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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-21
HOW MANY ARE LOYAL

One result OF the Arm'stice Day
trouble in Centralia, Wash. was the
ty of an organization known as the
Loyal American League Every loyal
American citizen is eligible to mem.
bcrShip. Notary publics all through
the country are supplied with blanks
ON which oaths of allegiance nhy
he taken. Each person admitted re.
ceived card of membership, with
out cost.
Employers expect their men to
own such cards. The governor of the
state has appointed organizers in
every other county in the state.
The aim of the league seems to be
chiefly the Identification of I'll loyal
men and women, whatever their age
or afiiliatiQn 1t demands that every
loyal 'and law-abidiaG citizen make
his presence known and add his
influence to the side cd decency
and order
When the forces of good line up
on the side of righteousness in any
community ii is always found that
they oWnumber the forces of evil. II
is good thing occasionally to dc
something of the kind. 1t enables
people to decide for themselves just
where they stand on any question OF
honesty and patriotism. 1t also has
a wholesome effect upon the dis
loyal minority whose work is bold
and dangerous only so long as it is
allowed to so unchecked and uncon
honted by the public will for good.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-21
WALKING CONDITIONS

One of the most remarkable devel
cpments of the year 1919 was the
boom in Good Roads, which move
ment made more progress in II
months than il used TO be 10 years
Generous appropriations have been
voted. and many extensive It's hll to
the good and means a wonderful de-.
yelopment in productive power for
this country.
Meanwhile the need for good walk
ing conditions can't safety be over
looked The ma jority of the people
are still walkers rather thhn riders
The interests of the many who tramp
to and from daily work must be con
sidered.
If wage Garner after his toilsOme
and sometimes muddy road. the dis.
comforts of his lot are exaggerated
in his mind If you lay down good
fC 5tpath, You give him some courage.
Good walks help people live farther
cut in the country where they d3n
plant gardens and develop pretty
places.
The building of good sidewalks
". transform IA discontinued and
depressing neighborhood into one
that looks cheerful and well kept up.
TIE making of this Improvement al
u st always leads people to clean
up their grounds. and plant flowers,
shrubs, and trees.
Good walks mpkke town look
alive they attract strangers to be-
residents, and they make the home
fC ks hetter contented Ii is a good
investment for a town not merely
to put in some form of sidewalk
paving through its business section,
but to run the hard walks through
all residence districts where houses
are fairly near together So in ar
il aging public work for the coming
season. We should plan for Eonstruc
tinn of nesidc walks in a number of
Of new sidewalks in number of
neighborhoods that are fairly en-
titled to have them.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-21

nor in his elegant limousine If he
has bitter and resenteul tempera-
ment, he ntay resolve to pull the
rich man down and take possession
of his cars and palaces in the name
Of the proletariat Yet wealth nl1y
have earned these Injuries by super
ior efficiency in serving the public
The various clements Of society
should live closer together and in
more intimate relations The rich
nd n is not necessarily called on to
give up his fine house and live in the
tenements But he should know from
personal observation how his workers
live. and and do his best to obtain
for them higher standard of COM
fort.
Selfish expenditure widens the
chasms. People who have been ableI
to conduct big business honestly
and efficiently are entitled to ami
abundant life and Aiving and pos
session of comfortable fortune. III
they devote their superflulcy to phil
or render it back to thel
public by giving their service at
lower prices. they get more out OF
life and win deeper affection
The money wasted by the rich
spendthrirt, if divided up among a
factory of workers, would not amount
to much for each individual Butt
the spirit displayed creates i'll feel
ing Those who have learned tol
make a generous return for oppOr-
,unities society gives them have
placed both their business and the
social structure on a sounder foun- |
1ation.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-21
THE VACANT CHAIR

