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Senator Shaw’s resolution in behalf of Tallulah Falls has received
the approval of the house Judiciary Committee. Senator Shaw is
fighting the people’s fight with ability and courage. The 3rd district
would have ar able fighter in congress st ould it choose to elect Sena
tor Shaw.
The Legislature should pass the bill requiring Firemen in Geor
gria to be able to read train orders.
The safety of the traveling public is better guarded if the Fire
men are capable of reading and understanding the written orders
of the Engineer. Certainly no harm can come from raising the
standard of intelligence of the firemen.
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You’ll get right if you talk it over with your neighbor. The
Legislature should be composed of men of ability. Make your own
choice in the interest of your State and County. Your own affairs
are closely allied with every law that passes.
~ See that your member of the legislature is fully in accord with
your interests and has enough ability to protect them.
Tne Senate and Legislature have passed resolutions to protect
the State against the encroachments of the Georgia Water Power
Trust on its Tallulah Falls property.
Thomas Felder’s ready acquiescense to the trust demands is not
relished by the people, and thev will register their disapproval of his
action at the coming election, :
Hon, W, R. Jones, of Meirwether county is the only opponent to
the Attorney General and judging from the reports from north and
middle Georgia, he will have an easy victory. The people do notj
relish the dish of ‘‘trust stew” dished out by their paid Attorney in
the interest of the million dollar corporation,
Practically all opposition to John M. Slaton has now died out, and
the chances for another entry are very remote indeed. The time limit for
entering will expire August 1, and everyone realizes that any candidate,
however strong or well known, will enterseriously handcapped now, owing
to the short time for campaigning. ‘
A great many people who have been identified with the political
school to which Mr. Slaton belongs, will vote for him this time because
they believe he has ability, character and integrity. Moreover, no faction
alism enters into this contest and voters of every section of the state are
glad to see the strife of the past several years laid aside now.
Mr. Slaton’s long legislative experience, his standing as a citizen and
liberal minded man, and his all-round qualities impress Georgians with
his fitness for the executive office. If he is elected, and there is hardly a
shadow of doubt that he will be, he will be the governor of no faction,
but of all the people and will lend every enerdy to building up his state,
materially, morally and industrially. :
The White Way a Business Asset.
Cities are judged by the casual visitor like individuals, by their out
side appearance—the front they make. Civic improvements are an in
dex to a city's condition. Money is well spent when its investment brings
an immediate return. The “White Way" is one of these investments, as
everybody enjoys the benefit of a well lighted district. From a business
stand-point, it's a success; from a civic point of view, it's a bigger one. It
should by all means be extended from the A, B. & A. depot down Cen
tral Avenue to the court house, at least. As a stranger alights at the
station let his first impression be one of progress, and as the passengers
parallel the “White Way” for six blocks, they'll carry with them the
story of the “Growth of Fitzgerald.” :
Every property owner is vitally interested in the spirit of civic beauty
and improvement—all will reap more than they have sown. The spirit
of the times says there shall be MORE LIGHT, and the Bond Commis
sion has the people behind them in extending the “White Way” over the
entire paved district.
State Road To The Sea.
Joe Hill Hall is strenuously opposing the extension of the State rail
road to the sea. Joe Hill Hall, some years ago, through his strenuosity
against the improvement of the State railroad property in Atlanta, caused
the State a severe loss and retarded the progress of the State road.
The State of Georgia is now receiving monthly $35,000 rental for the
road from Chattanooga, Tenn, to Atlanta. This lease was made twenty
three years ago and tle rental value of the road has quadrupled since that
time. The road extended to the sea would earn enough in rentals annu
ally to pay at least our entire school tax, besides the interest 01 the tond;
pecessary to extend it. The convicts in the course of three years can be
taken away from the county road work and concentrated upon the railroad
extension. The state will have to provide some means to employ.the con
victs and we know of no better and more useful way than to extend the
State road. A competitive line, owned and controlled by the State, run
by the State or some lessee under special contract, would enable the
either Railroad Commission to fix a competitive freight rate based upcn
actua earnings and which all other roads would have to meet.
Joe Hill Hall has invariably opposed every betterment of this valu
able State property, as much perhaps because of his hatred of Atlanta, as
because of his opposition to the progressive spirit that is behind the
movement to extend the road to the sea. _ 1
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE, TUESDAY, JULY 23. 1912
Bessie Tift Gollege
Works for Endowment
Meeting Sunday Night to
Get Local Campaign for
$75,000,000 Underway
i A weeting was held at the Bap
tist Tabernacle Sunday night to
‘promote interest in the movement
to raise an endowment fund for
‘Bessie Tift college, at Forsyth,
Ga. ,
The trustees have undertaken a
permanent fund of $200,000 and a
working fund of $160,000, making
a total of $360,000. Of that
amount they expect Atlanta to
contribute $75,000 and the Baptist
of the city will co operate with
them.
J. R. Smith presided over the
meeting at the Tabernacle and out
lined the plan of the trustees.
