The Cordele dispatch and daily sentinel. [volume], May 17, 1923, Image 4

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' THE CORDELE DISPATCH
~ AND DAILY SENTINEL
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“,H ’E. BROWN, . . . . Editor
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i Entered as second class matter
Jine 2nd, 1920, at the post office at
Cordele, Ga., under the Act of
March Brd, 1879.
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Members of The Associated Press
; The Associated Press is exculsive
1y entitled to the use for republica
tion of all news dispatches credited
to it or not otherwise credited in
this paper and also the local news
published herein.
;%Over Albany way there is a sug:
gf‘estion that roses be planted along
tixe roadways, And Bill Biffem, al
\fiays up and alert, protests that
silch a program woutd mean too
many thorns on the pathways of
tixe motor car tires, We have a
selfish desire that leads us to sug
gest they be planted along our
roads so the goats, the calves, pigs,
chickens and hens that run at
l@rge around Cordele may feed on
t,?n:m———thatt we may save the roses
and flowers on the lawns. It is
r;lght sheepish—not quite fair. to
those who were inveigled into plant
ifig roses and flowers in the winter
and early spring,—not to have told
them at the outset that the goats,
chickens, calves and dairy cattle
that live in town are in the habit
of making their living grazing on
the rose beds and the flowers that
people of philanthropic disposition
inz"COrdele plant for them.
QWé have a card form somebody
who doesn’t sign his name upon
which we read “Americans, Be
ware.” And then we are advised
that the late Cecil Rhodes devised
bs; will a fund in 1877 for the es
tablishment of a secret society
whose ultimate purpose is British
rule throughout the world, especial
lyz the ultimate recovery of the
United States of America as an in
tegral part of the British Empire.
Well—the« very idear—again as
M;r. Spencer would say—don’t you
count yourself insulted? Americans
are not all that sleepy and slow—
to wait from the good year 1877
til:l now to find that out. The very
idear—we say it!
‘John W. Greer of Moultrie is;
the author of a booklet entitled
“Looking Ahead,” whichis in itsef
a '‘county plan for development that
is. praiseworthy. The author i:
capable of writing on this subjcct.‘
having been schooled in the princi- |
ples outlined for a number of years.
This work will undoubtedly con
tribute in a large way to tha up-|
building of every community whem'
f} is followed.
zoo Leders i |
{ The negro leaders who under
stand most about sensible pub!ci-!
ty have made the modest claim thutl
they saved Chicago from the Wil
liam Hale -Thompson machine. ":
‘they did so, they ought to be highly%
commended, for the job was o:‘.el
that all America ought to appr-:-}
?:iate, no matter who did it. 'l‘homp-i
son’s corrupt rule in (‘hicago!
'pmelled the world around. ]
b o——
‘ . The Dispatch has an invitationi
;fiom the First and Eleventh Districti
;Press Associations to attend their
joint meeting in Savannah F-iday
and Saturday of this week Wish
;we could be preseni. People down
Savannah way know how 1o sive
!:their visitors a good time.
: The Un'ted States geological survey
fstimates that there is“ Still unmined
$350,000,000 worth of placer gold in
fulaska. 5 Si R
- ANOTHER POWER LESSON
© Yesterday we tried to show the
tax payers of Cordele where they
might own their own light and
power plant and make it earn its
own value in the course of the
time they are asked to sign up with
the Albany power plant—that they
will have ‘saved for themseclves even
more than the value of the plant in
the money they will save for their
lit:de industries that have to de
pend on the electric motbr for
power--and in the end they will
have removed the handicap against
the cost of power and lighting in
Cordele and will have f)laced in
their own hands the right to say
what shall be the cost of lighting
and power here for all time to
come. And that is a great ad
vantage in these days of private
power companies and a railroad
commission that belongs to them—
we sxiy it with measured words,
for as God is our witness, this is so
today.
Now, here is another lesson—one
intended for the purpose of show
‘ing the people of Cordele the mean
ing of a reasonable industrial power
rate—what it contributes towards
the attractiveness of a business
community for a new industry.