Macon Telegraph: The best and
most thorough Americans will per
haps for the first time in history re-
gard their country's relation TO the
world and its affairs with shame
and humiliation With the passing oil
THE ,epochal event OF yesterday. The
greatest and finest thing to come out
OF the late or any world war had its
FIRST being with every great, civili2
cd western power represented but
the United States. The League of
Nations, as our weaker neighbors
and late Allies are bravely and hope
fully going about to put into effect
without us for the time being. en-
bodies 50 much of the iddllism and
standards of international agree
ment for ecommonsense American
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-21

MONDAY, JANUARY Z, q ! {! = n ,s,y0
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-21

Congress is promising to put
81 900, 100000 into the pockets of the
American people next yenr. How?
BY not spending it. OF course Con
gress won't keep its promise-it
never does but the principle is
sound, and just as applicable in
private life as in public life.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-21

but it has been incidentally aired in
the rumpus they have stirred up try
ing to secure plrty advantage and
to "clip the wings" of a disliked
President
All that has been accomplished is
to assure the people their first in
atincts were right in regard to the
covenant, and that they want a
League Of Nations, The Battalion of
Death" is now but a hundred of lone
and tragically ludricious soulds. The
mon modification strength is unim.
paired and is forcing the death-deal
ing reservationist to come up from
their career of crime and get out in
the open.
And while we are little late we
are still coming. 1t is not only sen
timentally depressing and humiliat-
ing that the first effort the world
has made to protect itself from an
international system based on war
should be formally installed without
us when we did SO much to make it
possible hnd insist on it being done;
but it is not final of anything. We
will be there before a great while
and with full power, effect, service
ard responsibility--the Republican
party. and its staunch and public.
ably. William Jennings Bryan toj
the Contrary Notwithstanding.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-21

The packers have promised to be
as good as they can be- hereafter
Just how good THAT is remains to
be seen. Probably as good, at that,
as the oil men and coal men and
shoe men, etc. etc.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-21

Save "a little something this year
The love of money may be the root
of all evil, but the want of money
is the devil himsel.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-21

It is denied that Congress has done
nothing. as both parties have Deen
fully occupied passing the buck.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-21

Now is the time to start the sum.
mer vacation fund
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-21
Members Of the Associated Press

Members of the Associated Press
The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled TO the use for republication
Of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this pa
per and also the local news published
herein.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-21

Columbus could not have discover
ed America in these days, as the
sailors would have held up the eX-
petition for time and half for over
timc.s
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
NEW FICTION FOR OLD AND YOUNG
FAMOUS STORIES
Tsoo Compilations Devoted to
Detective and Psychic
Fiction

]. Walker Mcspadden, defstisabl,
compiler and antholosist. who is hnowr
for his retelling Of Shakespeare and
other authors stories, WaGner's operas
etc., in popular language, has made {
very competent selection In Great De-
tectiye Stories" and "Great Psychic
Stories" The ''classics'' In shor,
stories IN these fields are incorporated
IN the volume and Mr.. McSpadden's dill
igence has ferreted out several others
not Known to the average reader, for
each volume. ~.
In the one devoted to detective fiction
are represented Edgar Allan Poe, pio-
neer Of the ratiocinative tale; Sir Ar
thur Conan Doyle, T. W. Hanshew,
Gaboriau, Sax Rohmer, Arthur b.
Reeve, Anne Katherine Green, etc. The
reader has opportunity to meet In one
book such celebrated sleuths and scien-
tine inductionists a. Dupin, Lecod,
nedy, as we'll as Raffies, Flu Manchu
In one or more of his most sensational,
daring or cerebrally interesting ex-
ploits. The elements Of surprise, ten
sity and excitement dominate each story.
In Famous Psychic Stories" Mr..
McSpadden's editorial talent leads him
into hitherto unanthologized field.
There have, Of course, been many col
lections Of ghost stories, but none along
the purely psychic lines Of this COM
20 far as we remember. The
authors include Hawthorne, Poe, Wilkie
Collins, u. It. Benson, Margaret Oil.
phant, Mary wilkins Freeman and Am
brose Billie, each represented by unfor-
getable stories, especially interesting
just now in the contemporary vogue OF
psychic research.
FAMOUS DETECTIyE STORIES. FAMOUS
PSYCHIC STORIES. Edited by J. Walker
McSpadden. New York: T. z. Crowell q
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

