The Cordele dispatch and daily sentinel. [volume], November 16, 1922, Image 4

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June 2nd, 1920, at the post office at
Cordele, Ga., under the Act of March
Brd, 1879.
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DALTON AND SHOPE
Editor Henry Mclntosh of the Al
bany Herald is engaging Shope of
the Dalton Citizen in battle while we
recuperate. Shope says it's Gol’s
country up there and still he com
plains about that old depot.
But he isn’t willing for us to com
plain about robbery rates for our
electric power when there is a limit
less amount of it going over the dam
at Albany—an idle machine sitting
here to be turned—and the owners
of that plant—the Alabama Powe¢r
Company in tilt with Albany twice
this year before the Public Service
Commission in Atlanta tryiny to
raise the rate. It is now two years
since that power was availaole &nl
not a dime’s worth of it in Cordele,
In the meantime we are being uscil
to declare a dividend of eight nercunt
on the first old generator that was
invented half a century ago here iu
a little pepper duster steam plant.
‘But go on after that depot, Shope,
the editor of the Albany Herald will
take care of you about those careless
afipllcatiolls of the term “God’s
country.” And in the meantime we
expect to keep busy with the effort.
to bring a creditable amount of
electric power to Cordele at a rate we
can stand,
PERSISTENT SISTER FELTON
It begins to look as if Mrs, (One-
Time Senator) Felton = has about
completed plans for taking the oath
of office despite the fact that Walter
George is now senator. It looks as
if something is wrong with the ma
chinery in Atlanta through which
Walter George is to have his com
mission. It never has taken so long
to count such a small number of
votes—never has that we remember.
It is reported—that is. Mrs. Fel
ton says it—the delay in consolida
tion of votes and the declaring of re
sults may delay the commission of‘
Senator George so that she will have
time to go up and be sworn in. Well,
now, that is strange—strange we say‘
it! And to save our lives we haven’t
heard the noise those tens of thou
sands of women are making in the
dnterest of having Mrs. Felton sworn
in. Where are they?
Governor Hardwick said after he
got away to New York that he had
signed Judge George's commission in
blank and it Would be ready for him
as soon as the consolidation was dc
clared. Maybe all those tens of
thousands of women who are clamor
ing for Mrs. Felton to be sworn in
are blocking the consolidation, W:
de not understand all we ouzht to
understand about this thing—seems
to us. |
The Savannah Press in discussirg
the Newberry Case, says that none ¢f
the republican senators who votcd
to seat Newberry have been dcfeat
ed. This usually accurate newspa
per has slipped somewhere. We
counted seéven of them the otaer day
—seven of the gent'emen wha wiil
not have seats in tho next congress
—and there are just seveh. Coint
‘em for yourself. That's nearly
every one the country had a chance
at in-the-elections just held,
moved for the z t time l\fiefi
he was incarcerated, ‘,pllr 11
Bass, condcmnSd to die on Jan
uary b, fqr the murder of his
wife, wept openly and unres
trainedly when he was taken, as
an act of kimdness 4o him, to
witness the bur‘ial of his mother.
Mrs. Wesley Bass, who has cared
for his children since h: killed
hig wife,
The funeral was held at Snow
Hill Church, and Bass was taken
there by Sheriff L. F. Watson.
Bass was visibly affected by
the funeral and wept Dbitterly
throughout the service, Since
the death of his wife, for which
he is under sentence, his two
small boys, now age seven and
four have been residing with his
parents, and were the especial
charges of his mother. With
Bass in the shadow of the gallows
and mo way of hope present,
there was mothing ?ut Sorrow
at this funeral.
The condemned man embrac
ed his two small sons, who clung
to him, while tears ran down
his cheeks and members of the
family gathered around him, It
was a funeral the like of which
Laurens County has not seen.—
News Item,
We've noted tragedy after trage-‘
dy in Laurens county this year and
last—the result of moonshine li
quor trafficc We do not want to
assume that there are no people in
Crisp county engaged in this busi
ness. We might be advised to keep
our own yard clean—but this hap
pens to bhe a tragedy of particularly
sad turn, A young huvsband went
home one night in a drunken stupor—
overloaded with potash poison—took
his shotgun, drove his wife and lit
tle children in tothe road and they
fled to a neighbor for protection he
came after them and fired a load of
shot into the breast of his life cam
panion, the mother of his chillren,
even as she clung to one of them in
her arms! When that crazed brute
came to his senses and fully realized
what he had done, a death senten:e
stared him in the face. He would
already have stretched his portion
of the hangman’s hemp had not Gov
ernor Hardwick respited him,
Here he is pictured now, after all
appeals have been taken in the courts
and denied--here he is standing over
the grave of his old mother, dead
from grief and worry, weeping for
the first time with his little fellows
clinging about his feet—not a soul
left in the world to whom they can
look but a murderer father whose
days are numbered.