Sumter, S. C, owns its steam
plant, 1% commercial power r.utes
are. as follows:
For the first 100 kilowatts .... 6¢
For the next 100 kilowatts .... 5e
For the next 300 kilowatts .... dc
For the next 500 kilowatts .... 3¢
For the next 1000 kilowatts 2 1-2¢
For the next 1800 kilowatts ... 2e¢
All over 20,000 kilowatts ... 1 1-2¢,
Cordele is asked to sign up with
the Albany power plant in a town
which is Cordele’s greatest in
dustrial competitor. Albany buys
power at its town switchboard—Al
bany owns its municipal light and
power plant. It buys power from
the Flint River dam at 1.45 per
kilowatt hour—lless than a cent
and a haif. It makes the money:
that the retail price brings in and
devotes it to the maintenance. of
municipal expenses. Here w;é are
asked to give it to an Albany power
concern which has at its back and
call a railroad commission that will
give it what it asks over, us. To
escape that the one way—the only
way—is to vote our bonds and let
our commissioners and city mana
ger build us a plant capable of pro
ducing the power we need. That
will be needed—needed . whether
hydro-electric power ever comes—
and we might as well go to it. and
save the difference—save it now.
Then when hydro-clectric power
comes, we have within our own
hands the authority to Idictate
terms. When we build and in this
manner assume charge, we have
for all time settled it with the pri
vate owners so far as reasonable
rate is concerned. We can buy it
from them as cheap as we can pro
duce it and when we retail it, we
will still have a handsome fund to
devote to public expenses.
But here is the rate they want
Cordele to pay on industrial power
for the next twenty-five years. |
First 100 kilowatt hours ...... Te
Next 200 kilowatt hours ...... 6¢.
Next 200 kilowatt hour ...... be
Over 500 kilowatt hour ....... 4¢
Everything under 5,000 hours at
this price.
On these rates there are no sis
counts and there is aminimum
chargé for each motor of $l.OO per
horse power not less than $2.00 per
month on each motor.
Now here is a customer who uses
a thousand kilowatt hours a month.
Under the Cordele price offered on
Albany power he pays—if he has
nine motors in his plant like The
Dispatch plant today has—he pays
$lB,OO per month whether his
motors turn or not. That guarantee
is required—that’s what a two-dol
lar minimum means, But pass that.
On the rates offered Cordele
from Albany, he would have to pay
seven dollars for his first hundred
hours; twelve dollars for the next
two hundred; ten dollars for the
next two hundred; and twenty dol
lars for the next five hundred— 1
that's a thousand hour customer.
He would pay a total of forty-nine"
dollars for the month’s consumption’
—mno discount. :
~ On the Sumter bill—and Thomas
ville, Georgia, too, he would pay
six dollars for the first hundred
hours; five dollars for the next
hundred; twelve for the next three
hundred; and fifteen dollars for
the next five hundred. His bill for
the month would be thirty-eight dol
lars—a difference of eleven dollars
a month; a difference of $132.00 a
year and in the twenty-five a total
of three "thousand three hundred
dollars to a small customer. That’s
the difference between what the re
tail user is offered in Cordele and
what they are paying today on the
steam plant in Sumter, !
Try five thousand hours and note
the difference—there are people
who would use that much if they
were permitted. We have already
noted a differaence of eleven dol
lars on the first thousand. The dif
ference is much greater on the next
four thousand hours.
On the Sumter scale that would
come at a cost of seventy-nine dol
lars. On the Albany plant we would
have to pay $l6O for it on the con
tract we are now offered. Figure
it. yourself. There is a difference}
of e¢ighty-one dollars a month on
the next four thousand hours. Add
the eleven dollars difference on the
first thousand and you have a total
of ninety-two dollars a month on
the power bill of one user alone.
That amounts to in a year one thou
sand, one hundred and four dollars,
or a total of twenty-seven thousand
six hundred dollars in the twenty
five years we have to sign wup.
Do you wonder that the! power
combine has money to spend to pre
vent the people from owning and
operating this vitally important
public necessity? We have given 31
fair lesson on the retail pewer of
fered from Albany—and that being
made and sold from a ‘municipallyi‘
owned steam plant in Sumter,
Thomasville is doing as well—and{
returning money every year to the
t}u)’( payers who own the plant—and
T}éomasville and Sumter are mas
ters of ‘the situatvon—they know
what'is going to e charged an in
dustrial users of power—a user of
lights—und they know what. the
public ‘has to"pay for its street
lights, Here we pay seventy thou
sand eight hundred dollars more to
the Albany plant than Moultrie
pays them in the twenty-five years
for istreet lights alone. Can we af
ford it? Well, not if, anybody cares
whether this town retains its grow
ing independence——not if there are
people who would like for their in
vestments here te increase in value.