many he would never miss them. You
do II, and then when You come to see
me tell me all about It."
| And he and Longfellow smiled
broadly" the author adds.
He saw Phillips Brooks, though
needless to say he did not follow the
humorous advice Of Wendell Phillips.
Lie saw, too, for q brief and impress
sive moment, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 4,
| who was then In the mental mists''
that shut out the sunshine from the
| philosophers last years.
! A bit Of Wall street, when he wal
stenographer In. the Western Union
| Telegraph office, and taking frequen,
dittation from Jay Gould dramatic re.
porting in the evenings for the Brooklyn
Eagle; the launching of another success
ful business venture, this time printing
readable theatre programs; editing the
Brooklyn Magazine In his. spare mo
ments, were some Of the activities which
Kept the boy, now approaching manhood,
busy day and night.
Henry Ward Beecher came into his
life and strongly Influenced It. Box
launched a successful syndicate, mean. /.
whil le having left the Western Union to
work successfully as stenographer in
the publishing houses Of Henry Holt and
ShuEies ScrlDnerS sons
Reaches Height Of Career
It was in connection with Literary
Leaves, which he wrote and sent out
through his syndicate, and which was
published in Philadelphia in the old
Times, that he came to the notice of
Cyrus II. X. Curtis, who finally engaged
him as editor and launched him upon the
full tide Of his success as an editor.
One Of the best anecdotes of the pub
fishing house days comes from the Scrib-
ners' period. Mark Twain was a fire.
quent visitor. Though smoking was for.
hidden in the Scribner Offices, Mark
Twain always had his pipe.
He generally smoked a granulated
tobacco which he kept in a long check
bag made of silk and rubber. When ho
sauntered to the back Of the Scribner
store, he would generally knock the
residue from the bowl Of the pipe, take
out the stem, place It in his vest pocket,
like a pencil, and drop the bowl into
the bag containing the granulated to-
bacco. When he wanted to smoke
again, (Which was usually Ave minutes
later) he would fish out the bowl, now
automatically filled with tobacco, insert
the stem and strike light.
One afternoon as he ventured into
Bok's office, he was just putting the
pipe away. The pipe, Of the corncob
variety, was very aged and black. BOX
asked him whether 1t was the only pipe
he had.
oh, no. Mark answered, 4 have
several. But they're all like this. !
never smoke a new corncob pipe. A
new pipe irritates the throat. No corn
cob pipe is fit for anything until It has
been used at least a fortnight
g How do you break in q pipe,
them asked Box.
" That's the trick answered Mark
Twain. I get a cheap mana man
who doesn't amount to much, anyhow
who would be as we'll, or better, dead
and pay him a dollar to break in the
pipe for me. / get him to smoke the
pipe for a couple of weeks, then put in
new stem, and continue operations as
long as the pipe holds together. "
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
A Country Experiment

Mr.. Thompson is one of the leading
citizens Of London suburb where his
family lives in the enjoyment of all
the advantages Of town. He decides to
buy a farm In the country and spend
the rest Of his life on the land. His
wife consents because abe is willing to
please him; and his daughters, believing
that they would have no opportunities
for marriage, also consent, one Of them
because her lover had been killed in
the war and she was sure she could
never be interested in another man,
and the other because she knew that
there were more women than men and
she did not intend to enter into COM
petition with the other girls for the
few men available. But when they get
into the country they discover many
surprising things about country life and
about the lack of control which O girl,
or a man, for that matter, has over
the mating instinct.
The story of the adventure Is told
by Mrs. J. f. Ruckrose in young
Hearts," and she has made a delightful
comedy Of English rural life out of IL.
There Is sentiment in it without mushi-
ness and there Is humor to delight the
discerning.
YOUNG HEARTS. BY J. u. Buckross. New
York: George II. Doran Co.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
VIEWS AND VISIONS
OF VERSAILLES PEACE
"America's Aims and Asiu's Z
Aspirations" Cipes Closeup
of Conference