M. L. Brittain, state school
commissioner, spoke in favor of
the college and the movement. jHe
said that the rich men of Georgia
are not comtributing so liberally
to the education of the poor as are
the rich men of northern states.
He said there are 60,000 children
in Georgia today who are deprived
of an edncation, ard of that num
ber more than 85,000 are girls,
He said Bessie Tift is one of thei
best colleges in the south, and is
worthy of liberal assistance. |
It is the second oldest chartered
female coliege, of denominational
character, in the world., In 1898 it
was bought and put under the
control of the Baptists of Georgia,
At that time it was worth $13,000
and bad an enrollment of 50. To
day it is worth $225,000 and has
an enroliment of 400. |
Swimming is Fine
Recreation
The weather is hot and every
body’s talking about it but that
is all that can be done—we can’t
invent any means of keeping
cool in the summer time. How
ever, we can get cool for a brief
period at the time and one of the
best ways af doing that is to take
a plunge in the big swimming
pool at the Blue and Gray Park.
There’s nothing more refresh
ing and more invigorating these
hot days than to dive into a pool
of conl water, and besides, swim
ming is good exercise and fine
recreation.
Why not patronize the Blue
’and Gray bathing pool?
~ R. V. Handley made a flying
trip to Vienna Sunday visiting
relatives.
Mr. Gus Mixon and daughters
of Dooly County are visiting
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Handley.
Hon. Aldine Found, of Atlanta,
was among the promment visitors
in the city vyesterday, registered
at the Aldme.____
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Dorminey and
iMiss Esther King will leave to-mor
| row for New York, touring the coun
try in Mr. Dorminey’s automobile.
l Mr. George R. Fuller, of New
Bern, N. C., is visiting relatives
'and_ old friends in t.h)s section
‘having come down in his touring
car. |
Mr. Harold Adams is now work
ing at the A. B. & A. freight de
pot, having taken the place of Mr.
Earl Wooten who resigned to ac
cept a position with the (Georgia
Cotton Company.
The country school teacher and
preacher are the most important and
influential men in any community.
If they are of force—have ability to
do their work—they can command
fair salaries, and if the country or
i rural communities will not pay them
living wages, they go to the cities
‘where their efficient services will
earn them a decent living. Two
reasons why so many people leave
‘the country and go to the cities are
because they find better schools and
better preachers in the cities. The
explanation is, the city teachers and
and preachers are better paid—The
Progressive Farmer.
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[ ptl R. &G. Corsets is to make the best.
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Ji@y - the lines of fashion is that for years the most dis- %’Afi
lfil‘-. ‘ 4 criminating buyers among well-dressed women in lit
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have worn and will wear nothing else. ! ‘
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Wage War on Harris
oil Inspection Bill
Atlanta, July 22.—Officials of
the state department of agricul
ture are preparing to wage a fight
on the Harris bill reducing the
fees of oil inspectors, as a result
of the numerous accidents that
have occurred in Atlanta traceable
to imperfect kerosene oil.
Dr. W. C. Brvant, chief oil in
spector, whose job is abolished vy
the Harris measure, will urge the
passage of the Bush bill now be
fore the state senate. The Bush
bill provides for the appointment
of twelve oil inspectors at a salary
of $lOO a month who shall bave
sole charge of the inspection of
oil in the state,
It also puts gasolene in the same
class as illuminating oils for in
spection purposes and provides
the specific gravit; test for gaso
lene. Certain phases of what is
known in some states as the ‘‘Red
Can Law,” requiring retailers to
handle gasolene in red cans, has
been included in the Bush bill.
To the Citizens of Georgia
As you no doubt know, I am at
preseut holding the position of
Assistant to the Commissioner of
Agriculture and feel in honor
bound to remain at my post of
duty. Therefore, it will be im
possible for me to see 21l the regis
tered voters of the State during
my short vacation this summer,
and for that reason I am calling
apon my friends throughout the
State to lend me a helping hand
i my race for Commissioner of
Agriculture.
In entering the race, I did so re
lying wholly upon the judgment
of the people. I am proud that we
have reached the time 1n Georgia
when the individual merit of the
candidate has become the criterion
by which he is to be judged when
every voter does his own thinking
and votes his honest convictions.
Being a practical farmer and
knowing that every interestof our
great State is dependent upon her
agricultural resources and having
devoted some of the best years of
my life to the upbuilding of the
agricultural interest, I do not
hesitate to ask the support of my
fellow citizens.
Witk best wishes, I am,
Very truly yours,
J. J. Brown.
Bowman, Ga.
It looks as if the older I grow
the more lazy I become and the
more I love to see the cattle, hogs
and sheep pick as much of their
living from the land as it is possi
ble for them to do. and too, I
don’t know anything that seems to
delight the soul of a black cow
‘more than to be allowed to help
‘herself to her very limit, during
‘March and April, toluscious crops
of rye and crimson clover. So if
it suits her and myself, why not?