NOT TO SAN FRANCISCO i
San Francisco is bidaimg’ for}
both the Republican and Demo- \
cratic National Conventions |
next year, ,
The Pacific coast city will
never get another Democratic ;
Convention. It is a long way :
to go and the trip is very ex-i
pensive. The papers in San |
Franscisco, with one exception, ’
made fun of the last Demo-'f
cratic ‘Convention, although the
city was sapposed to be the
host of the oceasion. The :
partisanship of the Republican !
papers there, and ‘they are
nearly all Republican, was so
offensive that when the re- )
solution thanking the press was
offered at the conclusion of
the proceedings, it was voted
Moore’s Garage
General Auto Repairing
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' down ; overwhelniingty.—Savan:
nah Press, " *
And all that is true ahout San
Franscisco, The newspapers of
that city were so excited--s: In
fernally jealous—that nothinz the
democratic convention did could be
recongnized when it got into print
in the San Francisco paperz. It
was indeed fortunate for the de
mocrats that the Associaied Press
particularly sent somebody there to
maké plain news reports ‘to the
people of this county aboui. what
took place. '.
The *people of the city o¢f San
Francisco were widely ani gener
ously hospitable. The west gave
the delegates a fine time wherever
they went. But in 3an Francisco
and in‘Los Angeles there are news
papers ‘that have fpr a long time
sealed their gates against another
convention—tha’s what we think
about it.
CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS
Walton Tribune:
Consolidated schools ‘will qo as
- much for Georgia as 4any one
thing that can be thought of. Too
many of our schools are manned
by high school graduates.. We
need teachers of ability and ex
perience. We mneecd better huild
ings and better equi'r{ment—-Jack
son Progress¢Argus.
The statement of State School Su
pervisor Martin to the effect that
from 90 to 98 per cent of Georgia
teachers ave had no training be
yond the high school is appalling,
and the only method whereby trained
teachers can ever, be secured for the
‘rural school is through consolidation.
Whenever Georgia becomes a state
.of consolidated schools she will be
‘come a state of educated men and
women. And haven’'t we waited long
enough? Have we not played second
fiddle to the educated centers of the
country until patience ceases to be a
virtue? 'Or how long will be content
'to stumble along in ignorance and
illiteracy?
With an educated citizenship a
SCSC
e \ERMANENCEis animport-
P ant consideration when you
: ' are selecting the bank with
s r twhich to do your business.
No man, whether his financial affairs be
large or small, likes to contemplate a
change in his bankin% affiliations, forced
by the closing of his bank.
\X/hfle practically all banks in Georgia are
unquestionably institutions of solid, last-~
ing strength, it is reassuring to know
that this bank is built upon the security
of unsurpassed experience, upon an un
’ sullied record for many years, and upén
the limitless potentialities of the state it~
self. It draws its strength from the en
tire state and is here to stay as long as
banking lasts. :
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Georgia State
\ DBank
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B. 8. DUNLAP, Vice President and Cashier
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Packing House Now Open
(01d Woodson Vurehouse at Seaboard Depot.)
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Commencing on 200 acres beans, cucumbers,
cantaloupes—melons later. Bring us your veg
etables. See us at our Seed House for Mexican
June Corn, peas, sorghuin, millett ete.
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large mgjority of our present prob
lems would vanish as mist before
the morning sunlight, .
YOU MAY SURVIVE
_l.,ouisvllle Courier-Journal
fcreen your open-grate fires in
winter, swat the flie sin summer, stop
lcok and Jlisten ‘at graecrossings,
don’t start the kitchen range fire
with the kerosene can, keep your
nose out of other folk’s business and
maybe you will live to be run over
by a drunken joyrider.
Weak hitting and unsteady pitch
ing on the part of the St, Louis out
fit. appear to be about equally _re
sponsible for the Browns’ poor
start in the pennant race,
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CORDELE, GEORGIA : '
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We are equipped for heavy mill work, boilers
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and all kinds of mill repairs. Consult us on all
plans. We may be able to save you both time
and money. We are designers and makers of the
famous Harris Wheel Press. t
Tomlin-Harris Machine Co.
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At moderate prices. Made to order by hand. " Neatly and correctly
fitted to suit your pictures. New shipment of Swing Photos framed
just received. Also take orders for the best grade of enlarged pic
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