| Inc rate OF Asia is more closely re-
lated to and moro importantlv besr,ps
on tho neoco - A.. ,-..,s a.
n.u. W.T." e.n iuos'
po.sons' even the well Informed, realize.
Patrick Gallagher, author Of America q
Aims and Asia's Asu,r.tion. - h..
this realization vs,x mai, s...,a
hence to s.s, devotes a great deal of his space
Jsnensa ana explanation OF the
OrIenteI ' 0nlnese' Korean and other
D.i aspects OF the conference.
work % ~ ms ms long long years Of journalistic
him 20 iay too r,,,as NAY nave ,mpeneo
pects hnt a. Vv ueh stress on these as
aritn & uui gave him unusual famili-
wbicb \. sne problems and policies
affairs N'su''eS IN reiauon 70 world
Mr. Gau..ha-,.
running and anr,..; on a nuenty
istic acco,,nt na LINES ra,ner journal
peace conferenc. sb W W ~ ING rhrn
with critical trestna u I ersA.ites treaty,
OF tba Tcs.,a ~ Gt Sne covenant
phasis Ia esnec;aii, % .ooats, Liis EN-
ence To Asiat;n . aGsenteu IN reier-
Fresh from, tha cuI ne,icsn anhrs.
timate knowiaSge - s,a. ana VIII an IN.
at Paris and vsrsa;,,aa uiplomacy
sonally most ~ tba Uri. ue Anew per
tatiyes. md eniovsd = % rsnt; represen-
tunate nos;tion parueu,arY Tor
ouaintance m. aSyn % Oh ms ac-
represented nnhii,ss t1rk PAPER ne
articles befor. tho nssc;, 'hs Snantung
Chinese delegate Sad ia americap .hl ano
was one of the fo,n "a hem. ne
conference from % im,;do en VINO saw tne
doors. '"''u' 'ne o'S paiAe
In his trestm.r. ~, o.,.,
Mr. Gala aSa. OF oriental anairs
rare among Far Eastern correspond.
ents.
.sp.r,.,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
STORY OF BOK,S LIFE
READS LIKE ROMANCE
me'1cuSation" of Dutch Boy, Without Advantages Shows
E2 What One Man Can Accomplish

-,
nave nad OF hign scnooi ana couege.
it isd him to some OF the plessantes,
incidents OF MS lie. and incidentsliy
a sane rise 20 some o, she % mos. uei'sh''u'
VI 'ne au,ooiVsiapny
Inus ne met hutnertord u; Hayes, as
presldentlal candldate: Ihen' wnen
MI MI, hayes was Fresiuent OF tne uh.ea
ota.es, ne was sent 10 get shortnand
sspor' Oh ,.ne isesiuent address az
Rrookivn Eaals e Hs bad n Is.rnea @ 'o re
make i;nothooks, at nisbt schoolsSO
with cbaracteristic sf,cisncv and drive
going to two Glasses at once 70 learn
the faster.
President Gave Him beat
Tn. pros,dort ,.,t.d too to,. for
Rot's aoJs,;na snead onS ~ oftsr tba &
dinner be asked tbe president Tor his
conv of tho address Ar tbe dinner tbs
pres;dent had noticed that Rok Ind tss
wina classes taken awav-s sudden
resolution 10 cain him mora snace and
assure n clear bead-and he smoke of
tbis to tbe Young renorter He was so
nleased with the bay's renly that he
Invited Box to 60 home with him in his
carriage and he would give him the
speech. II was a beat for the
Eagle, and the beginning Of a friend
ship that continued while the President
lived. Daytimes Box was working as
an office boy
Iongfellow. Holmes and Emerson
were some OF the early literary gods
of ,ho I;ttio n,tnb hnr iIa NOD tLoir
autographs, and wanted to meet them
money enough for n weeks vacation. he
iourneyed 70 New England.
.,I .h.u o..t.,,,, III, g. ,
- shsn i sGr.aiu iVoh ior spu W
No. ot mo- o;a n.;tb ~ o eipTS TSot " na,e
piece oL PIE Win me. ihat Is rear
Oliver Wendell Holmes 70 the hoy's
message. sent upon his arrival in Bos.
ton. that he would like 10 visit the
famous "Autocrat of the Brcak fast
Table" Bok was there at 7 40
From Holmes Bok went m sec Long.
fellow. armed with n letter from the
kindly doctor. It was n deliyhtfnl visit
the Dutch bow reading To the poet from
a translation OF bis poems IN Dutch
The poet kent him for simmer RON
had planned To 20 hack ~ the hotel
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
Judge Shute Again