‘The upshot of it is that the greater
part of our corn stubble gets sown
in these grazing crops then peas
and soy beans, for hay, then back
to clover. We may have a better
way sometimes, but we haven’t
yet.—A. L. French, in The Pro
gressive Farmer. ‘
Too Much Attention
To Local Bills
Atlanta, July 18.—Senator W. J.
Harris, of Cedartown, is confident
that the Georgia legislature devotes
too much time to local legislation,
giving general bills scant considera
tion. To obviate this he wants an
investigation of the matter, and has
sent a resolution to the senate ask
ing such an investigation. His res
olution is as follows:
“Whereas, The time of the gener
al assembly of Georgia is now devo
ted largely to the consideration of
legal legislation, thereby resulting
to great expense to the state in the
consideration of purely local matters
to the detriment of important gen
eral legislation, which should be
carefully and thoroughly considered.
“Therefore, be it resolved by the
senate, the house concurring, That a
joint committee consisting of three
members of the senate, to be ap
pointed by the president of the sen
ate, and five members of the house
of tepresentatives, to be appointed
by the speaker of the house, be ap
pointed for the purpose of investi:
gating the methods pursued by other
states in regard to local legislation,
with authority to investigate the
matter of granting municipal char
ters and amending same, the estab
lishment of city and county courts,
and regulating all matters of strictly
local matters in cities, towns and
counties, with a view of ascertaining
and reporting some method by
which local matters of this nature
can be handled without burdening
the general assembly with the neces
sity of considering and passing upon
all matters of such character.
“The purpose of this investigation
is to save che great expense now in
curred by the state by the general
assembly passing upon these mat
ters of purely local nature, and also
devising some method by which the
wishes of the people interested in
such matters can be ascertained and
followed without resorting to the
legislature.
“Resolved, further, That the com
mittee appointed under the resolu
tion is hereby authorized to
sit in vacation at the capitol for a
period of not exceeding five days,
and the members thereof shall re
ceive their per diem and actual trav
eling expenses.
“Resolved, further, That this joint
committee shall report their findings
and recommendings touching the
above mentioned matters to the
next general assembly convening in
the year 1913.”
To Show Photos of
The Departing Soul
London, Tuly 22.—Among the
invited guests at the annual con
vention of the British Medical as
sociation, which met today in
Liverpool, is Dr. Arthur W, Yale,
the Pennsylvania physician who
claims to have obtained photo
graphs showing the passing of the
buman soul. The London Medi
cal society has extended an invita
tion to Dr. Yale to visit this city
at the close of the Liverpool meet
ing and make a demonstration of
the discovery he claims -to have
made. -
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“Dixie Magnei
Declared Sane
Macon Jury Decides in Her
Favor After All-Day Trial
Macor, Ga., July 22,—Mrs,
Dix‘e Haygood Jarratt, better
known as ‘“The Dixie Magnet,”
is sane. A jury so decided Tale
this afternoon after a trial lasting
all day. Tbe writ of lunacy was
sworn out bv a farmer, P, L.
Tomhnson, and the chief witness
against Mrs, Jarratt was Kred
Hamp Haygood, who claims to be
her real son, but whom she claims
is only zu adopted by.
The only direct evidence intro
duced to show that Mrs. Jarrat
was not of sound mind was that
given by Fred Haygyvoa, lie de
clared that oiien iate at nicit his
“mother” wobld go @t in the
backyard ana stay for hours ata
time playing with frogs and that
when he would attempt to brigg
her back in the house she would
create a scene. He also declared
that she would sit on the porch
half the night singing at the top
of her voice. :
Mrs. Jarratt was at one time
well known on the vaudeville stage.
as *“The Dixie Magnet.” :
Mrs, Jarrett is well remembgia
ed in Fitzgerald as having appear
ed at the opera house many years
ago, and more recently at the
Lyric Theatre. That she possesses
some super-natural power is the
opinion of all who have ever wit-_
nessed her performance. 5
The wide-tired wagon is bcund
to come. A letter from Mr. P.
B. Thornhill, President of the
Thornhill Wagon Co,, says: *
““Wide tires on farm wagons
are worth many times their extra,
cost, but you have no idea how
hard it is to persuade a man who'
has been using a narrow tire to
change for a wide,for it is an un
questionable fact that one man in
a neighborhood using a wide
tired wagon where the roads are
full of ruts is at a disadvantage,
For the sake of the farmers and
the users of the country roads we
will welcome the day wbeu every
farm wagon will havé tires not
less than three inches wide,”—
The Progressive Farmer,
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Loses Week’s Salary, Span
iard Takes Polson.
Tampa, Fla., July 21.—Angel
Fieder, a Spaniard, swallowed an
overdose of arsenic this morning
following the loss of his week’s 3
salary at the gaming table. Fieder
told friends what he intended do
ing but they laughed at him, &
Women have no head for figurus.
You can’t make them realize that
they are ten years older than
they were ten years ago. v Y
The wages of arbitration should
be paid as peace work.
A good memory is essential to
a successful liar. {7