
share of taxes by way of tariffs and |
tC the genera! government, |
ali OF |hlch in the main las here. |
tofore been expended in public inn !
rrivments, and for government needs |
in the north and west, and ny way CT
pensions 20 federal soldiers of the |
civil war;-anl Hsnce we ought to |
welcome anT mathGd ihich will en-
nble us to share in the bounties of |
the federal government, ana see 10 it |
that the $3.50, 100000 which is how Of. /
tcred us by the Unitei States be not |
passed up, ana the same be awarded |
to some other county or otatn Gr sec |
u0n,- especially since when W. lose
it, We still have to assist the general !
government by cur tax contributions
to give it to the other county, state or
section accepting it and meeting the
conditions to obtain it.
The fact was fully developed that
with the general government furnish
ing an amount equal to that which
we vote; and with the Cordele dis
trict paying seven dallars out of every
len dollars of the county's taxes -
that the districts of the county out
side of Cordele and Cordele district