Judge Shute, Of Exeter, N. H., who
made a reputation as a humorist by
writing 1.-THE Real Diary of Real
Boy" has sustained it in "The Real
Diary Of the Worst Farmer" He can :
nily refrains from calling himself real
farmer" His experiments in agricul-
ture were made on his home lot in Ex- :
eter, SO he was only an amateur. He
tells of bis experiences in buying a COW
and In getting his pigs into the pen and
in driving cats away from the birds in
the trees, as we'll as describing his mar
row escape from death when the COW,
which had broken one horn off. in the
night bunted him with the bloody cor
ner Of her head and convinced him that
he had been gored by a ferocious ami
NAL. He was bitterly disappointed
when the doctor, after \ careful exami-
nation of his whole person, was unable
to find scratch Of any kind.
The book will please all those who like
burlesque founded on the kind Of ex-
periences common to every man who
tries keeping COW and pigs and rails
ing his own vegetables.
THE REAL DIARY OF THE WORST
FARMER BY Judge Henry A. Shute.
Boston: Houghton. Minlin Co. Sl.75
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

"A little Dutch boy unceremoniously
sst down In America, unable to make
hinseK understood who yet, by some
curiops decree Of fate 80 was
aestined to write, for period Of years.
g the largest body of readers ever ad ;
oressed by an American editor" -.
This was Edward Box as be de-
scribes himself In '"The Americanizatio ton
o. Edward Bok-The Autobiography
q Dutch Boy Fifty Years After. :
The volume, published by Charles
bcr1mer's Sons, arouses first In the
reeeer feeling Of wonder that one man
could have done so much In 30 brief
compass Of time. Fifty years is q
Ienethy span In any life, but this editor
wno has laid down the blue pencil to
enjoy his well l-won years of playtime-
who Incidentally might be said to have
ceased being an editor to become a
Ehiladelphian-has packed the activi-
ues OF two or three ordinary lives into
hts half century.
The editor of the Ladies' Home
Journal grew into manhood in associa-
ton with older men whose names were
stamped in gold upon the history Of
their times. Half a dozen presidents of
the United States were among his
friends. He knew the writer's Of a de-
cade now revered us the earlier prime
Of American and British letters.
Holmes, Emerson, Longfellow, Mark
Twain, Stockton, Stevenson and Kip
Ling are few Of the names which oc-
cur delightfrlly in the pages of his
sutob'ography. Jay Gould, Henry
ward Beecher, Phillips Brooks, Glad
stone, were all great figures that he
hat alt l.. "a Al.
shadow upon him.
4 life so full as his could be possible
only because its active beginning went
back to his early youth. In earliest
childhood, when he felt 1t was incum-
bent on him to help out the family in
come by polishing a bakeshop window
twice a week to earn a half dollar, and
contracting to deliver the entire edi-
tion--pot large one as newspaper edi-
tions go--of the South Brooklyn Advo-
cate on Saturday mornings for another
dollar-be developed the serious pur-
pose in life which guided him through
oil his career.
Autographs and Biographies
He was still child when his passion
for collecting autographs made him
known to the men best worth knowing |
from each of whom he drew some fur
ther inspiration for his own career.
Even as a boy there was a practical
ity about him which promised business
success. Thus as a boy in his teens, |
sceing picture card In a package OF
cigarettes, and noticing that the reverse
side was blank, gave him the idea Of
reries Of cards which would carry on
the reverse brief biographies of the per-
Sons shown.
He conceived the idea, and more to
the purpose, the fact that it was mar
ketable. So we'll did the idea turn out
that he was able to keep five newspaper
men busy in their spare moments writ
ing tabloid biographies. which he mar
keted. AS he remarks, ''he was speedily
convinced that to edit biographies writ
ten by others, at one half the price paid
to him, was more profitable than to
write himself" "a
The collection of autographs was q
development Of the boys passionate
desire for self education, as he had been
forced to relinquish what hopes he may
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02