We watched the case of Marshal
Bass with no little interest. It is one
of the saddest in the history of
potash moonshine liquor. It has
!progressed from its stages of poor
‘husband and wife working for the
maintenance of happy home to that
of the funeral, the prison, the hang
'man’s rope, It must mean two
little orphans, a mother murdered
and a father executed for it. And
all of it due to weakness for potash
moonshine liquor—and a consequent
moment of crazed feinligshness for a
man who would otherwise have been
harmless and protection for his wife,
his little ones—his home!
This thing may be lightly passed
by the moonshiner and his customers
—it may not hang on the mind of thc‘
average citizen very long—but all
the same it is a tragedy—the worst
that moonshine liquor ever held uD]
to the gaze of an innocent public.{
How long are men going to pay tri-‘1
bute tc such a thing as his—how
long are they going to encourage it‘
by buying and using it?
The Washington correspondents
are beginning to assert openly and
without reservation that Woodx_‘om
Wilson is likely to have a great in
fluence in the elections of 1924.
Why, the very idea! This is the
same bunch of progressive liars that
said Wilson's funeral a long time
ago. How consistent!
T FOF Tale, gosslp hga ppined the
’j’”?'.' “;g g - more men
-~ and Women than have been kill:
ed by the dirks and bullets of
assassins, It has broken far
more hearts than there's print
ed or written record of in all
this world., It has sown more
sorrow than all the vain regrets
of earth’s llving millions can
reap from now until' reaping
days are over,—Calquit Sun. -
Perry Rich is a» entertaining
writer-~he isn’t always right, if we
may; use our yardstick on him, but
he is interesting and many times hits
the high spots—as he did in -thig lit
tle truth., He hasn’t written anything
in a very long time, we are sure, that
has such a message in it as this.
It, is so easy to drop into the habits
of the gossips—and so easy to do
iirreparable damage by simply pass
ing on what has come in the form of
‘gossip, that men and women ought to
be disposed to do double guard duty
among themselves to check it. The
refined gentleman or truly cultured
lady understands gossip and avoids
it as a deadly poison. It is an un
mistakable sign of poor rearing for
an individual to engage in damaging
talk about some other person.
Oh, you may do it—and you may
claim culture and refinement by the
head full—hut ydu're the only poor
|freak that is fooled—you haven’t a
spark of refinment in you if you
haven’t learned the sure way out of
that kind of aimless, murderous di
version. You ought to feel unworthy
every time you breath a ward of
damaging rumor about somebody—no
matter how true it may seem.
You may belong to the church—-
you may be a pillar in the Sunday
School—you may say long, fervent
Hrayers—you may sing till = the
foundations of the house of worship
reverberate in response—you may
have gone on your knees and male
sure of your salvation a score of
years ago—you may have it down in
your mind that the matter of salva
tion is all settled—Dbut, poor friend,
if you are among the gossips—if yon
have part in passing an ugly ramwor
along—if you have part, in muzder
ing some innocent womian talking
about ‘her———repeating things . you
have heard about her—:f yoa' are
a professional scandal monger-—tae
gates of hell are so wide open for
you that there is no escape—none in
this or any other world. You are
doomed! You better tremble at the
thought of the Great Dispensation.
Oh, what a future is waiting the
gossips! We do not believe in any
literal, living, burning hell—but if
there is an institution of that kind,
you scandal monger, you better set
some long spikes in your shoes and
turn back up the hill—you are slip
ping—slipping! : |
We a». going to “listen in” on the
Lauzanne conference. That’s nice
business for a big, red-blooded nation
like America—isn’t it? Limping
Mexico might do that well. And in
the meantime Wwhat asses Huglhes
and Harding are making of this coun
try with their program of ‘“splendid
insolation,”’—or rather selfish cus
sedness! We ought to be there help
ing to lay the foundations of per
manent, substantial peace—using the
préventatives of war. That's the
stuff America is made of and Hughes
and Harding will find it out before
always.