Books added TO the Free Library OF Phil
adelphia. Thirteenth and Locust streets
during the week ending September 80:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
At THE FREE LIBRARY

sdeiphie, Sf TSirtesntS S tn and and Locust Locust 81 s,reets n
during the week ending September 80:
Miscellaneous
writ" 'nritisS aaiisry Of contsmDoraryy @ mSry
>. brooks Van wyek-"ords.i of Mark
Electrical worid-.Handbook of E,ectr-
cal MSthgds,i "EIport,r's Ga.stssr Of For.
Hail H:,,Su1s e sEwiMSTsIe".c EeraiSsnsI.e.c,,,,o.. A..
Ieaux'; Homes of the Passing sr; W. w. -'"
Jacauspin. R.-"HistOris Generate 1u
KsIpsso,snihOn. Andrsw-"Prisoner of
Kraft, Hushes-"A rrsvsrs 10 Turhestaa
Lambuth. ". R.-"Mediosi Missions"
Lsasqs Of Free Nations-''Russian-A -Amer!-
Lucas. L, v.-"Adven.urss and En,husi-
asms."
Paris Exposition UniverseiIe de 1850
cfsGsu' as5sS 1pSsSS SS S'ennst uniSsfs. Chefs,
seholsasIa' q; Htw''TA. P.eisa"
Smits. a.srF:-,"caolnetmakers and
worlidEs. T-''sclsot cailsetion OF
Drawings From Antique Gems"
Fiction
Cannon Gilbert--''windmills."
C'emenceau. George--"surprise Of Life"
Cohen. o. R-"Come Seven"
Cullum Rldgweil-"'Heart OF UnaRa."
Curwood, J: o.-"Valley Of silsmt Men"
bTummond Hamiitcn-"Maker OF Saints. -
Fox. John. Jr r-"Erskine Dale. Pioneer. !"
George. w. L.--"Caliban."
Gregory, JRckEon-'Man to Man"
Hall, H. S steel Preferred" "
Hewlett. Msurice-"MainwarinE
Lowndes. Mrs Belloc-"Lonely House"
Mackenzie. Compton--"Vanity Girl"
Martin. II. -"sohoolmaster OF Hess
Vile"
Merrick. Leonard-'"The woridlinRs."
Onions. Mrs Oliver-"Bridge OF Kisses" "
Parker Gilbert-'No Defense"
Rnrrpson. T.. S.--''Miss Minerys's Baby"
Smith. II, L.-"Agatha's Aunt"
Wallace, Edgar-'Four Just Men"
Wiley Hugh-"The wildcat"
Wooden, George-"Our Peter"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
Bachelor Talks at Book FaIrs

Irving Bacheller. who has spent the
summer at Lake Placid, will 20 West
this fall to deliver several talks at
book fairs, a form of more and better
reading propaganda that is becoming
extremely popular and effective. Bach
eler's Lincoln novel, "a Man for the
Ages is still in country wide demand.