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CORDELE, GA.
ui ij! nl g“% ta
have expressed: resentment ovor what
ithey cdfislder! 1 Amcyica’s uowar
,rtfiited‘ } ihf.bs;ten'bc dn their interaal
business, Of course it i: trae tha
‘whatever happens in Asia Minoy is
\the business of America, beeuue2
i'AmOt’lCa feels directly.the effect of
anything tbat happens anywhere it
the world, Yet America, by declin
iing to take a hand in the league of
‘nations, ag much as put the “worl”
on notice that she doesn’t care what
goes on in the world. in effect, the
United States has told the woris
that Americans will not try to helpy
the world to permanent peace by
working alongside of other nations
but if anything bobs up that, Ameri
ca wants to take a hand in, she’ll
take It, and dosn’t Want any back
talk. g s
No wonder the Turks, or anybody
else, would get miffed by such con
ruct on the part of a great nation.
If we want the rest of the world to
behave, if anything the rest of the
world does is our business, what iz
the reason we do not join the rest of
the world in trying to bring @bout
permanent peace—a thing that
would be most profitable to the peo
ple of the United States? The rea
son is of course that we have noi
been consistent, we have foilowed
the dictation of partisan politics and
lost sight of our place as a part of
the world.
A LOSS TO GEORGIA
Walton County News: .
The citizens of Monroe who remem
ber Dr. Walter Anthony iic minister
woo was once here and conducted a
very suceessful revival at the FPirst
Methedist chureh, and who for the
past two years served the First
Methodist ehureh of Athens, will re
gret immwasurably to know that he is
to leave Georgia in November and
take vy the duties as pastor of a
large and prominent church in Fiori
da—a church where he fecls he can
exert a wholesome far-reaching in
fluence. ;
Thre is no question as to the church
and those who worship there being
satisfied with Mr.* Anthony, for, un
questionably, he is ome of the fore
most of the South’s pulpiteers and,'|
along with it, he is a man of thei
most commanding and uplifting per:
sonality. Wherever he¢ has gone he
by his gentle, beautiful Christian de
meanor, has accomplished a wonder:
ful amount of good. The people of
Monroe, hopeful for a number of
years that he would return for a
socond engagement here, will regret
that he is to go so far away but will
wish for him and his happy and sue
cessful pustor'g't"elin his new field.
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THESE ARE ALL BIRDS
Greenshoro Herald-Journal:
Th> wife of a minister in West
Virginia has been = married three
times. Her ~maiden name WAt
Partridge her husband - was named
Robin, her second Sparrow, the pres
ent Quaile. There are now two young
Robins, one Spl‘irrow and three Quails
in the family. One grandfather was a
Swan and another a Jay, but he’:
dead now and a bird of Paradise. |
They live on Hawk avenue, Eagleville
Canary Island, and the fellow who
wrote this is a Lyre, and a relative of
the family.
MEETING OF SOUTHERN
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Chattanooga Tenn. Nov 16,—Doctors
from over the South attending the
Soufthern Mi:diecal Assceiation today
devoted their attention to the reading
of papers and discussions as subjects
in sectional meetings as the conven
tion was nearing a eclose.
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| vinedinkon, T Gay, | Nov. 15—
(Special.) —lt ‘may be the boll weevil
or it may be that Lincolnton had a
fill of elections this year, but unless
some onhe comes to the front pretty
soon, therewil! be, no election for
mayor and councilmen for the city of
Lincolnton.
The call for an election has been
issued these two weeks and up to
this time not a man (nor Woman)
‘has signified a wish to be on the of®
ficlal board next year.
The present board’s time is out
the first of the year, and it looks paw,
as though Lincolnton would “have to
put a “want ad” in somé outslde pa
pers to get candidates to run for
the offices. ;
{SAVANNAH DRAINAGE
PROJECT INDORSED
T Savannah, Ga.,, November 14—
(Special.)—Mayor M. M. Stewart to
day received a hearty indorsement
from Secretary of State S. GT Me-
Lendon, supporting the proposal re
‘cently made to assemble representa
tives from 28 southeast Georgia
countries in Savannah to confer up
pon definite plans for an immense
drainage project affecting hundrers
of thousavds «f squnare miles in this
territory.
Distance doesn’t lend very much
enchantment to payday.
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is antiseptic and 4
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